Principles: Life and Work, by Ray Dalio (2017)
Pages: 552, Final verdict: Great-read
What principles does one of the most successful investment managers of the last 40 years live by?
At some point in life people decide it is time
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An attempt to trigger the Causal Revolution
The Book of Why, by Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie (2018)
Pages: 432, Final verdict: Great-read
I had countless discussions with my thesis supervisor on the causes of road traffic accidents. I was proposing to build an AI model
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The elephant and the rider
The Happiness Hypothesis, by Jonathan Haidt (2006)
Pages: 243, Final verdict: Must-read
How should we live our life in order to be happy? The Happiness Hypothesis is the first book by psychologist Jonathan Haidt, today a professor of business ethics
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The history of the world joule by joule
Energy and Civilization: A History, by Vaclav Smil (2017)
Pages: 568, Final verdict: Great-read
Vaclav Smil, distinguished professor of the University of Manitoba, Canada, has made a career of dissecting broad topics of society from food production, the history of
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When man beats nature
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, by Alfred Lansing (1959)
Pages: 357, Final verdict: Should-read
1914 was an eventful year in history. Escalating tensions in Europe culminated in the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, setting in motion a series of events that
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You should get 8h of sleep every day
Why We Sleep, by Matthew Walker (2017)
Pages: 340, Final verdict: Should-read
Would you be interested in an inexpensive way of prolonging good health, delaying aging, while improving memory and learning? Why We Sleep will convince you that sleep works
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What we learned from fighting diseases
Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever? (2011)
Pages: 260, Final verdict: Great-read
Disease eradication is something we hardly think about in the west. Smallpox and Polio are distant memories buried in our high school history books and we only
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How to live until you're old. Very old.
Spring Chicken: Stay Young Forever (or Die Trying), by Bill Gifford (2015)
Pages: 384, Final verdict: Should-read
The question of why we grow old and how to stop it has intrigued us for long. As early as 1889, Professor Brown-Séquard
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The 10 Netflix lessons for building a winning culture
Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility, by Patty McCord (2017)
Pages: 148, Final verdict: Should-readThe Netflix culture deck, now famous throughout Silicon Valley and the larger tech world, began as an experiment when Patty McCord, longtime Chief
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Why we must ask the big questions
Brief Answers to the Big Questions, by Stephen Hawking (2018)
**Pages: 218**, Final verdict: Should-readStephen Hawking addresses some of the big questions of our universe: how did it all begin? or, are we alone in the universe? Brief Answers
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Why great companies fail to innovate
The Innovator's Dilemma, by Clayton M. Christensen (1997)
**Pages: 229**, Final verdict: Must-readHow do disruptive technologies cause great companies to fail? In his most famous book, The Innovator's Dilemma, Clayton Christensen explores the process by which very well managed
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We're all gonna die, so we'd better start living
The Last Lecture, by Randy Pausch (2008)
Pages: 206,
Final verdict: Should-read
Do you have a book which you like so much that you gift it to all your friends? This was The Last Lecture for me, the I-love-this-book-you-should-read-it-too that
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The life of the oil tycoon
Titan - The Life Of John D. Rockefeller, Sr., by Ron Chernow (1998)
**Pages: 679**, Final verdict: Great-readHero or thief? What does it take to become the second world's richest historical figure? Titan is the biography of John D.
