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Legend:
✔️ = I’ve read them & will recommend
❤️ = I re-read them once every 12-18 months, religiously. They pretty much define my value-sets.

Books I’d Recommend

Good books.

    1. ✔️Slight Edge – Jeff Olson ❤️
    2. ✔️Eat That Frog – Brian Tracey ❤️
    3. ✔️Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
    4. ✔️Predictably irrational – Dan Ariely
    5. ✔️80-20 – Marshall Perry
    6. ✔️Thinking Fast and Slow  – Daniel Kahneman
    7. ✔️Lean Start Up – Eric Reis
    8. ✔️The Art of Possibility – Benjamin Zanders
    9. ✔️Abundance – Peter Diamandis
    10. ✔️How to win friends and influence people
    11. ✔️Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
    12. ✔️The Power of Habit – Charles Dunhigg
    13. ✔️Principles – Ray Dalio
    14. ✔️ The World for Sale – Javier Blas & Jack Farchy
    15. ✔️ The Changing World Order – Ray Dalio
    16. ✔️Think & Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
    17. ✔️Zero to One – Peter Thiel
    18. ✔️Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You – John Warrillow
    19. ✔️The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs – Carmine Gallo
    20. ✔️The Richest Man in Babylon
    21. ✔️How to Lie with Statistics – Darrell Huff
    22. ✔️Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel – Tom Wainwright
    23. ✔️The Hard Thing about Hard Things – Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers – Ben Horowitz
    24. ✔️Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
    25. ✔️The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
    26. ✔️Freakonomics
    27. ✔️Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team – Simon Sinek
    28. ✔️The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Stop People from Dumping on You – David J Pollay
    29. ✔️Radical Candor – Kim Scott (good for team management)
    30. ✔️The Art of War 孙子兵法 – Sun Tzu (孙子)
    31. ✔️Instant Influence – Robert Cialdini
    32. ✔️Getting to YES – William Ury & Roger Fisher
    33. ✔️The Art of Public Speaking – Dale Carnegie
    34. ✔️Anti-Fragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    35. ✔️Skin in the Game – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    36. ✔️Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    37. ✔️Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
    38. ✔️The Magic of Thinking Big – David Schwartz
    39. ✔️The Design of Everyday Things
    40. ✔️The Power of TED (The Empower Dynamic) – David Emerald
    41. ✔️The upside of irrationality – Dan Ariely
    42. ✔️Algorithms to live by – Brian Christian
    43. ✔️Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets – Nassim Taleb
    44. ✔️21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
    45. ✔️Essentialism – Greg McKeown
    46. ✔️Crush it – Gary Vaynerchuk
    47. ✔️When China Rules the World – Martin Jacques
    48. ✔️Animal Farm – George Orwell
    49. ✔️The Predictioneer’s Game – Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
    50. ✔️Amusing ourselves to death – Neil Postman
    51. ✔️My Voice Will Go With You – Sidney Rosen ❤️
    52. ✔️The Time Keeper – Mitch Albom ❤️
    53. ✔️Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
    54. ✔️The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power – Shoshana Zuboff
    55. ✔️Fierce Conversations – Susan Scott

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