Reading
A short list of books I'm recommending right now — mostly tech, progress, and how big bets get made.
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The Book of Elon
Eric Jorgenson
The Infinity Machine
Sebastian Mallaby
Apple: The First 50 Years
David Pogue
Apple in China
Patrick McGee
The Nvidia Way
Tae Kim
The Thinking Machine
Stephen Witt
Boom
Byrne Hobart
Breakneck
Dan Wang
The Technological Republic
Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska
Where Is My Flying Car?
J. Storrs Hall
Creative Selection
Ken Kocienda
Build
Tony Fadell
Scientific Freedom
Donald W. Braben
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Richard W. Hamming
Poor Charlie’s Almanack
Peter D. Kaufman (Editor)
Chip War
Chris Miller
Maintenance: Of Everything, Part One
Stewart Brand
Zero to One
Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
On Task
David Badre
Scaling People
Claire Hughes Johnson
Notes on the Synthesis of Form
Christopher Alexander
Small Fry
Lisa Brennan-Jobs
Read Write Own
Chris Dixon
Where Wizards Stay Up Late
Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon
Insanely Simple
Ken Segall
The Master Switch
Tim Wu
Going Infinite
Michael Lewis
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Shoshana Zuboff
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Deep Work
Cal Newport
So Good They Can’t Ignore You
Cal Newport
Digital Minimalism
Cal Newport
How to Become a Straight-A Student
Cal Newport
Buffett’s Early Investments
Brett Gardner
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Beginning of Infinity
David Deutsch
