Books

I resonate with the principle of rhythm, the principle of polarity, and the principle of vibration. All of the content of this book could probably have been communicated in about 1/5 the words.

The Art of Learning - Josh Waitzkin

Read February 2017. Main points:

Make smaller circles: go deeper, not broader
get in the rhythm of intense bursts of effort, then complete relaxation

Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

Read January 2017

The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande

The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle

What do you care what other people think? — Richard Feynman

Read December 2016

The Great Divorce - C.S. Lewis

Finished October, 2016. Interesting allegory. I was surprised to find that C.S. Lewis alludes to evolution as factual in his foreward.

The Effective Executive - Peter Drucker

Read September/October 2016
Main takeaways:
- Decisions aren’t decisions until they’re broken down into work. Until then they are good intentions
- Decide, or decide to not make a decision. Do not take half-measures.
- Focus on the outside world and don’t be distracted by what’s going on within the company - that’s not where the company truly lives.
- Ask myself what needs to be done, not what I want to do. Ask how I can contribute.
- Contribute UP in the organization, not DOWN.
- Check for myself whether something has been accomplished.
- Focus on one, not more than two things at any one time.
Vocab
- Execrable: extremely bad or unpleasant.
- Featherbedding: Providing with advantageous economic or working conditions
- Nostrum: A magic potion, silver bullet, snake oil, or other favorite but probably ineffective remedy

Eleven Rings - Phil Jackson

Read summer 2016
This is a style of leadership I can relate to. It’s not domineering, it’s not egocentric, and it’s not cult-of-personality. It’s grounded, non-reactive, attentive, and engaged.

A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole

Read April 2016 in Spain
Hilarious and a lot of good vocab
Vocab
- Supercilious
- Abstruse
- hexerei
- gimlet (eye)
- Xanadu
- pendulous
- nosegay
- Distaff
- Patina
- Desultory
- Negress
- miscegenation
- Doxy
- Denude
- Distempered
- Homburg
- Moribund
- Orgiasts
- salacious
- wanton
- valise
- schlemiel
- epistolary
- rouÃ©
- boites
- eructation

The Relaxation Response - Herbert Benson

Read August 2015

A First-Rate Madness - Nassir Ghaemi

Read July 2015. I’m glad he defined criteria by which to identify mentally ill leaders and stuck to it throughout the book. It’s not clear how applicable anything in the book is since I’m not sure I can assume characteristics of the mentally ill when needed. However, there may be lessons to learn from the “do anything to win” mentality of Sherman and the profound empathy of Ghandi and MLK Jr. Additionally, knowing that some very successful leaders such as Churchill, JFK, and FDR had extremely high energy levels gives another good reason to maintain optimal health.

Fire In The Belly - Sam Keen

Read July 2015. Dense and highly theoretical, but still an interesting read.

168 Hours - Laura Vanderkam

Really good book. I took a lot out of it and could probably do even more with it. Read spring 2015.

The War of Art - Steven Pressfield

First read in 2013; audiobook finished around 2014-04-20

Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsieh

The UltraMind Solution - Dr. Mark Hyman

Read July/August 2014
This, combined with conversations with Brad Wiskowski, hugely changed my diet

The 50th Law - Robert Greene & 50 Cent

7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Steve Covey

Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

Fight Club - Chuck Palahniuk

Read (rÄd)

The Feeling Good Handbook - David Burns

Selected Writings and Teachings of Marcus Garvey

DokkÅdÅ - Miyamoto Musashi

(some Mustafa Kemal biography)

