What I read.
Reading is a form of thinking. Few books, many times — beats many books, once. Marked, annotated, reopened.
Current favorites — deliberately reduced.
Favorites
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Influence
Robert Cialdini
On persuasion principles, social triggers, and the question of when agreement is not really free.
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Unlimited Power
Tony Robbins
Energy, self-direction, and mental patterns as a practical system.
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Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
A biography about risk, speed, product obsession, and the cost of outsized ambition.
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Nietzsche's works
Friedrich Nietzsche
Radical self-questioning, value criticism, and thinking against comfortable certainties.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
A wide arc across culture, power, myths, and the constructs that hold societies together.
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Social-critical analyses
Peter Turchin
Cycles of social instability, elite competition, and the fracture points of modern societies.
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The Longevity Leap
Siim Land
A practical view on longevity, metabolism, recovery, and measurable health routines.
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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.