What I Read in 2023

Favorites

• Poor Charlie's Almanack | Charlie Munger
• The Story of Philosophy | Will Durant
• Make Something Wonderful | Steve Jobs
• A Pattern Language | Christopher Alexander
• The Tao of Physics | Fritjof Capra

Honorable mentions:

• Elon Musk | Walter Isaacson
• Paper Belt on Fire | Michael Gibson
• Radical Markets | Eric Posner
• Monetizing Innovation | Madhavan Ramanujam
• The Maniac | Benjamin Labatut
• Legal Systems Very Different From Ours | David Freeman
• Grid Systems in Graphic Design | Josef Müller-Brockmann
• The Fund | Rob Copeland
• The Plague | Albert Camus
• Savage Journey | Peter Richardson
• Godel, Escher, Bach | Douglas Hofstadter
• Land and Sea | Carl Schmitt
• The Concept of the Political | Carl Schmitt
• The Timeless Way of Building | Christopher Alexander
• Slouching Towards Bethlehem | Joan Didion
• The Sovereign Individual | James Dale Davidson
• From Third World to First | Lee Kuan Yew
• Cinema Speculation | Quentin Tarantino
• The Rise of Endymion | Dan Simmons
• Endymion | Dan Simmons
• Essays In Idleness | Yoshida Kenkō
• On The Road | Jack Kerouac
• The Contrarian | Max Chafkin
• In Patagonia | Bruce Chatwin
• Meaning in History | Karl Lowith
• Democracy In America | Alexis de Tocqueville
• Things Hidden Since The Foundation Of The World | Rene Girard
• Build | Tony Fadell
• Death's End | Liu Cixin
• The Decadent Society | Ross Douthat
• Total Recall | Arnold Schwarzenegger
• The Man From the Future (Von Neumann) | Ananyo Bhattacharya
• Infinite Jest | David Foster Wallace
• The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes
• American Prometheus | Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin

Full list here. Recommendations always welcome.