Books
This is a list of some of the books I've read. I generally enjoy non-fiction focusing on business, software, and fitness.
2020
- Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras & TensorFlow, Aurélien Géron
- Practical Deep Learning for Cloud, Mobile & Edge, Anirudh Koul, Saddha Ganju & Meher Kasam
- Grokking Deep Learning, Luis G. Serrano
- Building Machine Learning Powered Applications, Emmanuel Ameisen
- Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds, David Goggins
- Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari
- The Way I Heard It, Mike Rowe
- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway
- Training for the Uphill Athlete: A Manual for Mountain Runners and Ski Mountaineers, Steve House, Scott Johnston, Kilian Jornet
2019
- The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution, Gregory Zuckerman
- Shoe Dog, Phil Knight
- Benjamin Franklin, An American Life, Walter Isaacson
- The World's Fittest Book, Ross Edgley
- The Mother's Eye (and other curiosities), Chris Berke
2018
- High Growth Handbook, Elad Gil
- Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days, Knapp
- Radical Candor, Kim Scott
2017
- Discipline Equals Freedom, Jocko Willink
2016
- Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future, Ashlee Vance
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win, Jocko Willink
- Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen, Christopher McDougall
2015
- Watchmen, Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons
- Batman: Year One, Frank Miller
- Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Frank Miller
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers, Ben Horowitz
2014
- The 4-Hour Chef: The Simple Path to Cooking Like a Pro, Learning Anything, and Living the Good Life, Timothy Ferriss
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture, David Kushner
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation, Jon Gertner
- Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
- Steve Jobs Walter Isaacson
2013
- The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss
- Lean UX: Applying Lean Principles to Improve User Experience, Jeff Gothelf
- Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works, Ash Maurya
- Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
- Ultimate Sales Machine, Chet Holmes
- Reality Check: The Irreverent Guide to Outsmarting, Outmanaging, and Outmarketing Your Competition, Guy Kawasaki
- It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be, Paul Arden
- Rain Making: Attract New Clients No Matter What Your Field, Ford Harding
2012
- iOS Programming, Big Nerd Ranch Guide, Christian Keur and Aaron Hillegrass
- The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business, Josh Kaufman
- Rework, Jason Fried
- The Art of Stragegy, Dixit Nalebuff
- The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World, Chris Guillebeau
- The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement, Eliyahu M. Goldratt
- Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think, Peter H. Diamandis
- The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, Eric Ries
- The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business, Clayton M. Christensen
2011
- Chief Revenue Officer!, Carl Moe
- The Sales Bible: The Ultimate Sales Resource, Jeffrey Gitomer
- Programming Python, Mark Lutz
- On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction, William Zinsser
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies, Jared Diamond
- Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, Jared Diamond
- Future Science: Essays from the Cutting Edge, Max Brockman
- A Short History of Nearly Everything, Bill Bryson
- Business Model Generation, Alexander Osterwalder
2010
- Lion in the White House: A Life of Theodore Roosevelt, Aida D. Donald
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich, Ramit Sethi
- Why Does E=mc^2, Brian Cox
2009
- Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space, Carl Sagan
- Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries, Neil deGrasse Tyson
- A Brief History of Time, Stephen Hawking
- Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith, Jon Krakauer
- Cosmos, Carl Sagan
- What Do You Care What Other People Think?, Richard P. Feynman
- Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!: Adventures of a Curious Character, Richard P. Feynman
2008
- When You Are Engulfed in Flames, David Sedaris
2006
2005
- The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany, William L. Shirer
- Me Talk Pretty One Day, David Sedaris
2001
The Art of War, Sun Tzu