49 Books

Fill your house with stacks of books, in all the crannies and all the nooks.
~ Dr. Seuss

The following is a slowly evolving list of my favorite finance, technology, and futurology books. I’ve also included separate sections on business, biography, philosophy, and psychology, as these are areas of interest.

The links below will take you to Goodreads.com. I’ve been tracking my reads there since mid-2016. This list is current as of January 2025 (yes, it needs some updates). Many of these books have inspired and informed the topics I use in my writings, talks, and projects.

7 Books on Finance

1. Venture Deals by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
2. Active Portfolio Management by Richard C. Grinold, Ronald N. Kahn
3. The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers by Baruch Lev, Feng Gu
4. The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest by Edward Chancellor
5. Investing with Impact: Why Finance Is a Force for Good by Jeremy Balkin
6. Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever by Robin Wigglesworth
7. Finance for Normal People: How Investors and Markets Behave by Meir Statman

7 Books on Technology

1. Artificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines by John C. Havens
2. The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman
3. The Loop: How Technology Is Creating a World Without Choices by Jacob Ward
4. Blockchain Revolution by Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott
5. The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything by Michael J. Casey, Paul Vigna
6. Platform Revolution by Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary
7. Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold

7 Books on the Future

1. Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark
2. Machine, Platform, Crowd by Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson
3. The Master Algorithm by Pedro Domingos
4. Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
5. The Inevitable by Kevin Kelly
6. The Genesis Machine by Amy Webb, Andrew Hessel
7. Scary Smart by Mo Gawdat

7 Books on Business

1. Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life , by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff
2. Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard P. Rumelt
3. Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
4. How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of “Intangibles” in Business  by Douglas W. Hubbard
5. Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results by Thomas H. Davenport, Robert Morison, Jeanne G. Harris
6. Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
7. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions  by Brian Christian, Tom Griffith

7 Biographies

1. Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
2. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
3. John Adams by David McCullough
4. Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
5. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
6. Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
7. Truman by David McCullough

7 Books on Philosophy

1. Meditations  by Marcus Aurelius
2. The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
3. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
4. Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
5. Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism by Monroe C. Beardsley
6. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
7. The Republic by Plato

7 Books on Psychology

1. Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
2. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics  by Richard H. Thaler
3. Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness  by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
4. Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business  by
   Charles Duhigg
5. The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
6. The Power of Regret by Daniel H. Pink
7. Daring Greatly by Brené Brown

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