A selection of books, articles, blog posts & podcasts since I started tracking in 2021
| Title | Author | URL | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | Doris Kearns Goodwin | https://amz.run/7TQo | Book |
| How to Stop Taking Work So Personally | Melody Wilding | https://hbr.org/2023/10/how-to-stop-taking-work-so-personally | Article |
| Ballistic | Mark Greaney | https://amz.run/7TQn | Book |
| My What If Year | Alisha Fernandez Miranda | https://amz.run/7JZ9 | Book |
| Debt: The First 5,000 Years | David Greaber | https://amz.run/78k1 | Book |
| Rules of Civility | Amor Towles | https://amz.run/74Jc | Book |
| Ordinary Grace | William Kent Krueger | https://amz.run/74Jf | Book |
| On Target | Mark Greaney | https://amz.run/74Je | Book |
| Rogues: True Stories of Grifter, Killers, Rebels and Crooks | Patrick Radden Keefe | https://amz.run/6vih | Book |
| The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder | David Grann | https://amz.run/6vig | Book |
| Fire Strike | Mike Maden | https://amz.run/6vif | Book |
| Harvard Business Review | Various | https://hbr.org/ | Magazine |
| Is Your Hybrid Team Losing Steam? | Heidi K. Gartner | https://hbr.org/2023/05/is-your-hybrid-team-losing-steam | Article |
| Knowing God in Work & Rest | https://open.spotify.com/show/691TDBDyZbcNpgPNrpihBr?si=5360a22774ec45bf | Podcast | |
| The Gray Man | Mark Greaney | https://amz.run/6hCN | Book |
| Alexander Skarsgard Explains the Answer to Everything. (It Involves Doing Some Math.) | Partha Dasgupta | https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/28/opinion/alexander-skarsgard-partha-dasgupta-economy.html | Article |
| How Duolingo reignited user growth | Jorge Mazal | https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/how-duolingo-reignited-user-growth | Article |
| Confidence Man: The Making of Donald Trump and the Breaking of America | Maggie Haberman | https://amz.run/74Jh | Book |
| You’re Only Human: How Your Limits Reflect God’s Design and Why That's Good News | Kelly M. Kapic | https://www.amazon.com/Youre-Only-Human-Limits-Reflect/dp/1587435101 | Book |
| The Intermediate Plateau: What Causes It? How Can We Move Beyond It? | Scott H. Young | https://www.scotthyoung.com/blog/2023/01/03/intermediate-plateau/ | Blog Post |
| G-Man: J. Edgar Hoover and the Making of the American Century | Bevery Gage | https://amz.run/74Ji | Book |
| Hellburner | Clive Cussler | https://amz.run/74Jl | Book |
| Radical Focus | Christina Wodtke | https://amz.run/74Jn | Book |
| The Daily | New York Times | https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily | Podcast |
| Weekend Briefing | Kyle Westaway | https://weekendbriefing.com/ | Newsletter |
| Morning Brew | Varies | https://www.morningbrew.com/daily | Newsletter |
| Title | Author | URL | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| Where the Crawdads Sing | Delia Owens | https://amz.run/74Jo | Book |
| This Tender Land | William Kent Kreuger | https://amz.run/74Jq | Book |
| The House of Morgan: An American Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance | Ron Chernow | https://amz.run/64K8 | Book |
| All In | Chamanth Palihapitya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, & David Friedberg | https://www.allinpodcast.co/ | Podcast |
| Taste: My Life Through Food | Stanley Tucci | https://www.amazon.com/Taste-My-Life-Through-Food/dp/1982168013 | Book |
| The Ransom | New York Times | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/20/world/americas/takeaways-haiti-reparations-france.html | Article |
| To Kill a Mockingbird | Harper Lee | https://a.co/d/1t0DwLZ | Book |
| Recession deep dive: VC psychology, macro risk, Tiger Global, predictions, and more | All In Podcast | https://open.spotify.com/episode/6mQe8WYZeDdghMFHXlEfDw?si=GAjYLFDvQA6wqDBpLghAQg | Podcast |
| The Latecomers Guide to Crypto | Kevin Roose | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2022/03/18/technology/cryptocurrency-crypto-guide.html?searchResultPosition=1 | Article |
| How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy | Jenny Odell | https://amz.run/6wGM | Book |
| How Social Media Dissolved the Mortar of Society and Made America Stupid | Jonathan Haidt | https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2022/05/social-media-democracy-trust-babel/629369/ | Article |
| The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks | Rebecca Skloot | https://amz.run/5nTo | Book |
| Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban | J. K. Rowling | https://amz.run/5nTn | Book |
| The Daily | New York Times | https://www.nytimes.com/column/the-daily | Podcast |
| Educated | Tara Westover | https://www.amazon.com/Educated-Memoir-Tara-Westover/dp/0399590501 | Book |
| The Vanishing Moderate Democrat | Jason Zengerle | https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/29/magazine/moderate-democrat.html | Article |
| 5 pieces of advice to help early stage founders navigate the months ahead | Leslie Feinzaig | https://www.fastcompany.com/90752852/advice-to-help-early-stage-founders-navigate-the-months-ahead | Article |
| What You’re Really Worried About When You’re Worried About Money | Arthur C. Brooks | https://www.theatlantic.com/family/archive/2021/12/worry-money-maslow-hierarchy-needs/620950/ | Article |
| Washington: A Life | Ron Chernow | https://amz.run/5ZG5 | Book |
| Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty | Patrick Radden Keefe | https://amz.run/5ZFF | Book |
| Brilliant Maps for Curious Minds | Ian Wright | https://amz.run/5anN | Book |
| The Strategies to Grow an Infrequent Product (ICED theory) | Vivek Kumar | https://www.reforge.com/blog/strategies-to-grow-infrequent-products | Blog Post |
| The Lincoln Highway | Amor Towles | https://amz.run/5IGJ | Book |
| Finding Language/Market Fit: How to Make Customers Feel Like You’ve Read Their Minds | First Round Review | https://review.firstround.com/finding-language-market-fit-how-to-make-customers-feel-like-youve-read-their-minds | Article |
| The Cold Start Problem | Andrew Chen | https://amz.run/5IGH | Book |
| Open | Andre Agassi | https://amz.run/5DwH | Book |
| Emerging Tech Brew | Varies | https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech | Newsletter |
| Weekend Briefing | Kyle Westaway | https://weekendbriefing.com/ | Newsletter |
| Morning Brew | Varies | https://www.morningbrew.com/daily | Newsletter |
| Title | Author | URL | Type |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 25 Micro-Habits of High-Impact Managers | First Round Review | https://review.firstround.com/the-25-micro-habits-of-high-impact-managers | Article |
| The Future of Work Should Mean Working Less | Jonathan Malesic | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/09/23/opinion/covid-return-to-work-rto.html | Article |
| The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West | David McCullough | https://amz.run/4uuC | Book |
| The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill | Christianity Today | https://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/podcasts/rise-and-fall-of-mars-hill/ | Podcast |
| The Bomber Mafia | Malcolm Gladwell | https://amz.run/4uuA | Book |
| Loving Our Kids on Purpose: Making a Heart-to-Heart Connection | Danny Silk | https://amz.run/4qrC | Book |
| Can Silicon Valley Find God? | Linda Kinstler | https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2021/07/16/opinion/ai-ethics-religion.html | Article |
| Work is a False Idol | Cassady Rosenblum | https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/22/opinion/lying-flat-work-rest.html | Article |
| Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents | Isabel Wilkerson | https://amz.run/4qrB | Book |
| The Business of Belonging: How to make community your competitive advantage | David S. Spinks | https://www.amazon.com/Business-Belonging-Community-Competitive-Advantage/dp/1119766125/ref=nodl_ | Book |
| Build Your Community: Turn your connections into a powerful online community | Richard Millington | https://www.amazon.com/Build-Your-Community-connections-community/dp/1292329998/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr= | Book |
| Labor Shortage? Great Realignment? | Various | https://flipboard.com/@feedthemalik/labor-shortage-great-realignment-jcadkvmaakls4d6a | Article |
| The Vanishing of Harry Pace | Radiolab | https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/vanishing-harry-pace-episode-1 | Podcast |
| Raising Boys & Girls: Episode 1, 2, & 3 | Sissy Goff, David Thomas and Melissa Trevethan | https://open.spotify.com/episode/7jlki8bi2cxgOg7Ab7JNPa?si=Grr5nnaLQV6c93Hfm53yOg&dl_branch=1 | Podcast |
| Why Geology Is Our Destiny | Dennis Overbye | https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/22/science/natural-history-museum-gems-minerals.html | Article |
