What are your favorite books that have inspired you?
I’ve been an avid reader since I was a kid. Reading books does not only allow me to acquire new knowledge but also helps me release stress. Please share your favorite books and why you love/recommend them.
There’s too many to mention here but I recommend the following books.
Business
1, Zero to One by Peter Thiel
Science
1, The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
2, ORDER OUT OF CHAOS by Ilya Prigogine
3, “Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard P. Feynman
Others
1, The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically by Peter Singer
2, The Suttanipata: An Ancient Collection of the Buddha's Discourses Together with Its Commentaries
3, The Dhammapada: A New Translation of the Buddhist Classic with Annotations
4, The Origins Of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
5, The Questions of King Milinda by J. B. Baillie
Not a book, but a podcast (and the first podcast) I've gotten into and loved is The End Of The World with Josh Clark. Really puts into perspective life and our purpose, and talks about how important technology and computers will be in our future.
Intersting. I will check it out.
Here are my favorite podcasts
-Lex Fridman
-Huberman Lab
-Bankless
-Reid Hoffman
Those look awesome, will add them to my list 👍
The lean startup - Eric Riesis one of the reasons I started Funnelll.com; to allow for continuous learning, iterating, and improvement of a sales funnels/productsAs a founder, I related most to
The hard thing about hard things - Ben Horowitz. It helped me keep my sanity (to a certain extent :-)And I found
Things a little bird told me - Biz Stone(Twitter's story) andThis will never work - Marc Randolph(Netflix's story) so engaging that I finished them in a couple of days :-)I've read #1 and #2. Yes, these are good ones!
When it comes to Twitter, I've only read "Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship and Betrayal"and it was so interesting to read about how one of the most successful tech companies started.
I will check out Things a little bird told me - Biz Stone later. Thank you for sharing your recommendations!
I definitely put this in order of my favorite. Those top 3 are like getting super powers.
I have't read any of them except for #2. Thanks for sharing!
Great selections. I've read a few of these, will surely check the others out.
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These are good ones. I will definitely check out the ones I haven't read! Thank you.