me in 10 seconds
I’ve been a musician, circus performer, entrepreneur, and speaker.
I’m a slow thinker, explorer, xenophile, and love a different point of view.
California native, I now live in New Zealand.
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articles about…
- self-expansion
- personal development, exploring, learning, expanding identity
- Useful Not True
- reframing: choosing a helpful perspective, understanding others
- writing
- writing, journaling, publishing
- Anything You Want
- entrepreneur lessons from starting, growing, selling my company
- programming / tech
- programming, web, servers, PostgreSQL, OS, home tech, code
- Hell Yeah or No
- fixing faulty thinking, making things happen, what’s worth doing
- saying no
- minimalism, enough, rejecting norms, self-reliance, satiability
- How to Live
- actionable directives, in a perspective taken to its conclusion
- Your Music and People
- considerate marketing, calling attention to your creative work
- money and career
- working, building, leading, business, direction
- international
- cultural psychology, amateur anthropology, understanding places
- other people
- interpersonal understanding, personal profiles
- autobiography
- stuff about me, ideally useful for you
- this site
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my books
Useful Not True
Doubt everything. No beliefs are true. Adopt what works for you now.
How to Live
My masterpiece. Best thing I’ve ever made. My soul in a book.
Hell Yeah or No
Useful wisdom. Simple profound mental models to guide your decisions.
Your Music and People
Get your work to the world by being creative, considerate, resourceful, and connected.
Anything You Want
40 lessons for a new kind of entrepreneur. My tales of starting, building, and selling CD Baby.
See the foreign publishers of my translated books.
projects
- Book Notes
- detailed notes from the last 430+ books I’ve read
- Now Now Now
- a collection of sites that have a “what I’m doing now” page
- Tech Independence
- step-by-step instructions to set up your own server and break dependency on the cloud
- Conversations in…
- when I travel, I meet with people who have emailed me
- Inchword
- tools to help people translate books
- Books that reference me
- excerpts from books that have written about me
- MusicThoughts
- inspiring quotes about music, translated into Español, Français, Deutsch, Italiano, Português, Русский, العربية, 日本語, and 中文
interviews
You can listen to over 250 interviews, where I’m the guest.
Each one has audio, sometimes video, and a full transcript.
photos
tweets
- Great book: Elephant in the Brain: sive.rs/book/BrainMotives You have hidden motives and subconscious incentives. Two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. Instititutions do this too: wasteful because they’re serving hidden purposes no one acknowledges. Great insights throughout.
- People of India! My OCI + Airtel + HDFC has culminated in a massive achievement and rite of initiation. I have made my first UPI payment. I’m now unstoppable.
- “Purpose” and “passion” are words we use when we’re not working.
- I was inconsiderate but now I’m everywhere: sive.rs/socials
- I love people. I love when they’re not around.
- Great book: “You’re Not Listening” by Kate Murphy. My notes: sive.rs/book/NotListening
- I highly recommend the book "Factfulness" by Hans Roling. My notes: sive.rs/book/Factfulness
- I’ve been offline 23 hours a day: sive.rs/off23
- Got my own ActivityPub server running at sive.rs/d though still super basic and testing
- The past is not true : sive.rs/pnt
- dashing dog, searching for purpose : sive.rs/pdog
- $575K of books sold. $575K to save lives. sive.rs/575k
- The joy and freedom of harmlessly upsetting social norms : sive.rs/nor
