| Book |
Start |
End |
Thoughts |
| The Cold Start Problem - Andrew Chen |
Dec 16, 2021 |
continue next year |
|
| Dune |
Nov 6, 2021 |
Stopped |
Audible need a feature to switch the audio. The current guy puts
me to sleep. Really good book, makes me want to read a hard
copy. Very enjoyable storyline and world. Many possibilities for
different kinds of plot development.
|
| Becoming Dr.Q - Alfredo Quinones |
Sept 6, 2021 |
Dropped |
Interesting start, youtube would be a better format to learn
this story though.
|
| A Promised Land - Barack Obama |
August 15, 2021 |
Dropped |
Interesting read, very long book. At points too much detail
|
| Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir |
July 21, 2021 |
July 28, 2021 |
Great start, third story by Andy Weir I really liked right away.
Best book I've read in a while. Can't put it down, the way first
contact is imagined is really good.
|
| Onward - Howard Schultz |
June 29, 2021 |
continue next year |
Interesting how starbucks wasnt the original starbucks. Shows
how your network gets higher value people once you get bigger.
Kinda an unfair advantage. Nothing too insightful.
|
| Meditations of Marcus Aurelius |
June 18, 2021 |
Dropped |
Kinda hard to read, lol my reading level might be low. Or i have
to slow speed from 2x to 1
|
| The Code Breaker - Walter Isaacson |
June 12, 2021 |
continue next year |
I've gotten more comfortable with not finishing a book, and its
liberating. This book is trying to hype the slow process of
scientific development, which is well intentioned, but executes
it in the worng way.
|
| The Almanack of Naval ravikant - ERic Jorgenson |
June 10, 2021 |
June 12, 2021 |
Good read. A lot of quoteable material. "You are retired when
you no longer sacrafice today for a better tomorrow"
|
| 12 Rules for Life |
June 8, 2021 |
continue next year |
Meh, mostly obvious stuff |
| Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey |
June 3, 2021 |
June 8, 2021 |
Really interesting start. Completely different cultural
upbrining than what i experienced. Story picks up really
quickly, really good story telling. I want to be his bff lol!
Good read
|
| Amazon Unbound - Brad Stone |
May 23, 2021 |
June 17, 2021 |
Just more insight on how amazon is run. I think it wouldve been
better if amazon was multiple different companies. Okay book
overall, nothing amazing
|
| Angel - Jason Calacanis |
May 4, 2021 |
|
Good insights if you wanna be an angel investor. Worth reading
for all investors.
|
| Talking to Strangers - Gladwell |
Mar 25,2021 |
Stopped |
|
| A Thousand Brains |
Mar 17, 2021 |
|
Really interesting, makes me want to study the subject more.
|
| Uncanny Valley |
Feb 4, 2021 |
Mar 9, 2021 |
not a fan of the writing and hyperbole used. Story worth sharing
though
|
| Who not how |
Jan 9, 2021 |
Mar 29, 2021 |
8.5/10 - for people to be more analytical about goals, there are
better methods to getting things done
|
| The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams |
Jan 1, 2021 |
Late 2021 |
Harder to finish than I thought. Its very distracting. 6 months
update, it gets much better, enjoying it alot!
|
| Becoming - Michelle Obama |
Dec 17, 2020 |
Feb 25, 2021 |
The sample on audible is very good and made me want to read the
whole book.
|
| Secrets of Sandhill Road |
Nov 20, 2019 |
Stopped |
2nd Run |
| Who is Michael Ovitz? - Michael Ovitz |
Nov 10, 2020 |
Nov 24, 2021 |
Interesting story. Very pre 2000s methods on business. |
| Seveneves - Neal Stephenson |
carry over |
Dropped |
This book should be seperated in 2. 2nd half is completely
differetn characters and plot. Dropped with about 30 mins left
|
| Book |
Start |
End |
Thoughts |
| Becoming - Michelle Obama |
Dec 17, 2020 |
|
The sample on audible is very good and made me want to read the
whole book.
