Bookshelf
Occasionally, I got friends asking for books I'd recommend, so I decided to write down some of them here.
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I didn't finish all of them, but here are some books I think are worth reading.
- The Timeless Way of Building
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
- Finite and Infinite Games
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
- The Art of Game Design: A Book of Lenses
- Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters
- The Design of Everyday Things
- 峰值體驗: 洞察隱而未知的需求，掌握關鍵時刻影響顧客決策
- Scientific Advertising
- The Ape that Understood the Universe: How the Mind and Culture Evolve
- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy
- How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
- The War of Art
- The Art of Learning: An Inner Journey to Optimal Performance
- Man's Search for Meaning
- The Nolan Variations: The Movies, Mysteries, and Marvels of Christopher Nolan
- Einstein: His Life and Universe
- Steve Jobs
- Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
- Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
- This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life
- Consider The Lobster: Essays and Arguments
- Great Thinkers: Simple Tools from 60 Great Thinkers to Improve Your Life Today
- Leonardo da Vinci
- Creative Selection: Inside Apple's Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs
- The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
- Grokking Simplicity: Taming complex software with functional thinking
- Your Music and People: creative and considerate fame
- Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos
- Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee's Wisdom for Daily Living
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
- Tao Te Ching
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra: A book for all and none
- On the Shortness of Life
- Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
- The Kierkegaard Collection
- The Problems of Philosophy
- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- Einstein's Dreams
- What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
- The Intelligent Investor
- Meditations
- The Burnout Society
- American Prometheus
- Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
- Becoming Steve Jobs: The Evolution of a Reckless Upstart into a Visionary Leader
- Paradox: The Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
- Make Something Wonderful: Steve Jobs in his own words
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
- Metamagical Themas: Questing For The Essence Of Mind And Pattern
- A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters
- The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business
- The World According to Physics
- The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
- A Season In Hell
- Claude Levi-Strauss: The Poet in the Laboratory
- How Buildings Learn: What Happens After They're Built
- Michael Jordan: The Life
- Here is New York
- Architecture: Form, Space, and Order
- How Not to Age: The Scientific Approach to Getting Healthier as You Get Older
- Thinking Basketball
- The Fabric of Reality: The Science of Parallel Universes--and Its Implications
- The Hero with a Thousand Faces
- A Philosophy of Software Design
- Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
- The Remains of the Day
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- Stories of Your Life and Others
- Project Hail Mary: A Novel
- The Three-Body Problem
- The Wandering Earth
- Snow Crash: A Novel
- Something Incredibly Wonderful Happens: Frank Oppenheimer and His Astonishing Exploratorium
- Design for How People Learn
- How People Learn: Brain, Mind, Experience, and School
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
- Logos that Last: How to Create Iconic Visual Branding
- Grid systems in graphic design
- Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products
- The Nvidia Way: Jensen Huang and the Making of a Tech Giant
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
- Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building
- An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
- The Dream Machine
- High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People
- Pieces of the Action
- Where Is My Flying Car?