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.
The Bhagavad Gita (Easwaran translation), May 2025
The Courage to Be Happy (Koga & Kishimi), Mar 2025
A Wounded Civilization (Naipaul), Jan 2025
Steppenwolf (Hesse), Nov 2024
The Courage to Be Disliked (Koga & Kishimi), Nov 2024
God Emperor of Dune (Herbert), Sep 2024
Children of Dune (Herbert), Aug 2024
Rewire Your Brain (Arden), Aug 2024
The Surrender Experiment (Singer), Aug 2024
Ways of Attending (McGilchrist), Jul 2024
Man and His Symbols (Jung), Jul 2024
Trauma and the Soul (Kalsched), Jun 2024
A History of Iran: Empire of the Mind (Axworthy), Jun 2024
Dune Messiah (Herbert), Jun 2024
Dune (Herbert), Apr 2024
Innovator’s Dilemma (Christensen), Apr 2024
The Dhammapada, Apr 2024
Seeing That Frees: Meditations on Emptiness and Dependent Arising (Burbea), Apr 2024
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life (Schroeder), Apr 2024
The Metamorphosis (Kafka), Feb 2024
When Things Fall Apart (Chodron), Feb 2024
Elon Musk (Isaacson), Nov 2023
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Cagan), Sep 2023
No Bad Parts (Schwartz), Sep 2023
Land is a Big Deal: Why rent is too high, wages too low, and what we can do about it (Doucet), Aug 2023
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective (Stanley), Jun 2023
Self-Reliance (Emerson), May 2023
[redacted] a thesis, May 2023
The Body Keeps the Score, (van der Kolk), May 2023
Han Feizi: Basic Writings (Watson), Feb 2023
[redacted] a guide, Feb 2023
The Deals of Warren Buffett: Volume 1, The First $100m (Arnold), Feb 2023
How to Win Friends and Influence People (Carnegie), Feb 2023
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living (Carnegie), Jan 2023
The Quality of Earnings (O’glove), Jan 2023
Confidence Game (Richard), Jan 2023
The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Campbell), Dec 2022
Hot Commodities (Rogers), Dec 2022
King Icahn (Stevens), Nov 2022
Capital Returns (Chancellor), Oct 2022
The Most Important Thing (Marks), Sep 2022
100 to 1 in the Stock Market (Phelps), Aug 2022
Amazon Shareholder Letters (Bezos), Jul 2022
The Power Law (Mallaby), Jul 2022
The Analects (Confucius), Jul 2022
Geopolitical Alpha (Papic), Jul 2022
Energy and Civilization (Smil), Jul 2022
Filled with Fire and Light (Wiesel), Jun 2022
Discourses on Livy (Machiavelli), May 2022
Red Notice (Browder), Apr 2022
The Gay Science (Nietzsche), Feb 2022
Who is Michael Ovitz? (Ovitz), Feb 2022
Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World (Holland), Jan 2022
The New Science of Politics (Voegelin), Jan 2022
Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve (Soros), Jan 2022
An Introduction to Islamic Finance: Theory and Practice (Iqbal & Mirakhor), Dec 2021
America Against America (Wang), Dec 2021
High Growth Handbook (Gil), Dec 2021
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX (Berger), Nov 2021
The Jewish Century (Slezkine), Oct 2021
The Contrarian (Chafkin), Oct 2021
More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Mallaby), Aug 2021
The Prince (Machiavelli), Aug 2021
Kings of Shanghai (Kaufman), Jul 2021
How to DeFi: Advanced (CoinGecko), Jul 2021
How to DeFi: Beginner (CoinGecko), Jul 2021
Dark Pools: The Rise of Artificially Intelligent Trading Machines and the Looming Threat to Wall Street (Patterson), Jun 2021
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley (García Martínez), May 2021
Option Volatility & Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques (Natenberg), May 2021
The Sovereign Individual (Davidson & Rees-Mogg), May 2021
The Machine Stops (Forster), Feb 2021
MCDP 1-4: Competing (Marine Corps), Feb 2021
System Error: How Big Tech Disrupted Everything and Why We Must Reboot (Reich, Sahami, & Weinstein), Jan 2021
MCDP 6: Command and Control (Marine Corps), Jan 2021
MCDP 2: Intelligence (Marine Corps), Dec 2020
[redacted] aphorisms, Dec 2020
The Book of Enoch, Dec 2020
Judaism’s Life-Changing Ideas (Sacks), Dec 2020
The Bell Curve (Herrnstein & Murray), Dec 2020
Morality: Restoring the Common Good in Divided Times (Sacks), Dec 2020
Ecclesiazusae (Aristophanes), Dec 2020
MCDP 1-3: Tactics (Marine Corps), Dec 2020
MCDP 1: Warfighting (Marine Corps), Dec 2020
The Holy Bible: New International Version, Nov 2020
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy (Helmer), Oct 2020
I See Satan Fall Like Lightning (Girard), Jul 2020
Natural Right and History (Strauss), Jul 2020
Politics & Apocalypse (Hamerton-Kelly), Jun 2020
The Bed of Procrustes (Taleb), Jun 2020
