Continuing Education
I believe in constant learning. I feel the best step to solving large-scale technical problems is knowing enough about every pertinent industry to be able to make important connections. Below is a list of the books I’ve consumed over the past couple of years, in order of most recent to oldest.
| Title | Authors |
| Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures | Merlin Sheldrake |
| Finding the Mother Tree: Discovering the Wisdom of the Forest | Suzanne Simard |
| Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life | Jim Kwik |
| 12 Months to $1 Million: How to Pick a Winning Product, Build a Real Business, and Become a Seven-Figure Entrepreneur | Ryan Daniel Moran |
| Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making | Tony Fadell |
| The Year of Less: How I Stopped Shopping, Gave Away My Belongings, and Discovered Life Is Worth More Than Anything You Can Buy in a Store | Cait Flanders |
| Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness | Steve Magness |
| Disrupting the Game: From the Bronx to the Top of Nintendo | Reggie Fils-Aimé |
| The Power of Pressure: Why Pressure Isn’t the Problem, It’s the Solution | Dane Jensen |
| The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated) | Timothy Ferriss |
| Good Power: Leading Positive Change in Our Lives, Work, and World | Ginni Rometty |
| The 10X Mentor | Grant Cardone |
| Roadmap: The Get-It-Together Guide for Figuring Out What to Do with Your Life | Roadtrip Nation |
| Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business | Paul Jarvis |
| How Not to Die: Discover the Foods Scientifically Proven to Prevent and Reverse Disease | Michael Greger MD FACLM, Gene Stone |
| Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life | Nir Eyal, Julie Li |
| $100M Offers: How to Make Offers So Good People Feel Stupid Saying No | Alex Hormozi |
| Sleep Smarter: 21 Essential Strategies to Sleep Your Way to a Better Body, Better Health, and Bigger Success | Shawn Stevenson, Sara Gottfried MD – foreword |
| The CRO Podcast (Conversion Rate Optimization) | Syed Yaseen |
| Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money – That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not! | Robert T. Kiyosaki |
| Clockwork, Revised and Expanded | Mike Michalowicz, Gino Wickman – foreword |
| Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari |
| Fix This Next | Mike Michalowicz |
| How an Economy Grows and Why It Crashes | Peter D Schiff, Andrew J Schiff |
| The Myth of Capitalism | Jonathan Tepper, Denise Hearn |
| A Brief History of Japan | Jonathan Clements |
| Anxiety as an Ally | Dan Ryckert |
| New Sales. Simplified. | Mike Weinberg |
| The Alchemy of Finance | George Soros |
| The Internet of Money | Andreas M. Antonopoulos |
| The Longevity Solution | Dr. James DiNicolantonio, Dr. Jason Fung |
| Skin in the Game | Nassim Nicholas Taleb |
| Sales EQ | Jeb Blount |
| Self-Discipline | Ian Tuhovsky |
| Ninja Selling | Larry Kendall |
| For the Love of Soil | Nicole Masters |
| How to Persuade and Get Paid | Phil M. Jones |
| Dirt to Soil | Gabe Brown |
| The Science of Sci-Fi | Erin Macdonald, The Great Courses |
| Nine Lies About Work | Marcus Buckingham, Ashley Goodall |
| The Road Less Stupid | Keith J. Cunningham |
| The Science of Self-Discipline | Peter Hollins |
| Machine, Platform, Crowd | Erik Brynjolfsson, Andrew McAfee |
| Outsmart Yourself: Brain-Based Strategies to a Better You | Peter M. Vishton, The Great Courses |
| Stop People Pleasing | Patrick King |
| Why You Are Who You Are | Mark Leary, The Great Courses |
| Weapons of Math Destruction | Cathy O’Neil |
| Mindset: How Positive Thinking Will Set You Free & Help You Achieve Massive Success in Life | Benjamin Smith |
| The Automatic Customer | John Warrillow |
| The Art of Selling Your Business | John Warrillow |
| 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management | Kevin Kruse |
| The Power of Positive Leadership | Jon Gordon |
| Trading in the Zone | Mark Douglas |
| Built to Sell | John Warrillow |
| Black Holes, Tides, and Curved Spacetime | Benjamin Schumacher, The Great Courses |
| Breaking the Chains of Gravity | Amy Shira Teitel |
| Actionable Gamification | Yu-kai Chou |
| The Dip | Seth Godin |
| Stress and Your Body | Robert Sapolsky, The Great Courses |
| Build to Last | Keith Callahan |
| Power Moves | Adam Grant |
| Failing Up | Leslie Odom Jr. |
| Understanding the Mysteries of Human Behavior | Mark Leary, The Great Courses |
| Scaling Up | Verne Harnish |
| Rewire Your Anxious Brain | Catherine M. Pittman PhD, Elizabeth M. Karle MLIS |
| This Is Marketing | Seth Godin |
| The Ideal Team Player | Patrick M. Lencioni |
| Leap First | Seth Godin |
| The New New Thing | Michael Lewis |