- Why I let go of my U.S. citizenship : sive.rs/xus
- the Michael Browne suits : sive.rs/suits
- Aim off-center to counter a bias : sive.rs/aim
- Thinking something nice about somebody? Tell them. sive.rs/nice
- 50 conversations in Bangalore and Chennai : sive.rs/meet-chbg
- Explorers are bad leaders : sive.rs/exled
- Travelling just for the people : sive.rs/travp
book notes
- Travelling While Black - by Nanjala Nyabola
- Tribal - by Michael Morris
- Nineteen Ways of Looking at Consciousness - by Patrick House
- Elephant in the Brain - by Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
- China in Ten Words - by Yu Hua 余华
- Maintenance of Everything, part one - by Stewart Brand
- You’re Not Listening - by Kate Murphy
- You Will Not Stampede Me - by Bryan Caplan
- Kingdom of Characters - by Jing Tsu
- Existentialism: A Beginner’s Guide - by Thomas Wartenberg
- At the Existentialist Café - by Sarah Bakewell
- Argumentative Indian - by Amartya Sen
- Factfulness - by Hans Rosling
- Art of Spending Money - by Morgan Housel
- Charisma Myth - by Olivia Fox Cabane
- Rule Makers, Rule Breakers - by Michele Gelfand
- How to Know a Person - by David Brooks
- In Praise of Commercial Culture - by Tyler Cowen
- Mathematica - by David Bessis, Kevin Frey
- Vagabonding - by Rolf Potts
- Create Your Own Economy - by Tyler Cowen
- Advice on Upskilling - by Justin Skycak
- Cosmopolitanism - by Kwame Anthony Appiah
- Half Known Life - by Pico Iyer
- Waste Books - by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
- Breakneck - by Dan Wang
- Battleground: 10 Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East - by Christopher Phillips
- Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East - by Gerard Russell
- Knowledge, Reality, and Value - by Michael Huemer
- Voters as Mad Scientists - by Bryan Caplan
- Islam Explained - by Ahmad Rashid Salim
- Asian 21st Century - by Kishore Mahbubani
- Fossil Future - by Alex Epstein
- The Myth of the Rational Voter - by Bryan Caplan
- Labor Econ Versus the World - by Bryan Caplan
- Don’t Be a Feminist - by Bryan Caplan
- How Evil Are Politicians? - by Bryan Caplan
- Belt and Road - by Bruno Maçães
- Has China Won? - by Kishore Mahbubani
- No B.S. Ruthless Management of People and Profits - by Dan Kennedy
- New China Playbook - by Keyu Jin
- Co-Intelligence - by Ethan Mollick
- Political Thought of Xi Jinping - by Steve Tsang and Olivia Cheung
- The Network State - by Balaji Srinivasan
- All the Ghosts in the Machine - by Elaine Kasket
- The Complete Idiot’s Guide to Game Theory - by Edward Rosenthal Ph.D.
- Way of the Peaceful Warrior - by Dan Millman
- Connecting the Dots - by Sam Brinson
- Wish Lanterns / China’s New Youth - by Alec Ash
- Age of Ambition in the new China - by Evan Osnos
- Other Rivers - by Peter Hessler
- River Town - by Peter Hessler
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality - by Eliezer Yudkowsky
- Self-Help Is Like a Vaccine - by Bryan Caplan
- The Invention of the Jewish People - by Shlomo Sand
- Hold On to Your Kids - by Gordon Neufeld and Gabor Maté
- In This Economy? - by Kyla Scanlon
- Unboxing Bengaluru - by Malini Goyal and Prashanth Prakash
- SuperBetter - by Jane McGonigal
- Linguistics: A Complete Introduction - by David Hornsby
- The Stoic Challenge - by William B. Irvine
- The Four Agreements - by Don Miguel Ruiz
- This Is Strategy - by Seth Godin
- Philosophy of Software Design - by John K. Ousterhout
- Chile Culture Smart - by Caterina Perrone
- Guru’Guay Guide to Montevideo - by Karen Higgs
- Argentina Culture Smart - by Mary Godward and Robert Hamwee
- Colombia Culture Smart - by Kate Cathey
- Mexico Culture Smart - by Russell Maddicks
- This Is Mexico - by Carol Merchasin
- Nineteen Ways of Looking at Wang Wei - by Eliot Weinberger
