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Here are some of my favorite books, blogs and podcasts that I tend to reference or recommend most frequently (in no particular order). Each has shaped, and continues to influence, my thinking in some way.

Books:

• The Infinite Machine: How an Army of Crypto-hackers Is Building the Next Internet with Ethereum
• The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building
• Survival to Thrival: Building the Enterprise Startup 
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
• Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind 
• Triumphs of Experience: The Men of the Harvard Grant Study
• The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership: A New Paradigm for Sustainable Success
• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership
• High Output Management
• Halftime
• The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter
• When Breath Becomes Air
• Meditations
• Designing Your Life: How to Build a Well-Lived, Joyful Life
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team
• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success
• High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups From 10 to 10,000 People
• Art of Rhetoric
• Trillion Dollar Coach
• Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
• The Design of Everyday Things
• Work: How to Find Joy and Meaning in Each Hour of the Day
• The Courage to be Disliked
• The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
• The Innovator’s Solution (Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth)
• Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts
• The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
• The Master Algorithm: How the Quest for the Ultimate Learning Machine Will Remake Our World
• The Captain Class: A New Theory of Leadership
• Principles: Life and Work
• Profiles In Courage
• Why We’re Polarized
• The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
• Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, a Man Who Would Cure the World
• Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis
• The Passion Economy: The New Rules for Thriving in the Twenty-First Century
• The Tender Bar
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: : Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
• Angela’s Ashes
• In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl’s Journey to Freedom
• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
• Lincoln on Leadership: Executive Strategies for Tough Times
• Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
• Kissinger: A Biography
• The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing
• Educated: A Memoir
• Man’s Search for Meaning
• I Don’t Want to Talk About It
• How Will You Measure Your Life?
• Reboot: Leadership and the Art of Growing Up
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life
• The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
• The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win
• The Lean Startup
• The Fountainhead
• Atlas Shrugged
• The Rise of Theodore Rosevelt
• Guns, Germs and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies
• The Path to Power (The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Volume 1)
• Transitions: Making Sense of Life’s Changes
• Managing Transitions: Making the Most of Change
• Begin. Open. Anywhere: A Journey Through Words That Will Inspire, Entertain And Empower You [a bit of nepotism here :)]

Podcasts & Blogs/Newsletters:

• a16z Writings
• Stratechery
• Founders
• Above the Crowd
• AVC
• Sarah Tavel
• a16z Podcast Network
• Armchair Expert
• Bill Simmons Book of Basketball
• The Economist
• Invest Like The Best
• The Bill Simmons Podcast
• The Knowledge Project
• The Reboot Podcast

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