Books

A handful of my books I enjoyed and recommend for invaluable insight.

• Thinking, Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman

  An overarching book on the behavior economics and psychology behind risk management. According to my younger brother, every economics and accounting professor at UNH is required to read this.

• The Bitcoin Standard — Saifedean Ammous

  The basic understanding of bitcoin and use case for debasement of the world reserve currency. This book can be synonymously swapped for gold and it would make more digestible sense if you're a crypto skeptic.

• Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order — Ray Dalio

  One of the most digestable and comprehensive books on basic macroeconomics, world reserve currencies, and life cycles of nation-empires.

• The 80/20 Principle — Richard Koch

  Besides Meditations from Marcus Aruleius, this book lays the foundation for a staple governing principle of life and its assymetries through life, nature, and outcomes.

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack — Charlie Munger

  I always battled with the idea of how I categorize my mentalframework and philosphy. I have multiple (seemingly) uncorrelated interests. It wasn't until I read this that I could finally relate to how someone builds their heuristics and world perspective thinking being multi-fauceted. Charlie's generalist approach is what made him unique.

• American Prometheus: Oppenheimer — Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin

  The amount of pure genius, and talent Oppenheimer was surrounded by growing up studying through his postdoc up until the Manhattan Project is jarring. This is what happens when you have a concentration of the absolute brightest minds collaborating on a mission.

• Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson

  Incredibly insightful stepping in the mind of a harsh workhorse founder such as Steve Jobs, from his obsession with unseen detail and how it bled to other faucets of the company. Along with his work ethic running Apple and Boostrapping Pixar.

• Shoe Dog — Phil Knight

  A essential book about grit and vision with Phil building Nike; but also insightful for what it takes to build, painstakingly hand-pick and cultivate your first employees in a startup.

• Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker
• Outlive — Peter Attia
• Principles of Neurobiology — Liqun Luo

  After I finished undergrad I told myself "well I read a lot, why don't I read a textbook like a casual book!" I haven't had this much fun reading a book. I don't explicitely recommend reading this textbook, but I do recommend reading a textbook on a subject that interests you.

• Why Machines Learn — Anil Ananthaswamy

  I never leisurely enjoyed math, but I did after this book. Incredibly tact and elegant way to explain the fundamental math behind machine learning.

• Boom and Bust — William Quinn
• Breath — James Nestor

  One of my favorite takeaways from this was the anthropological and evolutionary adapation of our skulls, what our bodies prioritized evolving over the years, and what physiological traits were sacrificed.

• Range — David Epstein

  Today's society and career progression favors narrow expertise. This book shows the competitive edge in bringing a knowledgeable and broad perspective that deep experts and occupations miss.

• Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari

  Again incredibly interesting to see how sociology has evolved among humans, and what was historically prioritized as a species.

• The Systems View of Life — Fritjof Capra & Pier Luigi Luisi

  Much like Range this book goes into more scientific examples and details how scientific progress, nature, art are all interconnected and not to be looked at through a specific narrow lens.

• The Beginning of Infinity — David Deutsch
• Best Loser Wins — Tom Hougaard

  A clever read on how being successful in trading (and life) means going against your innate human nature regarding behavior and risk management.

• The Nvidia Way — Tae Kim
• The Medici — Paul Strathern

  A comprehensive historical account of the Medici family and their lasting influence on society; from ruling the papacy to ruling France. Showcasing how deeply intertwined they were with influential builders, artists, and thinkers throughout history. Most interesting was how many times the family narrowly escaped being erased from history altogether.

• Alexander the Great — Philip Freeman
• Gambling Man — Lionel Barber
• Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up — Lesley M.M. Blume
• Sources of Power — Gary A. Klein

  A very informative read and social study about intuitive decision making.

• Flow — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
• Principles: Life and Work — Ray Dalio
• Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell

  This book cements how some of the most known inventors, founders, or leaders were not only individuals that became experts in their craft, but were also in the right place at the right time to cease the opportunity.

• Talking to Strangers — Malcolm Gladwell

  No matter how well you think you can read or analyze a person or situation, nothing is gauranteed to be what it seems.

• The Mind-Gut Connection — Emeran Mayer
• Warren Buffett's Ground Rules — Jeremy Miller

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