High Output Management - Andrew Grove

Eat that Frog! by Brian Tracy

The Road Less Stupid: Advice from the Chairman of the Board - Keith Cunningham

The Ascent of Man - Jacob Bronowski

Lost connections - Joan Hari

Chasing the screen - Hari

Alice in wonderland

30 days with a seal

Memonides

Andrew Yang’s book

Making Money is Killing your Business - Chuck Blakeman

Radical Acceptance - Tara Brach

Dark Matter

Christy - Catherine Marshall

Recommended by Mom, May 2019

SnowCrash - Neal Stephenson

Digital minimalism

The silk road

a true story , Lucien of samosata

Ordinary men

My Life and Work - Henry Ford

The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus

Affective Neuroscience - Jaak Panksepp

Jurassic Park

The Road - Cormac McCarthy

Red Rising

The girl on the train

How to Solve It - George Polya

The Advantage - Patrick Lencioni

Letters to a young poet - Rainer Maria Rilke

Upon a Winter Night, a Traveler - Italo Calvino

City of Glass - Paul Oscar

Labyrinthes - Jorge Luis Borges

The Way of Zen - Alan Watts

Gung Ho - Ken Blanchard

Why We Sleep -

The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov

Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera

Extreme Productivity - Robert C. Pozen

Blue Ocean Strategy - W. Chan Kim

22 Immutable Laws of Marketing - Al Ries and Jack Trout

Diplomacy - Henry Kissinger

Available at Denver Library

The Music Lesson - Victor Wooten

HA! - Scott Weems

Wind Up Bird Chronicle

Green Housekeeping - Ellen Sandbeck

Younger You - Eric Braverman

150 Healthiest Foods - Jonny Bowde

How To Grow Fresh Air - B.C. Wolverton

Nelson Mandelaâs 600 page autobiography

Driven From Within - Michael Jordan

Branden books

Mastery - George Leonard

Awaken the Giant Within - Tony Robbins

The Narrow Road â Felix Dennis

Way of the Superior Man - David Deida

The Iliad â Homer

Odyssey â Homer

Great by Choice - Jim Collins

Tribal Leadership â Dave Logan

Do You! - Russell Simmons

John Carlton’s marketing stuff

Warrior of the Light - Paulo Coelho

The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho

Long Way To Freedom - Nelson Mandela

Ask and It Is Given - Esther Hicks

Sperm Wars - Robin Baker

The Primal Blueprint - Mark Sisson

Built To Last - Jim Collins

Good To Great - Jim Collins

Tao of Jeet Kune Do - Bruce Lee

The Wheel of Time - Carlos Castaneda

Jed McKenna — Spiritual Enlightment

Millionaire Next Door - Thomas Stanley

Spontaneous Happiness- Andrew Weil

Flow- Mihaly Csikszentmihaly

The Education of a Bodybuilder - Arnold Schwarzenegger

http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6997477/Social_Engineering_-_The_Art_of_Human_Hacking

Becoming a Supple Leopard - Kelly Starrett

John Maxwell (Leadership books)

The Winner Effect

Daily Rituals - Mason Curry

Business Model Generation

Levels of the Game - John McPhee (or anything by John McPhee)

Bhagavad Gita

The Morning Pages - Julia Cameron

About Face - David H. Hackworth (recommended by Jocko Willink)

Art Of Dramatic Writing

The Conquest of Happiness

To Sell is Human - Dan pinki

10 Billion - Stephen Emmott

On Combat: The Psychology and Physiology of Deadly Conflict in War and Peace - Dave Grossman

Playing to Win: How Strategy Really Works — Alan G. Lafley and Roger Martin

Sunny (graphic novel?)

Life, Inc. — Douglas Rushkoff

The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying — Sogyal Rinpoche

Rework - Jason Fried & David Heinemeier Hanssen

Tools for Titans - Tim Ferriss

Rebirth - Kamal Ravikant

Man’s Search for Himself - Rollo May

Stealing Fire - Jamie Wheal and Steven Kotler

Old Man’s War -John Scalzi

Mission - Seth Godin

Power vs Force - David R. Hawkins

Recommended to skip to chapter 4

How Music Works - David Byrne

complications, better - Atul Gawande

The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem - Dr. Nathaniel Branden

On the Shortness of Life - Seneca

How to Read a Book - Mortimer J Adler

Levels of Energy - Frederick E Dodson

The Entrepreneurâs Guide To Getting Your Shit Together - John Carlton

Unleash the Warrior Within - Richard Mack Machowicz

Power: a User’s Guide

Wabi-Sabi for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers - Leonard Koren

recommended by Curtis Bailey

A Brief History of Everything (or any other book by) - Ken Wilber

The 10x Rule - Grant Cordone

Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger

Shantaram - Gregory David Roberts

The Book of Five Rings - Miyamoto Musashi

One Up on Wall Street - Peter Lynch

Iron John - Robert Bly

Fall River Dreams - Bill Reynolds

Hopscotch - Julio CortÃ¡zar

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Civilization before Greece and Rome - H. W. F. Saggs

You and Your Research - Richard Hamming http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html text here

Timequake and Player Piano by Kurt Vonnegut

Mating in captivity

Freedom - Jonathan Franzen

Extreme Productivity - Robert C. Pozen

The Little Black Book of Violence - Lawrence A. Kane

Baron Munchausen’s Narrative of his Marvellous Travels and Campaigns in Russia

Something by Taiichi Ohno

Your Money or Your Life - Joseph R. Dominguez, Monique Tilford, and Vicki Robin

Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre

Inside Delta Force - Erik L. Haney

Difficult Conversations - Bruce Patton, Douglas Stone, and Sheila Heen

Never Split the Difference - Christopher Voss and Tahl Raz

Abandoned

Start with Why - Simon Sinek

Autobiography of a Yogi - Paramahansa Yogananda

The author probably has some good things to say, but I can’t take him seriously when he’s talking about people floating and teleporting and being in two places at once and magically creating scents out of nothing. Besides that, my rule of thumb is that you have something valuable enough to say, you can just let it rest on its own merits instead of couching it in ridiculous stories. There is also the chance that the author actually believes this stuff, in which case I am not sure I can take anything he says seriously.