| The Psychology of Selling | Brian Tracy |
| How to Own Your Own Mind | Napoleon Hill, Don Green – introduction |
| How to Get and Stay Motivated | Grant Cardone |
| The ONE Thing | Gary Keller, Jay Papasan |
| On Fire | Naomi Klein |
| Propaganda | Edward Bernays |
| The Power of Habit | Charles Duhigg |
| Tribal Leadership | Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright |
| Think. Do. Say. | Ron Tite |
| 99% True | Paul McGowan |
| The Greatest Salesman in the World | Og Mandino |
| The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works | Shinzen Young |
| Freakonomics | Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner |
| Crossing the Chasm | Geoffrey A. Moore |
| Sprint | Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz |
| The Lean Startup | Eric Ries |
| Lost and Founder | Rand Fishkin |
| The Toilet Paper Entrepreneur | Mike Michalowicz |
| Secrets of Sand Hill Road | Scott Kupor, Eric Ries |
| The Elements of Thinking in Systems | Albert Rutherford |
| The Psychology of Selling | Brian Tracy |
| Buy, Rehab, Rent, Refinance, Repeat | David M Greene |
| Upstream | Dan Heath |
| The Coddling of the American Mind | Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff |
| The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck | Mark Manson |
| FAKE | Robert T. Kiyosaki |
| Collaborating with the Enemy | Adam Kahane |
| Millionaire Success Habits | Dean Graziosi |
| Systems Thinking and Chaos | Albert Rutherford |
| The Systems Thinker | Albert Rutherford |
| Brief Answers to the Big Questions | Stephen Hawking, Eddie Redmayne – foreword |
| Expert Secrets | Russell Brunson, Robert T. Kiyosaki – foreword |
| The Art of Thinking in Systems: Improve Your Logic, Think More Critically, and Use Proven Systems to Solve Your Problems – Strategic Planning for Everyday Life | Steven Schuster |
| Systems Thinking for Social Change | David Peter Stroh |
| Never Split the Difference | Chris Voss |
| Thinking in Systems | Donella H. Meadows |
| How to Make Sh*t Happen: Make More Money, Get in Better Shape, Create Epic Relationships and Control | Sean Whalen |
| The Alchemist | Paulo Coelho |
| How to Be an Imperfectionist: The New Way to Self-Acceptance, Fearless Living, and Freedom from Perfectionism | Stephen Guise |
| The Power of Vulnerability | Brené Brown |
| Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility | Patty McCord |
| Why We Sleep | Matthew Walker |
| Why the Rich Are Getting Richer | Tom Wheelwright, Robert T. Kiyosaki |
| Understanding Japan | Mark J. Ravina, The Great Courses |
| This I Know | Terry O’Reilly |
| Tribes | Seth Godin |
| The Clever Gut Diet | Dr. Michael Mosley |
| Lifespan | David A. Sinclair PhD, Matthew D. LaPlante |
| Genius Foods | Max Lugavere, Paul Grewal |
| Deep Medicine | Eric Topol |
| All Marketers Are Liars | Seth Godin |
| Unfu*k Yourself | Gary John Bishop |
| Civilized to Death | Christopher Ryan |
| Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know | Malcolm Gladwell |
| So You Want to Talk About Race | Ijeoma Oluo |
| Prediction Machines | Ajay Agrawal,Joshua Gans,Avi Goldfarb |
| Brands and Bulls**t. | Bernhard Schroeder |
| Everything All at Once | Bill Nye |
| Poke the Box | Seth Godin |
| Life 3.0 | Max Tegmark |
| The Tao of Pooh | Benjamin Hoff |
| Bluefishing | Steve Sims |
| How to Win Friends and Influence People in the Digital Age | Dale Carnegie & Associates |
| Superintelligence | Nick Bostrom |
| The End of Illness | David B. Agus |
| Selfie | Will Storr |
| Hacking Darwin | Jamie Metzl |
| Anthropology and the Study of Humanity | Scott M. Lacey,The Great Courses |
| Innate | Kevin J. Mitchell |
| How to Build a Thriving Workplace: A Leader鈥檚 Guide | Beth Cabrera,The Great Courses |
| How Soon Is Now | Daniel Pinchbeck |
| Social Intelligence | Karl Albrecht |
| Leadership Wisdom from the Monk Who Sold His Ferrari | Robin Sharma |
| The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind | Gustave Le Bon |
| The Elephant in the Brain | Kevin Simler,Robin Hanson |
| Building a StoryBrand | Donald Miller |
| Who We Are and How We Got Here | David Reich |
| Slow | Brooke McAlary |
| Zero to One | Peter Thiel,Blake Masters |
| Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture | The Great Courses,Andrew R. Wilson |
| Work Stronger | Pete Leibman |
| Capitalism vs. Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems | The Great Courses |
| The Rainforest | Victor W. Hwang,Greg Horowitt |
| Sci-Phi: Science Fiction as Philosophy | The Great Courses |
| Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator | Ryan Holiday |
| 21 Lessons for the 21st Century | Yuval Noah Harari |
| The Five Love Languages: The Secret to Love That Lasts | Gary Chapman |
| Misbehaving | Richard H. Thaler |