Books 📚

The fall of RJR Nabsico and the leveraged buyout of the company

A fantastic book that helps use real-world scenarios through war in Iraq to demonstrate how to win in day-to-day life. Learned a lot from this one.

As someone who wants to create a startup, and loves working at startups, this was a must-read. Fantastic book by Peter Thiel.

A classic. Good read and although everything seems kinda like "duh", it was good to read it in paper nonetheless.

One of the best books I read in 2020, I could not put this down. An overview of a Ph.D.'s thesis in which he follows a gang leader in Chicago. I realized that gangs are similar to regular companies, but more than that, I understood the systemic racism that forces people to join gangs.

Why would someone want to steal pens and pencils, but care less for the actual value of them in cash? Bias is everywhere, and this book tells hilarious accounts of our own bias in spending, living, and being a human.

A truly humbling book that explains how the worlds poorest live off of 99 cents a day, and how, as someone in a lucrative field, I can do my part to understand.

The best book I've read. Period. This is a must-read that describes where we came from, how we did it, and some potential reasons as to why (religion, nature, death, etc).

Everyone should read this book when they're sad. I read this during peak covid quarantine, and it was a great insight into how happiness could be where the home is, the heart is, or just what you make of it.

Really great overview of the behemoth that is Facebook and a good complement to the movie, the Social Network.

A Jason Bourne esq book, and although controversial, I thought it was engaging and very interesting to learn about the global affairs of the CIA in the 70s

Though this is a dramatic fiction book, I found the ideas plausible and rather interesting. Definitely sparked the ideating in me

Read this many years ago for a high school project, and learned so much about war, struggles, and family. Highly recommend.