If you’re not first, you’re last - Grant Cardone

ADKAR - A model for Change in Business, Government, and our Community - Jeffrey M. Hiatt

The Homeowners Guide to Landscape Design - Timothy M. Michel

Extreme Productivity - Robert C. Pozen

Cyropaedia - Xenophon

Toyota Production System - Taiichi Ohno

Coraline - Neil Gaiman

The Brothers Karamazov - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Island - Aldous Huxley

Rules of Civility - Amor Towles

Gratitude - Oliver Sachs

The Good Soldier Å vejk - Jaroslav HaÅ¡ek

Highly entertaining, but I’m not sure I’m up for 700 pages of it. I would consider finishing if just for the great lexicon of the translator.

Vocab

lictor: the roman officer attending a consul or magistrate, bearing the fasces, and executing sentences
paterfamilias: the male head of a family or household; patriarch
catafalque: the decorated wooden structure holding the coffin of a distinguished person
cynology: the study of dogs
sepulchral: of/relating to tombs or interment; gloomy, dismal
rheumatism: a disease marked by pain/inflammation of joints or tissues. e.g. rheumatoid arthritis.
pusillanimous: showing a lack of courage or detemination; timid
emetic: a substance that causes vomiting; possessing the quality of causing vomiting
replete: full, well-supplied, sated
picric acid: a bitter acid, and one of the most acidic phenols. Also explosive.
interpellate: 1) interrupt, 2) (of an ideology or discourse) bring into being or give identity to (an individual or category).
Myrmidon: one of the warlike Thessalian people led by Achilles at Troy.

The Clinton Tapes - Taylor Branch

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Books

Reading

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays - Albert Camus

The Philosophy, Practice, and Science of Crime Scene Investigation (Part I) - Robert C. Shaler

I Will Teach You to be Rich - Ramit Sethi

Traction - Gabriel Weinberg

Read (rÄd)

Little Gold Book - Phil Gordon

Making People Talk - Barry Farber

No More Mr. Nice Guy - Robert Glover

Rainbow Six - Tom Clancy

Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Hard Thing about Hard Things - Ben Horowitz

Spiral Dynamics - Don Beck

No Country for Old Men - Cormac McCarthy

The Coddling of the American Mind - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt

The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. III - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Every Hand Revealed - Gus Hansen

The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. II - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Mistletoe Murder: And Other Stories - P.D. James

Long Way Down - Jason Reynolds

Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 - Hunter S. Thompson

Red Dragon - Thomas Harris

Hannibal Rising - Thomas Harris

Phil Gordon’s Little Blue Book

The Wind Through the Keyhole - Stephen King

The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch

The Running Man - Richard Bachman

12 Rules for Life - Jordan Peterson

The Gulag Archipelago: Vol. I - Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

On Writing - Stephen King

Essentialism - Greg McKeown

Peter Pan - J. M. Barrie

The Shallows - Nicholas G. Carr

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman & Terry Pratchet

Principles - Ray Dalio

Phil Gordon’s Little Green Book - Phil Gordon

The Score Takes Care of Itself - Bill Walsh, Craig Walsh, and Steve Jamison

The Haunting of Hill House- Shirley Jackson

The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg

Wizard and Glass - Stephen King

Mr. Mercedes - Stephen King

The Outsider - Stephen King

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel GarcÃ­a MÃ¡rquez

The Lessons of History - Will and Ariel Durant

The Eye of the World - Robert Jordan

History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides

We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad

Ready Player One - Ernest Cline

The Power of Habit - Charles Duhigg

The Art of Being - Erich Fromm

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress - Robert Heinlein

The Whistling Season - Ivan Doig

63 - Stephen King

Misery - Stephen King

Prey - Michael Crichton

Finders Keepers - Stephen King

Dune - Frank Herbert

A Storm of Swords - George R. R. Martin

A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin

Extreme Ownership - Jocko Willink and Leif Babin

Deep Work - Cal Newport

The Putin Interviews - Oliver Stone

The Dead Zone - Stephen King

The Drawing of the Three - Stephen King

A Clash of Kings - George R. R. Martin

History of Western Philosophy - Bertrand Russell

Salem’s Lot - Stephen King

This Will Make You Smarter - edited by John Brockman

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding - David Hume

How We Learn - Benedict Carey

The Stand - Stephen King

Sex at Dawn - Chistopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha

Needful Things - Stephen King

Pet Sematary - Stephen King

Good Strategy, Bad Strategy - Richard Rumelt

Man’s Search for Meaning - Victor Frankl

Read (rÄd)

One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel GarcÃa MÃ¡rquez

The LifeâChanging Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering… - Marie Kondo

Linchpin â Seth Godin

Read (rÄd)

DokkÅdÅ - Miyamoto Musashi