30+ Book Recommendations by Ryan Petersen
GET TOUGH!
W. E. Fairbairn
@seanlinehan This is a book of fighting techniques from a former British police officer in colonial Shanghai who saw a lot of street combat. https://t.co/m5XfVg35BB
Story of Civilization
Will Durant
@jsnover @elonmusk Read this and you will know more than everybody: https://t.co/Op1khtvGNo
The Big Ship and the Little Digger
Ryan Petersen
When a big ship blocked the Suez Canal in March 2021, it brought global trade to a halt. Who could free her and get the world moving again? Far more than a history lesson, The Big Ship and the Little Digger teaches children (and adults) the power of optimism, teamwork, and knowing you can do something big even if you're small.@ctstallman @veronica_humble Here it is! https://t.co/TAiUJakzjM
The Rise and Fall of the British Empire
Patrick N. Allitt
@theoldbuilding @nfergus Great book. This is a nice follow up if you want more! https://t.co/cdgO29RQ6G
Out of the Crisis
W. Edwards Deming
@J_rob1018 My biz book canon: The Origin of Wealth, Certain to Win, Maverick, Out of the Crisis, Alchemy, Zero To One, 7 Powers, The Intelligent Investor
Certain to Win
Chet Richards
@J_rob1018 My biz book canon: The Origin of Wealth, Certain to Win, Maverick, Out of the Crisis, Alchemy, Zero To One, 7 Powers, The Intelligent Investor
Alchemy
Rory Sutherland
We think we are rational creatures. Economics and business rely on the assumption that we make logical decisions based on evidence. But we arent, and we dont. In many crucial areas of our lives, reason plays a vanishingly small part. Instead we are driven by unconscious desires, which is why placebos are so powerful. We are drawn to the beautiful, the extravagant and the absurd from lavish wedding invitations to tiny bottles of the latest fragrance. So if you want to influence peoples choices you have to bypass reason. The best ideas dont make rational sense: they make you feel more than they make you think. Rory Sutherland is the Ogilvy advertising legend whose TED Talks have been viewed nearly 7 million times. In his first book he blends cutting-edge behavioural science, jaw-dropping stories and a touch of branding magic, on his mission to turn us all into idea alchemists. The big problems we face every day, whether as an individual or in society, could very well be solved by letting go of logic and embracing the irrational.@J_rob1018 My biz book canon: The Origin of Wealth, Certain to Win, Maverick, Out of the Crisis, Alchemy, Zero To One, 7 Powers, The Intelligent Investor
Zero to One
Blake Masters
WHAT VALUABLE COMPANY IS NOBODY BUILDING? The next Bill Gates will not build an operating system. The next Larry Page or Sergey Brin won’t make a search engine. If you are copying these guys, you aren’t learning from them. It’s easier to copy a model than to make something new: doing what we already know how to do takes the world from 1 to n, adding more of something familiar. Every new creation goes from 0 to 1. This book is about how to get there. ‘Peter Thiel has built multiple breakthrough companies, and Zero to One shows how.’ ELON MUSK, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla ‘This book delivers completely new and refreshing ideas on how to create value in the world.’ MARK ZUCKERBERG, CEO of Facebook ‘When a risk taker writes a book, read it. In the case of Peter Thiel, read it twice. Or, to be safe, three times. This is a classic.’ NASSIM NICHOLAS TALEB, author of The Black Swan@J_rob1018 My biz book canon: The Origin of Wealth, Certain to Win, Maverick, Out of the Crisis, Alchemy, Zero To One, 7 Powers, The Intelligent Investor
The Origin of Wealth
Eric D. Beinhocker
What is wealth?How is it created? And how can we create more of it for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and societies?In The Origin of Wealth,Eric Beinhocker provides provocative new answers to these fundamental questions. Beinhocker surveys the cutting-edge ideas of economists and scientists and brings their work alive for a broad audience. These researchers, he explains, are revolutionizing economics by showing how the economy is an evolutionary system, much like a biological system. It is economic evolution that creates wealth and has taken us from the Stone Age to the $36.5 trillion global economy of today. By better understanding economic evolution, Beinhocker writes, we can better understand how to create more wealth. The author shows how “complexity economics” is turning conventional wisdom on its head in areas ranging from business strategy and organizational design to investment strategy and public policy. As sweeping in scope as its title,The Origin of Wealthwill rewire our thinking about the workings of the global economy and where it is going.@J_rob1018 My biz book canon: The Origin of Wealth, Certain to Win, Maverick, Out of the Crisis, Alchemy, Zero To One, 7 Powers, The Intelligent Investor
The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
@J_rob1018 My biz book canon: The Origin of Wealth, Certain to Win, Maverick, Out of the Crisis, Alchemy, Zero To One, 7 Powers, The Intelligent Investor
Double Your Profits
Bob Fifer
