Paul Schulte-Hunsbeck
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VI · iii Favorite books

What I read.

Reading is a form of thinking. Few books, many times — beats many books, once. Marked, annotated, reopened.

Current favorites — deliberately reduced.

01.

Favorites

  • Influence

    Robert Cialdini

    On persuasion principles, social triggers, and the question of when agreement is not really free.

  • Unlimited Power

    Tony Robbins

    Energy, self-direction, and mental patterns as a practical system.

  • Elon Musk

    Walter Isaacson

    A biography about risk, speed, product obsession, and the cost of outsized ambition.

  • Nietzsche's works

    Friedrich Nietzsche

    Radical self-questioning, value criticism, and thinking against comfortable certainties.

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind

    Yuval Noah Harari

    A wide arc across culture, power, myths, and the constructs that hold societies together.

  • Social-critical analyses

    Peter Turchin

    Cycles of social instability, elite competition, and the fracture points of modern societies.

  • The Longevity Leap

    Siim Land

    A practical view on longevity, metabolism, recovery, and measurable health routines.

  • SuperLife

    Darin Olien

    Health as a daily system of nutrition, hydration, movement, oxygen, and detoxification.

One rule.

A book I wouldn’t read twice, I shouldn’t read once. Time is finite, more so than money.