- Dawn of Eurasia - by Bruno Maçães
- From Rebel to Ruler - by Tony Saich
- Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions - by Batja Mesquita
- Dreaming in Chinese - by Deborah Fallows
- China’s World View - by David Daokui Li
- The Everything Token - by Steve Kaczynski and Scott Duke Kominers
- Methods of Persuasion - by Nick Kolenda
- Persuasion Story Code - by David Garfinkel
- Arabs - by Tim Mackintosh-Smith
- Islam and the Future of Tolerance - by Sam Harris and Maajid Nawaz
- Questions Are the Answer - by Hal B. Gregersen
- Arabian Sands - by Wilfred Thesiger
- The Alchemist - by Paulo Coelho
- The Power of Regret - by Daniel Pink
- The Vagabond’s Way - by Rolf Potts
- Prototype Nation - by Silvia M. Lindtner
- The Silk Roads - by Peter Frankopan
- The Religious Case Against Belief - by James P. Carse
- Finite and Infinite Games - by James P. Carse
- Cyprus Culture Smart - by Constantine Buhayer
- Palestine a Four Thousand Year History - by Nur Masalha
- Anchored - by Lucas Skrobot
- The Barbell Prescription - by Jonathon M. Sullivan
- Israel: the Misunderstood Country - by Noa Tishby
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra - by Friedrich Nietzsche
- You Can Negotiate Anything - by Herb Cohen
- How Minds Change - by David McRaney
- How Religion Evolved - by Robin Dunbar
- Excellent Advice for Living - by Kevin Kelly
- Rebel Talent - by Francesca Gino
- Swisstory, History of Switzerland - by Laurie Theurer
- Nothing & Everything - by Val N. Tine
- You Look Like a Thing and I Love You - by Janelle Shane
- City of Gold: Dubai - by Jim Krane
- The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur - by Mike Michalowicz
- Rich Dad Poor Dad - by Robert Kiyosaki
- Useful Delusions - by Shankar Vedantam
- UAE Culture Shock - by Gina Crocetti Benesh
- The Righteous Mind - by Jonathan Haidt
- Pragmatism as a Way of Life - by Ruth Anna and Hilary Putnam
- Outlive - by Peter Attia
- UAE Culture Smart - by John Walsh
- What’s in It for Them? - by Joe Polish
- The Essentials of Hinduism - by Swami Bhaskarananda
- Complete Idiot’s Guide to Hinduism - by Linda Johnsen
- Delphi Complete Works of William James - by William James
- Pragmatism - by William James
- Complete Idiot’s Guide to Understanding Judaism - by Rabbi Benjamin Blech
- What Makes Us Human - by GPT-3, Jasmin Wang, and Iain Thomas
- Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me) - by Carol Tavris
- Loving What Is - by Byron Katie
- Useful Belief - by Chris Helder
- Introducing Pragmatism - by Cornelis de Waal
- Pragmatism an Introduction - by Michael Bacon
- Japanese Mind - by Roger Davies and Osamu Ikeno
- Essays One - by Lydia Davis
- Everything in Its Place (Work Clean) - by Dan Charnas
- Everything Is Obvious - by Duncan Watts
- Write Useful Books - by Rob Fitzpatrick
- Code - by Charles Petzold
- Wild Problems - by Russ Roberts
- The Biggest Bluff - by Maria Konnikova
- How to Know Everything - by Elke Wiss
- Relationship Handbook - by George Pransky
- Nietzsche: a complete introduction - by Roy Jackson
- The Secrets of Story - by Matt Bird
- Philosophy: a Complete Introduction - by Sharon Kaye
- What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam - by John L. Esposito
- The Art of Loving - by Erich Fromm
- Almost Perfect - by Erika Lemay
- Awaken the Giant Within - by Tony Robbins
- The Socrates Express - by Eric Weiner
- The Courage to Be Happy - by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- Essays and Aphorisms - by Arthur Schopenhauer
- The Minimalist Entrepreneur - by Sahil Lavingia
- Wanting - by Luke Burgis
- Four Thousand Weeks - by Oliver Burkeman
- 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing - by Gary Provost
- Beyond Order - by Jordan Peterson
