2. I know, I know… what may be
one person’s favorite may be
another person’s yawn. Some of
my picks will be no surprise,
but couple of others may open
a new door.
Regardless, I hope you enjoy them
as much as I have…!
3. Business – Classic (gotta read!)
The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J.
Dubner
4. Business – New
Crazy is a Compliment: The Power of
Zigging When Everyone Else Zags
– Linda Rottenberg
Zero to One
– Peter Thiel
Thinking, Fast and Slow
– Daniel Kahneman
Team Genius
—Rich Karlgaard and Michael S.
Malone
5. Humanitarian Intervention
On Immunity: An Inoculation – Eula Bliss
Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is Changing
the Face of Humanitarian Response – Patrick Meier
6. Health
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle
Age, Becoming One of the
World’s Fittest Men, and
Discovering Myself – Rich Roll
4 Hour Body – Timothy Ferriss
7. Productivity
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live
Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded
and Updated) – Timothy Ferriss
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and
Icons accelerate Success – Shane Snow
Getting Things Done – David Allen
8. Creativity
Catching the Big Fish – David Lynch
A Curious Mind – Brian Grazer
Inside the Box – Drew Boyd and
Jacob Goldenberg
9. Money
The Little Books that Still Beat the Market
- Joel Greenblatt
Physics of Wall Street
– James Owen Weatherall
Irrational Exuberance, 3rd edition
– Robert J. Shiller
10. Fun
Cool Tools – Kevin Kelly
The Magic of Reality – Richard Dawkins
On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) – Seneca
Self Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Happiness of Pursuit – Chris Guillebeau
Let’s be Less Stupid – Patricia Marx
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking –
Jordan Ellenberg