# Reading

> Books you can't unread.

I wish I'd discovered these earlier, and think they're worth re-reading. Each was a one-way door for me.

## Reading list

- Mental models and investing | *Poor Charlie's Almanack* | Charlie Munger | The latticework of mental models, from the source.
- Judgment and psychology | *Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger* | Peter Bevelin | Why we misjudge, and how the best thinkers guard against it.
- Judgment | *Thinking, Fast and Slow* | Daniel Kahneman | The map of how judgment goes wrong, and when to trust your gut.
- Brain and mind | *How the Mind Works* | Steven Pinker | How evolution built the mind, and why it works the way it does.
- Systems | *Thinking in Systems* | Donella Meadows | Why problems keep coming back, and where to push.
- Risk and uncertainty | *Antifragile* | Nassim Nicholas Taleb | Why some things get stronger from shocks, and how to be one of them.
- Knowledge and progress | *The Beginning of Infinity* | David Deutsch | Why good explanations drive all progress, and why it need never end.
- Insight | *Seeing What Others Don't* | Gary Klein | Where breakthrough insights actually come from, and what blocks them.
- Skill and expertise | *Mastery* | Robert Greene | The long road to skill, through the lives of masters.
- Decision-making and operating | *Principles* | Ray Dalio | Turning hard lessons into rules you can reuse.
- Business survey | *The Personal MBA* | Josh Kaufman | A business education in one volume.
- Time and meaning | *Four Thousand Weeks* | Oliver Burkeman | Why time management fails, and what to do with the time you have.
- History | *The Lessons of History* | Will and Ariel Durant | Five thousand years in a hundred pages.
- Philosophy and Stoicism | *Meditations* | Marcus Aurelius | A leader's private notes on staying steady.
- Eastern philosophy | *The Way of Zen* | Alan Watts | Attention, effort, and letting go.
- Meaning and psychology | *Man's Search for Meaning* | Viktor Frankl | Meaning as the foundation of resilience.

## Is this book worth it?

Wondering whether a book deserves your time? Ask about any book, or a topic. You'll get a score, a verdict (read, skim, or skip), and better picks when a book falls short. It runs on a Claude skill I built.