- The Art of Creative Thinking - by Rod Judkins
- How to Live on 24 Hours a Day - by Arnold Bennett
- River Out of Eden - by Richard Dawkins
- The Tao of Wu - by RZA
- The Question Behind the Question - by John Miller
- Crush It - by Gary Vaynerchuk
- How to Think More Effectively - by the School of Life
- The Five Rings - by Miyamoto Musashi
- The Me, Me, Me Epidemic - by Amy McCready
- Musashi - by Eiji Yoshikawa and Charles Terry
- Story - by Robert McKee
- Shoe Dog - by Phil Knight
- Will - by Will Smith and Mark Manson
- All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten - by Robert Fulghum
- Aesop’s Fables - by Aesop and George Fyler Townsend
- Nonviolent Communication - by Marshall Rosenberg
- Writing to Learn - by William Zinsser
- The Listening Book - by W.A. Mathieu
- Open Borders - by Bryan Caplan
- Grow Rich With Peace of Mind - by Napoleon Hill
- How Buildings Learn - by Stewart Brand
- Where Is My Flying Car? - by J Storrs Hall
- Editing Humanity - by Kevin Davies
- The Data Detective - by Tim Harford
- The Box - by Marc Levinson
- Skip the Line - by James Altucher
- Before We Go - by Dan John
- Attempts - by Dan John
- Fallen Leaves - by Will Durant
- The Beginning of Infinity - by David Deutsch
- Getting Things Done - by David Allen
- Several Short Sentences About Writing - by Verlyn Klinkenborg
- The Good Ancestor - by Roman Krznaric
- The Practice - by Seth Godin
- The Art of Possibility - by Rosamund and Benjamin Zander
- Consider This - by Chuck Palahniuk
- The Psychology of Money - by Morgan Housel
- The Philosophy of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy - by Donald Robertson
- Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Dummies - by Rob Willson and Rhena Branch
- The Elements of Style - by William Strunk
- Skin in the Game - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- No More Mr. Nice Guy - by Robert Glover
- Scepticism: A Very Short Introduction - by Duncan Pritchard
- Stillness Is the Key - by Ryan Holiday
- True Style - by G. Bruce Boyer
- The Complacent Class - by Tyler Cowen
- Indistractable - by Nir Eyal
- The New York Nobody Knows - by William Helmreich
- Prisoners of Geography - by Tim Marshall
- Finland Culture Shock - by Deborah Swallow
- This Is Marketing - by Seth Godin
- Everything Is Fucked - by Mark Manson
- Pre-Suasion - by Robert Cialdini
- The Alter Ego Effect - by Todd Herman
- Stubborn Attachments - by Tyler Cowen
- Life 3.0 - by Max Tegmark
- Surviving AI - by Calum Chace
- How Not to Be Wrong - by Jordan Ellenberg
- Brain Rules for Aging Well - by John Medina
- The Tao of George Carlin - by George Carlin
- Poking a Dead Frog - by Mike Sacks
- Atomic Habits - by James Clear
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century - by Yuval Noah Harari
- Die Empty - by Todd Henry
- Watching the English - by Kate Fox
- The Artist’s Journey - by Steven Pressfield
- The Geometry of Wealth - by Brian Portnoy
- The Consolations of Philosophy - by Alain De Botton
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! - by Richard Feynman
- The Courage to Be Disliked - by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- Story of Philosophy - by Will Durant
- Swiss Watching - by Diccon Bewes
- Never Split the Difference (Negotiating) - by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
- Thinking in Bets - by Annie Duke
- Mindfulness in Plain English - by Henepola Gunaratana
- The Lessons of History - by Will and Ariel Durant
- When - by Daniel Pink
- 12 Rules for Life - by Jordan Peterson
- Getting the Love You Want - by Harville Hendrix
- Lying - by Sam Harris
- How Music Works - by David Byrne
- Perennial Seller - by Ryan Holiday
- Barking Up the Wrong Tree - by Eric Barker
- Homo Deus - by Yuval Noah Harari
- Innumeracy - by John Allen Paulos
