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Dylan says: required — A foundational work in Dylan's thinking.

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  • The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

    Peter Zeihan

    In progress · 13%

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    I've decided that the writer is a borderline pseudo intellectual. Speaks massively confidently on many topics he has surface level understandings of, though this may just be what being a geopolitical analyst is. Massively overconfident otherwise

  • The 4-Hour Work Week

    Tim Ferriss

    In progress · 1%

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    very surface level stuff if you're already someone switched on, I'd skip.

  • How to Win Friends and Influence People

    Dale Carnegie

    In progress · 70%Dylan says: required

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    required reading, I constantly re-read this.

  • The Prince

    Niccolò Machiavelli

    In progress · 22%

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    read a better translation than mine, highly eye opening but also obvious in hindsight

  • Meditations

    Marcus Aurelius

    In progress · 48%

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    need to revisit

  • The Bible

    In progress · 1%

  • Psycho-Cybernetics

    Maxwell Maltz

    In progress · 16%

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    real deal

  • Never Split the Difference

    Chris Voss

    In progress · 62%

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    interesting read, flows great. Content is boring

  • Zero to One

    Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

    In progress · 17%

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    need to revisit

  • Influence

    Robert B. Cialdini

    In progress · 78%

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    fine, forgettable

  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications

    Martin Kleppmann

    In progress · 6%Dylan says: required

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    required reading for all senior + level devs.

  • Essentialism

    Greg McKeown

    To read

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    queued (next, 12 Oct). Less but better; on wish list

  • Rework

    Jason Fried, DHH

    To read

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    Do less than competitors

  • The Mom Test

    Rob Fitzpatrick

    To read

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    Honest customer feedback, ~4h

  • Shape Up

    Ryan Singer

    To read

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    Fixed time, variable scope

  • Escaping the Build Trap

    Melissa Perri

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    Outcomes over features

  • Creative Selection

    Ken Kocienda

    To read

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    Apple's taste-led demos

  • Inspired (2nd ed.)

    Marty Cagan

    To read

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    Standard reference, skim, ~9h

  • Steve Jobs

    Walter Isaacson

    To read

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    Spotify listing 9h vs 24.5h full, may be abridged

  • Continuous Discovery Habits

    Teresa Torres

    To read

  • Competing Against Luck

    Clayton Christensen

    To read

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    Jobs to be Done

  • Working Backwards

    Colin Bryar & Bill Carr

    To read

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    Amazon product method; suggested 11 Oct, awaiting yes to slot at #3

  • Just for Fun

    Linus Torvalds

    To read

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    no audio found

  • Antifragile

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    To read

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    risk and optionality, a deeper take on Naval's ideas. Audiobook on Spotify.

  • The Beginning of Infinity

    David Deutsch

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    how knowledge grows and how to think. Audiobook on Spotify.

  • The Making of a Manager

    Julie Zhuo

    To read

  • The SaaS Playbook

    Rob Walling

    To read

  • Ogilvy on Advertising

    David Ogilvy

    To read

  • Confessions of an Advertising Man

    David Ogilvy

    To read

  • Surrounded by Idiots

    Thomas Erikson

    To read

  • Fooled by Randomness

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    To read

  • The Black Swan

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    To read

  • Dynamic Hedging

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    To read

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    Taleb on Risk

  • Die with Zero

    Bill Perkins

    To read

  • Money Master the Game

    Tony Robbins

    Money Master the Game

    Tony Robbins

    To read

  • Nomad Capitalist

    Andrew Henderson

    To read

  • Advances in Active Portfolio Management

    Richard C. Grinold, Ronald N. Kahn

    Advances in Active Portfolio Management

    Richard C. Grinold, Ronald N. Kahn

    To read

  • Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

    Ludwig Wittgenstein

    To read

  • Selected Works

    Cicero

    To read

  • Politics of Friendship

    Jacques Derrida

    To read

  • Leviathan and Its Enemies

    Samuel T. Francis

    To read

  • The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance

    Malcolm Collins, Simone Collins

    The Pragmatist's Guide to Governance

    Malcolm Collins, Simone Collins

    To read

  • The Pragmatist's Guide to Crafting Religion

    Malcolm Collins, Simone Collins

    The Pragmatist's Guide to Crafting Religion

    Malcolm Collins, Simone Collins

    To read

  • Men Among the Ruins

    Julius Evola

    To read

  • Ride the Tiger

    Julius Evola

    To read

  • Bronze Age Mindset

    Bronze Age Pervert

    To read

  • Islam and the Destiny of Man

    Charles Le Gai Eaton

    To read

  • Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

    Nigel Biggar

    To read

  • The Martyrdom of Man

    Winwood Reade

    To read

  • The Undiscovered Self

    C. G. Jung

    To read

  • Memories, Dreams, Reflections

    C. G. Jung

    To read

  • Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

    C. G. Jung

    To read

  • The Power of Now

    Eckhart Tolle

    To read

  • C. S. Lewis Signature Classics

    C. S. Lewis

    To read

  • Alexander the Great

    To read

  • Caesar's Civil War

    Julius Caesar

    To read

  • The Conquest of Gaul

    Julius Caesar

    To read

  • The Gulag Archipelago

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    To read

  • Sapiens

    Yuval Noah Harari

    To read

  • Elon Musk

    To read

  • The Comfort Crisis

    Michael Easter

    To readDylan says: required

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    required reading for modern teen / young adult