One of the nations' foremost financial consultants shares 78 proven ways to cut costs dramatically, send productivity through the roof, and, in just six months, double profits.Required reading for startup execs in this market. https://t.co/sThONSOEGs
The State of Africa
Martin Meredith
Africa is forever on our TV screens, but the bad-news stories (famine, genocide, corruption) massively outweigh the good (South Africa). Ever since the process of de-colonialisation began in the mid-1950s, and arguably before, the continent has appeared to be stuck in a process of irreversible decline. Constant war, improper use of natural resources and misappropriation of revenues and aid monies contribute to an impression of a continent beyond hope. How did we get here? What, if anything, is to be done? Fully revised and updated and weaving together the key stories and characters of the last sixty years into a stunningly compelling and coherent narrative, Martin Meredith has produced the definitive history of how European ideas of how to organise 10,000 different ethnic groups has led to what Tony Blair described as the 'scar on the conscience of the world'. Authoritative, provocative and consistently fascinating, this is the updated edition of the seminal book on one of the most important issues facing the West today.@patrick_oshag The state of Africa by Martin Meredith. https://t.co/THuL6oqyOs
The Big Ship and the Little Digger
Ryan Petersen
When a big ship blocked the Suez Canal in March 2021, it brought global trade to a halt. Who could free her and get the world moving again? Far more than a history lesson, The Big Ship and the Little Digger teaches children (and adults) the power of optimism, teamwork, and knowing you can do something big even if you're small.@replicationer https://t.co/TAiUJa2XVc
The Big Ship and the Little Digger
Ryan Petersen
When a big ship blocked the Suez Canal in March 2021, it brought global trade to a halt. Who could free her and get the world moving again? Far more than a history lesson, The Big Ship and the Little Digger teaches children (and adults) the power of optimism, teamwork, and knowing you can do something big even if you're small.@_TamaraWinter @startuployalist @mollyfmielke Get yours here! https://t.co/TAiUJa2XVc
The Big Ship and the Little Digger
Ryan Petersen
When a big ship blocked the Suez Canal in March 2021, it brought global trade to a halt. Who could free her and get the world moving again? Far more than a history lesson, The Big Ship and the Little Digger teaches children (and adults) the power of optimism, teamwork, and knowing you can do something big even if you're small.My book finally hit Amazon. You all you know *someone* whose kids love ships and diggers! https://t.co/vzVrt2Pics
The Origin of Wealth
Eric D. Beinhocker
What is wealth?How is it created? And how can we create more of it for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and societies?In The Origin of Wealth,Eric Beinhocker provides provocative new answers to these fundamental questions. Beinhocker surveys the cutting-edge ideas of economists and scientists and brings their work alive for a broad audience. These researchers, he explains, are revolutionizing economics by showing how the economy is an evolutionary system, much like a biological system. It is economic evolution that creates wealth and has taken us from the Stone Age to the $36.5 trillion global economy of today. By better understanding economic evolution, Beinhocker writes, we can better understand how to create more wealth. The author shows how “complexity economics” is turning conventional wisdom on its head in areas ranging from business strategy and organizational design to investment strategy and public policy. As sweeping in scope as its title,The Origin of Wealthwill rewire our thinking about the workings of the global economy and where it is going.@hillsteps I forgot one of the most important ones, the Origin of Wealth.
The Age of Napoleon
Will Durant
@elonmusk That’s only one chapter in 11 book series! Highly recommend the entire series. Book one taught me how our ancestors caught ducks with their bare hands, so I am ready for anything.
Berlitz Essential Spanish (Handbooks)
Berlitz Guides
Includes twenty lessons featuring bilingual dialogs, a pronunciation guide, vocabulary and basic grammar, and practice exercises.@CoyneLloyd @starsandrobots Berlitz Essential Spanish (Handbooks) https://t.co/oNHl4hlsub
The Story of Civilization [Volumes 1 to 11] (Hardcover Set 1963-1975)
Will & Ariel Durant
@paulbohm Best book ever right. I’m only on book two so far and already learned how to kill a duck with my bare hands when civilization totally collapses
- Matt Mochary coaches the CEOs of many of the fastest-scaling technology companies in Silicon Valley. With The Great CEO Within, he shares his highly effective leadership and business-operating tools with any CEO or manager in the world. Learn how to efficiently scale your business from startup to corporation by implementing a system of accountability, effective problem-solving, and transparent feedback. Becoming a great CEO requires training. For a founding CEO, there is precious little time to complete that training, especially at the helm of a rapidly growing company. Now you have the guidance you need in one book.
