Bookshelf

A running list of books I’m reading or want to read, no particular order. Bold marks the ones I relate to most right now — the race-engineering books, from my Formula Student days.

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn — Richard Hamming
• Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science — Atul Gawande
• Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World — Stanley McChrystal
• Only the Paranoid Survive — Andrew S. Grove
• Winning the Story Wars — Jonah Sachs
• Plato at the Googleplex: Why Philosophy Won't Go Away — Rebecca Goldstein
• Poorly Made in China — Paul Midler
• On the Shortness of Life — Seneca
• n+1 Issue 13: Machine Politics — Benjamin Kunkel
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation — Jon Gertner
• Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed — Ben R. Rich
• Simulation and Its Discontents — Sherry Turkle
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer — Siddhartha Mukherjee
• How to Lie with Statistics — Darrell Huff
• Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens — K.C. Cole
• The Age of Em — Robin Hanson
• The Really Hard Problem: Meaning in a Material World — Owen Flanagan
• Disciplined Entrepreneurship Expanded & Updated — Bill Aulet
• The Book of Beautiful Questions — Warren Berger
• How the World Thinks: A Global History of Philosophy — Julian Baggini
• Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World — Anne-Laure Le Cunff
• The Ideological Brain — Leor Zmigrod
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections — Carl Jung
• Algorithms to Live By — Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
• Anatomy of a Breakthrough — Adam Alter
• Complex Adaptive Systems — John H. Miller & Scott E. Page
• Thinking In Systems: A Primer — Donella H. Meadows
• Profiles of the Future — Arthur C. Clarke
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid — Douglas R. Hofstadter
• Finite and Infinite Games — James P. Carse
• Antifragile — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Built to Last — Jim Collins
• Hidden Games — Erez Yoeli & Moshe Hoffman
• Thinking Better: The Art of the Shortcut in Math and Life — Marcus du Sautoy
• The Three-Body Problem — Liu Cixin
• Other People's Money — John Kay
• Who Moved My Cheese? — Spencer Johnson
• Complexity — M. Mitchell Waldrop
• Runnin' Down a Dream: How to Thrive in a Career You Actually Love — Bill Gurley
• Functional Programming in Scala — Michael Pilquist et al.
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things — Ben Horowitz
• The Correspondent — Virginia Evans
• Race Car Vehicle Dynamics — William F. Milliken & Douglas L. Milliken
• Engineer to Win — Carroll Smith
• Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters — Steven Pinker