- Principles - by Ray Dalio
- How to Live - by Sarah Bakewell
- The Way of the Linguist - by Steve Kaufmann
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives - by David Eagleman
- Peak Performance - by Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness
- Tools of Titans - by Tim Ferriss
- Sapiens - by Yuval Noah Harari
- How to Read a Book - by Charles Van Doren and Mortimer Adler
- The Dip - by Seth Godin
- Happy - by Derren Brown
- The Daily Stoic - by Ryan Holiday
- The Road Less Traveled - by M. Scott Peck
- Au Contraire: Figuring Out the French - by Gilles Asselin and Ruth Mastron
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - by Mark Manson
- Grit - by Angela Duckworth
- Leading an Inspired Life - by Jim Rohn
- How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk - by Adele Fabe and Elaine Mazlish
- The Gardener and the Carpenter - by Alison Gopnik
- Money: Master the Game - by Tony Robbins
- And Never Stop Dancing - by Gordon Livingston
- Ego Is the Enemy - by Ryan Holiday
- Nobody Wants to Read Your Shit - by Steven Pressfield
- Guns, Germs, and Steel - by Jared Diamond
- The Inevitable - by Kevin Kelly
- Playful Parenting - by Lawrence Cohen
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise - by Anders Ericsson
- Steal Like an Artist - by Austin Kleon
- Total Recall - by Arnold Schwarzenegger
- The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need - by Andrew Tobias
- Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart - by Gordon Livingston
- Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change - by Pema Chödrön
- The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives - by Leonard Mlodinow
- Deep Work - by Cal Newport
- Simple Rules - by Donald Sull
- Zero to One - by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters
- Quirkology - by Richard Wiseman
- Cows, Pigs, Wars, and Witches - by Marvin Harris
- Germany: Unraveling an Enigma - by Greg Nees
- Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking - by Richard Nisbett
- The Geography of Genius - by Eric Weiner
- How I Found Freedom in an Unfree World - by Harry Browne
- The Truth - by Neil Strauss
- Writing Tools - by Roy Peter Clark
- The Future of Almost Everything - by Patrick Dixon
- Wilde in America - by David M. Friedman
- The Sense of Style - by Steven Pinker
- The Entrepreneur Roller Coaster - by Darren Hardy
- On Writing Well - by William Zinsser
- A More Beautiful Question - by Warren Berger
- How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life - by Russ Roberts
- Me, Inc. - by Gene Simmons
- The Wisdom of No Escape - by Pema Chödrön
- A Mind for Numbers - by Barbara Oakley
- Make It Stick - by Peter Brown
- When Things Fall Apart - by Pema Chödrön
- Smartcuts - by Shane Snow
- Seeing What Others Don’t - by Gary Klein
- The Power of No - by James and Claudia Altucher
- Superhuman by Habit - by Tynan
- Mindwise - by Nicholas Epley
- Flex - by Ben Fletcher and Karen Pine
- Complexity: A Guided Tour - by Melanie Mitchell
- Never Let Go - by Dan John
- Fluent Forever - by Gabriel Wyner
- Daily Rituals: How Artists Work - by Mason Currey
- Geography of Time - by Robert Levine
- The Compound Effect - by Darren Hardy
- When Cultures Collide - by Richard D. Lewis
- The Obstacle Is the Way - by Ryan Holiday
- The Antidote - by Oliver Burkeman
- Decisive - by Chip and Dan Heath
- Show Your Work - by Austin Kleon
- How to Learn a Foreign Language - by Paul Pimsleur
- Man’s Search for Meaning - by Viktor Frankl
- Toilet Training in Less Than A Day - by Nathan Azrin
- Your Memory - by Kenneth L. Higbee
- Choose Yourself! - by James Altucher
- How to Learn and Memorize French Vocabulary - by Anthony Metivier
- Give and Take - by Adam M. Grant
