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E.01
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Build, measure, learn: the validated learning loop that changed how startups ship.
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E.02
Continuous Discovery Habits
Teresa Torres
Weekly customer touchpoints as a habit, not a phase.
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E.03
Creativity, Inc.
Ed Catmull
How Pixar protects new ideas from the people who run the company.
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E.04
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Naval's ideas on wealth and happiness, collected and distilled.
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E.05
Deep Work
Cal Newport
The case for focused work in a distracted world.
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E.06
Inspired
Marty Cagan
How the best tech companies decide what to build.
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E.07
The Lean Product Playbook
Dan Olsen
A step by step process for finding product market fit.
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E.08
Superintelligence
Nick Bostrom
What happens when machine intelligence exceeds ours, and why the setup matters.
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E.09
Life 3.0
Max Tegmark
Being human in the age of artificial intelligence.
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E.10
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Evolution seen from the gene's point of view; the book that coined the meme.
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E.11
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
The case against belief, argued at full volume.
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E.12
The Story of Philosophy
Will Durant
The lives and ideas of the great philosophers, told as one story.
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E.13
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor Frankl
A psychiatrist survives the camps and finds that meaning, not pleasure, keeps people alive.
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E.14
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
A novel of one man's path to enlightenment beside a river.
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Bhagavad Gita
tradition
Krishna's counsel to Arjuna on duty, action, and detachment.
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Ashtavakra Gita
tradition
A radical dialogue on the self, starker than most scripture.
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Death: An Inside Story
Sadhguru
A yogi's map of the one certainty everyone avoids studying.
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E.18
Our Oriental Heritage
Will Durant
Volume one of The Story of Civilization: Egypt, India, China, and the Near East.
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E.19
India After Gandhi
Ramachandra Guha
The history of the world's largest democracy after 1947.
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E.20
The Ascent of Money
Niall Ferguson
A financial history of the world, from clay tablets to modern markets.
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E.21
A People's History of the United States
Howard Zinn
American history told from below.
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E.22
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
The authorized biography: brilliance, cruelty, and taste.
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E.23
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
The physicist's life as a study in imagination and stubbornness.
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E.24
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
The first serious account of the man betting on rockets and electric cars.
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E.25
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
Nike's founding, told as a memoir of near death experiences in business.
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If Truth Be Told: A Monk's Memoir
Om Swami
An engineer walks away from millions to become a monk in the Himalayas.