Bookshelf

Here's some of what I read. If a book has concepts important (to me) to remember, notes are converted to flashcards for easy recall via a spaced repetition system built in Remnote.

A book with a ⭐️ next to its title means it's worth reading twice, thrice, and whatever word means 'four times.' [edit: turns out the word is quadrice, but who would add that their website.]

2024

2023
Didn't read much in 2023

2022
Funny On Purpose by Joe Randazzo
Truth in Comedy by Charna Halpern
Improv by Keith Johnstone
The Humor Code by Peter McGraw
The New Comedy Bible by Judy Carter
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez
Funny on Purpose by Joe Randazzo
Hidden Tools of Comedy by Steve Kaplan
The Comic Toolbox by John Vorhaus
How to Write Funny by Scott Dikkers
Comedy Writing Secrets by Mel Helitzer
The Serious Guide to Joke Writing by Sally Holloway
And Here’s the Kicker: Conversations with 21 Top Humor Writers on Their Craft by Mike Sacks
Humor, Seriously by Jennifer Aaker & Naomi Bagdonas
The Elements of Style by William Strunk

2021
How to Meditate: A Practical Guide to Making Friends With Your Mind by Pema Chödrön ⭐️
As a Man Thinketh: 21st Century Edition by James Allen
Think Like a Monk by Jay Shetty
Self Knowledge by Mark Manson
The Untethered Soul by Michael Alan Singer
The Way of the Superior Man by David Deida
Aspire by Kevin Hall
Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn
I Know Why the Caged Birds Sing by Maya Angelou
Awareness by Anthony de Mello
Fallen Leaves by Will Durant
Right Concentration by Leigh Brasington
The Skeptics’ Guide to the Universe: How to Know What’s Really Real in a World Increasingly Full of Fake ⭐️
The Road Less Traveled by M. Scott Peck
Courage is Calling by Ryan Holiday
Working Backwards by Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
Dopamine Nation by Anna Lembke
Game Theory: A Very Short Introduction by Kenneth Binmore
Numbers Don’t Lie by Vaclav Smil
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk ⭐️
The Renaissance Diet 2.0 by Mike Israetel & Co.
The Manga Guide to Statistics by Shin Takahashi
Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed ⭐️
Lying by Sam Harris
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Learn Python the Hard Way, 3rd Edition by Zed A. Shaw
Ultralearning by Scott Young
First, Break All of the Rules by Marcus Buckingham
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey

2020
The Upside of Stress: Why Stress is Good for you by Kelly McGonigal ⭐️
Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer

2019
Setting the Table by Danny Meyer
What It Takes by Stephen A. Schwarzman
Draft No. 4 by John McPhee
The Sense of Style by Steven Pinker
Dreyer's English by Benjamin Dreyer
Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris ⭐️
How to Write a Sentence by Stanley Fish
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
Indistractable by Nir Eyal
Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Master the Elements of Good Cooking by Samin Nosrat
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Alborn
Consider Phlebas by Ian M. Banks
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho ⭐️
American Kingpin by Nick Bolton
The Art of Asking Essential Questions by Linda Elder
The Mind of Napoleon: A Selection from his writings by Christopher Herold
Atomic Habits by James Clear
How to Write Funny by Scott Dikkers
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
The Elements of Style by Strunk & White
The Passion Paradox by Brad Stulberg
So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport
Twelve Against the Gods by William Bolitho
Sick in the Head: Conversations About Life & Comedy by Judd Apatow
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment by Amir Levine

2018
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
The Dream Machine by Mitchell Waldrop
Freedom (Daemon II) by Daniel Saurez
Daemon by Daniel Saurez
Poking a Dead Frog by Mike Sacks
Everything Happens for a Reason, and Other Lies I've Loved by Kate Bower
Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
Measure What Matters by John Doerr
Unlimited Memory by Kevin Horsley
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why things Are the Way They Are by Hans Rosling
Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Rework by Jason Fried
Only the Paranoid Survive by Andrew S. Grove
Essentialism by Greg McKeown
Principles by Ray Dalio

2017
Above the Line by Urban Meyer
Leonardo DaVinci by Walter Isaacson
The Brain that Changes Itself by Norman Doidge
On Writing: A Memoir Of The Craft by Stephen King
To Sell is Human by Daniel Pink
The Checklist Manifesto by Atul Gawande
Zen in the Art of Writing by Ray Bradbury
Ernest Hemingway on Writing by Larry Philips
Bossypants by Tina Fey
Think like a Freak by Steven Levitt
Win Forever: Live, Work, and Play Like a Champion by Pete Carroll
The Road to Character by David Brooks
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday
On Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
Make It Stick by Peter Brown

2016
Ogilvy on Advertising by Ogilvy & Co.
Love Wins by Rob Bell
Disrupt by Luke Williams

2015
Shadows in the Vineyard by Maximillian Potter
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rynd
Coaching for Performance by John Whitmore
Get Lucky by Thor Muller
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck ⭐
The Mentor Leader by Tony Dungy
The Billionaire and his Mechanic by Julian Guthrie
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Theil
Abraham Lincoln: The Gettysburg Address and Other Writings
Leadership and Self Deception by the Arbinger Institute
A New Brand World by Scott Bedbury
Alexander the Great Biography by Various Authors
Thomas Edison Biography by Various Authors

2014
The Memorable Thoughts of Socrates by Zenophon
The Zappos Experience: 5 Principles to Inspire, Engage, and Wow by Joseph A. Michell

2013
The Founder's Dilemma by Noam Wasserman
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert T. Kiyosaki
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Great by Choice by Jim Collins
The Four Hour Body by Tim Ferris
Pyramid of Success by John Wooden
Rules of the Hunt by Michael D. Johnson
The Art of War by Sun Tzu
The DaVinci Code by Dan Brown