Bookshelf

Books that shaped how I think. Short notes on why each one matters.

  • 38 Letters to Son, John D. Rockefeller. The reason The Nexus Doctrine exists: a successful man’s lessons, written down for his son.
  • Napoleon: A Life, Andrew Roberts. Napoleon kept his thoughts “arranged in my head as in a cupboard” and shut one drawer to open another.
  • BRRRR, David Greene.
  • It’s All in Your Head
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie.
  • Meditations, Marcus Aurelius.
  • Investing in Real Estate Private Equity, Sean Cook.
  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson.
  • The 4-Hour Workweek, Tim Ferriss.
  • The War of Art, Steven Pressfield.
  • Multifamily Acquisitions, Robert Beardsley.
  • The Laws of Human Nature, Robert Greene.
  • Think Smart
  • The Power of Your Subconscious Mind, Joseph Murphy.
  • Mental Models
  • Real Estate Investing with Little Money Down, Brandon Turner.
  • The Mastery of Self, don Miguel Ruiz Jr.
  • The Prince, Niccolò Machiavelli.
  • Don’t Believe Everything You Think, Joseph Nguyen.
  • The Art of Seduction, Robert Greene.
  • Absolute Charisma, Mindnatic.
  • Atomic Habits, James Clear.
  • Letting Go, David R. Hawkins.
  • Beyond Positive Thinking, Robert Anthony.
  • Psycho-Cybernetics, Maxwell Maltz.
  • The Way of the Superior Man, David Deida.
  • As a Man Thinketh, James Allen.
  • The Secret, Rhonda Byrne.
  • The Inner Game of Tennis, W. Timothy Gallwey.
  • Reality Transurfing, Vadim Zeland.
  • The Algorithm
  • Industrialize