- The Story of French - by Jean-Benoit Nadeau and Julie Barlow
- The Bed of Procrustes - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Making Ideas Happen - by Scott Belsky
- Island - by Aldous Huxley
- Ready for Anything - by David Allen
- The Philosophical Baby - by Alison Gopnik
- In Pursuit of Silence - by George Prochnik
- Bird by Bird - by Anne Lamott
- Self Reliance - by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Starting Strength - by Mark Rippetoe
- How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big - by Scott Adams
- 5 Elements of Effective Thinking - by Edward B. Burger and Michael Starbird
- A Short History of Nearly Everything - by Bill Bryson
- Ikigai - by Sebastian Marshall
- Antifragile - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Now Habit - by Neil Fiore
- The Willpower Instinct - by Kelly McGonigal
- The Icarus Deception - by Seth Godin
- The Laws of Subtraction - by Matthew May
- Mastery - by Robert Greene
- The 4-Hour Chef - by Timothy Ferriss
- Wired for Story - by Lisa Cron
- Turning Pro - by Steven Pressfield
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You - by Cal Newport
- No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs - by Dan S. Kennedy
- Mastery - by George Leonard
- Pragmatic Programmer - by Andy Hunt and David Thomas
- Quiet - by Susan Cain
- The Little Book of Talent - by Daniel Coyle
- Drop Dead Healthy - by A. J. Jacobs
- What Technology Wants - by Kevin Kelly
- The Power of Habit - by Charles Duhigg
- Meditations - by Marcus Aurelius and C Scot Hicks and David V Hicks
- The Passionate Programmer - by Chad Fowler
- Meditation for Beginners - by Jack Kornfield
- The War of Art - by Steven Pressfield
- The Developing World - by Fredrik Härén
- The Checklist Manifesto - by Atul Gawande
- Thinking, Fast and Slow - by Daniel Kahneman
- You Are Not So Smart - by David McRaney
- Brain Rules for Baby - by John Medina
- Do the Work - by Steven Pressfield
- The Lean Startup - by Eric Ries
- Cambodia’s Curse - by Joel Brinkley
- Willpower - by Roy Baumeister and John Tierney
- Power of Full Engagement - by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz
- What Got You Here Won’t Get You There - by Marshall Goldsmith
- Hiring Smart - by Pierre Mornell
- Program or Be Programmed - by Douglas Rushkoff and Leland Purvis
- A Gift to My Children - by Jim Rogers
- Moonwalking with Einstein - by Joshua Foer
- Practicing Mind - by Thomas Sterner
- Little Bets - by Peter Sims
- One Simple Idea - by Stephen Key
- Fail-Safe Investing - by Harry Browne
- Poke the Box - by Seth Godin
- The Personal MBA - by Josh Kaufman
- The Four Filters Invention of Warren Buffett and Charlie Munger - by Bud Labitan
- Focus - by Leo Babauta
- Seeking Wisdom - by Peter Bevelin
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - by Haruki Murakami
- Confessions of a Serial Entrepreneur - by Stuart Skorman
- The 4-Hour Body - by Tim Ferriss
- Hire With Your Head - by Lou Adler
- The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work - by Alain De Botton
- Linchpin - by Seth Godin
- Cognitive Surplus - by Clay Shirky
- Mindset - by Carol Dweck
- Art and Fear - by David Bayles and Ted Orland
- Start Small, Stay Small - by Rob Walling and Mike Taber
- A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy - by William Irvine
- The Selfish Gene - by Richard Dawkins
- Drive - by Daniel Pink
- Hackers & Painters - by Paul Graham
- Nudge - by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein
- Making a Good Brain Great - by Daniel G. Amen
- The Upside of Irrationality - by Dan Ariely
- Confessions of a Public Speaker - by Scott Berkun
- Switch - by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- On Writing - by Stephen King
- The Happiness Hypothesis - by Jonathan Haidt