|
| Delivering Happiness - Tony Hsieh |
Dec 2, 2020 |
Dec 12, 2020 |
Decent, was more interested in their first venture but not much
covered in the book about it.
|
| Secrets of Sandhill Road |
Nov 20, 2019 |
|
2nd Run |
| Who is Michael Ovitz? - Michael Ovitz |
Nov 10, 2020 |
|
|
| The hard thing about hard things - Ben Horowitz |
Oct 31, 2020 |
Nov 9, 2020 |
7/10 |
| What It Takes - Stephen Schwarzman |
Oct 18, 2020 |
Oct 28, 2020 |
Good read. 8/10 |
| No rules rules |
Sept 28, 2020 |
Oct 16, 2020 |
7/10 anecdotal insights into how to create a company culture you
want. What all these books fail to show is, how they wouldve
gone about creating the intended company culture without
commerical success. If netflix was failing, they wouldnt have so
much emphesis on creating a specific culture.
|
| Valley of Genius - Adam Fisher |
Sept 5, 2020 |
Sept 22, 2020 |
Good primer on the history of Silicon Valley |
| The Messy Middle - Scott Belsky |
Sept 2, 2020 |
Dec 16, 2020 |
Good read, no crazy new insights. Interesting jorney to follow.
|
| Venture Deals - Jason Mendelson |
August 21, 2020 |
Sept 2, 2020 |
Very insightful |
| The outsiders - William Throndike |
August 11, 2020 |
August 21, 2020 |
8/10, some key lessons |
| The Ride of a Lifetime - Bob Iger |
Aug 2, 2020 |
Aug 11, 2020 |
Good story. Learned how to merge companies into a conglomerate.
|
| Trailblazers - Marc Benioff, Monica Langley |
July 25, 2020 |
July 30, 2020 |
7/10 |
| What you do is who you are - Ben Horowitz |
July 15, 2020 |
July 23, 2020 |
Culture is important. |
| You dont have to be a Shark - Robert Herjavec |
June 15, 2020 |
June 24, 2020 |
Good read, few really good insights. Most things about sales
were obvious, was more interested in his personal stories.
|
| The Future of Humanity - Michio Kaku |
June 1, 2020 |
June 11, 2020 |
Good read, very speculative, neat ideas author has brainstormed.
Thinking about the vastness of the universe makes you think
about our insignificance.
|
| Built From Scratch - Arthur, Bernie |
May 25, 2020 |
June 1, 2020 |
Good story, they really took care of their customers. some
really touching stories about what companies can accomplish if
theyve got good leadership, culture and actionable plans
|
| Flash Crash - Liam Vaughan |
May 15, 2020 |
May 23, 2020 |
Idk much about financial market and the economics of hft, but
hft seems like it shouldn't be a thing. I dont see how trading
stock super fast creates value for anyone, its arbitrage in the
simplest form. Does it help anyone, except make the individuals
with an edge in tech get richer, does it create actual value for
comapny or stakeholder? dosent seem like that. Kudos to Nav for
making best of the situtaion, raw talent of sorts.
|
| Atomic Habits |
May 10, 2020 |
June 12, 2020 |
Felt like a drag to read. Some good strategies. Most things
seemed pretty obvious to me as over the years I've intuitively
used these strategies.
|
| The Man who Solved the Market |
Apr 27, 2020 |
May 6, 2020 |
Really good, surprised people were so reluctant to try quant
based trading. Its funny how the heads of these funds are put on
a pedestel even though the most of the clever work done is by
individual contributers
|
| Seveneves - Neal Stephenson |
Apr 25, 2020 |
Continue in 2021 |
7,000,000,000 to 8. And humans still figured out a way to
survive.
|
| The Tales of Beedle the Bard - JK Rowling |
Apr 19, 2020 |
Apr 23, 2020 |
Wizarding world has so much potential for mroe stories, should
turn it into an annual movie/book release like disney is doing
with star wars.
