Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand. Love her or hate her, she makes you think.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things - This is a great book about building businesses, and business in general.
Capital in the 21st Century - One of the greatest books about economics and capital written ever - let alone in the last decade.
The Intelligent Investor - This is Buffet's favourite book, and regardless of how many times I read it, I still learn more. One can never digest it in full.
Predictably Irrational - This excellent tome makes behavioural economics digestible outside of economics. It's enlightening, though provoking, and turns several accepted truths on its head, purely by being written at all.
Nexus (Ramez Naam) - This science fiction book explores transhumanism and would it could mean in the near future. It's both light and pulpy, but at the same time makes you think about the outcomes of technological progression.
I read _Atlas Shrugged_ without any preconceptions (I didn't know who Ayn Rand was, and Libertarianism wasn't nearly as trendy back then). I was taken in by the story of how everything fell apart, but was completely turned off by her solution—creating a "utopia" is quite easy when you only allow in a select few and have unlimited free energy. It struck me as the Libertarian equivalent of _The Jungle_: tell a compelling narrative of how society is (or can be) broken, and then destroy the credibility you've built by presenting your ideological vision while completely ignoring potential pitfalls.
This is exactly what I love about that book. To many it's a bible of libertarianism. To many it's everything that's bad about it. Either way I find it definitely encourages debate and thinking - much more than her other works.
Atlas Shrugged - Ayn Rand. Love her or hate her, she makes you think.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things - This is a great book about building businesses, and business in general.
Capital in the 21st Century - One of the greatest books about economics and capital written ever - let alone in the last decade.
The Intelligent Investor - This is Buffet's favourite book, and regardless of how many times I read it, I still learn more. One can never digest it in full.
Predictably Irrational - This excellent tome makes behavioural economics digestible outside of economics. It's enlightening, though provoking, and turns several accepted truths on its head, purely by being written at all.
Nexus (Ramez Naam) - This science fiction book explores transhumanism and would it could mean in the near future. It's both light and pulpy, but at the same time makes you think about the outcomes of technological progression.