Books

I’m an avid book listener and have been a faithful Audible member since 2013. Some days, my commute is over an hour long, which I redeem by listening to books (podcasts, too). Every now and then I get the exquisite pleasure of actually reading a book-book, but that’s quite rare these days.

Below is a compilation of a few books that shaped my view of life:

Always on my readlist

• The Bible

Currently on my readlist

• Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
• Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
• The Inevitable:Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Personal Development / Business

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
• The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
• In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives
• Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle
• The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else
• The Art of War
• Critical Chain: Project Management and the Theory of Constraints
• Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs
• Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups
• Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application
• Remote: Office Not Required
• Rework: Change the Way You Work Forever
• Outliers
• The Lean Startup
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
• It doesn’t have to be crazy at work
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
• What did you expect? Redeeming the Realities of Marriage
• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
• What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture
• Good to Great
• The Motive
• The Five Temptations of a CEO

Family life

• Stilul în care iubim
• For better or for kids
• Parenting: The 14 Gospel Principles That Can Radically Change Your Family

Biographies

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
• Business Stripped Bare: Adventures of a Global Entrepreneur (Richard Branson)
• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
• Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
• Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
• Churchill: Walking with Destiny
• Hit Refresh (Satya Nadella)
• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell
• Onward: How Starbucks Fought For Its Life Without Losing Its Soul

Sci-fi

• Foundation
• Foundation and Empire
• Brave New World
• Ender’s Game
• The Martian