Books
I believe reading (or listening to) books, is one of the best ways to download knowledge. In a few hours, you can grasp concepts and ideas that may have taken the author an entire career or lifetime to acquire.
Here are some of the books I've learned the most from. In time I will post some thoughts and key takeaways for each.
Startups
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage, Alfred Lansing
The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
The Four Steps to the Epiphany, Steve Blank
Exponential Organizations, Salim Ismail
Zero to One, Peter Thiel
High Growth Handbook, Elad Gil
The Cold Start Problem, Andrew Chen
Blitzscaling, Reid Hoffman
Venture Deals, Brad Feld
Secrets of Sand Hill Road, Scott Kupor
Crossing the Chasm, Geoffrey A. Moore
The Creative Curve, Allen Gannett
Business & Investing
Measure What Matters, John Doerr
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy, Hamilton Helmer
The Tao of Charlie Munger, David Clark
The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss
Working Backwards, Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
High Output Management, Andrew S. Grove
Competitive Strategy, Michael E. Porter
What Would Google Do?, Jeff Jarvis
Where The Money Is, Adam Seessel
Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life, Alice Schroeder
The Power Law, Sebastian Mallaby
The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
Science & Technology
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn
Complexity, M. Mitchell Waldrop
Chip War, Chris Miller
Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, Satoshi Nakamoto
Softwar, Major Jason P. Lowrey
Lifespan, David A. Sinclair, PhD
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity, Toby Ord
Apocalypse Never, Michael Shellenberger
Speed & Scale, John Doerr
The Infinite Machine, Camila Russo
Economics
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order, Ray Dalio
The Use of Knowledge in Society, F. A. Hayek
The Road to Serfdom, F. A. Hayek
The Theory of Money & Credit, Ludwig von Mises
Human Action, Ludwig von Mises
The Bitcoin Standard, Saifedean Ammous
From Third World to First: The Singapore Story, Lee Kuan Yew
Price Theory, Milton Friedman
The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith
The General Theory of Employment, John Maynard Keynes
Psychology & Philosophy
Skin in the Game, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Antifragile, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Mind: A Brief Introduction, John R. Searle
Man and His Symbols, Carl G. Jung
The Conscious Mind, David J. Chalmers
Radical Candor, Kim Scott
The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho
The Network State, Balaji Srinivasan
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson
The Way of Zen, Alan Watts
Making Sense, Sam Harris
Physics
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard P. Feynman
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics, Carlo Rovelli
Reality Is Not What It Seems, Carlo Rovelli
The Order of Time, Carlo Rovelli
Einstein's Dreams, Alan Lightman
The Beginning of Infinity, David Deutsch
Science Fiction
The City And The Stars, Arther C. Clarke
The Foundation Trilogy, Issac Asimov
The Robot Series, Issac Asimov
Galactic Empire Series, Issac Asimov
Three-Body Problem Series, Cixin Liu
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sleep, Philip K. Dick
The Man In The High Castle, Philip K. Dick
A Scanner Darkly, Philip K. Dick
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Aurora, Kim Stanley Robinson
Exhalation, Ted Chiang
The Expanse Series, James S. A. Corey