Bookshelf

Below is a list of books I like. I enjoyed browsing through Patrick Collison’s and Simon Sarris’ lists and thought it would be cool to have my own digital bookshelf. I also added a section for essays.

The lists lack any particular order.

Books

• The Art Spirit
• Designing Design
• 100 Whites
• Calculus: 4th Edition
• The Feynman Lectures on Physics: The New Millennium Edition
• Alexander Hamilton
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
• Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
• A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
• The Timeless Way of Building
• The Minimalist Entrepreneur: How Great Founders Do More with Less
• Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
• Your Music and People: Creative and Considerate Fame
• How to Live: 27 Conflicting Answers and One Weird Conclusion
• Useful Not True
• Mechanik
• Klassische Feldtheorie
• The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
• Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
• Quantum Mechanics: Concepts and Applications, 2nd Edition
• Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
• Walden: Pocket Penguins
• Under Saturn’s Shadow: The Wounding and Healing of Men
• Gold: New York Review Books Classics
• The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
• Krishnamurti’s Notebook
• Freedom from the Known: A Study of Conditioning, Freedom, and the Nature of the Self
• The Hero’s Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work
• Free to Learn: Why Unleashing the Instinct to Play Will Make Our Children Happier, More Self-Reliant, and Better Students for Life
• Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativity through Projects, Passion, Peers, and Play
• Teaching Johnny to Think: A Philosophy of Education Based on the Principles of Ayn Rand’s Objectivism
• The Creative Act: A Way of Being
• Sudelbücher
• The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to his son: Perspectives, Ideology, and Wisdom (English Version) Paperback 2nd Edition
• Poor Richard’s Almanack: Deluxe, Hardbound Edition
• Work Songs
• Impro
• What Do You Do With a Chance?
• A Dictionary Of Color Combinations Vol 1: Japanese Edition
• die welt als entwurf: schriften zum design
• Autobiography of Red
• Der Spieler: Aus den Aufzeichnungen eines jungen Mannes
• The Improvement of the Mind: A Supplement to the Art of Logic
• A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel
• Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Voyage
• Punished By Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A’s, Praise, and Other Bribes
• Rock Solid Chess: Tiviakov’s Unbeatable Strategies: Pawn Structures
• Getting Real: The Smarter, Faster, Easier Way to Build a Successful Web Application
• The Poetics of Space
• The Local School
• Sämtliche Scholien zu einem inbegriffenen Text
• Versuch, in der Wahrheit zu leben
• Sayuri’s Raw Food Café
• The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Revised Edition
• The Great Mental Models, Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
• The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness
• Iron John: A Book about Men
• Also sprach Zarathustra
• Jenseits von Gut und Böse
• Ecce Homo: Wie man wird, was man ist
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
• The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (Incerto)
• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life (Incerto)
• Rework
• The Abolition of Man
• Refactoring UI
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Essays

• Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process
• School is Not Enough
• The Post-Christian Condition
• Looking for Alice
• How to Do Great Work
• How to Live Near Your Friends
• Focus