|
| David and Goliath - Malcolm Gladwell |
Apr 16, 2020 |
Apr 25, 2020 |
Neat stories. Message aligns with what I've noticed before from
other books, things that seem like crazy, miricle, chance events
are ususally just the sum of a bunch of logical steps that
precedded it.
|
| Facebook - Steven Levy |
Mar 22, 2020 |
Apr 15, 2020 |
hmmm... |
| That will never work - Marc Randolph |
Mar 16, 2020 |
Mar 22, 2020 |
Good read, 9/10 |
| High Growth Handbook - Elad Gil |
Mar 16, 2020 |
May 20, 2020 |
Good stories for experienced individual. Lessons learned that
hopefully i can apply one day. Nothing crazy, mostly obvious
stuff.
|
| Hatching Twitter - Nick Bilton |
Mar 14, 2020 |
Mar 15, 2020 |
Always find founder stories to be fun. Twitter's messy power
struggles, might be what has stiffled it. Insights revealed
about Bill Campbell, 'the coach' that make me question the
'hype' around him as displayed in the book 'Trillion Dollar
Coach'
|
| Surely You're Joking, Mr.Feynman! |
Feb 18, 2020 |
Mar 11, 2020 |
Fun read, Question things deeply |
| 1984 - George Orwell |
Jan 30, 2020 |
|
|
| Marissa Mayer and Fight to save Yahoo! |
Jan 10, 2020 |
Feb 7, 2020 |
Good story, no amazing plays. Many opportunities missed my
people at yahoo often from mismatch in style and execution
|
| Secrets of Sandhill Road |
Dec 16, 2019 |
Jan 29, 2020 |
Great read, almost like taking a course in fundraising and how
venture capitalism works. Reread at somepoint
|
| The Code |
Nov 22, 2019 |
Mar 5, 2020 |
Good Read, logical steps revealed that lead to silicon valley as
it is today
|
| Billion Dollar Whale |
Oct 28, 2019 |
Mar 4, 2020 |
Okay read, felt dragged on. Also conclusion not there yet.
|
| So good they can't ignore you |
Oct 1, 2019 |
|
|
| The book of why - judea pearl |
July 20, 2019 |
|
|
| Autobiography of a yogi - paramahansa |
June 7/2019 |
|
|
| Book |
Start |
End |
Thoughts |
| Secrets of Sandhill Road |
Dec 16, 2019 |
|
|
| The Code |
Nov 22/2019 |
|
|
| Little Black Stretchy Pants - Chip Wilson |
Nov 3/2019 |
Nov 22/2019 |
Good story, parallels Shoe Dog |
| Billion Dollar Whale |
Oct 28/2019 |
|
|
| Ghost in the wires - Kevin Mitnick |
Oct 14/2019 |
Oct 28/2019 |
Great story, interesting to see such a huge part of hacking was
social engineering.
|
| So good they can't ignore you |
Oct 1/2019 |
|
|
| Zucked - Roger McMamee |
Oct 1/2019 |
Nov 15/2019 |
Good read, Good examples of how data can be used for malice
|
| Artemis - Andy Weir |
Sept 4/2019 |
Sept 12/2019 |
Not that great |
| Mastering the VC Game |
Sept 1/2019 |
Oct 2/2019 |
Re-read when I need to interact with VCs. Insider insights, neat
stories.
|
| Chaos Monkeys |
August 12/2019 |
August 26/2019 |
Good read, insights on silicon valley. Learned how to get
aqui-hired
|
| Creativity Inc - Ed Cutmall |
July 28/2019 |
Oct 2/ 2019 |
Great insights, valuable lessons on quality and being a people
centric company
|
| The book of why - judea pearl |
July 20/2019 |
|
|
| Black Edge - Sheelah Kolhatkar |
June 21/2019 |
July 19/2019 |
Good read, similar to american kingpin |
| Creative Selection - Ken Kocienda |
June 15/2019 |
June 20/2019 |
Learned about the process of how the ipod/ipad keyboard came
about, good insight as to how to apprach these problems.
