Reads

• Poor Charlie’s Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

  His ideas about multidisciplinary thinking, learning from high risk occupations, & mental models are invaluable.

• Meditations On Moloch

  A depressing but important essay on coordination problems.

• Accelerando

  So many prescient ideas packed into the first 100 pages.

• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy

  Standard issue at McKinsey, but still illuminating for the rest of us. Allows you to reason about many business decisions.

• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

  Highest alpha book you can find, the self-help style cover helps.

• Infinite Jest

  I would pay a significant sum of money to experience reading this for the first time again.

• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

  At the beginning of one of the chapters, Yudkowsky has a callout saying: "If it's 2am and you're reading this, get some sleep, the book will be there in the morning". He got me, it really was 2am.

• The Years of Lyndon Johnson

  Robert Caro has blessed the world with the extraordinary levels of effort put into writing this series.

• Universal Love, Said The Cactus Person

  Scott Alexander at his best.

• On Inflection Points

  Formalizes thoughts on why large companies emerge when they do.