Simon Avila

Simon Avila

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

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