|
| Autobiography of a yogi - paramahansa |
June 7/2019 |
|
|
| The Billion Dollar Coach - Eric Schmidt |
June 4/2019 |
June 6/2019 |
Decent, teaches about human aspect to business and why it
matters
|
| The Four - Scott Galloway |
May 23/2019 |
June 3/2019 |
Good read |
| To Pixar and Beyond - Lawrence Levy |
May 21/2019 |
May 22/2019 |
Great read, new insight about Steve jobs between apple terms.
How and when to take a company public.
|
| American Kingpin - Nick Bilton |
May 14/2019 |
May 20/2019 |
Great story, well written. Could be made into a movie. |
| made in america - sam walton |
May 1/2019 |
June 1/2019 |
Great story. |
| Tim Cook |
April 16/2019 |
April 29/2019 |
Neat, not amazing. Changes within apple post jobs and in cook's
reflection
|
| Lost and Founder |
April 14/2019 |
May 10/2019 |
Interesting Reads. Some very useful startup cheatcodes in the
final chapter
|
| The Wizard of Menlo Park |
Mar 25/ 2019 |
April 29/2019 |
Different type of writing. Didn't enjoy the way it was written
|
| How Google Works - Eric Schmidt |
Mar 22/ 2019 |
Mar 25/ 2019 |
Very Management oriented, did not like. Finished in July 20,2019
was meh, predictable
|
| Show Dog - phil knight |
Mar 15/2019 |
Mar 22/ 2019 |
Great Start! Great Book, 11/10 |
| Idea Man - paul allen |
Feb 18/2019 |
Feb 25/ 2019 |
Good book |
| 1001 nights |
Feb 15/2019 |
Mar 13/ 2019 |
Sleeping tales |
| Alibaba - Duncan Clark |
Jan 19/2019 |
Feb 15/ 2019 |
Slow beginning, gets better at mid way point |
| Measure What Matters OKRs - John Doerr |
Jan 14/2019 |
Jan 19/ 2019 |
Book's content is getting redundent, just stories to why the OKR
system works
|
| Swipe to Unlock - Parth, Aditya, Neel |
Jan 1/2019 |
Stopped |
Finesser authors, anyone can give these insights, kudos to
them... maybe I should write a similar format QnA book.
|
| Book |
Finished On |
| Jobs - Walter Isaacson |
Jan 2018 |
| Barking up the wrong tree - Eric Barker (pg 62) |
|
| The Grand Design - Stephen Hawking |
March 30/2018 |
| Elon Musk Biography - Ashlee |
May 17/2018 |
| I Wozniak |
May 18/2018 |
| Zero to One - Peter Thiel |
May 22/2018 |
| The art of the deal - Donald Trump |
May 25/2018 |
| astrophysics for people in a hurry - niel tyson |
May 31/2018 |
| The 48 laws of power - |
June 12/2018 |
| My inventions - nikola tesla |
June 14/2018 |
| Henry Fords Own Story - rose wilder lane |
June 17/2018 |
| Mark Twain Autobiography |
|
| Seriously Im Kidding - Ellen DeGeneres |
June 20/2018 |
| Edison Biography His Life and Inventions |
June 29/2018 |
| Nelson Mendala - Long Walk to Freedom |
July 16/2018 |
| The Time machine - HG Wells |
|
| The Game of Life and How to Play it |
|
| The Untold Story of Sam Walton Author Reading |
July 22/2018 |
| How to talk to Anyone 92 little tricks |
July 20/2018 |
| The Science of being Great |
July 26/2018 |
|
[Wisdom Teachings of the Buddha] The Dhammapada, Audiobook
|
|
| Leonardo Da Vinci - Walter Issacton |
August 14/2018 |
| The Innovators - Walter Issacton |
August 28/2018 |