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<h1>Books</h1>
<p>A selection of books I've read in the past few years!</p>
<p>2024</p>
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<li><strong>Deep Reinforcement Learning</strong> - Sergey Levine's lectures (these are videos, but really good!)</li>
<li><strong>The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin</strong> - All about Ben Franklin's life</li>
<li><strong>The Vignelli Canon</strong> - Short book on Massimo Vignelli's design work</li>
<li><strong>Never Split The Difference</strong> - Negotiating tactics with aggressive people</li>
<li><strong>The Rust Book</strong> - Intro to Rust</li>
<li><strong>In Praise of Shadows</strong> - Japanese aesthetics compared to the West</li>
<li><strong>Founding Sales</strong> - Startup sales (~1/2 read)</li>
<li><strong>Design is Storytelling</strong> - Psychology of visual perception</li>
<li><strong>Dune</strong> - The classic sci-fi novel (~1/4 read)</li>
<li><strong>The Greatest Salesman in the World</strong> - Philosophy of sales</li>
<li><strong>Negotiating the Impossible</strong> - Breaking deadlocks and ugly conflicts</li>
<li><strong>Hackers & Painters</strong> - Some interesting takes from Paul Graham</li>
<li><strong>The Courage to Be Disliked</strong> - About Adlerian psychology</li>
<li><strong>Exhalation</strong> - Ted Chiang's stories about AI</li>
<li><strong>Universal Principles of Design</strong> - Design patterns for everything</li>
<li><strong>System Design Interview</strong> - System design</li>
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<p>2023</p>
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<li><strong>The Design of Everyday Things</strong> - Classic book on design</li>
<li><strong>Emotional Design</strong> - Why we love or hate everyday things</li>
<li><strong>The Timeless Way of Building</strong> - A new theory of architecture about design patterns</li>
<li><strong>The Laws of Simplicity</strong> - Simplicity in design</li>
<li><strong>Notes on the Synthesis of Form</strong> - Christopher Alexander's notes on design form</li>
<li><strong>A New Program for Graphic Design</strong> - Graphic design</li>
<li><strong>Ten Principles for Good Design</strong> - Dieter Rams</li>
<li><strong>Designing Products People Love</strong> - Product design</li>
<li><strong>What Do You Care What Other People Think?</strong> - Interesting bits from Richard Feynman</li>
<li><strong>Zero To One</strong> - Classic book on startups</li>
<li><strong>Steve Jobs</strong> - Biography of Steve Jobs</li>
<li><strong>Elon Musk</strong> - Biography of Elon Musk</li>
<li><strong>Refactoring UI</strong> - How to design beautiful interfaces</li>
<li><strong>Founders At Work</strong> - Jessica Livingston interviews founders</li>
<li><strong>What's Our Problem?</strong> - Tim Urban's dive into society's problems</li>
<li><strong>Only the Paranoid Survive</strong> - Lessons from Andy Grove</li>
<li><strong>The Creative Act</strong> - Rick Rubin on creativity</li>
<li><strong>Designing Programmes</strong> - More design</li>
<li><strong>Creative Selection</strong> - Apple's Design Process</li>
<li><strong>Paul Graham's Essays</strong> - A billion essays</li>
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<p>2022</p>
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<li><strong>The Art of Negotiation</strong> - Fundamentals of negotiation by Michael Wheeler</li>
<li><strong>Getting to Yes with Yourself</strong> - William Ury's book on negotiation</li>
<li><strong>3D Negotiation</strong> - Interesting negotiation tools</li>
<li><strong>The Hard Thing About Hard Things</strong> - Company lessons from Ben Horowitz</li>
<li><strong>What You Do Is Who You Are</strong> - Lessons on culture from Ben Horowitz</li>
<li><strong>Range</strong> - Generalists vs. specialists</li>
<li><strong>How to Win Friends and Influence People</strong> - Dale Carnegie's classic</li>
<li><strong>The Alchemist</strong> - Paulo Coelho's classic</li>
<li><strong>The Third Door</strong> - Taking creative paths to get what you want</li>
<li><strong>Thinking in Bets</strong> - Making smarter decisions</li>
<li><strong>Good for You, Great for Me</strong> - Negotiation principles</li>
<li><strong>The Mom Test</strong> - How to talk to customers</li>
<li><strong>Bargaining with the Devil</strong> - When to negotiate, when to fight</li>
<li><strong>Negotiation Genius</strong> - Overcoming obstacles in negotiation</li>
<li><strong>Beyond Winning</strong> - Negotiating to create value in deals</li>
<li><strong>Pre-Suasion</strong> - How to influence and persuade</li>
<li><strong>Negotiating the Nonnegotiable</strong> - Resolving most emotionally charged conflicts</li>
<li><strong>What Every Body is Saying</strong> - Body language</li>
<li><strong>Bargaining for Advantage</strong> - Negotiation strategies for reasonable people</li>
<li><strong>Beyond Reason</strong> - Using emotions as you negotiate</li>
<li><strong>Wining Together</strong> - The Natural Resource Negotiation Playbook</li>
<li><strong>The Great CEO Within</strong> - Making yourself efficient</li>
<li><strong>Poor Charlie's Almanack</strong> - Charlie Munger's wisdom</li>
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