Lisa JY Tan

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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.

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. The Practicing Mind – Thomas M Sterner
    8. Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki
    9. ✔️Lean Start Up – Eric Reis
    10. ✔️The Art of Possibility – Benjamin Zanders
    11. What Should I Do With My Life – Po Bronson
    12. The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving A Fuck – Sarah Knight
    13. ✔️The Subtle Art of Not Giving A Fuck – Mark Manson
    14. ✔️4 Hour Work Week – Tim Ferris
    15. Intelligent Investor – Benjamin Graham
    16. Abundance – Peter Diamandis
    17. Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of a Buddha – Tara Brach
    18. Think Twice: Harnessing the Power of Counterintuition – Michael J. Mauboussin
    19. Maslows Hierarchy of Needs
    20. ✔️How to win friends and influence people
    21. How Much is Enough? Money and the Good Life – Robert and Edward Skidelsky
    22. The Effective Executive – Peter F. Drucker
    23. ✔️Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World – Cal Newport
    24. How we know what isn’t so – Thomas Gilovich
    25. ✔️The Power of Habit – Charles Dunhigg
    26. ✔️Principles – Ray Dalio
    27. ✔️Think & Grow Rich – Napoleon Hill
    28. ✔️Zero to One – Peter Thiel
    29. The Foundation (Series) – Isaac Asimov
    30. The Shockwave Rider – John Brunner
    31. The Third Wave – Alvin Toffler
    32. Revolutionary Wealth – Alvin Toffler
    33. ✔️Lean In – Sheryl Sandburg
    34. Smart Cuts – How hackers, innovators and Icons accelerate success – Shane Snow
    35. 1000 True Fans – Kevin Kelly
    36. ✔️Built to Sell: Creating a Business That Can Thrive Without You – John Warrillow
    37. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference – William MacAskill
    38. ✔️The Presentation Secrets of Steve Jobs – Carmine Gallo
    39. Shawn Achor – Big Potential: How Transforming the Pursuit of Success Raises Our Achievement, Happiness, and Well-Being
    40. The Hundred Year Marathon – Michael Pillsbury
    41. Surely You’re Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character as Told to Ralph Leighton
    42. Cashvertising – Drew Eric Whitman
    43. ✔️Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
    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 Harari
    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 – 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. ✔️21 Lessons for the 21st Century – Yuval Noah Harari
    125. The Paradox of Choice Why More is Less – Barry Schwartz
    126. Attention and Effort – Daniel Kahneman
    127. ✔️Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
    128. The Untouched Key: Tracing Childhood Trauma in Creativity and Destructiveness – Alice Miller
    129. Emotional Intelligence: Why it Can Matter More Than IQ – Daniel Goleman
    130. Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI – Robert K. Ressler
    131. Be More Pirate: Or How to Take On the World and Win – Sam Conniff Allende
    132. ✔️Essentialism – Greg McKeown
    133. ✔️Grit – Angela Duckworth
    134. ✔️Can’t hurt me – David Goggins
    135. Crush it – Gary Vaynerchuk
    136. ✔️Becoming – Michelle Obama
    137. ✔️When China Rules the World – Martin Jacques
    138. The Great Transformation – Karl Polanyi
    139. ✔️Why Nations Fail – Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
    140. ✔️Super AI powers – Kai-Fu Lee
    141. Singapore, A modern History – Michael D Barr
    142. The Pursuit of Happyness – Chris Gardner
    143. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
    144. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain
    145. The Economic Singularity: Artificial Intelligence and the Death of Capitalism
    146. Einstein: his life and universe – Walter Isaccson
    147. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
    148. WTF? What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us – Tim O’Riley
    149. Elephant in the Brain – Kevin Simler
    150. Intellectual – Boris Johnson
    151. ✔️Animal Farm – George Orwell
    152. ✔️1984 – George Orwell
    153. ✔️The Predictioneer’s Game – Bruce Bueno De Mesquita
    154. Awareness – Anthony De Mello
    155. ✔️Capitalism without Capital – Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
    156. ✔️大国速度：中国高铁崛起之路
