35 books · 3 in progress
Books I keep coming back to
These are books that shaped how I think about leading a team and running a company. I keep reading, and I keep coming back to some of them.
Running a company
6 books
2023
Scaling People
Claire Hughes Johnson
Reading now
2019
The Great CEO Within
Matt Mochary
2022
Amp It Up
Frank Slootman
2025
Mission Driven
Mike Hayes
2021
Never Enough
Mike Hayes
2014
Hooked
Nir Eyal
Reading now
Leading people
11 books
2007
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith
2015
Extreme Ownership
Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
2020
Leadership Strategy and Tactics
Jocko Willink
2012
Turn the Ship Around!
L. David Marquet
2018
The Culture Code
Daniel Coyle
Reading now
2010
Multipliers
Liz Wiseman
2016
The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier
2024
Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg
2020
How to Lead
David M. Rubenstein
2023
What a Unicorn Knows
Matthew E. May & Pablo Dominguez
2015
Primed to Perform
Neel Doshi & Lindsay McGregor
Thinking
9 books
2011
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
2019
The Great Mental Models, Vol. 1
Shane Parrish
2013
The Art of Thinking Clearly
Rolf Dobelli
2018
The Choice Factory
Richard Shotton
2011
The Decision Book
Mikael Krogerus & Roman Tschäppeler
1962
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn
1994
Six Easy Pieces
Richard P. Feynman
2008
Physics for Future Presidents
Richard A. Muller
2017
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
Philosophy
3 books
2004
On the Shortness of Life
Seneca
1988
Tao Te Ching
Lao Tzu, tr. Stephen Mitchell
2014
Fallen Leaves
Will Durant
History
6 books
2004
A Short History of Progress
Ronald Wright
1978
The Fate of Empires
Sir John Glubb
1968
The Lessons of History
Will & Ariel Durant
1964
Atatürk: The Rebirth of a Nation
Patrick Kinross
2011
Atatürk: An Intellectual Biography
M. Şükrü Hanioğlu
2000
Atatürk
Andrew Mango