Reading

My list for 2021:

  • AI Superpowers – Kai-Fu Lee
  • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction – Philip Tetlock
  • How the Mind Works – Steven Pinker
  • Pre-Suasion – Robert Cialdini
  • Creative Confidence – Tom and David Kelley
  • Setting the Table – Danny Meyer
  • Weaving the Web – Tim Berners Lee
  • Bourgeois Equality – Deirdre N. McCloskey
  • Exorbitant Privilege – Barry Eichengreen
  • Tape Sucks – Frank Slootman
  • The Ride of a Lifetime – Bob Iger
  • Who We Are And How We Got Here – David Reich
  • Alchemy – Rory Sutherland
  • When Crime Pays: Money and Muscle in Indian Politics – Milan Vaishnav
  • Trillion Dollar Coach – Bill Campbell
  • The Firm – Duff McDonald
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
  • An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management – Will Larson
  • 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy – Hamilton Helmer

The books I read in 2020:

  • Atomic Habits – James Clear
  • Obviously Awesome – April Dunford
  • Oglivy on Advertising – David Oglivy
  • Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Antifragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Skin In The Game – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Where Good Ideas Come From – Steven Johnson
  • The Mom Test – Rob Fitzpatrick
  • High Growth Handbook – Elad Gill
  • Thinking In Bets – Annie Duke
  • Never Split the Difference – Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
  • Creativity Inc – Ed Catmull
  • Play Bigger
  • The Psychology of Money – Morgan Housel
  • The Golden Tap – Kashyap Deorah
  • A Piece of the Action – Joe Nocera
  • The Anarchy – William Dalrymple
  • Koh-i-Noor – William Dalrymple, Anita Anand
  • Black Edge – Sheelah Kolhatkar
  • Billion Dollar Whale – Bradley Hope, Tom Wright
  • My Gita – Devdutt Patnaik

The books I read in 2019:

  • On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft – Stephen King
  • The Mythical Man-Month – Frederick P.Brooks Jr.
  • Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind – Al Ries and Jack Trout
  • India’s Long Road: The Search for Prosperity – Vijay Joshi
  • Stubborn Attachments – Tyler Cowen
  • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die – Chip and Dan Heath
  • Creativity Inc – Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace
  • Gandhi: The Years That Changed the World, 1914-1948 – Ramchandra Guha
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup – John Carreryrou
  • The Last Days of Night – Graham Moore
  • The Billionaire Raj – James Crabtree