Flo CrivelloFavorite Books
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Management & leadership
High Output ManagementAndrew S. Grove
Only the Paranoid Survive ★Andrew S. Grove
Principles ★Ray Dalio
The Score Takes Care of Itself ★Bill Walsh
How Will You Measure Your Life?Clayton M. Christensen
PeoplewareTom DeMarco & Timothy Lister
The Unwritten Laws of EngineeringW. J. King
Managerial DilemmasGary J. Miller
Creativity, Inc.Ed Catmull
The Art of LearningJosh Waitzkin
One from ManyDee Hock
No Rules RulesReed Hastings & Erin Meyer
Strategy & startups
Competitive Strategy ★Michael Porter
7 PowersHamilton Helmer
PositioningAl Ries & Jack Trout
Certain to WinChet Richards
The Four Steps to the EpiphanySteve Blank
Diffusion of InnovationsEverett M. Rogers
In the Company of GiantsRama Dev Jager & Rafael Ortiz
Hackers & PaintersPaul Graham
Good Strategy Bad StrategyRichard Rumelt
Builders
The Everything StoreBrad Stone
The Soul of a New MachineTracy Kidder
Softwar ★Matthew Symonds
Sam Walton: Made in AmericaSam Walton
Walt Disney: An American OriginalBob Thomas
The Ride of a LifetimeBob Iger
Titan ★Ron Chernow
The Wizard of Menlo ParkRandall Stross
Einstein ★Walter Isaacson
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field ★Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon
Shackleton’s Way ★Margot Morrell
The Fish That Ate the WhaleRich Cohen
Arnold: The Education of a BodybuilderArnold Schwarzenegger & Douglas Kent Hall
Skunk WorksBen R. Rich & Leo Janos
LiftoffEric Berger
Masters of DoomDavid Kushner
Becoming Steve JobsBrent Schlender & Rick Tetzeli
BuildTony Fadell
EnduranceAlfred Lansing
Leaders & nations
From Third World to First ★Lee Kuan Yew
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of ChinaEzra F. Vogel
Political Order and Political DecayFrancis Fukuyama
Moltke on the Art of War ★Helmuth von Moltke
Chip WarChris Miller
Breakneck ★Dan Wang
Master of the SenateRobert A. Caro
The Path to PowerRobert A. Caro
Means of AscentRobert A. Caro
Korea: The Impossible CountryDaniel Tudor
How Asia WorksJoe Studwell
Investing & economics
The Most Important ThingHoward Marks
The Intelligent InvestorBenjamin Graham
Poor Charlie’s Almanack ★Charles T. Munger
Technological Revolutions and Financial CapitalCarlota Perez
The Firm, the Market, and the LawR. H. Coase
Knowledge and the Wealth of NationsDavid Warsh
Why Information Grows ★César Hidalgo
The Economy of CitiesJane Jacobs
Order Without Design ★Alain Bertaud
Exit, Voice, and LoyaltyAlbert O. Hirschman
The Origin of WealthEric D. Beinhocker
When Genius FailedRoger Lowenstein
The SnowballAlice Schroeder
The Wealth of NationsAdam Smith
History & society
The Sovereign IndividualJames Dale Davidson
The Quest for Cosmic Justice ★Thomas Sowell
The Lessons of History ★Will & Ariel Durant
Seeing Like a State ★James C. Scott
The True BelieverEric Hoffer
The Evolution of Cooperation ★Robert Axelrod
The Secret of Our Success ★Joseph Henrich
The WEIRDest People in the WorldJoseph Henrich
The World Rushed InJ. S. Holliday
From Counterculture to CybercultureFred Turner
The Death and Life of Great American CitiesJane Jacobs
The Logic of Collective ActionMancur Olson
Science & ideas
The Selfish Gene ★Richard Dawkins
The Black SwanNassim Nicholas Taleb
The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThomas Kuhn
Psychology of Intelligence AnalysisRichards J. Heuer
How to Fly a HorseKevin Ashton
Deadliest EnemyMichael T. Osterholm & Mark Olshaker
Creation: Life and How to Make ItSteve Grand
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral MindJulian Jaynes
How to Create a Mind ★Ray Kurzweil
The Age of EmRobin Hanson
Why Machines LearnAnil Ananthaswamy
Designing with the Mind in MindJeff Johnson
Gödel, Escher, BachDouglas Hofstadter
How to Measure AnythingDouglas W. Hubbard
Life
Man’s Search for Meaning ★Viktor E. Frankl
Zen Mind, Beginner’s MindShunryu Suzuki
How to Talk So Kids Will ListenAdele Faber & Elaine Mazlish
The Creative ActRick Rubin
ConnectDavid L. Bradford & Carole Robin
Why Buddhism Is TrueRobert Wright
The Upside of StressKelly McGonigal
The Inner Game of TennisW. Timothy Gallwey
The Mind IlluminatedCuladasa (John Yates)
Getting Things Done ★David Allen
A Matter of Death and LifeIrvin D. Yalom & Marilyn Yalom
