These are some of the most interesting books I’ve read or want to read. In the manner of Patrick Collison’s bookshelf, this is not organized and aims to simulate the piles of books I have around me and on my shelves. I will probably create some separate lists of my favorite books around specific topics at some point.

  • Inspired
  • Empowered
  • User Story Mapping
  • Getting to Yes
  • Good Strategy Bad Strategy
  • Continuous Discovery Habits
  • Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
  • Escaping the Build Trap
  • The Mom Test
  • The Big Score
  • The Making of Prince of Persia: Journals 1985-1993
  • Creativity Inc.
  • Masters of Doom
  • The Soul of a New Machine
  • The AI Does Not Hate You
  • The Innovator’s Dilemma
  • Zero to One
  • Competing Against Luck
  • The Dream Machine
  • Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon
  • Understanding Michael Porter
  • Radical Candor
  • The Design of Everyday Things
  • Thinking in Bets
  • Designing Data-Intensive Applications
  • The Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
  • A Philosophy of Software Design