Reading List

Carissa Véliz

Carissa Véliz argues that the surveillance economy turns personal data into corporate and political power. The book explains why privacy matters collectively as well as individually, and offers practical and policy-level ways to take back control.

Peter Attia

Peter Attia makes the case for treating longevity as a healthspan problem, not just a lifespan problem. The book centers on exercise, nutrition, sleep, and prevention as the major levers.

Casey Means

This book frames metabolic health as the foundation for energy, mood, and long-term disease prevention. It turns a big health topic into practical choices around food, movement, and environment.

Matthew Walker

Matthew Walker explains how sleep shapes memory, learning, recovery, and emotional regulation. The takeaway is simple: sleep is a performance tool and a health requirement, not a luxury.

Michael Easter

Michael Easter argues that modern convenience removes the stressors that once made people stronger and more resilient. His answer is deliberate discomfort: harder training, less convenience, and more time outside.

Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford

Told as a novel, this is really a book about DevOps, bottlenecks, and organizational flow. It shows how technical work improves when teams stop optimizing locally and start fixing the system.

Shane Parrish

Shane Parrish focuses on avoiding the default emotional reactions that lead to bad decisions. It is a practical book about creating space, spotting patterns, and thinking better under pressure.

Eric Jorgenson

This is a compact collection of Naval Ravikant’s ideas on leverage, judgment, wealth, and happiness. The book is strongest when it connects business building with a calmer, less ego-driven way of living.

Jeff Booth

Jeff Booth argues that technology naturally drives prices down while financial systems keep betting on inflation. It is a macro book that pushes readers to rethink debt, growth, and how the future may actually compound.

Morgan Housel

Morgan Housel shows that money decisions are driven as much by temperament and incentives as by intelligence. The essays are simple, memorable, and mostly about avoiding self-inflicted mistakes.

Bill Perkins

Bill Perkins argues that money is most valuable when it is converted into experiences at the right time in life. The book is really a challenge to stop optimizing only for a future you may never fully use.

Burton G. Malkiel

Burton Malkiel makes the classic case that beating markets consistently is far harder than most investors admit. It is a durable defense of diversification, patience, and low-cost indexing.

M. J. DeMarco

This is a blunt argument against the slow-and-safe path to wealth. The core idea is that ownership, scale, and leverage beat trading time for money over a lifetime.

Thomas J. Stanley, William D. Danko

The book’s main point is that wealth usually looks quieter than people expect. Many millionaires build it through disciplined saving, modest lifestyles, and long stretches of consistency.

Ramit Sethi

Ramit Sethi turns personal finance into a simple operating system: automate the important stuff and spend consciously on what you value. It is practical, opinionated, and built for action.

Tim S. Grover

Tim Grover writes about elite performance with a hard edge: standards, discipline, and an appetite for pressure. It is less about balance and more about what relentless competitors are willing to tolerate.

Napoleon Hill

This classic success book blends mindset, persistence, and desire into a philosophy of achievement. Some of it feels dated, but many modern self-help books still borrow heavily from it.

David Bach

David Bach’s big idea is that wealth works best when it is automated before you can interfere with it. The book is simple, but that simplicity is exactly why it sticks.

Jocko Willink, Leif Babin

Jocko Willink and Leif Babin turn battlefield lessons into a simple leadership standard: own the outcome. It is direct, memorable, and useful for cutting through blame-heavy team dynamics.

Saifedean Ammous

Saifedean Ammous walks through the history of money to argue that bitcoin behaves more like hard money than modern fiat systems. Whether or not you buy the thesis, it is a useful framework for monetary debates.

Don Miguel Ruiz

Don Miguel Ruiz reduces personal growth to four repeatable principles around speech, assumptions, and self-respect. It is short, clear, and surprisingly durable for how lightweight it looks.

Chris Burniske, Jack Tatar

This book tries to give digital assets a vocabulary and valuation framework similar to other asset classes. It is most useful as a map of the space rather than a source of timeless predictions.

John C. Bogle

Jack Bogle distills investing down to a few durable principles: own the market, keep costs low, and stay in the game. It is short, direct, and hard to argue with.

Vicki Robin, Joe Dominguez

This book reframes money as life energy rather than just a scorecard. Its strength is forcing a closer look at whether spending and work actually line up with what matters.

James Clear

James Clear focuses on building better systems instead of chasing motivation. The book is especially useful on identity-based habits and designing environments that make good behavior easier.

Tony Robbins

Tony Robbins packages basic investing wisdom into a more accessible and motivational framework. The emphasis is on staying rational, controlling fees, and building a portfolio you can hold through volatility.

Robert T. Kiyosaki

The book is best known for pushing readers to think in terms of assets, cash flow, and ownership instead of salaries alone. It is more mindset shift than detailed financial playbook.

Dale Carnegie

Carnegie’s advice still works because it centers on attention, empathy, and genuine interest in other people. A lot of modern communication advice is just a remix of this book.