- Life Without Lawyers - by Philip K. Howard
- I Will Teach You To Be Rich - by Ramit Sethi
- Being Logical - by D.Q. McInerny
- Business Stripped Bare - by Richard Branson
- The Geography of Bliss - by Eric Weiner
- Pomodoro Technique Illustrated - by Staffan Nöteberg
- Born Standing Up - by Steve Martin
- Committed - by Elizabeth Gilbert
- What the Dog Saw - by Malcolm Gladwell
- Conspiracy of the Rich - by Robert Kiyosaki
- Talent Is Overrated - by Geoff Colvin
- The Investor’s Manifesto - by William J. Bernstein
- How We Decide - by Jonah Lehrer
- Pragmatic Thinking and Learning - by Andy Hunt
- The Productive Programmer - by Neal Ford
- Crash Proof 2.0 - by Peter Schiff
- Why Smart People Make Big Money Mistakes - by Gilovich and Belsky
- Discover Your Inner Economist - by Tyler Cowen
- The Profit Zone - by Adrian Slywotzky
- The Talent Code - by Daniel Coyle
- Causing a Scene - by Charlie Todd
- Influence - by Robert Cialdini
- Never Eat Alone - by Keith Ferrazzi and Tahl Raz
- Rapt - by Winifred Gallagher
- Overachievement - by John Eliot
- Ignore Everybody - by Hugh MacLeod
- Born to Run - by Christopher McDougall
- Radical Honesty - by Brad Blanton
- The Great Formula - by Mark Joyner
- China Road - by Rob Gifford
- The How of Happiness - by Sonja Lyubomirsky
- The Think Big Manifesto - by Michael Port and Mina Samuels
- How to be a Billionaire - by Martin Fridson
- Enough - by John Bogle
- Lucky Or Smart? - by Bo Peabody
- Outliers: The Story of Success - by Malcolm Gladwell
- The China Study - by Campbell and Campbell
- Management of the Absurd - by Richard Farson
- The Time Paradox - by Philip Zimbardo and John Boyd
- Reality Check - by Guy Kawasaki
- What Would Google Do? - by Jeff Jarvis
- The Power of Less - by Leo Babauta
- Personal Development for Smart People - by Steve Pavlina
- Tribes - by Seth Godin
- The Culture Code - by Clotaire Rapaille
- Speaking of India - by Craig Sorti
- How to Talk to Anyone - by Leil Lowndes
- CrowdSourcing - by Jeff Howe
- Brain Rules - by John Medina
- Predictably Irrational - by Dan Ariely
- Hot Commodities - by Jim Rogers
- A Bull in China - by Jim Rogers
- You, Inc - The Art of Selling Yourself - by Harry Beckwith
- Cut to the Chase - by Stuart Levine
- The Magic of Thinking Big - by David Schwartz
- How to Get Rich - by Felix Dennis
- The Ultimate Sales Machine - by Chet Holmes
- The Four Pillars of Investing - by William Bernstein
- Richard Branson - by Losing My Virginity
- The Art of Learning - by Josh Waitzkin
- The 4-Hour Work Week - by Tim Ferriss
- The Smartest Investment Book You’ll Ever Read - by Daniel R. Solin
- Wikinomics - by Don Tapscott and Anthony Williams
- The Wisdom of Crowds - by James Surowiecki
- Here Comes Everybody - by Clay Shirky
- Fooled by Randomness - by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Founders at Work - by Jessica Livingston
- The Culting of Brands - by Douglas Atkin
- Meatball Sundae - by Seth Godin
- The Obsolete Employee - by Michael Russer
- Don’t Make Me Think - by Steve Krug
- The Paradox of Choice - Why More is Less - by Barry Schwartz
- Stumbling on Happiness - by Daniel Gilbert
- Secrets of the Millionaire Mind - by T. Harv Ecker
- Made to Stick - by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
- Know-How - by Ram Charan with Geri Willigan
- Execution - by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan
- The Art of Project Management - by Scott Berkun
- Maximum Achievement - by Brian Tracy
- The Innovator’s Solution - by Clayton Christensen
- Small is the New Big - by Seth Godin
- The Art of Profitability - by Adrian Slywotzky
- E-Myth Revisited - by Michael Gerber
- The 48 Laws of Power - by Robert Greene and Joost Elffers
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