285 books.
A decade of reading. Leadership, philosophy, neuroscience, economics, fiction — and a lot of margin in between. Click any title to open the full review on Substack, or browse the two original Medium round-ups linked at the bottom of the page.
- 285 Books logged
- 100 Part I (2023)
- 182 Part II (2024–2025)
- 3 Part III (2026)
- 10+ Years of reading
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What shaped the advisory.
A curated starter path through the 285-book library. Six themes, two to three books each — the ones that recur most in advisory work across GTM, operating-model, data, and decision-making engagements.
Building the team, cadence, and operating system that turn a plan into repeatable execution.
The terrain advisory work runs on — chip stacks, data narratives, alignment problems.
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The Best American Essays 2023
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Fast Forward
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The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2023
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The Best American Essays 2022
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The Ego Is Your Enemy
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
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Interdependence
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Ancient Secrets of a Master Healer
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Neoliberalism, Management and Religion
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Animal Farm + 1984
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The 4-Hour Workweek
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How Brands Grow
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Into the Impossible
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Losing the Nobel Prize
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Journey
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A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century
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Know Thyself
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Aries
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Progress
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Earth in Human Hands
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Modern Man In Search Of A Soul
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Play, Dreams & Imitation in Childhood
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21 Lessons for the 21st Century
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The Experience Machine
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It Takes What It Takes
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Five Generations at Work
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I, Enoch
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Everything You Want Is on the Other Side of Hard
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The full Medium round-ups.
This page condenses two long-form Medium articles into a single searchable bookshelf. The originals — written for friends asking for the list — include reading order suggestions and the occasional digression. Worth a click if you like that sort of thing.
From shelf to advisory surface.
Each shelf maps to a live advisory surface — strategy + GTM → Audit, decision-making → method, AI/data → Data Collaboration + Building, operator mindset → Org Design.