| The Real College Admissions Scandal | James S. Murphy | https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2021/06/private-schools-competitive-college-advantage-problems.amp | Article |
| World Travel: An Irreverent Guide | Anthony Bourdain | https://amz.run/4e95 | Book |
| Range: Why Generalist Triumph in a Specialized World | David Epstein | https://amz.run/4afJ | Book |
| Crossing the Canyon: Product Manager to Product Leader | Fareed Mosavat & Casey Winters | https://www.reforge.com/blog/crossing-the-canyon-product-manager-to-product-leader | Blog Post |
| Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less | Greg McKeown | https://amz.run/4afG | Book |
| How To Say No, For The People Pleaser Who Always Says Yes | Meghan Keane | https://www.npr.org/2020/09/15/913207918/how-to-say-no-for-the-people-pleaser-who-always-says-yes | Podcast |
| The Future of Finance | New York Magazine | https://nymag.com/intelligencer/tags/future-of-finance/ | Article |
| How I Built This: Shake Shack: Danny Meyer | Guy Raz | https://www.npr.org/2020/06/12/875836845/shake-shack-danny-meyer | Dismiss |
| How I Built Resilience: Alex Lieberman and Austin Rief of Morning Brew | Guy Raz | https://www.npr.org/2021/03/03/973294835/how-i-built-resilience-alex-lieberman-and-austin-rief-of-morning-brew | Podcast |
| Beneath a Scarlet Sky | Mark Sullivan | https://amz.run/4X6f | Book |
| There’s a Name for the Blah You’re Feeling: It’s Called Languishing | Adam Grant | https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/19/well/mind/covid-mental-health-languishing.html | Article |
| The Body | Bill Bryson | https://amz.run/4Sn1 | Book |
| We Have All Hit a Wall | Sarah Lyall | https://www.nytimes.com/2021/04/03/business/pandemic-burnout-productivity.html | Article |
| A Few Thoughts on Writing | Morgan Housel | https://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/writing/ | Blog Post |
| How to Put Out Democracy’s Dumpster Fire | Anne Applebaum and Peter Pomerantsev | https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/the-internet-doesnt-have-to-be-awful/618079/ | Article |
| Private Schools Have Become Truly Obscene | Caitlin Flanagan | https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2021/04/private-schools-are-indefensible/618078/ | Article |
| Uncanny Valley: A Memoir | Anna Weiner | https://amz.run/4P0F | Book |
| Build Products That Solve Real Problems With This Lightweight JTBD Framework | Sunita Mohanty | https://review.firstround.com/build-products-that-solve-real-problems-with-this-lightweight-jtbd-framework | Blog Post |
| Lincoln in the Bardo | George Saunders | https://amz.run/4LBY | Book |
| The Product Strategy Stack | Ravi Mehta and Zainab Ghadiyali | https://www.reforge.com/blog/the-product-strategy-stack | Blog Post |
| The CEO of No | Dan Shipper | https://every.to/superorganizers/the-ceo-of-no-1725658 | Blog Post |
| Just Mercy | Bryan Stevenson | https://amz.run/4Hiq | Book |
| Is This Anything? | Jerry Seinfeld | https://amz.run/4Him | Book |
| A Promised Land | Barack Obama | https://amz.run/4Hik | Book |
| How to Take Personal Development Off the Backburner — Tactical Frameworks for Leveling Up | First Round Review | https://review.firstround.com/how-to-take-personal-development-off-the-backburner-tactical-frameworks-for-leveling-up | Blog Post |
| Emerging Tech Brew | Varies | https://www.morningbrew.com/emerging-tech | Newsletter |
| Scandalous Witness | Lee C. Camp | https://amz.run/4Hip | Book |
| Weekend Briefing | Kyle Westaway | https://weekendbriefing.com/ | Newsletter |
| Morning Brew | Varies | https://www.morningbrew.com/daily | Newsletter |
I enjoy reading biographies, especially of United States Presidents. I am hoping to, over time, read a biography of most U.S. Presidents. Below is the full list of presidents and the books I have read thus far.
| President | Biography Title | Author |
|---|---|---|
| George Washington | Washington: A Life | Ron Chernow |
| John Adams | John Adams | David McCullough |
| Thomas Jefferson | ||
| James Madison | ||
| James Monroe | ||
| John Quincy Adams | ||
| Andrew Jackson | American Lion | Jon Meacham |
| Martin Van Buren | ||
| William Henry Harrison | ||
| John Tyler | ||
| James K. Polk | ||
| Zachary Taylor | ||
| Millard Fillmore | ||
| Franklin Pierce | ||
| James Buchanan | ||
| Abraham Lincoln | Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln | Doris Kearns Goodwin |
| Andrew Johnson |