Musashi
Incredibly long but very fun.
now — july 2026
The Search for Modern China
My first serious history book. Basically a textbook. Nibbling my way through with Claude as my tutor.
SemiAnalysis
The most impressive combination of reporting and education on the internet today.
The World Machines Project
Everything I know about frameworking in newsletters I learned from VGR.
finished lately
Carl's Doomsday Scenario
Not as good as the first one, but I'm all in with the series.
Dungeon Crawler Carl
Stupid fun for a video game nerd like me.
Apple in China
Excellent overview of China's industrialization and Apple's modern supply chain crunch.
So Many Books
Fun, provocative essays on books and reading. Truly ahead of its time and only more relevant today.
The Notebook: A History of Thinking on Paper
Perfect inspiration to pick up my pocket notebook and fill it. Inspired me to start going deeper on Leonardo, Medici Florence, and Darwin.
some favorites
Boyd
The book I've gifted most. Much of Boyd's work has become part of my everyday vocabulary.
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
The 2-Hour Cocktail Party
Sneakily the most important book I've ever read.
Getting Things Done
The foundation of my productivity system.
How to Have Impossible Conversations
A ridiculously good book on the art of disagreement. If only the authors would read it
1Q84
My favorite novel of all time.
essays & online writing
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Maintenance of Everything
Rebel Island
The Bartender's Manifesto
The Little Book of Bonsai
The Prize
The Manager's Path
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
Moonbound
Tokyo These Days, Vol. 1
The Art of Pickleball
The Engineering Executive's Primer
Excellent Advice for Living
On the Edge
Outlive
The MANIAC
Zero to One
Million Dollar Weekend
MAKE: Bootstrapper's Handbook
The Consulting Bible
Why Startups Fail
Impro
Infinite Detail
Reading Like a Writer
The Lean Startup
Staff Engineer
Small Unit Leadership
What's Our Problem?
Scaling People
The Book of Five Rings
Talent
History Has Begun
All the Wrong Moves
Making It All Work
Parable of the Sower
Certain to Win
How to Take Smart Notes
Tempo
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read
The Future of Stuff
Alchemy
Out of the Ether
The Art and Business of Online Writing
Ajax Penumbra 1969
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
And Then There Were None
The End Is Always Near
Money and Government
Sourdough
Death's End
Homo Deus
Fall; Or, Dodge in Hell
The Dark Forest
Dune
Autonomous
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
The Wizard and the Prophet
Space Opera
Sapiens
The Three-Body Problem
Something Like An Autobiography
Kafka on the Shore
Killing Commendatore
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Seveneves
The Creature from Jekyll Island
Flash Boys
At the Existentialist Café
Catch-22
Time Travel: A History
American Kingpin
Walkaway
The Great Gatsby
A Personal Matter
Bloodline
Strangers in Their Own Land
Dark Money
Four Futures
Pirate Utopia
The Collapsing Empire
Uncle Vanya
Killing Gravity
Dead Pig Collector
Racing Weight
The Dumbest Kid in Gifted Class
The Hidden Game of Baseball
The Signal and the Noise
Children of the New World
Of Walking in Ice
Networks of New York
On Writing
The Sea Came in at Midnight
The New Oklahoma
Normal
Bobby Fischer Teaches Chess
Heir to the Empire
Silver Screen Fiend
The Fireman
The Sculptor
The Hidden Game of Football
The Postman Always Rings Twice
Abomination
Tess of the Storm Country
Cryptonomicon
A Burglar's Guide to the City
Transmetropolitan
Saga
Hitman
Usagi Yojimbo
A Wizard of Earthsea
A Confederacy of Dunces
The Epic of Gilgamesh
Daredevil: Born Again
After Dark
Supergods
Understanding Comics
Jack Kirby's Fourth World Omnibus
MaddAddam
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
America Again
Logicomix
Utopia
Erewhon
Looking Backward
A Feast for Crows
The Handmaid's Tale
A Dance with Dragons
Gulliver's Travels
The Island of Dr. Moreau
The Tempest
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe
Chaos
Blankets
The Year of the Flood
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
The Moviegoer
Snow Crash
Libra
American Gods
Y: The Last Man
A Game of Thrones
A Wild Sheep Chase
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Brave New World / Brave New World Revisited
The Catcher in the Rye
Stardust
Frankenstein
Pinball, 1973
The Left Hand of Darkness
Oryx and Crake
A Clash of Kings
Wit
The War of the Worlds
Ender's Game
Brave New World
Dance Dance Dance
Hear the Wind Sing
Point Omega
A Storm of Swords
Norwegian Wood
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Road
Neuromancer
Drown
I Am America (And So Can You!)
Watchmen
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
Foundation
Fahrenheit 451
The Time Machine
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns
The Hunger Games
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
Slaughterhouse-Five
Stranger in a Strange Land
Starship Troopers
Life of Pi
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest