Omar Bohsali

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This started off a list of things I've read, but it's now increasingly a list of things I want to read in the future.

Letters From a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
George Horace Lorimer
The Denial of Death
Ernest Becker
How to Speak Money
John Lanchester
Status Anxiety
Alain De Botton
Games People Play
Eric Berne
Scripts People Live
Claude Steiner
The Pleasure of Finding Things Out
Richard P. Feynman
The Red Queen
Matt Ridley
Ready Player One
Ernest Cline
American Kingpin
Nick Bilton
Principles
Ray Dalio
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
The Gervais Principle
Venkatesh Rao
Radical Markets
Eric Posner, E. Weyl
The Self Under Siege
Robert W. Firestone, Lisa Firestone, Joyce Catlett
Getting Things Done
David Allen
Vue.js
Callum Macrae
Sales Insanity
Jason Jordan, Cannon Thomas
How to Have Confidence and Power in Dealing With People
Les Giblin
The CIA Document of Human Manipulation
The Central Intelligence Agency
Warren Buffet - Snowball
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Winning Through Intimidation
Robert Ringer
The Courage to Be Disliked
Ichiro Kishimi, Fumitake Koga
Expert Political Judgment
Philip E. Tetlock
Life After Google
George Gilder
The Art of Strategy
Avinash K. Dixit, Barry J. J. Nalebuff
Energy and Civilization
Vaclav Smil
The Evolving Self
Robert Kegan
What Got You Here Won't Get You There
Marshall Goldsmith and Mark Reiter
Obviously Awesome
April Dunford
Managing Client Relationships
Jim Donovan
The Year Without Pants
Scott Berkun
The Great CEO Within
Matt Mochary, Alex MacCaw, and Misha Talavera
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself
Peter Ferdinand Drucker, Clayton M. Christensen, and Daniel Goleman
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
Richard W. Hamming
The Coddling of the American Mind
Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
The Truth Machine: The Blockchain and the Future of Everything
The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
Your Music and People
E-Myth Revisited
This is Marketing
Stumbling on Happiness
Strong Fathers, Strong Daughters: 10 Secrets Every Father Should Know
Meg Meeker
No Easy Day
Mark Owen and Kevin Maurer
Freaks of Fortune
Jonathan Levy
favorite
The Spider Network
David Enrich
Relentless - From Good to Great to Unstoppable
Tim Grover
Hell Yeah or No
Derek Sivers
The Road Less Travelled
Tools of Titans
Tim Ferris
Metaprogramming Ruby
Paolo Perrotta
It Didn’t Start with You
Art of Doing Science & Engineering
favorite
Kings of Crypto
The Mountain Is You
Brianna Taylor
The Selfish Gene
Gates
Stephen Manes, Paul Andrews
Selling 101
Zig Ziglar
Napoleon Hill - Think & Grow Rich
Secrets of Closing the Sale
Zig Ziglar
Notes
Ziglar on Selling
Zig Ziglar
Becoming Steve Jobs
The Time Paradox
The Discerning Heart
P. Merrell Lewis
On Leadership
John Wooden
Captivate
Vanessa Van Edwards
Never Eat Alone
The Miracle of Self-Discipline
Brian Tracey
The Conscience of a Conservative
The Power of Myth
Radicals for Capitalism
Shankleton's Incredible Voyage
Managing Humans
Measure what Matters
John Doerr
Give and Take
The Perfect Weapon: War, Sabotage, and Fear in the Cyber Age by David Sanger
Ogilvy on Advertising
Execution is Everything
John Doerr
On the Road
Understanding Human Nature
The Mom Test
Disciplined Entrepreneurship
Chasing Daylight
Poker Face of Wall Street
The Mastermind
Interpretation of Financial Statements
Brain On Fire: My Month Of Madness
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Excellent Sheep - The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life
The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment
Kissinger: 1923-1968: The Idealist
Neuromancer
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
Snow Crash
The Lion's Gate: On the Front Lines of the Six Day War
On the Shortness of Life
To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
The Boron Letters
Gary Halbert
The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Startups That Win
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
What I Wish I Knew When I Was 20: A Crash Course on Making Your Place in the World
The ONE Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable Fragility" (Incerto) 
Inside the Tornado
Making A Splash: A Growth Mindset Children's Book
Pmarca Archives
Marc Andressen
Systems Thinking for Business: Capitalize on Structures Hidden in Plain Sight
Machiavelli - The Prince
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Our Inner Conflicts
Catch 22
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance
Superforecasting: The Art And Science Of Prediction
Motivation and Personality
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
Start-up Nation: The Story of Israel's Economic Miracle
Crossing the Chasm
How to Create a Mind
A Manager's Path
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Human Action
Von Mises
favorite
Good Strategy, Bad Strategy
The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence
The Globalization Paradox: Democracy and the Future of the World Economy
The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America's Banana King
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos
Liar's Poker
The New Strategic Selling
Cat's Cradle: A Novel
The Power Broker
Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Don Quixote
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Genghis Khan: His Conquests, His Empire, His Legacy
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Economic Indicators
The Square and The Tower
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
The Art of War
Salt: A World History
The Richest Man in Babylon
Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
Steve Jobs
How to Read a Financial Report
The Effective Executive: The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
Personal Development for Smart People
Catcher in the Rye
Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager
If the Universe Is Teeming with Aliens ... WHERE IS EVERYBODY?
Sons of Wichita: How the Koch Brothers Became America's Most Powerful and Private Dynasty
Genius: The Life and Mind of Richard Feynman
The Way of Zen
Presidential Power and the Modern Presidents: The Politics of Leadership from Roosevelt to Reagan
The Art of Living: The Classical Mannual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
The Innovators Dilemma
The Art of Thinking Clearly
The War of Art
Killing Mr. Lebanon: The Assassination of Rafik Hariri and its impact on the Middle East
History of the Peloponnesian War
The Rise and Reign of Vladimir Putin
The Brethren: Inside the Supreme Court
The Andromeda Strain
How to Use Financial Statements
Influence
How I Made $2,000,000 In the Stock Market
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart: Thirty True Things You Need to Know Now
Anything You Want: 40 Lessons for a New Kind of Entrepreneur
A Random Walk down Wall Street
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win
A First-Rate Madness: Uncovering the Links Between Leadership and Mental Illness
From Beirut to Jerusalem
The Finishing School
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
favorite
Writing That Works, 3e: How to Communicate Effectively in Business
favorite
Teaching Common Sense: The Grand Strategy Program at Yale University
The Man Who Created the Middle East: A Story of Empire, Conflict and the Sykes-Picot Agreement
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
Congress: The Electoral Connection
Congress and The Bureaucracy
Little Red Book of Selling: 12.5 Principles of Sales Greatness
Founders at Work: Stories of Startups' Early Days
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
SPQR - A History of Ancient Rome
Man, the State, and War
Sam Walton: Made In America
Time Travel: A History
The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
The Way of Men
Warfighting
US Marine Corps
The Ikea Story
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
The Years of Lyndon Johnson
Thinking in Systems: A Primer
The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
Talking to Humans
Real and Functional Analysis
Introduction to Tornado: Modern Web Applications with Python
Nikola Tesla: Imagination and the Man That Invented the 20th Century
Foundation
The Man Who Solved The Market
Financial Accounting
Strategy of Conflict
The Entrepreneur's Guide to Customer Development: A Cheat Sheet to the Four Steps to the Epiphany
The Quartet: Orchestrating the Second American Revolution, 1783-1789
Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way To Influence And Persuade
When Breath Becomes Air
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley
Paradox - Nine Greatest Enigmas in Physics
Farenheit 451
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Aversive Interpersonal Behavior
Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box
The Great Gatsby
The Three Body Problem
To Kill a Mockingbird
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
The Prophet
The Logic of War and Peace
Not Fade Away - A Short Life, Well Lived
The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
The Scientist in the Crib
Ender's Game
The Fountainhead
The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
Lords of Strategy
How Children Succeed
Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, 2015
Warren Buffett
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
A First Course in Probability
Basic Economics: A Common Sense Guide to the Economy
The Lessons of History
Guns, Germs and Steel
Save the Cat
Legacy
When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management
Gang Leader for a Day
The Wisdom of the Enneagram
Tesla: Inventor of the Electrical Age
Ego is the Enemy
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Incerto)
Seeking Wisdom
Pro Python (Expert's Voice in Open Source)
Neurosis and Human Growth: The Struggle Towards Self-Realization
The Right Stuff
David and Goliath
The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide To Staying Out of the Rejection Pile
The Wisdom of Crowds
Buckminster Fuller's Universe: His Life and Work
Theory of International Politics
Chase, Chance, and Creativity
The Death of Ivan Ilych
The Great Stagnation: How America Ate All the Low-Hanging Fruit of Modern History, Got Sick, and Will( Eventually) Feel Better
Jamie Dimon Talk @ GSB
Blue Ocean Strategy: How To Create Uncontested Market Space And Make The Competition Irrelevant
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Leading: Learning from Life and My Years at Manchester United
How To Do Systems Analysis
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965: 1,2,3
The Trauma of Everyday Life
Rework
Slaughterhouse-Five
Supercrunchers
The Happiness Hypothesis
How to Not Be Wrong - The Power of Mathematical Thinking