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Doing our job right matters more than having the right job
So Good They Can't Ignore You , by Cal Newport (2012)
**Pages: 230**, Final verdict: Great-readIs following our passion bad advice when choosing a career? Cal Newport believes so. So Good They Can't Ignore You is all about the idea
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The secrets to building a team, with a fictional twist
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team , by Patrick Lencioni (2002)
**Pages: 202**, Final verdict: Should-readWhat does it take to make a great team? No matter where you look, from heartened stories of sports teams winning against all odds to
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Where Management comes from
The Practice of Management, by Peter Drucker (1954)
Pages: 340, Final verdict: Great-read
What does it mean to be a manager? Is there such thing as a definition of management? Peter Drucker believed so, and his thoughts on the topic
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A primer to the rise of China in the 21st century
Easternization: War and Peace in the Asian Century, by Gideon Rachman (2016)
**Pages: 255**, Final verdict: Great-readWhich region will be the leading the world in the 21st century? In Easternization, Gideon Rachman provides convincing arguments that the 21st century
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The memoir of a dying neurosurgeon
When Breath Becomes Air, by Paul Kalanithi (2016)
**Pages: 225**, Final verdict: Great-readWhat makes life worth living in the face of death? This is the question asked by Paul Kalanithi, a neurosurgeon diagnosed with cancer at age 36. When
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Character, Perseverance, and the power of hustle
Grit: The power of passion and perseverance, by Angela Duckworth (2016)
**Pages: 333**, Final verdict: Should-readWho is successful and why? Be it in the classroom, the sports arena or in the military, we've all encountered people who are "
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Brainstorm your ideas to become habit-forming products
Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products , by Nir Eyal (2014)
**Pages: 256**, Final verdict: Great-readCan you hook your intended users to your product as you are hooked to your favorite phone apps? Do you want to learn the behavioral
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How companies become great
Good to Great, by Jim Collins (2001)
Pages: 210, Final verdict: Should-read
Can a good company become a great company and, if so, how? This is the question answered in the 2001 best-seller Good to Great by Jim Collins, an
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Why do we put our creative aspirations off?
The War of Art, by Steven Pressfield (2012)
Pages: 165,
Final verdict: Should-read
We know it already, we go through it, we suffer from it - a creative "block" does not leave anyone out. The more important the
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Contrarian thinking on startups and innovation
Zero To One, by Peter Thiel (2014)
**Pages: 195**, Final verdict: Should-readDo you think that monopolies are bad or that first movers always have the advantage in business? Then be prepared to get your ideas challenged by Peter Thiel,
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Business theories to guide our personal lives
How Will You Measure Your Life?, by Clayton M. Christensen (2012)
**Pages: 221**, Final verdict: Should-readClayton Christensen is one of world's most acclaimed business thinkers, famous for his theory on innovation published in the book The Innovators Dilemma. But
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Patagonia and its 40 years looking into the future
Let My People Go Surfing, by Yvon Chouinard (2005)
**Pages: 231**, Final verdict: Should-readLet My People Go Surfing tells the story of Yvon Chouinard in founding and managing his companies Chouinard Equipment and Patagonia.
Originally published in 2005 and
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6 loooong principles to improve your persuasion game
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, by Robert B. Cialdini (1984)
**Pages: 320**, Final verdict: Don't-readWhat does it take to be a master of persuasion? How do great salespeople, brands, religious groups and other organizations influence our decisions, and how
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The surprising lessons to stand out from the crowd
Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, by Adam Grant (2016)
**Pages: 326**, Final verdict: Should-readHow can someone overthrow a dictatorship, fight for a paradigm shifting change at the CIA or create the next billion dollar company? What do originals
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A good internet story, but a poor book
Without Their Permission, by Alexis Ohanian (2013)
**Pages: 245**, Final verdict: Don't-readWithout Their Permission is a memoir-meets-entrepreneurship-advice book written by Alexis Ohanian at the age 30. From the founding of the social news webpage Reddit to the political fight
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Thinking for the (very) long-term
The Clock of the Long Now, by Stewart Brand (1999)
**Pages: 173**, Final verdict: Great-readHow did people live in the 21st century? How did the first computer program work? Why have they driven so many species to extinction? In
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The last leadership lecture from an NFL legend
The Score Takes Care of Itself, by Bill Walsh (2009)
**Pages: 242**, Final verdict: Must-readBill Walsh is considered to be one of the greatest American Football coaches of all time. After becoming head coach of the San Francisco 49ers
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