2024 Reading List

2024 Reading List

Current:

  • The Spirit of Our Politics: Spiritual Formation and the Renovation of Public Life - Michael Wear

Completed (28):

Politics/History

  • Cosa Nostra: A History of the Sicilian Mafia - John Dickie
  • On Grand Strategy - John Lewis Gaddis
  • The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness - Jonathan Haidt
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
  • The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory: American Evangelicals in an Age of Extremism - Tim Alberta
  • Romney: A Reckoning - McKay Coppins

Crypto

  • The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create - Steve Laczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
  • Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy - George Gilder
  • Read, Write, Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet - Chris Dixon
  • Ethereum for Business: a Plain-English Guide to the Use Cases that Generate Returns from Asset Management to Payments to Supply Chains - Paul Brody
  • Harvard Business Review: Blockchain - Various

Tech

  • Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup - John Carreyrou
  • The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies - Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee
  • Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
  • Chip War: The Quest to Dominate the World's Most Critical Technology - Chris Miller
  • What Tech Calls Thinking: An Inquiry into the Intellectual Bedrock of Silicon Valley - Adrian Daub
  • Why Startups Fail: A New Roadmap for Entrepreneurial Success - Tom Eisenmann

Business/Finance

  • Central Banking 101 - Joseph Wang
  • Broke Millennial: Stop Scraping by and get your Financial Life in Order - Erin Lowry
  • The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded - Michael D. Watkins
  • Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes - Morgan Housel
  • The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness - Morgan Housel
  • Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation - Edward Chancellor

Misc. Nonfiction

  • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership - John C Maxwell
  • Digital Liturgies: Rediscovering Christian Wisdom in an Online Age - Samuel D. James
  • Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes - William Bridges

Fiction

  • 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
  • Dune - Frank Herbert

Previous Reading Lists

2023 Reading List
Current * The Kingdom, The Power, and The Glory: American Evangelicals in an age of Extremism - Tim Alberta Completed (47) Business * Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon - Michael Lewis * American Business History: A Very Short Introduction - Walter A. Friedman * Ethereum for Business: A Plain-English
2022 Reading List
Completed (60) Tech * Proof of Stake: The Making of Ethereum and the Philosophy of Blockchain - Vitalik Buterin * The Third Wave: An Entrepreneur’s Vision of the Future - Steve Case * Voices from the Valley: Tech Workers Talk About What They Do - and How They Do It - Ben Tarnoff
2021 Reading List
Completed (41): Tech * User Friendly: How the hidden rules of design are changing the way we live, work, and play - Cliff Kuang with Robert Fabricant * The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-Hackers is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum - Camila Russo * Tools and Weapons: The Promise and