Reading

Updated on August 28, 2018

205 books read.

★★★★★
Great to priceless ideas or fun to read, no major flaws.
14 books
★★★★
Good to priceless ideas and may also have flaws—hard to read, filler, etc.
61 books
★★★
Good to great ideas and may have the flaws stated above.
70 books
★★
Few good ideas. I probably skimmed through it.
42 books
★
Waste of time.
18 books

2018

Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction by Samir Okasha  ★★★★ August 18, 2018
The Organization Man: The Book That Defined a Generation by William H. Whyte  ★★ July 29, 2018
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages by Carlota Pérez  ★★★★ July 13, 2018
Impro by Keith Johnstone  ★★★★ June 19, 2018
Rulers, Religion, and Riches: Why the West Got Rich and the Middle East Did Not by Jared Rubin  ★★★★★ June 16, 2018
Skin in the Game: The Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb  ★★★★ June 13, 2018
The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama  ★★★ June 10, 2018
The House of God by Samuel Shem  ★★★★ May 31, 2018
Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse  ★★★★★ May 26, 2018
The Mysteries of Money: Ribbonfarm: The Rust Age (Ribbonfarm Roughs Book 7) by Venkatesh Rao  ★★★★ May 23, 2018
Credit and Debt in Medieval England C.1180-C.1350 by P. R. Schofield  ★★★ May 7, 2018
Writings of the Luddites by Kevin Binfield  ★★ May 7, 2018
The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen  ★★ May 6, 2018
The Internet of Money by Andreas M. Antonopoulos  ★ May 6, 2018
Medieval Trade in the Mediterranean World: Illustrative Documents by Robert Sabatino Lopez  ★★★ May 3, 2018
The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics by Edna E. Kramer  ★★★ May 1, 2018
Conquest, Tribute and Trade: How the Quest for Precious Metals Gave Birth to Globalization. Second Edition. by Howard J. Erlichman  ★★★★ April 27, 2018
Human Universals by Donald E. Brown  ★★★ April 20, 2018
Mindstorms: Children, Computers, And Powerful Ideas by Seymour Papert  ★★★ April 18, 2018
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck by Eliezer Yudkowsky  ★★★★ April 16, 2018
Metaphors We Live By by George Lakoff  ★★★★★ April 13, 2018
A History of Western Technology by Friedrich Klemm  ★★★ April 11, 2018
The Columbian Exchange: Biological and Cultural Consequences of 1492 by Alfred W. Crosby  ★★★★ April 4, 2018
The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space by Venkatesh G. Rao  ★★★★ April 3, 2018
The Case Against Education: Why the Education System Is a Waste of Time and Money by Bryan Caplan  ★★ April 2, 2018
Global Economic History: A Very Short Introduction by Robert C. Allen  ★★★★ March 26, 2018
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno De Mesquita  ★★★★ March 4, 2018
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life by Kevin Simler  ★★★★★ February 12, 2018
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee  ★★★★★ February 2, 2018

2017

Tempo: Timing, Tactics and Strategy in Narrative-Driven Decision-Making by Venkatesh G. Rao  ★★★★ December 17, 2017
Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed by James C. Scott  ★★★★ September 4, 2017
The Course of Love by Alain de Botton  ★★★ May 7, 2017
The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott  ★★ April 22, 2017
Adam Smith in His Time and Ours: Designing the Decent Society by Jerry Z. Muller  ★★★ April 11, 2017
Thinking About Capitalism by Jerry Z. Muller  ★★★★ April 3, 2017
Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions by Carmen Simon  ★★★★ March 22, 2017
23 Things They Don't Tell You about Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang  ★★ March 20, 2017
Rationality: From AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky  ★ March 19, 2017
Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters by Charles Wheelan  ★ February 3, 2017
The Time Paradox: The New Psychology of Time That Will Change Your Life by Philip G. Zimbardo  ★★ January 22, 2017

2016

Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C. Schelling  ★★★ December 5, 2016
History of the Bank of England, 1640 to 1903 by Andreas Michaēl Andreadēs  ★★★ November 13, 2016
Ametora: How Japan Saved American Style by W. David Marx  ★★★ November 7, 2016
Korean Cuisine: An Illustrated History by Michael J. Pettid  ★★ October 28, 2016
A Farewell to Alms: A Brief Economic History of the World by Gregory Clark  ★ October 28, 2016
The Company of Strangers: A Natural History of Economic Life by Paul Seabright  ★★★ October 23, 2016
The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch  ★ October 15, 2016
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari  ★★★★ October 10, 2016
Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade by Robert B. Cialdini  ★★★ October 6, 2016
Ill Fares the Land by Tony Judt  ★★ August 21, 2016
Economics Explained by Robert L. Heilbroner  ★★★★ August 18, 2016
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson  ★★★★ August 13, 2016
Modern Political Economics: Making Sense of the Post-2008 World by Yanis Varoufakis  ★ July 26, 2016
Frozen Desire: The Meaning of Money by James Buchan  ★ July 18, 2016
Big Gods: How Religion Transformed Cooperation and Conflict by Ara Norenzayan  ★★★★★ July 11, 2016
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller by John Truby  ★★★★★ July 4, 2016
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945 by Tony Judt  ★★ July 1, 2016
The New Evolution Diet: What Our Paleolithic Ancestors Can Teach Us about Weight Loss, Fitness, and Aging by Arthur De Vany  ★★★ May 17, 2016
Straw Dogs: Thoughts on Humans and Other Animals by John N. Gray  ★★★ May 7, 2016
The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith  ★★ April 18, 2016
The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder by Peter Zeihan  ★★★ April 17, 2016
Nature of Money: New Directions in Political Economy by Geoffrey Ingham  ★★★★ April 3, 2016
Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber  ★★★ March 7, 2016
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari  ★★★★★ February 29, 2016
The Economy of Cities by Jane Jacobs  ★★★★ February 19, 2016
Rich Dad's Prophecy: Why the Biggest Stock Market Crash in History Is Still Coming...and How You Can Prepare Yourself and Profit from It! by Robert T. Kiyosaki  ★ January 18, 2016
The Fabulous Phonograph, 1877-1977 by Roland Gelatt  ★★★ January 18, 2016
The Musicians And Petrillo by Robert David Leiter  ★★★ January 18, 2016
The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More by Chris Anderson  ★★ January 11, 2016

2015

Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel  ★★★★ December 28, 2015
Race Against The Machine by Erik Brynjolfsson  ★★★ December 17, 2015
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb  ★★★★ December 13, 2015
Letters From Hong Kong by Isabel Taylor Escoda  ★★★ December 5, 2015
The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies by Erik Brynjolfsson  ★★★★ November 30, 2015
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb  ★★★★★ November 25, 2015
Speak Ericksonian: Mastering the Hypnotic Methods of Milton Erickson by Richard K. Nongard  ★★★★ November 4, 2015
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt  ★★★★ October 19, 2015
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport  ★★★★ October 2, 2015
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life by Scott Adams  ★★★★ September 9, 2015
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt  ★★★★★ August 25, 2015
Fluent Forever: How to Learn Any Language Fast and Never Forget It by Gabriel Wyner  ★★★ July 26, 2015
The Sense of Style: The Thinking Person's Guide to Writing in the 21st Century by Steven Pinker  ★★★★ June 12, 2015
Mind, Modernity, Madness: The Impact of Culture on Human Experience by Liah Greenfeld  ★★ June 10, 2015
The Science of Happily Ever After: What Really Matters in the Quest for Enduring Love by Ty Tashiro  ★★ May 14, 2015
From Satori to Silicon Valley: San Francisco and the American Counterculture by Theodore Roszak  ★★★★ April 19, 2015
Why Is Sex Fun? The Evolution of Human Sexuality by Jared Diamond  ★★ April 5, 2015
Through the Language Glass: Why the World Looks Different in Other Languages by Guy Deutscher  ★★★ March 29, 2015
Korea Unmasked by Won-bok Rhie  ★★★ February 1, 2015
Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday  ★★★★ January 11, 2015

2014

The Geography of Thought: How Asians and Westerners Think Differently... and Why by Richard E. Nisbett  ★★★★ September 20, 2014
Eating Kimchi and Nodding Politely: Stories About Love, life, Death, and Discovery From an American in South Korea by Alex Clermont  ★★ September 13, 2014
Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) by Christian Rudder  ★★ September 11, 2014
Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered by Ernst F. Schumacher  ★★ August 21, 2014
Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan by Jake Adelstein  ★★★★ August 18, 2014
The Rosie Project (Don Tillman, #1) by Graeme Simsion  ★★★★ July 27, 2014
Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation by Michael Pollan  ★★ July 25, 2014
Barefoot Running Step by Step: Barefoot Ken Bob, The Guru of Shoeless Running, Shares His Personal Technique by Roy Wallack  ★★★ June 4, 2014
Sustainable Energy - Without the Hot Air by David J.C. MacKay  ★★★★ June 3, 2014
These Days by Jack Cheng  ★★★ May 30, 2014
The Koreans: Who They Are, What They Want, Where Their Future Lies by Michael Breen  ★★★ March 22, 2014
Making Things Happen: Mastering Project Management by Scott Berkun  ★★★ March 20, 2014
Common Wealth: Economics for a Crowded Planet by Jeffrey D. Sachs  ★★★ March 20, 2014
On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction by William Zinsser  ★★★★★ March 20, 2014
A Geek in Japan: Discovering the Land of Manga, Anime, Zen, and the Tea Ceremony by Hector Garcia Puigcerver  ★★ March 17, 2014
The Conquest of Happiness by Bertrand Russell  ★★ March 16, 2014
Natural Capitalism by Paul Hawken  ★★★ March 11, 2014
Korea 2014: New Information and Cultural Insights Entrepreneurs Need to Start a Business in Korea by Derek Sivers  ★★★ March 8, 2014
What's Next?: Dispatches on the Future of Science by Max Brockman  ★★ February 6, 2014
Journeys of a Lifetime: 500 of the World's Greatest Trips by National Geographic Society  ★★ February 5, 2014

2013

Experience Design: Technology for All the Right Reasons by Marc Hassenzahl  ★★ November 1, 2013
Sources of Power: How People Make Decisions by Gary Klein  ★★ September 17, 2013
Twenty-Six Characters: An Alphabetical Book about Nokia Pure by Gestalten  ★★★ September 17, 2013
Unleashing the Ideavirus: Stop Marketing AT People! Turn Your Ideas into Epidemics by Helping Your Customers Do the Marketing thing for You. by Seth Godin  ★★★★ August 12, 2013
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown  ★★ August 1, 2013
Your First 1000 Copies: The Step-by-Step Guide to Marketing Your Book by Tim Grahl  ★★★★ July 2, 2013
How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer  ★ July 2, 2013
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking by Malcolm Gladwell  ★★★★ June 4, 2013
The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion and Internet Animators by Richard Williams  ★★★ May 21, 2013
A Day in the Life of Japan by Rick Smolan  ★★★ May 13, 2013
The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun by Gretchen Rubin  ★ March 20, 2013
Contagious: Why Things Catch On by Jonah Berger  ★★★★ March 13, 2013
How Will You Measure Your Life? by Clayton M. Christensen  ★★ February 18, 2013
The Legend of Zelda: Hyrule Historia by Nintendo  ★★ February 15, 2013
Slicing Pie - Funding Your Business Without Funds by Mike Moyer  ★★★ January 19, 2013
Mindfire: Big Ideas for Curious Minds by Scott Berkun  ★★★ January 16, 2013

2012 or earlier

Design: Creation of Artifacts in Society by Karl T. Ulrich  ★★★ December 24, 2012
The Commitment Engine: Teaching Your Business to Manage Itself by John Jantsch  ★★ December 16, 2012
The Wealthy Barber Returns by David Chilton  ★★★★ December 8, 2012
Wabi-Sabi: For Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers by Leonard Koren  ★★★★ December 4, 2012
A Practical Guide to Designing for the Web by Mark Boulton  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Web Application by 37 Signals  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Foundations of Statistical Natural Language Processing by Christopher D. Manning  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Wicked Problems: Problems Worth Solving by Jon Kolko  ★★★ November 28, 2012
The Tech Contracts Handbook: Software Licenses and Technology Services Agreements for Lawyers and Businesspeople by David W. Tollen  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky  ★★★ November 28, 2012
The 4-Hour Body: An Uncommon Guide to Rapid Fat-Loss, Incredible Sex, and Becoming Superhuman by Timothy Ferriss  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Stop Stealing Dreams by Seth Godin  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
The Shape of Design by Frank Chimero  ★★ November 28, 2012
Contextual Design: Defining Customer-Centered Systems by Hugh Beyer  ★★ November 28, 2012
The Smashing Book by Smashing Magazine  ★★ November 28, 2012
The Hero With a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Dune (Dune Chronicles, #1) by Frank Herbert  ★ November 28, 2012
The Power of One (The Power of One, #1) by Bryce Courtenay  ★★ November 28, 2012
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Todd Gilbert  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America by Erik Larson  ★★ November 28, 2012
It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be by Paul Arden  ★★★ November 28, 2012
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Sacred Hoops: Spiritual Lessons of a Hardwood Warrior by Phil Jackson  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Design for the Real World: Human Ecology and Social Change by Victor Papanek  ★ November 28, 2012
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2) by Dan Brown  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose by Tony Hsieh  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Designing Interactions [With CDROM] by Bill Moggridge  ★ November 28, 2012
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Universal Principles of Design: 100 Ways to Enhance Usability, Influence Perception, Increase Appeal, Make Better Design Decisions, and Teach Through Design by William Lidwell  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Get Smarter: Life and Business Lessons by Seymour Schulich  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design by Bill Buxton  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Search Patterns: Design for Discovery by Peter Morville  ★ November 28, 2012
Designing for People by Henry Dreyfuss  ★★★ November 28, 2012
The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman  ★ November 28, 2012
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini  ★★★ November 28, 2012
The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton  ★★ November 28, 2012
Designing for Interaction: Creating Smart Applications and Clever Devices by Dan Saffer  ★★ November 28, 2012
Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences by Stephen P. Anderson  ★★★ November 28, 2012
The Way of Zen by Alan W. Watts  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win by Steve Blank  ★★ November 28, 2012
Rails Recipes by Chad Fowler  ★★ November 28, 2012
Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
It's Not about the Bike: My Journey Back to Life by Lance Armstrong  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Rework by Jason Fried  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
How the Mind Works by Steven Pinker  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Calculus [With CDROM] by James Stewart  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Geographies of Developing Areas: The Global South in a Changing World by Glyn Williams  ★★★ November 28, 2012
The Design of Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Emotional Design: Why We Love (or Hate) Everyday Things by Donald A. Norman  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Don't Make Me Think: A Common Sense Approach to Web Usability by Steve Krug  ★★★ November 28, 2012
The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki  ★★★ November 28, 2012
The Non-Designer's Design Book by Robin P. Williams  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Running Lean - Iterate your web application from Plan A to a plan that works by Ash Maurya  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Mastering Regular Expressions by Jeffrey E.F. Friedl  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Designed for Use by Lukas Mathis  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Don't Just Roll the Dice - a usefully short guide to software pricing by Neil Davidson  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Design Is a Job by Mike Monteiro  ★★ November 28, 2012
Nendo by daab  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Thinking with Type by Ellen Lupton  ★★ November 28, 2012
Designing for Emotion by Aarron Walter  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud  ★★★★★ November 28, 2012
The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses by Eric Ries  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman  ★★★★★ November 28, 2012
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway  ★★★ November 28, 2012
About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design by Alan Cooper  ★ November 28, 2012
Agile Web Development with Rails: A Pragmatic Guide by Dave Thomas  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
Hokkaido Highway Blues: Hitchhiking Japan by Will Ferguson  ★★★★★ November 28, 2012
Memoirs of a Geisha by Arthur Golden  ★★ November 28, 2012
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values by Robert M. Pirsig  ★★★ November 28, 2012
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie  ★★★★ November 28, 2012
The Art of War by Sun Tzu  ★ November 28, 2012
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson  ★★ November 28, 2012
In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto by Michael Pollan  ★ November 28, 2012
The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World by Michael Pollan  ★★★ November 28, 2012
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell  ★★★ November 28, 2012