@sonjabl They just need a fully baked system to implement. @mattmochary outlines the system in his book, The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building https://t.co/6w10er7cTr
- Written 2,500 years ago by Chinese general Sun Tzu, The Art of War is a masterpiece of military strategy still in use in war colleges around the world. Yet its principles transcend warfare and have practical applications to all the conflicts and crises we face in our lives?in our workplaces, our families, even within ourselves. Thomas Huynh guides you through Sun Tzu?s masterwork, highlighting principles that encourage a perceptive and spiritual approach to conflict, enabling you to:Prevent conflicts before they arisePeacefully resolve conflicts when they do ariseAct with courage, intelligence and benevolence in adversarial situationsConvert potential enemies into friendsControl your emotions before they control you
@kane This week I read “A sense of where you are” and “the art of war” in a combined 6 hours. You got this dawg!
Conquerors
Roger Crowley
@TaylorPearsonMe This was cool. https://t.co/Gu2YkSItFW
Certain to Win
Chet Richards
@commandodev @chris_herd @MitchWaldrop @EricBeinhocker A very important book. Assume you’ve also read Certain to Win for how to harness those forces. It’s all Boyd in the end ;)
The Origin of Wealth
Eric D. Beinhocker
What is wealth?How is it created? And how can we create more of it for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and societies?In The Origin of Wealth,Eric Beinhocker provides provocative new answers to these fundamental questions. Beinhocker surveys the cutting-edge ideas of economists and scientists and brings their work alive for a broad audience. These researchers, he explains, are revolutionizing economics by showing how the economy is an evolutionary system, much like a biological system. It is economic evolution that creates wealth and has taken us from the Stone Age to the $36.5 trillion global economy of today. By better understanding economic evolution, Beinhocker writes, we can better understand how to create more wealth. The author shows how “complexity economics” is turning conventional wisdom on its head in areas ranging from business strategy and organizational design to investment strategy and public policy. As sweeping in scope as its title,The Origin of Wealthwill rewire our thinking about the workings of the global economy and where it is going.@commandodev @chris_herd @MitchWaldrop @EricBeinhocker A very important book. Assume you’ve also read Certain to Win for how to harness those forces. It’s all Boyd in the end ;)
- Matt Mochary coaches the CEOs of many of the fastest-scaling technology companies in Silicon Valley. With The Great CEO Within, he shares his highly effective leadership and business-operating tools with any CEO or manager in the world. Learn how to efficiently scale your business from startup to corporation by implementing a system of accountability, effective problem-solving, and transparent feedback. Becoming a great CEO requires training. For a founding CEO, there is precious little time to complete that training, especially at the helm of a rapidly growing company. Now you have the guidance you need in one book.
One of the best business books I’ve read in many years is a Google Doc. https://t.co/Gun8uxTmps
The Southwest Airlines Way
Jody Hoffer Gittell
Through extensive research, the author gets to the bottom of what has sustained Southwest Airlines' positive employee relations and high performance through good and bad times.@Austen Southwest https://t.co/nC8uAlNM45
Economics in One Lesson
Henry Hazlitt
With over a million copies sold, Economics in One Lesson is an essential guide to the basics of economic theory. A fundamental influence on modern libertarianism, Hazlitt defends capitalism and the free market from economic myths that persist to this day. Considered among the leading economic thinkers of the “Austrian School,” which includes Carl Menger, Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich (F.A.) Hayek, and others, Henry Hazlitt (1894-1993), was a libertarian philosopher, an economist, and a journalist. He was the founding vice-president of the Foundation for Economic Education and an early editor of The Freeman magazine, an influential libertarian publication. Hazlitt wrote Economics in One Lesson, his seminal work, in 1946. Concise and instructive, it is also deceptively prescient and far-reaching in its efforts to dissemble economic fallacies that are so prevalent they have almost become a new orthodoxy. Economic commentators across the political spectrum have credited Hazlitt with foreseeing the collapse of the global economy which occurred more than 50 years after the initial publication of Economics in One Lesson. Hazlitt’s focus on non-governmental solutions, strong — and strongly reasoned — anti-deficit position, and general emphasis on free markets, economic liberty of individuals, and the dangers of government intervention make Economics in One Lesson every bit as relevant and valuable today as it has been since publication.@grantguske Read “Economics in one lesson” and write about how a country’s imports must equal exports, or else the exporting country has to lend money to the importing country. It’s an accounting identify that few understand https://t.co/8SyBTlafZ5
MONEY Master the Game
Tony Robbins
"Bibliography found online at tonyrobbins.com/masterthegame"--Page [643].@AustenAllred Tony Robbins new book “Money” is a great starting point.
