Some non-business books that have shaped my thinking over the years.
2025
Why Nations Fail
Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson
Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
The Nvidia Way
Tae Kim
Design as art
Bruno Munari
The Changing World Order
Ray Dalio
Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
2024
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Cien años de soledad
Gabriel García Márquez
La increíble y triste historia de la cándida Eréndira y de su abuela desalmada
Gabriel García Márquez
Memoria de mis putas tristes
Gabriel García Márquez
La hojarasca
Gabriel García Márquez
Ficciones
Jorge Luis Borges
Invent & Wander
Jeff Bezos & Walter Isaacson
Build
Tony Fadell
2023
Atomic Habits
James Clear
The Making of the Atomic Bomb
Richard Rhodes
Chip War
Chris Miller
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
San Fransicko
Michael Shellenberger
The score takes care of itself
Bill Walsh
2022
The Black Swan
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
The almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
2021
Los árboles mueren de pie
Alejandro Casona
Elon Musk
Ashlee Vance
Rich dad poor dad
Robert Kiyosaki
2020
When breath becomes air
Paul Kalanithi
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Astrophysics for people in a hurry
Neil deGrasse Tyson
1984
George Orwell