    157. Amusing ourselves to death – Neil Postman
    158. ✔️Who Gets What and Why – Alvin Roth
    159. ✔️Information Rules – Shapiro and Varian
    160. ✔️The Handbook of Market Design – Nir Vulkan
    161. ✔️Nobel Lectures. Economic sciences 1996-2000
    162. ✔️Social game design – Time Fields and Brandon Cotton
    163. ✔️Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society – Glen Weyl
    164. Reckoning With Risk : Learning to Live With Uncertainty – Gerd Gigerenzer
    165. Gut Feeling: the intelligence of the unconscious – Gerd Gigerenzer
    166. ✔️Monsters and Magical Sticks – Steven Heller & Terry Steele
    167. ✔️Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
    168. The Self-Driven Child – William Stixrud
    169. The New Rules of War – Sean McFate
    170. The Mastermind – Evan Ratliff
    171. The Big Nine – Amy Webb
    172. The Alter Ego Effect – Todd Herman
    173. Roman Empire and the Silk Routes – Raoul McLaughlin
    174. Lost in Math – Sabine Hossenfelder
    175. Financial Freedom – Grant Sabatier
    176. Disrupt Her – Miki Agrawal
    177. Coders – Clive Thompson
    178. Code Name Lise – Larry Loftis
    179. Reality Is Not What It Seems – Carlo Rovelli
    180. The Innovator’s Dilemma – Clayton Christensen
    181. ✔️Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose – Tony Hsieh
    182. Capitalism with Chinese Characteristics: Entrepreneurship and the State – Yasheng Huang
    183. ✔️My Voice Will Go With You – Sidney Rosen ❤️
    184. Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion – Robert B. Cialdini
    185. The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared – Jonas Jonasson
    186. The Great Convergence: Asia, the West, and the Logic of One World – Kishore Mahbubani
    187. ✔️Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
    188. Knowledge and Decisions – Thomas Sowell
    189. Conversations with God – Neale Donald
    190. The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
    191. ✔️The Time Keeper – Mitch Albom ❤️
    192. ✔️Tuesdays with Morrie – Mitch Albom
    193. ✔️Guide to TRANCE-formation – Richard Bandler
    194. The Map and The Territory 2.0 – Alan Greenspan
    195. ✔️The Code of the Extraordinary Mind – Vishen Lakhiani
    196. Be Here Now – Ram Dass
    197. ✔️The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power – Shoshana Zuboff
    198. The Greatest Salesman in the World – Og Mandino
    199. Failing Forward – John C Maxwell
    200. Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us – Daniel Pink
    201. Seven Strategies for Wealth and Happiness – John Rohn
    202. The Thank You Economy – Gary Vaynerchuk
    203. The Science of Getting Rich – Wallace D Wattles
    204. Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup – Bill Aulet
    205. ✔️The Gene – Siddhartha Mukherjee
    206. Small is beautiful – Ernst Friedrich Schumacher
    207. ✔️Fierce Conversations – Susan Scott
    208. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator – Edwin Lefèvre
    209. The Four Agreements – Don Miguel Ruiz
    210. The Power of Intention – Wayne Dyer
    211. The Surrender Experiment – Michael Singer
    212. Younger Next Year – Chris Crowley & Harry Lodge
    213. Unfinished business – Anne Marie Slaughter
    214. The design of experiments – Ronald Fischer
    215. Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
    216. Governing the Commons – Elinor Ostrom
    217. Thinking in Systems – Meadows
    218. Why Dissent Matters: Because Some People See Things the Rest of Us Miss – William Kaplan
    219. Decide to play great poker – Annie Duke

More Resources Here

Blogs

    1. Wait But Why
    2. AI Development in China
    3. Matt Levine’s Bloomberg Finance
    4. Infographic & visualisation
    5. Seth Goldin – first principles
    6. Barking up the wrong tree
    7. 538

Watch

  1. [Documentaries] Architecture & Design: Abstract
  2. [Documentaries] Genes: Unnatural Selection
  3. [Documentaries] Explained by Vox
  4. [Documentaries] The Mind, Explained by Vox
  5. [TED] The Dirty Secret of Capitalism
  6. [TED] How to Achieve Your Most Ambitious Goals
  7. Developing a Growth Mindset – Carol Dweck

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Academic Papers (Non-Blockchain)

  1. The initiation and withdrawal of odd-eighth quotes among Nasdaq stocks: an empirical analysis – Christie and Schultz JoF 1994