My Digital Bookshelf

A curated list of books that have shaped my thinking, organized by category.

🧠 Strategy & Execution

• Strategy Beyond the Hockey Stick by Chris Bradley, Martin Hirt, & Sven Smit

• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries

• Crossing the Chasm by Geoffrey A. Moore

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank

• Disciplined Entrepreneurship by Bill Aulet

• Zero to One by Peter Thiel

• Scaling Up by Verne Harnish

• From Impossible To Inevitable by Aaron Ross & Jason Lemkin

• The Right It by Alberto Savoia

• Sprint by Jake Knapp

• The Innovator's Method by Nathan Furr

• Machine, Platform, Crowd by Andrew McAfee & Erik Brynjolfsson

• The Content Trap by Bharat Anand

• Storynomics by Robert McKee

• Play Bigger by Al Ramadan, Dave Peterson, & Christopher Lochhead

• Inside Real Innovation by Eugene Fitzgerald

• The Strategy Of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling

• Day Trading Attention by Gary Vaynerchuk

💡 Understanding the World

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

• The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

• Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson

• The Medici Effect by Frans Johansson

• The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success by Albert-László Barabási

• Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks by Nicholas A. Christakis & James H. Fowler

• River Out Of Eden: A Darwinian View Of Life by Richard Dawkins

• Drawdown by Paul Hawken

• Weak Links by Peter Csermely

• The Third Wave by Steve Case

• Up Next: Structures: Or Why Things Don't Fall Down by J.E. Gordon

🤔 Decision Making & Mental Models

• Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models by Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann

• Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke

• Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

• The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande

• How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking by Jordan Ellenberg

• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

• The Most Important Thing Illuminated by Howard Marks

• Link: How Decision Intelligence Connects Data, Actions & Outcomes by Lorien Pratt

🏆 Leadership & Founders

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs by William N. Thorndike Jr.

• High Growth Handbook by Elad Gil

• Working Backwards: Insights, Stories & Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar & Bill Carr

• Sam Walton: Made In America by Sam Walton

• Future Forward: Leadership Lessons from Patrick McGovern by Glenn Rifkin

• An Everyone Culture by Robert Kegan & Lisa Laskow Lahey

• BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0) by Jim Collins

• The Contrarian's Guide to Leadership by Steven B. Sample

• Amp It Up by Frank Slootman

• Up Next: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni

🤝 Negotiation, Sales & Influence

• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss

• How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie

• Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert B. Cialdini

• Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld & Jason Mendelson

• Getting (More of) What You Want by Margaret A. Neale & Thomas Z. Lys

• $100M Offers by Alex Hormozi

• The SaaS Sales Method by Jacco van der Kooij

💪 Mind, Body & Philosophy

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius

• Tools of Titans by Timothy Ferriss

• The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle

• Biocentrism by Robert Lanza

• How Bad Do You Want It?: Mastering the Psychology of Mind over Muscle by Matt Fitzgerald

• The Confidence Code by Katty Kay & Claire Shipman

• SuperLife by Darin Olien

• The Art of Possibility by Rosamund Stone Zander & Benjamin Zander

• The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

• The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand