Bookshelf

Startups & Business

Zero to One
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Steve Jobs
The Innovator's Dilemma
The Lean Startup
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
High Output Management
The Third Door

Hollywood & Media

Who Is Michael Ovitz?
Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood's Creative Artists Agency
The Parade's Gone By
The Powers That Be
An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood
Star Machine
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Understanding Media
The Medium is the Massage
The Gutenberg Galaxy
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Technopoly

Art & Creativity

The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Scar Tissue

Philosophy

Bhagavad Gita
The Second Sex
Walden, or Life in the Woods
Being and Time
Discourse on the Method
Meditations on First Philosophy
Meditations
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
On the Genealogy of Morals
The Myth of Sisyphus
The Prince
Man's Search for Meaning
Gödel, Escher, Bach
The Stranger
Atlas Shrugged
The Fountainhead
Deceit, Desire, and the Novel: Self and Other in Literary Structure
The Human Condition

Fiction

Slaughterhouse-Five
Cat's Cradle
1984
Brave New World
Fahrenheit 451
Siddhartha
The Brothers Karamazov
The Old Man and the Sea
Stranger in a Strange Land
Fight Club
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Economics & Politics

Leviathan
The Division of Labor in Society
The Wealth of Nations
Das Kapital
The Machiavellians
The Managerial Revolution
Palo Alto

Science, Technology & Society

American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
History of the Idea of Progress
Superintelligence
The Age of Spiritual Machines
The Beginning of Infinity
The Society of Mind
Rise of the Machines: A Cybernetic History
Sapiens
A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age
The Philosopher of Palo Alto: Mark Weiser, Xerox PARC, and the Original Internet of Things
What is Life?
Origin Story: A Big History of Everything