Currently Reading

A list of books I’m enjoying, and have enjoyed reading in the past:

  • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail, by Ray Dalio

Past great reads which I’d recommend

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari

  • The Land Before Avocado, by Richard Glover

  • Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction, by David Enrich

  • The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor, by Howard Marks

  • The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution, by Gregory Zuckerman

  • Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts, by Annie Duke

  • Principles: Life and Work, by Ray Dalio

  • How to Develop Your Personal Mission Statement, by Stephen R. Covey

  • The Lessons of History, by Will and Ariel Durant

  • The Five Love Languages, by Gary Chapman

  • Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, United States, and the World, by Graham Allison, Michael McConnohie, et al.

  • Liar’s Poker Rising through the Wreckage on Wall Street, by Michael Lewis

  • Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World―and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling, Anna Rosling Rönnlund and Ola Rosling

  • Vagabonding An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel, by Rolf Potts

  • Good Derivatives: A Story of Financial and Environmental Innovation, by Richard L Sandor and Ronald Coase

  • Hedgehogging, by Barton Biggs

  • The Spider Network: How a Math Genius and a Gang of Scheming Bankers Pulled Off One of the Greatest Scams in History, by David Enrich

  • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers, by Tim Ferris

  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character, by Richard P. Feynman

  • Funny in Farsi: A Memoir of Growing Up Iranian in America, by Firoozeh Dumas

  • The Little Book of Market Wizards: Lessons from the Greatest Traders, by Jack D. Schwager

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow, by Daniel Kahneman

  • The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t, by Nate Silver

  • Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain, by Oliver Sacks

  • Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist, by Christof Koch

  • What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures, by Malcolm Gladwell

  • Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner

  • Born On A Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant, by Daniel Tammet

  • Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, by Malcolm Gladwell