  • Sperm Wars

    Robin Baker

    To read

  • Models

    Mark Manson

    To read

  • Think and Grow Rich

    Napoleon Hill

    To read

  • The Magic Ladder to Success

    Napoleon Hill

    To read

  • The Count of Monte Cristo

    Alexandre Dumas

    To read

  • Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

    Philip K. Dick

    To read

  • Elixir in Action (2nd ed.)

    Saša Jurić

    To read

  • Elixir in Action (3rd ed.)

    Saša Jurić

    To read

  • Introduction to Linear Algebra

    Gilbert Strang

    To read

  • Grid Systems in Graphic Design

    Josef Müller-Brockmann

    To read

  • Principles

    Ray Dalio

    To read

  • The Changing World Order

    Ray Dalio

    To read

  • My Life as a Quant

    Emanuel Derman

    To read

  • Deep Work

    Cal Newport

    To readDylan says: required

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    required reading

  • The Everything Store

    Brad Stone

    To read

  • The Wealth of Nations

    Adam Smith

    To read

  • The Psychology of Money

    Morgan Housel

    To read

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    very surface level stuff if you're already someone switched on, I'd skip.

  • Unplugged Alpha

    Richard Cooper

    To read

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    though I don't recommend becoming a red pill guy you should at least be aware of the points they're making, similar to the fact that I have plenty of books by communists.

  • Options as a Strategic Investment

    Lawrence G. McMillan

    To read

  • The Psychology of Selling

    Brian Tracy

    To read

  • The 1-Page Marketing Plan

    Allan Dib

    To read

  • Software as a Science

    Martell et al.

    Software as a Science

    Martell et al.

    To read

  • Economic Facts and Fallacies

    Thomas Sowell

    To read

  • Hustle Harder Hustle Smarter

    50 Cent

    To read

  • Can't Hurt Me

    David Goggins

    To read

  • Losing the Signal

    Jacquie McNish, Sean Silcoff

    To read

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    BlackBerry

  • Hard Times Create Strong Men

    Stefan Aarnio

    To read

  • The Game

    Neil Strauss

    To read

  • The 48 Laws of Power

    Robert Greene

    To read

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    likely 48 Laws

  • 12 Rules for Life

    Jordan B. Peterson

    To readDylan says: required

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    whatever your thoughts of Peterson are, if your life is in the toilet, as many people's are, you need to absorb everything in this book.

  • Why We Sleep

    Matthew Walker

    To read

  • Atomic Habits

    James Clear

    To read

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    very surface level stuff if you're already someone switched on, I'd skip.

  • Complete Works

    Plato

    To read

  • The Discourses

    Niccolò Machiavelli

    To read

  • Letters from a Stoic

    Seneca

    To read

  • The Art of Living

    Epictetus

    To read

  • A Manual for Living

    Epictetus

    To read

  • Ethics

    Baruch Spinoza

    To read

  • An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding

    David Hume

    To read

  • On the Genealogy of Morals

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    To read

  • The Essential Kierkegaard

    Søren Kierkegaard

    To read

  • The Society of the Spectacle

    Guy Debord

    To read

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    highly relevant in our age

  • The Sublime Object of Ideology

    Slavoj Žižek

    To read

  • On Anarchism

    Noam Chomsky

    To read

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    real slog to read, Chomsky is a bit more interesting. Lenin uses 70 examples for every point you almost need an abridged version to not fall asleep, I'd assume kapital is similar. Interesting read otherwise

  • Democracy at Work

    Richard D. Wolff

    To read

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    I deeply respect both authors. Interesting books from other side of the politics to me

  • And the Weak Suffer What They Must?

    Yanis Varoufakis

    To read

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    I deeply respect both authors. Interesting books from other side of the politics to me

  • Orientalism

    Edward W. Said

    To read

  • Women, Race & Class

    Angela Y. Davis

    To read

  • Atlas Shrugged

    Ayn Rand

    To read

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    I haven't read this but I've been told it's a massive self-suck that's hard to read because she's a shitty writer

  • Explaining Postmodernism

    Stephen R. C. Hicks

    To read

  • The Second Sex

    Simone de Beauvoir

    To read

  • A General Introduction to Psychoanalysis

    Sigmund Freud

    To read

  • Man and His Symbols

    C. G. Jung

    To read

  • Lenin

    Vladimir Lenin

    Lenin

    Vladimir Lenin

    To read

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    title unclear real slog to read, Chomsky is a bit more interesting. Lenin uses 70 examples for every point you almost need an abridged version to not fall asleep, I'd assume kapital is similar. Interesting read otherwise

  • A New Earth

    Eckhart Tolle

    To read

  • Healing Is the New High

    Vex King

    To read

  • Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents

    Lindsay C. Gibson

    To read

  • The Way of the Superior Man

    David Deida

    To read

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    interesting read, many people online seem to approach the book and its topics in seriously bad faith, go into it with an open mind and good faith and it makes interesting points

  • Millman (Turkish ed.)