Flash Boys
Why Information Grows: The Evolution of Order, from Atoms to Economies
Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
What Every BODY is Saying: An Ex-FBI Agents Guide to Speed-Reading People
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Brave New Workd
Thank You For Being Late
Pebbles of Perception
Howard Hughes: His Life and Madness
Financial Instruments: Equities, Debt, Derivatives, and Alternative Investments
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man's Fight for Justice
The Shadow World: Inside the Global Arms Trade
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
The Age of Intelligent Machines
Organizing Genius
The Prize
Status as a Service
Restoring Quality Health Care: A Six Point Plan for Comprehensive Reform at Lower Cost
The McKinsey Edge: Success Principles from the World’s Most Powerful Consulting Firm
100 Years of Solitude
favorite
Deng Xiaoping
A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood
favorite
Michael Green on Realvision
The Compound Effect
The Defiant Ones
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius: Uncover the Secret Hiding Places of Stock Market Profits
Self Under Siege
The Obstacle is the Way - (Ryan Holiday)
Hiring for Attitude A Revolutionary Approach to Recruiting and Selecting People with Both Tremendous Skills and Superb Attitude
Shoe Dog
The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham
The Marshmallow Test
Positive Intelligence: Why Only 20% of Teams and Individuals Achieve Their True Potential and How You Can Achieve Yours
Julius Cesar
Denial of Death
Becker
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
The Dictator's Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics
Teaching Common Sense
How to Win Friends and Influence People
The Gardner and The Carpenter
Obviously Awesome: Positioning
The Charisma Myth
Self-Esteem
The Sovereign Individual
How to Castrate a Bull: Unexpected Lessons on Risk, Growth, and Success in Business
The E Myth
ONE Thing Notes
Michael Siebel MVP talk
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Macro Markets
Bill Gates: Hard Drive
Philosophy, Objectivism, Self Interest (full interview with Yaron Brook)
How to be a High School Superstar
How to Raise Your Self Esteem
Branden
Saint and Traders
How to Create Lasting Change
Seth Godin - Linchpin
Predictable Revenue: Turn Your Business Into A Sales Machine With The $100 Million Best Practices Of Salesforce.com
Skin in The Game
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck
Tribe of Mentors
Cryptoassets
Meditations
Radical Markets
How to Have Power and Confidence in Dealing with Others
The Bitcoin Standard
Bank 3.0 - Why Banking is No Longer Somewhere You Go, But Something You Do
The Prince
Modern Alpha Male
How to Read a Book The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Finite & Infinite Games
The Secret Power of Middle Children
Breaking Free
Brian Armstrong
Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Getting to Yes
The Effective Engineer: How to Leverage Your Efforts In Software Engineering to Make a Disproportionate and Meaningful Impact
48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
Leadership & Solitude
Building Microservices
Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
The Organization Man
Don't Believe a Word
Josef Alberts Interaction of Color
Reading levels throughout the US military
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead
The Psychology of Achievement
Masters of Doom
Love & Math
Renee Girard - Things HIdden Since Foundation of the World
Barbarian Days - A Surfing Life
The Way of the Superior Man
The Fear of Losing it All
Big Business
Tyler Cowan
Cybersecurity is Not Very Important
Atomic Habits
James Clear
Commercial Credit & Collection Guide
Getting Unstuck
Holy Grail of Self Improvement
Man’s Search for Meaning
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
Mark Manson - Models
Notes on lots of crypto writing
Predictable Revenue
Radical Markets Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
Americana: A 400-Year History of American Capitalism
Art of Living The Classical Manual on Virtue, Happiness, and Effectiveness
Emotional Intelligence
Daniel Goleman
Portraits of Great Men
How I raised myself from failure to success in selling
High Output Management
favorite
The Untethered Soul
favorite
You Can Be a Stock Market Genius
Joel Greenblatt
A Beautiful Mind: The Life of Mathematical Genius and Nobel Laureate John Nash
Amp it Up
Notes
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire
A Crack in Creation: Gene Editing and the Unthinkable Power to Control Evolution
Jennifer A. Doudna
Awaken the Giant Within
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