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Favorite Reads

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I love reading memoirs/non-fiction. Here are some of my all-time favorites (in no particular order):

Memoirs

  • Why Fish Don’t Exist — Lulu Miller
  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike — Phil Knight
  • Can’t Hurt Me — David Goggins
  • Never Finished — David Goggins
  • What I Talk About When I Talk About Running — Haruki Murakami
  • Educated — Tara Westover
  • Open — Andre Agassi
  • The Worlds I See — Fei-Fei Li
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard Feynman
  • The Pleasure of Finding Things Out — Richard Feynman
  • When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant — Eric Jorgenson

Other Nonfiction

  • Hidden Potential — Adam Grant
  • The Third Door — Alex Banayan
  • Poverty, by America — Matthew Desmond
  • The Last Lecture — Jeffrey Zaslow and Randy Pausch

What I’m Reading This Year

Still TBD, but so far I’m excited to read:

  • The Scaling Era: An Oral History of AI, 2019–2025 — Dwarkesh Patel
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies — Jared Diamond
  • Poor Charlie’s Almanack — Charlie Munger
  • The Courage to Be Disliked — Fumitake Koga and Ichiro Kishimi