    Dan Millman

    Millman (Turkish ed.)

    Dan Millman

    To read

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    Turkish ed.

  • Reality Transurfing

    Vadim Zeland

    To read

  • The Qur'an

    To read

  • The Divine Comedy

    Dante Alighieri

    To read

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    incredible world building, my Intro to theology for those less inclined towards it

  • The Iliad

    Homer

    To read

  • The Odyssey

    Homer

    To read

  • Metamorphoses

    Ovid

    To read

  • Frankenstein

    Mary Shelley

    To read

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    I read this as a teen and have re-read it since, still incredible. Shivering how well the scenes are built

  • Klara and the Sun

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    To read

  • Animal Farm

    George Orwell

    To read

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    surface level political writing, fine read if you're 16 I guess.

  • 1984

    George Orwell

    To read

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    surface level political writing, fine read if you're 16 I guess.

  • The Plague

    Albert Camus

    To read

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    every one I've read has been incredible, Camus is a role model of mine. Can't wait to read more

  • The Outsider

    Albert Camus

    To read

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    every one I've read has been incredible, Camus is a role model of mine. Can't wait to read more

  • The Myth of Sisyphus

    Albert Camus

    To read

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    every one I've read has been incredible, Camus is a role model of mine. Can't wait to read more

  • The Woman in Black

    Susan Hill

    To read

  • Bang!

    Brian May, Patrick Moore, Chris Lintott

    To read

  • Thus Spoke Zarathustra

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    To read

  • The Magic of Thinking Big

    David Schwartz

    To read

  • Basic Economics (5th ed.)

    Thomas Sowell

    To read

  • The Art of War

    Sun Tzu

    To read

  • The Charisma Myth

    Olivia Fox Cabane

    To read

  • The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

    Stephen R. Covey

    To read

  • The E-Myth Revisited

    Michael E. Gerber

    To read

  • The Lean Startup

    Eric Ries

    To read

  • Revolt Against the Modern World

    Julius Evola

    To read

  • Mere Christianity

    C. S. Lewis

    To read

  • Meditations on First Philosophy

    René Descartes

    To read

  • Confessions

    Saint Augustine

    To read

  • Nicomachean Ethics

    Aristotle

    To read

  • Apology

    Plato

    To read

  • Leviathan

    Thomas Hobbes

    To read

  • The Brothers Karamazov

    Fyodor Dostoevsky

    To read

  • Blood Meridian

    Cormac McCarthy

    To read

  • On Liberty

    John Stuart Mill

    To read

  • The Gay Science

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    To read

  • Beyond Good and Evil

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    To read

  • Skin in the Game

    Nassim Nicholas Taleb

    To read

  • The Decline of the West

    Oswald Spengler

    To read

  • Summary of The SaaS Playbook

    Milkyway Media

    Summary of The SaaS Playbook

    Milkyway Media

    To read

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  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

    Eric Jorgenson

    Read

    Note

    decent "how to make money without losing your soul", a bit surface level in points

  • Traffic Secrets

    Russell Brunson

    ReadDylan says: required

    Note

    both read, incredible resource.

  • Expert Secrets

    Russell Brunson

    ReadDylan says: required

    Note

    both read, incredible resource.

  • The Millionaire Fastlane

    MJ DeMarco

    ReadDylan says: required

    Note

    feels like it unlocks something in your mind to understand these concepts, required reading

  • DotCom Secrets

    Russell Brunson

    ReadDylan says: required

    Note

    both read, incredible resource.

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow

    Daniel Kahneman

    Partly read

    Note

    I only got 1/3rd through this, I like the idea of system 1/2 thinking, should revisit

  • King, Warrior, Magician, Lover

    Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette

    ReadDylan says: required

    Note

    required reading for every young man.

  • $100M Offers

    Alex Hormozi

    ReadDylan says: required

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    incredible resources, literally modern business bible, inevitably has some amount of filler / pushing you further in their funnel stuff

  • $100M Leads

    Alex Hormozi

    ReadDylan says: required

    Note

    incredible resources, literally modern business bible, inevitably has some amount of filler / pushing you further in their funnel stuff

  • $100M Money Models

    Alex Hormozi

    ReadDylan says: required

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    incredible resources, literally modern business bible, inevitably has some amount of filler / pushing you further in their funnel stuff

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