What I read in 2022
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What I read in 2022

An overview of my favorite books from 2022, as well as some old favorites.

Favorite new reads:

  • How The Internet Happened – Brian McCullough
  • The Founders – Jimmy Soni
  • Pieces of the Action – Vannevar Bush
  • The Gospels: A New Translation – Sarah Ruden
  • A Short History Of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson
  • Revolution in the Valley – Andy Hertzfeld
  • Skunk Works – Ben Rich

Honorable mentions:

  • Walden - Henry David Thoreau
  • Adventures of a Young Naturalist – David Attenborough
  • The Diversity Myth – Peter Thiel
  • The Obstacle is the Way – Ryan Holiday
  • The Bed of Procrustes – Nassim Nicolas Taleb
  • 1776 – David McCullough
  • Autobiography – John Stuart Mill
  • The Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman
  • An Elegant Puzzle – Will Larson
  • Talent – Tyler Cowen
  • The Dream Machine – M. Mitchell Waldrop
  • All Things Are Possible – Lev Shestov
  • Conspiracy – Ryan Holiday
  • How To Actually Change Your Mind – Eliezer Yudkowsky
  • The World of Yesterday – Stefan Zweig
  • High Growth Handbook – Elad Gil
  • The Big Score – Michael S. Malone
  • Infamous Scribblers – Eric Burns
  • The Craft – John Dickie
  • Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order – Ray Dalio
  • Albion's Seed – David Hackett Fischer
  • When Money Dies – Adam Fergusson
  • Essays After Eighty – Donald Hall
  • The Mind Body Problem – Rebecca Goldstein
  • How Asia Works – Joe Studwell
  • Greenlights – Matthew McConaughey
  • The Dispossessed – Ursula K. Le Guin

Rereads:

  • Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
  • The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
  • Barbarian Days – William Finnegan
  • Zero to One – Peter Thiel
  • On Writing – Stephen King

Full list here. Recommendations always welcome.