Reads

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

  Essential worldly wisdom. His ideas about multidisciplinary thinking, learning from high risk occupations, and mental models are invaluable.

• Meditations On Moloch

  A depressing but important essay on coordination problems.

• Accelerando

  So many prescient ideas packed into the first 100 pages.

• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

  Standard issue at McKinsey, but still illuminating for the rest of us. Allows you to contextualize many business decisions companies make.

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

  Highest alpha book you can find, the self-help style cover helps.

• Infinite Jest

  I would pay a significant sum of money to experience reading this for the first time again.

• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

  At the beginning of one of the chapters, Yudkowsky has a callout saying: "If it's 2am and you're reading this, get some sleep, the book will be there in the morning". He got me, it really was 2am.

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson

  Much to be learned here, both what to do, and what not to do. Robert Caro has blessed the world with the extreme levels of effort put into writing this book.

• Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person

  Extraordinarily fun.

• On Inflection Points

  Formalizes thoughts on why large companies emerge when they do.