Lisa JY Tan

A Cool Nerd

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

    1. Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
    2. ✔️Lean Start Up – Eric Reis
    3. ✔️The Art of Possibility – Benjamin Zanders
    4. What Should I Do With My Life – Po Bronson
    5. The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving A Fuck – Sarah Knight
    6. ✔️The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck – Mark Manson
    7. ✔️4 Hour Work Week – Tim Ferris
    8. Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
    9. Abundance – Peter Diamandis
    10. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha – Tara Brach
    11. Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition – Michael J. Mauboussin
    12. Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
    13. ✔️How to win friends and influence people
    14. How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life – Robert and Edward Skidelsky
    15. The Effective Executive -Peter F. Drucker
    16. ✔️Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
    17. How we know what isn’t so – Thomas Gilovich
    18. ✔️The Power of Habit – Charles Dunhigg
    19. ✔️Principles – Ray Dalio
    20. ✔️Think & Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
    21. ✔️Zero to One – Peter Thiel
    22. The Foundation (Series) – Isaac Asimov
    23. The Shockwave Rider – John Brunner
    24. The Third Wave – Alvin Toffler
    25. Revolutionary Wealth – Alvin Toffler
    26. ✔️Lean In – Sheryl Sandburg
    27. Smart Cuts – How hackers, innovators and Icons accelerate success – Shane Snow
    28. ✔️Tipping Point – Malcolm Gladwell
    29. ✔️Predictably irrational – Dan Ariely
    30. ✔️80-20 – Marshall Perry
    31. ✔️Thinking Fast and Slow  – Daniel Kahneman
    32. The Practicing Mind – Thomas M Sterner
    33. ✔️Slight Edge – Jeff Olson ❤️
    34. 1000 True Fans – Kevin Kelly
    35. Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You – John Warrillow
    36. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference – William MacAskill
    37. ✔️The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs – Carmine Gallo
    38. Shawn Achor – Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being
    39. The Hundred Year Marathon – Michael Pillsbury
    40. Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton
    41. Cashvertising – Drew Eric Whitman
    42. ✔️Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
    43. ✔️Eat That Frog – Brian Tracey ❤️
    44. ✔️The Richest Man in Babylon
    45. David and Goliath – Malcom Gladwell
    46. ✔️How to Lie with Statistics – Darrell Huff
    47. Onwards – Howard Schultz
    48. The Virgin Way – Richard Branson
    49. On Liberty – John Stuart Mill
    50. ✔️Narconomics: How to Run a Drug Cartel – Tom Wainwright
    51. The Structure of Magic 1
    52. ✔️The Monk who sold his Ferrari – Robin Sharma
    53. ✔️The Hard Thing about Hard Things – Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers – Ben Horowitz
    54. ✔️Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
    55. ✔️The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People – Stephen Covey
    56. Pitch anything – Oren Klaff
    57. ✔️Freakonomics
    58. ✔️Find Your Why: A Practical Guide for Discovering Purpose for You and Your Team – Simon Sinek
    59. ✔️The Law of the Garbage Truck: How to Stop People from Dumping on You – David J Pollay
    60. Radical Candor – Kim Scott (good for team management)
    61. ✔️The Art of War 孙子兵法 – Sun Tzu (孙子)
    62. 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing – Al Rise
    63. Anything You Want –  Derek Sivers
    64. Positioning – Al Ries & Jack Trout
    65. Secrets Of Power Negotiating – Roger Dawson
    66. Instant Influence – Robert Cialdini
    67. ✔️Getting to YES – William Ury & Roger Fisher
    68. Bold – Peter Diamandis
    69. ✔️The Art of Public Speaking – Dale Carnegie
    70. The Shallows, What The Internet Is Doing To Our Brains – Nicholas Carr
    71. ✔️Anti-Fragile – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    72. ✔️Skin in the Game – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    73. ✔️Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
    74. ✔️Money, Master The Game – Tony Robbins
    75. Leaders Eat Last – Simon Sinek
    76. Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
    77. Sovereign Individual – James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg
    78. 24 Assets – Create a digital, scalable, valuable and fun business that will thrive in a fast changing world – Daniel Priestley
    79. Rework – Jason Fried
    80. ✔️The Magic of Thinking Big – David Schwartz
    81. Revising Prose – Richard A Lanham
    82. Simple & Direct – Jacques Barzun
    83. Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process – John McPhee
    84. ✔️Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind – Yuval Noah Harari
    85. Rene Girard’s Mimetic Theory – Wolfgang Palaver
    86. Seven Brief Lessons on Physics – Carlo Rovelli
    87. Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track: The Letters of Richard P. Feynman
    88. The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past) – Cixin Liu
    89. Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
    90. The Undercover Economist – Tim Harford
    91. Life is So Good – George Dawson
    92. True Believer – Eric Hoffer
    93. Blue Highways – William Least Heat Moon
    94. War On The Boards: A Rebounding Manual – George Raveling
    95. Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future – Joi Ito & Jeff Howe
    96. The Sorites Principle: How to harness the power of perseverance
    97. Verbal Judo: The Gentle Art of Persuasion – George J. Thompson, Jerry B. Jenkins
    98. Options, futures and other derivatives – John C. Hull
    99. The Feynman Lectures on Physics – Richard Feynman, Robert B. Leighton, Matthew L. Sands
    100. Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug
    101. The Design of Everyday Things
    102. ✔️Heart of the Mind – Steve and Connirae Andreas
    103. Frogs Into Princes – Bandler and Grinder
    104. Trance-formations – Bandler and Grinder
    105. Change your Mind and Keep the Change – Steve and Connirae
    106. Speaking Up Without Freaking Out – Matt Abrahams
    107. Breakthrough Advertising – Eugene M. Schwartz
    108. The Gift of Fear – Gavin de Becker
    109. Poor Charlies Almanack – Charlie Munger (Mental Models)
    110. Deep Simplicity: Bringing Order to Chaos and Complexity – John Gribbin
    111. ✔️Smarter faster better – Charles Duhigg
    112. ✔️Hidden figures – Margot Lee Shetterly
    113. ✔️Homo Deus – Yuval Noah Harar
    114. ✔️The Power of TED (The Empower Dynamic) – David Emerald
    115. Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
    116. ✔️How to win friends and influence people (digital age) – Dale Carnegie
    117. ✔️The upside of irrationality – Dan Ariely
    118. ✔️Standard Deviations – Gary Smith
    119. Algorithms to live by – Brian Christian
    120. ✔️Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Taleb>
    121. Behave The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert Sapolsky.
    122. Six Billion Shoppers: The Companies Winning the Global E-Commerce Boom – Porter Erisman (case study on e-commerce)
    123. The Big Shot – Michael Lewis
    124. ✔️Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari
    125. ✔️21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
    126. The Paradox of Choice Why More is Less – Barry Schwartz
    127. Attention and Effort – Daniel Kahneman
    128. ✔️Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
    129. The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness – Alice Miller
    130. Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ – Daniel Goleman
    131. Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI – Robert K. Ressler
    132. Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win – Sam Conniff Allende
    133. ✔️Essentialism< - Greg McKeown/li>
    134. ✔️Grit – Angela Duckworth
    135. Can’t hurt me – David Goggins
    136. Crush it – Gary Vaynerchuk
    137. ✔️Becoming – Michelle Obama
    138. ✔️When China Rules the World – Martin Jacques
    139. The Great Transformation – Karl Polanyi
    140. Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
    141. Super AI powers – Kai-Fu Lee
    142. Singapore, A modern History – Michael D Barr
    143. The Pursuit of Happyness – Chris Gardner
    144. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    145. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
    146. The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism
    147. Einstein: his life and universe. By Walter Isaccson
    148. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
    149. WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us – Tim O’Riley
    150. Elephant in the Brain – Kevin Simler
    151. Intellectual – Boris Johnson
    152. ✔️Animal Farm – George Orwell
    153. ✔️1984 – George Orwell
    154. ✔️The Predictioneer’s Game – Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
    155. Awareness – Anthony De Mello
    156. ✔️Capitalism without Capital – Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
    157. ✔️大国速度：中国高铁崛起之路
    158. Amusing ourselves to death – Neil Postman
    159. ✔️Who Gets What and Why – Alvin Roth
    160. ✔️Information Rules – Shapiro and Varian
    161. ✔️The Handbook of Market Design – Nir Vulkan
    162. ✔️Nobel Lectures. Economic sciences 1996-2000
    163. ✔️Social game design – Time Fields and Brandon Cotton
    164. ✔️Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society – Glen Weyl
    165. Reckoning With Risk : Learning to Live With Uncertainty – Gerd Gigerenzer
    166. Gut Feeling: the intelligence of the unconscious – Gerd Gigerenzer
    167. ✔️Monsters and Magical Sticks – Steven Heller & Terry Steele
    168. The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less – Barry Schwartz
    169. ✔️Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    170. The Self-Driven Child – William Stixrud
    171. The New Rules of War – Sean McFate
    172. The Mastermind – Evan Ratliff
    173. The Big Nine – Amy Webb
    174. The Alter Ego Effect – Todd Herman
    175. Roman Empire and the Silk Routes – Raoul McLaughlin
    176. Lost in Math – Sabine Hossenfelder
    177. Financial Freedom – Grant Sabatier
    178. Disrupt Her – Miki Agrawal
    179. Coders – Clive Thompson
    180. Code Name Lise – Larry Loftis
    181. Reality Is Not What It Seems – Carlo Rovelli
    182. The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
    183. ✔️Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose – Tony Hsieh
    184. Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State – Yasheng Huang
    185. ✔️My Voice Will Go With You – Sidney Rosen ❤️
    186. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B. Cialdini
    187. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
    188. The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World – Kishore Mahbubani
    189. ✔️Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
    190. Knowledge and Decisions – Thomas Sowell
    191. Conversations with God – Neale Donald
    192. The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
    193. ✔️Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh
    194. ✔️The Time Keeper – Mitch Albom ❤️
    195. ✔️Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
    196. Guide to TRANCE-formation – Richard Bandler
    197. The Map and The Territory 2.0 – Alan Greenspan
    198. ✔️The Code of the Extraordinary Mind – Vishen Lakhiani

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