List of books that I think are worth reading:

  • Permutation city - Greg Egan: 9/10

    • This book introduces a culturally novel concept about reality that hasn’t yet penetrated the mainstream sci-fi or public discourse.
    • I think the idea in the book can be summed up as Mathematical Platonism.

  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz: 8.5/10

    • An excellent primer on management and its concepts. This book is both engaging and filled with practical examples.
    • Really liked the distinction between “Peacetime CEO” and “Wartime CEO”

  • The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect - Roger Williams: 7.5/10

    • Great book, dog shit ending.
    • This book is an AI Doomer’s dream.
    • I recommend reading this book and then skipping out on the last chapter

  • The Gig Economy: 9/10

    • Short story
    • AI Doomer horror story, the vibes are top notch.
    • Knowing nothing about the story or the author I stumbled upon this story through a random blog link and was genuinely fooled into thinking it was non-fiction due to its internet culture-style posts.

  • Fooled by Randomness - Nassim Nicholas Taleb: 9/10

    • Amazing book
    • Book covers culturally novel concepts (outside of finance): black swan events, signal to noise, options and a massive hatred for MBAs.
    • Don’t be fooled into thinking this is a good author though, I’ve read his other books and found they didn’t offer much new insight, relying mostly on different life anecdotes.

  • The Five Dysfunctions of a Team - Patrick Lencioni: 8/10

    • During my internship at a software company GlobalX our Project Manager encouraged us to read this book.
    • Highly Recommend anyone entering the big corp world to read this.

  • The Cold Start Problem - Andrew Chen: 7/10

    • Considered a meme book due to the immense amount of duck sucking this book gets on x.com
    • Pretty good book thought
    • Really like the mental framework of looking at startups as secrets, facts that either no one has dared to question or no one wants to admit.

  • Freakonomics - Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt: 5/10

    • This book only just sneaks into this list (Anything below a 5 s not on this list)
    • Treat this book like reality tv trash: Entertaining but not deeply insightful.
    • It’s a fun read that explores bizarre economic activities resulting from unintuitive incentives.