The shelf.

I read relentlessly — history, philosophy, politics, business, entrepreneurship. You can probably spot the pattern below. The Stoics have been dead for 2,000 years and still give better advice than most of the internet.

Reading now

• Rocket Fuel — Gino Wickman & Mark C. Winters
• The 50th Law — Robert Greene & 50 Cent
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• The Daily Stoic — Ryan Holiday

Stoics & philosophy

• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• Discourses — Epictetus
• Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
• The Obstacle Is the Way — Ryan Holiday
• Ego Is the Enemy — Ryan Holiday
• Discipline Is Destiny — Ryan Holiday
• Courage Is Calling — Ryan Holiday
• Right Thing, Right Now — Ryan Holiday
• Wisdom Takes Work — Ryan Holiday
• Lives of the Stoics — Ryan Holiday
• The Daily Stoic Journal — Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
• Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu (Stephen Mitchell translation)
• The Greek Way — Edith Hamilton

Faith, meaning & the inner life

• Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
• Yes to Life — Viktor Frankl
• The Seven Storey Mountain — Thomas Merton
• Seeds — Thomas Merton
• Contemplative Prayer — Thomas Merton
• Spiritual Direction and Meditation — Thomas Merton
• When the Trees Say Nothing — Thomas Merton
• The Untethered Soul — Michael A. Singer
• Living Untethered — Michael A. Singer
• The Surrender Experiment — Michael A. Singer
• The Gifts of Imperfection — Brené Brown
• The Holy Bible — New American Standard translation
• Greek-English New Testament — Nestle-Aland, 27th Edition

History & the people who made it

• My Bondage and My Freedom — Frederick Douglass
• Leadership: In Turbulent Times — Doris Kearns Goodwin
• Team of Rivals — Doris Kearns Goodwin
• First Principles — Thomas E. Ricks
• The Pursuit of Happiness — Jeffrey Rosen
• Gates of Fire — Steven Pressfield
• The British Are Coming — Rick Atkinson
• Fascism: A Warning — Madeleine Albright
• Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life — Jon Lee Anderson
• Generations — William Strauss & Neil Howe
• Nothing to Fear — Adam Cohen
• The Diary of Anne Frank — Frances Goodrich & Albert Hackett
• A Short History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson

Business, leadership & the craft

• Traction — Gino Wickman
• Good to Great — Jim Collins
• Principles: Life and Work — Ray Dalio
• Range — David Epstein
• Who Not How — Dan Sullivan & Dr. Benjamin Hardy
• Made to Stick — Chip Heath & Dan Heath
• Building a StoryBrand 2.0 — Donald Miller
• Blue Ocean Strategy — W. Chan Kim & Renée Mauborgne
• Getting Naked — Patrick Lencioni
• Unreasonable Hospitality — Will Guidara
• The Score Takes Care of Itself — Bill Walsh
• Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss
• The Full Fee Agent — Chris Voss & Steve Shull
• Supercommunicators — Charles Duhigg
• Contagious — Jonah Berger
• Necessary Endings — Henry Cloud
• Slow Productivity — Cal Newport
• On the Edge — Nate Silver
• The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham
• Dirt Rich — Mark Podolsky
• The Dictionary of Real Estate Appraisal — Appraisal Institute
• The 48 Laws of Power — Robert Greene

Mind & body

• The First Rule of Mastery — Michael Gervais
• The Willpower Instinct — Kelly McGonigal
• Sovereign — Emma Seppälä

The odd shelf

• The Best That Money Can't Buy — Jacque Fresco
• The Darwin Awards II — Wendy Northcutt
• The Psychology of Strategic Terrorism — Ben Sheppard

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