Reading

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

by Matthew B. Crawford

December 2020

The Infinite Game

by Simon Sinek

★★★★☆

April 2020

Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

by Scott Adams

★★★★☆

December 2019

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain

★★★★★

December 2019

War and Peace in the Global Village

by Marshall McLuhan

★★★☆☆

December 2019

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

by Neil Postman

★★★★☆

December 2019

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

★★★★☆

December 2019

Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility

by Michael John Gorman

★★★★☆

November 2019

Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

by Safi Bahcall

October 2019

A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

by Ben Folds

★★★★☆

October 2019

Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius

by Marc J. Seifer

★★★☆☆

September 2019

Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

by Steven Kotler

★★★★☆

August 2019

The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

by Walter Isaacson

★★★★☆

August 2019

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

★★★★☆

August 2019

Levels of the Game

by John McPhee

★★★★☆

August 2019

The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph

by Ryan Holiday

★★★★☆

August 2019

Grunch of Giants

by R. Buckminster Fuller

★★★★☆

July 2019

You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future

by Jonathan Keats

★★★★☆

July 2019

Building A Story Brand

by Donald Miller

★★★☆☆

July 2019

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

by David Epstein

★★★★★

July 2019

Midnight in Chernobyl: The Untold Story of the World's Greatest Nuclear Disaster

by Adam Higginbotham

★★★★☆

June 2019

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

by Tom Wolfe

★★★★☆

June 2019

The Power of Positive Thinking

by Norman Vincent Peale

★★★★☆

April 2019

Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

by Frank Herbert

★★★★☆

March 2019

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

by Greg McKeown

★★★★☆

March 2019

Running with the Buffaloes: A Season Inside with Mark Wetmore, Adam Goucher, and the University of Colorado Men's Cross-Country Team

by Chris Lear

★★★★☆

January 2019

Dune (Dune, #1)

by Frank Herbert

★★★★★

January 2019

Natural Born Heroes: How a Daring Band of Misfits Mastered the Lost Secrets of Strength and Endurance

by Christopher McDougall

★★★★☆

January 2019

The Stand

by Stephen King

★★★☆☆

December 2018

Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

by Ernest Cline

★★★☆☆

November 2018

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

by Jordan B. Peterson

★★★★★

October 2018

Reality is Broken: Why Games Make Us Better and How They Can Change the World

by Jane McGonigal

★★★★☆

October 2018

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

by Alex Hutchinson

★★★★☆

September 2018

Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

by Scott Jurek

★★★★☆

September 2018

Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions

by Carmen Simon

★★★★☆

September 2018

Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

July 2018

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal

★★★☆☆

June 2018

On Writing Well: The Classic Guide to Writing Nonfiction

by William Zinsser

June 2018

Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen

by Christopher McDougall

★★★★★

January 2017

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

★★★★☆

January 2017

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life

by Scott Adams

★★★★☆

January 2017

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

by Robert B. Cialdini

★★★★★

October 2016

On a Clear Day You Can See General Motors: John Z. DeLorean's Look Inside the Automotive Giant

by J. Patrick Wright

April 2016

Car Guys vs. Bean Counters: The Battle for the Soul of American Business

by Bob Lutz

April 2016

Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality

by Rafael Aguayo

★★★☆☆

October 2015

The Big Roads: The Untold Story of the Engineers, Visionaries, and Trailblazers Who Created the American Superhighways

by Earl Swift

★★★☆☆

October 2015

Foundation (Foundation, #1)

by Isaac Asimov

★★★☆☆

May 2015

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)

by China Miéville

★★★☆☆

May 2015

The Martian

by Andy Weir

★★★★★

February 2015

Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration

by Ed Catmull

★★★★★

January 2015

Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything

by Steven D. Levitt

★★★★☆

The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

★★★★★

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

★★★★★

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

by Robert B. Cialdini

★★★★★

The Elements of Style [Illustrated]

by William Strunk Jr.

★★★★☆

Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

★★★★★

Free Culture: How Big Media Uses Technology and the Law to Lock Down Culture and Control Creativity

by Lawrence Lessig

★★★★☆

Universal Principles of Design

by William Lidwell

★★★★★

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

★★★★☆

1984

by George Orwell

★★★★★

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)

by Robert M. Pirsig

★★★★★

Critical Path

by R. Buckminster Fuller

★★★☆☆

The Laws of Simplicity

by John Maeda

★★★★★

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

★★★☆☆

Designing With Web Standards

by Jeffrey Zeldman

Fingerprint: The Art of Using Hand-Made Elements in Graphic Design

by Chen Design Associates

★★★★★

What Customers Want: Using Outcome-Driven Innovation to Create Breakthrough Products and Services

by Anthony W. Ulwick

Make It Bigger

by Paula Scher

The War of Art

by Steven Pressfield

★★★★★

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

★★★★☆

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

★★★★★

Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott

★★★★☆

The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence

by Josh Waitzkin

★★★★★

Modern Art & Death of a Culture

by Hans R. Rookmaaker

★★★★☆

The Disappearance of Childhood

by Neil Postman

The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More

by Chris Anderson

The Medium is the Massage

by Marshall McLuhan

★★★★★

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

by Jim Collins

★★★★☆

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want To Be

by Paul Arden

★★★★★

What Every Body is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agent's Guide to Speed-Reading People

by Joe Navarro

★★★★☆

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell

★★★★★

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

★★★★★

The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business

by Clayton M. Christensen

★★★★★

Making Movies

by Sidney Lumet

★★★★☆

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

★★★★★

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

by R. Buckminster Fuller

★★★★★

Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far

by Stefan Sagmeister

★★★★☆

American Gods (American Gods, #1)

by Neil Gaiman

★★★☆☆

God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

by Scott Adams

★★★★☆

Forget All the Rules You Ever Learned About Graphic Design: Including the Ones in This Book

by Bob Gill

★★★★★

The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference

by Malcolm Gladwell

★★★★★

Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

by Orson Scott Card

★★★★★

The Screwtape Letters

by C.S. Lewis

★★★★★

The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

★★★★☆

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions

by Dan Ariely

★★★★★

Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

★★★★☆

The Wisdom of Crowds

by James Surowiecki

★★★★☆

The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

★★★★★

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

by Marty Cagan

★★★★☆