Holds practical books on how to live: purpose, happiness, mortality and grief, advice and letters to the young, and collections of maxims and aphorisms.
An almanac of proverbs and maxims urging thrift, industry and courtesy.
Recommended by: Tim Ferriss
End-of-life and hospice care, and why medicine should aim at well-being.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates, Julie Zhuo
Finite games are played to win; infinite games are played to keep playing.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Daniel Gross, Derek Sivers and 8 others
Short pieces of advice on living, goals, generosity, careers, family and money.
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Matt Mullenweg
The plateau and long practice; mastery as a delayed reward
Recommended by: Ev Williams, Patrick O'Shaughnessy and 1 other
Spier on the psychology and habits behind durable value investing.
“…books I've recommended, highlighted to death, or forced on friends.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Andrew Wilkinson's Bookshelf, neverenough.com
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Christopher Bloomstran and 1 other
Burkeman's book on finitude is the necessary counterweight to grandiose civilizational thinking. Four thousand weeks is approximately an 80-year life, and Burkeman's argument — that productivity systems typically function as denial mechanisms against this fact — forces the question of how a mortal agent ought to orient toward long-term causes. The tension between personal finitude and multigenerational obligation is never fully resolved here, which is exactly right.
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, The Barefoot Investor and 1 other
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Tim Ferriss, Tony Robbins
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Ryan Holiday
Recommended by: Jim Kwik
Life in Nazi concentration camps, and logotherapy: finding meaning to survive.
“I have been deeply influenced by the existentialist and eminent psychiatrist Viktor Frankl, who wrote the perennial best seller Man's Search for Meaning, one of the most influential books I've ever…” — Frank Martin
Source: Martin on one of the most influential books he has read and reread
Recommended by: Frank Martin, Mohnish Pabrai, Nat Eliason and 24 others
Recommended by: Nat Eliason
How people and cultures react to death, and what that reaction does to them.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Eric Weinstein
Recommended by: Sophia Amoruso
Recommended by: John Maeda, Nathan Murphy
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Naval Ravikant
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Myth, psychology and Sufi wisdom on how money can become a means of self-knowledge.
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Melanie Perkins, Terrance McArthur and 1 other
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Matt Mullenweg
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Scott Belsky
Recommended by: Ryan Holiday
Recommended by: Jack Dorsey, Nate O'Brien, Peter Attia
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Library Mindset
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Blake Mycoskie
Recommended by: Sheryl Sandberg
A venture adviser on startups and the trap of the deferred life plan.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Patrick Collison, Ev Williams and 3 others
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Brian Chesky
Where the worry about others' judgement of us comes from, and how people overcome it.
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Garry Tan
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Nat Eliason and 1 other
Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg
Ancient wisdom on happiness tested against modern psychology and brain research.
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Tony Hsieh
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Caterina Fake
Recommended by: Mr. Money Mustache
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai, Bill Gates
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Julie Zhuo
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Warren Buffett
Aphorisms stating Taleb's ideas on randomness, knowledge and modern life.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Ryan Holiday, Matt Mullenweg and 2 others
Courage, compassion and connection as choices that lead to wholehearted living.
Recommended by: Brené Brown, Melinda Gates
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Edwardian essay on living deliberately below your means
Recommended by: Morgan Housel
Recommended by: Mike Maples, Jr.
Recommended by: Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Business strategy theories applied to career, family and integrity.
Recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Mohnish Pabrai, Patrick Collison and 6 others
Recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Nat Eliason
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Naval Ravikant, Garry Tan and 1 other
Recommended by: Ryan Holiday, Shane Parrish and 1 other
Recommended by: Abi Tyas Tunggal, Tim Ferriss
Alfred Adler's psychology taught through five nights of dialogue.
“This book is oddly written (it's translated from Japanese), but it changed my life.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Newsletter
Recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Andrew Wilkinson, Tim Ferriss and 11 others
A method for finding the few activities that matter and dropping the rest.
Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg, Nat Eliason, Ran Segall and 10 others
“a book that historian Will Durant wrote in his 90s, a summation of his thoughts on the meaning of life at the end of his” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Newsletter
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Matt Mullenweg and 1 other
Recommended by: Tim O’Reilly
Twelve rules for living, each drawn from clinical practice, biology and myth.
Recommended by: Nat Eliason, Alex and Books, Ana Fabrega and 7 others
Recommended by: Patrick Collison, Paul Graham
“It certainly was a stimulating read, and it got me thinking about my own motivations and limitations in new ways.” — Bill Gates
Source: Gates Notes review of The Road to Character
Recommended by: Bill Gates, Mohnish Pabrai, Alfred Lin and 1 other
Recommended by: Richard Branson
An engineer's approach to happiness: the illusions and brain flaws behind suffering.
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Peter Attia
Recommended by: Ran Segall, Johnnie Gomez, Matej Latin and 1 other
A grieving man walks the Camino de Santiago after scattering his father's ashes.
Recommended by: Matt Mullenweg
Quotation collection with commentary; thin, but the quotes are sourced.
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson, Chris Powers, David Cancel
Recommended by: Arianna Huffington
“I love this line from Dr. James Hollis' incredible book (one of my favorites from the last few years)” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Essay
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
Leadership treated as the creation of meaning inside organisations
Recommended by: Reid Hoffman
Recommended by: Ryan Hoover
Recommended by: Ali Abdaal, Nat Eliason, James Altucher
Naval Ravikant's ideas on building wealth and being happy, gathered from his talks.
Recommended by: Balaji S. Srinivasan, Nat Eliason and 9 others
Recommended by: Naval Ravikant
“I also recommend Derek's other books (How To Live is especially good).” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Newsletter
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
Recommended by: Melinda Gates
“Derek is one of my favorite writers, and his latest book is focused on a simple idea: our beliefs are often not necessarily true, but simply useful to us. That beliefs are tools, not truths.” — Andrew Wilkinson
Source: Newsletter
Recommended by: Andrew Wilkinson
Recommended by: Tim Ferriss
Recommended by: Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Recommended by: Mohnish Pabrai
Recommended by: Ryan Holiday
Examples of people who turned their concern for the world into their work.
Recommended by: Richard Branson
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