Bookshelf
Pale Blue Dot
Carl Sagan
Makes everything feel small in the best way. Hard to stress about the day-to-day after reading this.
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
You can't control what happens to you, but you can choose how you respond. Simple idea, hard to live by.
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
Changed how I see institutions, money, religion, basically everything humans have collectively agreed to believe in. I think about this book a lot when looking at crypto and markets.
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
I catch myself falling into biases way more often after reading this. Especially useful when making bets under uncertainty.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Definite vs. indefinite optimism is a framework I keep coming back to. Short book, high density.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
If you're about to start something, read this first. It won't make you feel good, but it'll make you realistic.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Not really a book, more like a cheat sheet for thinking about leverage and wealth. I flip through sections of this all the time.