Bookshelf
Churchill discovered in his early 20s how uneducated he was. Then, he spent the rest of his life trying to remedy it.
The bookshelf below is my attempt to do the same:
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman--Including 10 More Years of Business Unusual
- I Came Upon a Lighthouse: A Short Memoir of Life with Ratan Tata
- 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos
- Working to Build a Stronger Nation: The Story of how 50 years of teamwork grew a tiny, two-man business into one of the most respected Caribbean conglomerates with a heart that cares
- Dream Big (Sonho Grande): How the Brazilian Trio behind 3G Capital - Jorge Paulo Lemann, Marcel Telles and Beto Sicupira Acquired Anheuser-Busch, Burger King and Heinz
- The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley
- Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit
- Trauma: The Invisible Epidemic: How Trauma Works and How We Can Heal From It
- Playing for Keeps: Michael Jordan and the World He Made
- Siddhartha
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn
- Breathe: A Life in Flow
- The Library at Mount Char: A Novel
- The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
- Poker: The Real Deal
- Conversations with Rene Girard: Prophet of Envy
- The Warren Buffett Way
- A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science, Even If You Flunked Algebra
- Principles: Life and Work
- Soros on Soros: Staying Ahead of the Curve
- The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
- Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
- Meditations: A New Translation
- Stock Market Wizards: Interviews with America's Top Stock Traders
- 1984
- Crime and Punishment
- Investing in Real Estate Private Equity: An Insider's Guide to Real Estate Partnerships, Funds, Joint Ventures & Crowdfunding
- Successful Aging: A Neuroscientist Explores the Power and Potential
- The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work
- Cracking the PM Interview: How to Land a Product Manager Job in Technology
- Gap Selling: Getting the Customer to Yes: How Problem-Centric Selling Increases Sales by Changing Everything You Know About Relationships, Overcoming Objections, Closing and Price
- Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco
- How to Become a Straight-A Student: The Unconventional Strategies Real College Students Use to Score High While Studying Less
- Papillon: The Greatest True Story of Escape and Adventure Ever Written!
- Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger
- The Screwtape Letters
- Liubiana
- Outliers: The Story of Success
- One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In The Market
- The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
- Man's Search for Meaning
- Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
- The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter--And How to Make the Most of Them Now
- Brave New World
- Fahrenheit 451: A Novel
- Slaughterhouse-Five
- Starting Strength: Basic Barbell Training
- The Road to Wigan Pier
- Cooked: A Natural History of Transformation
- Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power
- Grit
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
- The Game
- The Denial of Death
- The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival
- Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History
- The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing: Violate Them at Your Own Risk
- The Arabs: A History
- How to Die: An Ancient Guide to the End of Life
- Asterix (I have not read titles 8-38)
- Poker: Bets, Bluff, and Bad Beats
- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We do in Life and Business
- What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence
- The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company
- Ever Wonder Why?: And Other Controversial Essays
- Open: An Autobiography
- Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United
- Animal Farm
- So Good They Can't Ignore You
- How to Be Rich
- Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses
- Shake Hands With the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda
- A Tale of Two Cities
- My Stroke of Insight
- Tant que battra mon coeur
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Magazines
I recently started reading magazines and plan to track the issues I go through here.
National Geographic
- Vol. 248, No. 06 · December 2025 — Pictures of the Year: The Most Unforgettable Photos of 2025