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
- Venture Deals by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
- Active Portfolio Management: A Quantitative Approach for Producing Superior Returns and Controlling Risk by Richard C. Grinold, Ronald N. Kahn
- The End of Accounting and the Path Forward for Investors and Managers by Baruch Lev, Feng Gu
- The Warren Buffett Portfolio by Robert G. Hagstrom
- Investing with Impact: Why Finance Is a Force for Good by Jeremy Balkin
- Impact Investing: Transforming How We Make Money While Making a Difference by Antony Bugg-Levine, Jed Emerson
- Finance for Normal People: How Investors and Markets Behave by Meir Statman
7 Books on Technology
- Artificial Intelligence: Embracing Our Humanity to Maximize Machines by John C. Havens
- Blockchain Revolution: How the Technology Behind Bitcoin Is Changing Money, Business, and the World by Don Tapscott, Alex Tapscott
- VALUEWEB: How fintech firms are using bitcoin blockchain and mobile technologies to create the Internet of value by Chris Skinner
- The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything by Michael J. Casey, Paul Vigna
- Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy–and How to Make Them Work for You by Geoffrey G. Parker, Marshall W. Van Alstyne, Sangeet Paul Choudary
- Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley by Antonio García Martínez
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software by Charles Petzold
7 Books on the Future
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
- Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future by Andrew McAfee, Erik Brynjolfsson
- The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World by Pedro Domingos
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
- The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly
- Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution – and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
- The Fourth Industrial Revolution by Klaus Schwab
7 Books on Business
- Thinking Strategically: The Competitive Edge in Business, Politics, and Everyday Life , by Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. Nalebuff
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard P. Rumelt
- Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant by W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne
- How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of “Intangibles” in Business by Douglas W. Hubbard
- Analytics at Work: Smarter Decisions, Better Results by Thomas H. Davenport, Robert Morison, Jeanne G. Harris
- Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brian Christian, Tom Griffith
7 Biographies
- Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- John Adams by David McCullough
- Alexander Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
- Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
- Truman by David McCullough
7 Books on Philosophy
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
- The Art of War by Sun Tzu
- Letters from a Stoic by Seneca
- Aesthetics: Problems in the Philosophy of Criticism by Monroe C. Beardsley
- Walden by Henry David Thoreau
- The Republic by Plato
7 Books on Psychology
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics by Richard H. Thaler
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
- Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business by
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck
- Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink, Leif Babin
- Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead by Brené Brown
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