Skin in the Game (Taleb), Jun 2020
Antifragile (Taleb), Jun 2020
Fooled by Randomness (Taleb), May 2020
Sun and Steel (Mishima), Apr 2020
Efficiently Inefficient: How Smart Money Invests and Market Prices Are Determined (Pedersen), Mar 2020
Adaptive Markets: Financial Evolution at the Speed of Thought (Lo), Mar 2020
Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America (Gibney), Mar 2020
How the Immune System Works (Sompayrac), Mar 2020
Brotopia: Breaking up the Boys’ Club of Silicon Valley (Chang), Mar 2020
VC: An American History (Nicholas), Feb 2020
Secrets of Sand Hill Road (Kupor), Feb 2020
The Torah, Jan 2020
The Gospel of Thomas, Jan 2020
Trump: Art of the Deal (Trump), Jan 2020
The Great Stagnation (Cowen), Jan 2020
Why We Sleep (Walker), Jan 2020
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory (MacIntyre), Nov 2019
The Man Who Solved the Market (Zuckerman), Nov 2019
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Are (Stephens-Davidowitz), Nov 2019
Risk & Reward: An Inside View of the Property/Casualty Insurance Business, Oct 2019
Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans (Riding), Sep 2019
Payment Systems in the U.S., Sep 2019
The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle), Sep 2019
Blitzscaling (Hoffman), Sep 2019
Tao Te Ching, Sep 2019
A New Hope for Mexico (AMLO), Aug 2019
Who: The A Method for Hiring (Smart), Aug 2019
Commodities - Switzerland’s Most Dangerous Business (Bern), Aug 2019
Scale (Geoffrey West), Aug 2019
An American Sickness (Rosenthal), Jul 2019
On Tyranny (Strauss), Jul 2019
The Governance of China II (Xi), Jun 2019
Land and Sea (Schmitt), Jun 2019
The Concept of the Political (Schmitt), Jun 2019
Three Paths to the Lake (Bachmann), Jun 2019
War, Progress, and the End of History (Solovyov), May 2019
Meaning in History (Löwith), May 2019
The Master and His Emissary (McGilchrist), Mar 2019
PayPal Wars (Jackson) Feb 2019
The Souls of Yellow Folk (Yang), Feb 2019
AI Superpowers (Lee), Feb 2019
The Misbehavior of Markets (Mandelbrot), Jan 2019
Thieves of State (Chayes), Jan 2019
The Virtue of Nationalism (Hazony), Dec 2018
Has the West Lost It? (Mahbubani), Dec 2018
Positioning: The Battle for Your Mind (Ries), Nov 2018
Big Debt Crises (Dalio), Sep 2018
Toward a Theology of Work (Volf), Sep 2018
Black Swan (Taleb), Sep 2018
Reason for God (Keller), Sep 2018
The Outsiders (Thorndike), Sep 2018
Oil 101 (Downey), Aug 2018
Pitch Anything (Klaff), Aug 2018
The Best of Isaac Asimov (Asimov), Aug 2018
Power (Pfeffer), Jul 2018
The Symposium (Plato), Jul 2018
The Governance of China (Xi), Jul 2018
Shoe Dog (Knight), Jul 2018
The Billionaire That Wasn’t (O’Clery), Jun 2018
Mastery (Greene), Mar 2018
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital (Perez), Mar 2018
The Wealth of Networks (Benkler), Mar 2018
The Promise of Sleep (Dement), Feb 2018
A Grief Observed (Lewis), Dec 2017
Industrial Society and Its Future (Kaczynski), Dec 2017
Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy (Janeway), Dec 2017
The Old Man and the Sea (Hemingway), Dec 2017
Currency Wars (Rickards), Dec 2017
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck (Manson), Dec 2017
Sleepwatchers (Dement), Nov 2017
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World (Girard), Oct 2017
Meditations (Aurelius), Oct 2017
Manias, Panics, and Crashes (Kindleberger), Sep 2017
Inside the House of Money (Drobny), Aug 2017
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Kuhn), Aug 2017
How I Became a Quant (Lindsey & Schacter), Jul 2017
Hegel: A Very Short Introduction (Singer), Jul 2017
The Triple Helix (Lewontin), Jul 2017
Provocations: The Spiritual Writings of Kierkegaard, Jul 2017
Hillbilly Elegy (Vance), Jun 2017
The Construction of Social Reality (Searle), Jun 2017
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Vance), Jun 2017
Thinking, Fast and Slow (Kahneman), Jun 2017
The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Horowitz), May 2017
The Depository Trust Company: DTC’s Formative Years and Creation of the Depository Trust & Clearing Corporation (Dentzer), May 2017
Debt: The First Five Thousand Years (Graeber), Apr 2017
The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), Mar 2017
Fundamentals of Municipal Bonds, Mar 2017
Blockchain Revolution (Tapscott), Mar 2017
Blockchain (Swan), Mar 2017
Never Eat Alone (Ferazzi), Feb 2017
The Box (Levinson), Feb 2017
Alchemy of Finance (Soros), Jan 2017
Economic Principles (Dalio), Jan 2017
The Art of Learning (Waitzkin), Sep 2016