Books — Dr. Doug Kaufman

American Kingpin
Nick Bilton (good reminder how easy it is to get caught up in building something big and rationalizing horrible behavior. Plus, it’s really interesting)

Spaceman: An Astronaut’s Unlikely Journey to Unlock the Secrets of the Universe
Mike Massimino

Women Who Love Psychopaths: Inside the Relationships of inevitable Harm With Psychopaths, Sociopaths & Narcissists
Sandra Brown & Jennifer Young

Shoe Dog: A memoir by the creator of Nike
Phil Knight

Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth

How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question
Michael Schur

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson

Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely

Great by Choice
Morten Hansen and Jim Collins

Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins

Thinking fast and slow
Daniel Kahneman

Emotional Intelligence 2.0
Travis Bradberry

The Five Dysfunctions of Teams
Patrick M. Lencioni

The E-Myth revisited: Why most small businesses don’t work and what to do about it
Michael Gerber

Work Rules
Lazlo Bock

Bold: How to go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World
Steven Kotler and Peter Diamandis

How Google Works
Jonathan Rosenber and Eric Schmidt

Blitzscaling
Reid Hoffman

High Output Management
Andy Grove

Altitude and time of day effects on EEG spectral parameters
Doug Kaufman, et al.
(This is just to see if you’re actually reading the list. I do not recommend this article)

Exponential Organizations
Salim Ismaail, Michael Malone

Delivering Happiness
Tony Hseih

The top five regrets of the dying
Bronnie Ware

Give and Take: why helping others drives our success
Adam Grant

The Lean Startup
Eric Ries

The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank

Chief Joy Officer
Richard Sheridan, Tom Peters - foreword

The Fifth Discipline
Peter Senge

What you do is who you are
Ben Horowitz

Trailblazer: The Power of Business as the Greatest Platform for Change
Marc Beniof

The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life, and Achieve Real Happiness
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Safi Bahcall

Start with why: how great leaders inspire everyone to take action
Simon Sinek

The time paradox
Philip Zimbardo, John Boyd

Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Gilbert

When things fall apart
Pema Chödrön

Influence
Robert Cialdini

Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist (4th edition)
Brad Feld and Jason Mendelson

Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success
Morgan Brown and Sean Ellis

Shogun
James Clavell

When Breath Becomes Air
Paul Kalanithi

The Rudest Book Ever - there’s a caveat to this one. I think this is best for young people looking for really practical information about how to lead a good life

Shwetabh Gagwar

Bonus (though not a book)

The way we think about charity is dead wrong
I’ve watched this many times over the years and I find it more important, inspiring, and spot on each time.

Recently finished, didn’t make the list:

The Midnight Library
Matt Haig

Build - would make the list if I was a 1st time entrepreneur
Tony Fadell

Burn Rate: Launching a Startup and Losing My Mind - Good, not great
Andy Dunn

The Tao of Charlie Munger
David Clark

The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love
Ty Tashiro

A Path through the Jungle: A Psychological Health and Wellbeing Programme to Develop Robustness and Resilience
Professor Steve Peters

Podcasts (more to come):

The All In Podcast - awesome!

Diary of a CEO

Freakonomics

Books I like enough to recommend(books in the Recommended section are in no particular order...and yes, I know I need to put them into some kind of order)

What I’m reading/listening to right now

What I’m reading/listening to next

My Recommended Reading List

Books I like enough to recommend
(books in the Recommended section are in no particular order...and yes, I know I need to put them into some kind of order)