Some things I have read and found to be useful

Startups & Tech

• Competing Against Luck, Clay Christensen. Some of my thoughts on this book are published here.

• ‘Average Manager versus Great Manager’ Julie Zhou

• Maker Schedule, Manager Schedule, Paul Graham

• First Round Essentials: Management, First Round Capital

• Zero to One, Peter Thiel

• Lean Analytics, Alistair Croll and Benjamin Yoskovitz

• The Lean Startup, Eric Ries

• Whiplash: How to Survive our Faster Future, Joi Ito & Jeff Howe

• The Startup Owner’s Manual, Steve Blank and Bob Dorf

On Writing

• How to Write Usefully, Paul Graham

• The Elements of Style, William Strunk and E.B. White

• Write Simply, Paul Graham

• A Lifetime of Reading Taught Min Jin Lee How to Write About Her Immigrant World, Min Jin Lee

Mental Models

• Think Again, The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, Adam Grant

• Strategic Thinking in Complex Problem Solving, Arnaud Chevallier

• Algorithms to Live By, Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths

• Start with Why, Simon Sinek

Design and Architecture

• Envisioning Information, Edward Tufte

• The Design of Everyday Things, Don Norman

• Sou Fujimoto, SANAA, Peter Zumthor, Aldo Rossi, MOS, Piet Oudolf, Rem Koolhaas, Bjarke Ingels, Valerio Olgiati, Robert Venturi, Maya Lin

• The Architecture of Happiness, Alain de Botton

• Delirious New York, Rem Koolhaas

• Architecture, Vincent Scully

• Towards a New Architecture, Le Corbusier

Other

• The Body Keeps the Score, Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

• Designing Your Life, How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans

• Walking on Water, Madeline L’Engle

• Burnout, Emily Nagoski, PhD and Amelia Nagoski, DMA

• The Language of Emotional Intelligence, The School of Life