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I began reading more aggressively in 2017. I catalog the books that I’ve read and often write short reviews on my Goodreads page.

I write reviews mainly for myself, as they help me better summarize, index, and retain information. Below is an index of my reviews since 2017.

  1. Getting to Yes (Fisher & Ury), Oct 2025

  2. Neurosis and Human Growth (Horney), Aug 2025

  3. The Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran translation), May 2025

  4. The Courage to Be Happy (Koga & Kishimi), Mar 2025

  5. A Wounded Civilization (Naipaul), Jan 2025

  6. Steppenwolf (Hesse), Nov 2024

  7. The Courage to Be Disliked (Koga & Kishimi), Nov 2024

  8. God Emperor of Dune (Herbert), Sep 2024

  9. Children of Dune (Herbert), Aug 2024

  10. Rewire Your Brain (Arden), Aug 2024

  11. The Surrender Experiment (Singer), Aug 2024

  12. Ways of Attending (McGilchrist), Jul 2024

  13. Man and His Symbols (Jung), Jul 2024

  14. Trauma and the Soul (Kalsched), Jun 2024

  15. A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind (Axworthy), Jun 2024

  16. Dune Messiah (Herbert), Jun 2024

  17. Dune (Herbert), Apr 2024

  18. Innovator’s Dilemma (Christensen), Apr 2024

  19. The Dhammapada, Apr 2024

  20. Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising (Burbea), Apr 2024

  21. The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Schroeder), Apr 2024

  22. The Metamorphosis (Kafka), Feb 2024

  23. When Things Fall Apart (Chodron), Feb 2024

  24. Elon Musk (Isaacson), Nov 2023

  25. Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Cagan), Sep 2023

  26. No Bad Parts (Schwartz), Sep 2023

  27. Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it (Doucet), Aug 2023

  28. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective (Stanley), Jun 2023

  29. Self-Reliance (Emerson), May 2023

  30. [redacted] a thesis, May 2023

  31. The Body Keeps the Score, (van der Kolk), May 2023

  32. Han Feizi: Basic Writings (Watson), Feb 2023

  33. [redacted] a guide, Feb 2023

  34. The Deals of Warren Buffett: Volume 1, The First $100m (Arnold), Feb 2023

  35. How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie), Feb 2023

  36. How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Carnegie), Jan 2023

  37. The Quality of Earnings (O’glove), Jan 2023

  38. Confidence Game (Richard), Jan 2023

  39. The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Campbell), Dec 2022

  40. Hot Commodities (Rogers), Dec 2022

  41. King Icahn (Stevens), Nov 2022

  42. Capital Returns (Chancellor), Oct 2022

  43. The Most Important Thing (Marks), Sep 2022

  44. 100 to 1 in the Stock Market (Phelps), Aug 2022

  45. Amazon Shareholder Letters (Bezos), Jul 2022

  46. The Power Law (Mallaby), Jul 2022

  47. The Analects (Confucius), Jul 2022

  48. Geopolitical Alpha (Papic), Jul 2022

  49. Energy and Civilization (Smil), Jul 2022

  50. Filled with Fire and Light (Wiesel), Jun 2022

  51. Discourses on Livy (Machiavelli), May 2022

  52. Red Notice (Browder), Apr 2022

  53. The Gay Science (Nietzsche), Feb 2022

  54. Who is Michael Ovitz? (Ovitz), Feb 2022

  55. Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (Holland), Jan 2022

  56. The New Science of Politics (Voegelin), Jan 2022

  57. Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (Soros), Jan 2022

  58. An Introduction to Islamic Finance: Theory and Practice (Iqbal & Mirakhor), Dec 2021

  59. America Against America (Wang), Dec 2021

  60. High Growth Handbook (Gil), Dec 2021

  61. Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Berger), Nov 2021

  62. The Jewish Century (Slezkine), Oct 2021

  63. The Contrarian (Chafkin), Oct 2021

  64. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Mallaby), Aug 2021

  65. The Prince (Machiavelli), Aug 2021

  66. Kings of Shanghai (Kaufman), Jul 2021

  67. How to DeFi: Advanced (CoinGecko), Jul 2021

  68. How to DeFi: Beginner (CoinGecko), Jul 2021

  69. Dark Pools: The Rise of Artificially Intelligent Trading Machines and the Looming Threat to Wall Street (Patterson), Jun 2021

  70. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley (García Martínez), May 2021

  71. Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques (Natenberg), May 2021

  72. The Sovereign Individual (Davidson & Rees-Mogg), May 2021

  73. The Machine Stops (Forster), Feb 2021

  74. MCDP 1-4: Competing (Marine Corps), Feb 2021

  75. System Error: How Big Tech Disrupted Everything and Why We Must Reboot (Reich, Sahami, & Weinstein), Jan 2021

  76. MCDP 6: Command and Control (Marine Corps), Jan 2021

  77. MCDP 2: Intelligence (Marine Corps), Dec 2020

  78. [redacted] aphorisms, Dec 2020

  79. The Book of Enoch, Dec 2020

  80. Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas (Sacks), Dec 2020

  81. The Bell Curve (Herrnstein & Murray), Dec 2020

  82. Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times (Sacks), Dec 2020

  83. Ecclesiazusae (Aristophanes), Dec 2020

  84. MCDP 1-3: Tactics (Marine Corps), Dec 2020

  85. MCDP 1: Warfighting (Marine Corps), Dec 2020

  86. The Holy Bible: New International Version, Nov 2020

  87. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy (Helmer), Oct 2020

  88. I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (Girard), Jul 2020

  89. Natural Right and History (Strauss), Jul 2020

  90. Politics & Apocalypse (Hamerton-Kelly), Jun 2020

  91. The Bed of Procrustes (Taleb), Jun 2020

  92. Skin in the Game (Taleb), Jun 2020

  93. Antifragile (Taleb), Jun 2020

  94. Fooled by Randomness (Taleb), May 2020

  95. Sun and Steel (Mishima), Apr 2020

  96. Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined (Pedersen), Mar 2020

  97. Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought (Lo), Mar 2020

  98. Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America (Gibney), Mar 2020

  99. How the Immune System Works (Sompayrac), Mar 2020

  100. Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley (Chang), Mar 2020

  101. VC: An American History (Nicholas), Feb 2020

  102. Secrets of Sand Hill Road (Kupor), Feb 2020

  103. The Torah, Jan 2020

  104. The Gospel of Thomas, Jan 2020

  105. Trump: Art of the Deal (Trump), Jan 2020

  106. The Great Stagnation (Cowen), Jan 2020

  107. Why We Sleep (Walker), Jan 2020

  108. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (MacIntyre), Nov 2019

  109. The Man Who Solved the Market (Zuckerman), Nov 2019

  110. Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Are (Stephens-Davidowitz), Nov 2019

  111. Risk & Reward: An Inside View of the Property/Casualty Insurance Business, Oct 2019

  112. Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans (Riding), Sep 2019

  113. Payment Systems in the U.S., Sep 2019

  114. The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), Sep 2019

  115. Blitzscaling (Hoffman), Sep 2019

  116. Tao Te Ching, Sep 2019

  117. A New Hope for Mexico (AMLO), Aug 2019

  118. Who: The A Method for Hiring (Smart), Aug 2019

  119. Commodities - Switzerland’s Most Dangerous Business (Bern), Aug 2019

  120. Scale (Geoffrey West), Aug 2019

  121. An American Sickness (Rosenthal), Jul 2019

  122. On Tyranny (Strauss), Jul 2019

  123. The Governance of China II (Xi), Jun 2019

  124. Land and Sea (Schmitt), Jun 2019

  125. The Concept of the Political (Schmitt), Jun 2019

  126. Three Paths to the Lake (Bachmann), Jun 2019

  127. War, Progress, and the End of History (Solovyov), May 2019

  128. Meaning in History (Löwith), May 2019

  129. The Master and His Emissary (McGilchrist), Mar 2019

  130. PayPal Wars (Jackson) Feb 2019

  131. The Souls of Yellow Folk (Yang), Feb 2019

  132. AI Superpowers (Lee), Feb 2019

  133. The Misbehavior of Markets (Mandelbrot), Jan 2019

  134. Thieves of State (Chayes), Jan 2019

  135. The Virtue of Nationalism (Hazony), Dec 2018

  136. Has the West Lost It? (Mahbubani), Dec 2018

  137. Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (Ries), Nov 2018

  138. Big Debt Crises (Dalio), Sep 2018

  139. Toward a Theology of Work (Volf), Sep 2018

  140. Black Swan (Taleb), Sep 2018

  141. Reason for God (Keller), Sep 2018

  142. The Outsiders (Thorndike), Sep 2018

  143. Oil 101 (Downey), Aug 2018

  144. Pitch Anything (Klaff), Aug 2018

  145. The Best of Isaac Asimov (Asimov), Aug 2018

  146. Power (Pfeffer), Jul 2018

  147. The Symposium (Plato), Jul 2018

  148. The Governance of China (Xi), Jul 2018

  149. Shoe Dog (Knight), Jul 2018

  150. The Billionaire That Wasn’t (O’Clery), Jun 2018

  151. Mastery (Greene), Mar 2018

  152. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital (Perez), Mar 2018

  153. The Wealth of Networks (Benkler), Mar 2018

  154. The Promise of Sleep (Dement), Feb 2018

  155. A Grief Observed (Lewis), Dec 2017

  156. Industrial Society and Its Future (Kaczynski), Dec 2017

  157. Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy (Janeway), Dec 2017

  158. The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway), Dec 2017

  159. Currency Wars (Rickards), Dec 2017

  160. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (Manson), Dec 2017

  161. Sleepwatchers (Dement), Nov 2017

  162. Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Girard), Oct 2017

  163. Meditations (Aurelius), Oct 2017

  164. Manias, Panics, and Crashes (Kindleberger), Sep 2017

  165. Inside the House of Money (Drobny), Aug 2017

  166. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn), Aug 2017

  167. How I Became a Quant (Lindsey & Schacter), Jul 2017

  168. Hegel: A Very Short Introduction (Singer), Jul 2017

  169. The Triple Helix (Lewontin), Jul 2017

  170. Provocations: The Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard, Jul 2017

  171. Hillbilly Elegy (Vance), Jun 2017

  172. The Construction of Social Reality (Searle), Jun 2017

  173. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Vance), Jun 2017

  174. Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman), Jun 2017

  175. The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Horowitz), May 2017

  176. The Depository Trust Company: DTC’s Formative Years and Creation of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (Dentzer), May 2017

  177. Debt: The First Five Thousand Years (Graeber), Apr 2017

  178. The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), Mar 2017

  179. Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds, Mar 2017

  180. Blockchain Revolution (Tapscott), Mar 2017

  181. Blockchain (Swan), Mar 2017

  182. Never Eat Alone (Ferazzi), Feb 2017

  183. The Box (Levinson), Feb 2017

  184. Alchemy of Finance (Soros), Jan 2017

  185. Economic Principles (Dalio), Jan 2017

  186. The Art of Learning (Waitzkin), Sep 2016