- Featuring a foreword by the father of Big History, David Christian, and produced in association with the Big History Institute, Big History provides a comprehensive understanding of the major events that have changed the nature and course of life on the planet we call home. This first fully integrated visual reference on Big History for general readers places humans in the context of our universe, from the Big Bang to virtual reality. Why does the universe work the way it does? Why are stars so big? Why are humans so small? What does it mean to be human? Big History blends geology, biology, physics, anthropology, sociology, and so much more to tell one coherent story, taking us right back to our origins and exploring how a unique series of events led to and then impacted human existence: how everything came to be, where we fit in, and even where we are going. Graphics, artworks, timelines, and at-a-glance overviews make the causes and effects of pivotal events and major thresholds in Big History instantly accessible, and evidence features explain how we know what we know. An additional 64-page reference section provides a more conventional account of events in human history. Placing humans in the context of our universe and revealing how and why we got to where we are today, Big History covers 13.8 billion years of history, from the formation of the universe and the dawn of time to the present day.
@Humphreylol If you like origin of wealth you'll love Big History and Complexity
High Growth Handbook
Elad Gil
Well known technology executive and angel investor Elad Gil has worked with high growth tech companies like Airbnb, Twitter, Google, Instacart, Coinbase, Stripe, and Square as they've grown from small companies into global brands. Across all of these break-out companies, a set of common patterns has evolved into a repeatable playbook that Gil has codified in High Growth Handbook. Covering key topics including the role of the CEO, managing your board, recruiting and managing an executive team, M&A, IPOs and late stage funding rounds, and interspersed with over a dozen interviews with some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley including Reid Hoffman (LinkedIn), Marc Andreessen (Andreessen Horowitz), and Aaron Levie (Box), High Growth Handbook presents crystal clear guidance for navigating the most complex challenges that confront leaders and operators in high-growth startups. In what Reid Hoffman, cofounder of LinkedIn and co-author of the #1 NYT bestsellers The Alliance and The Startup of You calls "a trenchant guide," High Growth Handbook is the playbook for turning a startup into a unicorn.Thanks @eladgil for the book! Excited to get our growth rate back to the 16x days of yore. https://t.co/xXF5fpsJI9
Before the Industrial Revolution
Carlo M. Cipolla
The Third Edition includes substantial revisions and new material throughout the book that will secure its standing as the most useful history available of preindustrial Europe.@TaylorPearsonMe “Before the Industrial Revolution” is awesome for this (recommended to me by @paulg). Several wonderful Great Courses on the era too...go on audible and check great courses > history
MONEY Master the Game
Tony Robbins
"Bibliography found online at tonyrobbins.com/masterthegame"--Page [643].@sama Tony Robbins just wrote a good book for this exact use case. He is the man. https://t.co/jUlJbQt3K0
The Origin of Wealth
Eric D. Beinhocker
What is wealth?How is it created? And how can we create more of it for the benefit of individuals, businesses, and societies?In The Origin of Wealth,Eric Beinhocker provides provocative new answers to these fundamental questions. Beinhocker surveys the cutting-edge ideas of economists and scientists and brings their work alive for a broad audience. These researchers, he explains, are revolutionizing economics by showing how the economy is an evolutionary system, much like a biological system. It is economic evolution that creates wealth and has taken us from the Stone Age to the $36.5 trillion global economy of today. By better understanding economic evolution, Beinhocker writes, we can better understand how to create more wealth. The author shows how “complexity economics” is turning conventional wisdom on its head in areas ranging from business strategy and organizational design to investment strategy and public policy. As sweeping in scope as its title,The Origin of Wealthwill rewire our thinking about the workings of the global economy and where it is going.@JakeCahan @zackkanter I read about half of these. Good choices, thx for sharing. My favorite book is The Origin of Wealth by Eric Beinhocker. Not on audible tho:(
The Great Wave
David Hackett Fischer
Who is seriously concerned about the state of the world today.@noahmp The Great Wave: Price Revolutions and the Rhythm of History