Mar 2, 2024
Going Infinite
A strange and revealing portrait of ambition, rationalization, and collapse in one of the most chaotic stories in modern finance.
Field Notes
Telemetry readouts from the race. Thoughts on finance, technology, and engineering.
Jun 10, 2023
Liar's Poker
A sharp, funny, and deeply revealing look at Wall Street culture before it learned how to disguise itself better.
Feb 18, 2023
Elon Musk
A biography that captures extraordinary drive, systems ambition, and the destructive edge that can ride alongside them.
Sep 17, 2022
The Heart of Business
A leadership book that argues human dignity, cultural repair, and commercial performance do not have to live in separate worlds.
May 28, 2022
Designing Your Life
A practical book that treats life choices like design problems: iterative, testable, and less fragile than perfectionism allows.
Feb 12, 2022
The Spy and the Traitor
A gripping history of espionage where trust, betrayal, and nerve matter as much as geopolitics.
Oct 9, 2021
The Accidental Billionaires
A story about Facebook's founding years that makes ambition, status, exclusion, and speed feel inseparable.
Jul 31, 2021
The Ride of a Lifetime
A leadership memoir that treats judgment as calm sequencing under pressure rather than grand personal mythology.
Apr 17, 2021
What It Takes
A memoir of building, negotiating, and compounding judgment in rooms where scale and stakes keep rising.
Jan 23, 2021
Steve Jobs
A biography that captures both the brilliance and the cost of uncompromising product vision.
Nov 7, 2020
Becoming
A memoir about formation, public life, and the steady work of building a self that can carry pressure without disappearing inside it.
Aug 22, 2020
The Everything Store
A sharp account of Amazon's scale, ambition, and the operational intensity behind one of the defining companies of our time.
May 16, 2020
Creativity, Inc.
A thoughtful book about creative culture, candor, and building environments where good work can survive revision.
Feb 29, 2020
Good to Great
In the summer of 2021, when I was interning at Skybridge Associates, one of the books my mentor and the firm’s CEO suggested I read was Good to Great by Jim Collins. At the time, I was still early in my career, trying to understand what separates companies — and people — that are simply solid from those that build something enduring.
Dec 14, 2019
Educated
A memoir about education as rupture: what it opens, what it costs, and why learning can redraw loyalty itself.
Sep 28, 2019
Eat, Pray, Love
A travel memoir about reinvention, loneliness, appetite, and the strange work of becoming legible to yourself again.
Jul 13, 2019
Shoe Dog
A founder memoir that makes company-building feel messy, anxious, alive, and powered by repeated acts of stubborn belief.
Apr 20, 2019
Zero to One
A compact, contrarian book about monopoly, originality, and the hard work of building something truly non-generic.
Feb 9, 2019
Flash Boys
A fast and unsettling look at market structure, incentives, and the invisible speed games beneath modern finance.
Nov 24, 2018
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
A blunt reminder that attention is finite and values matter more than performance or permanent approval.
Sep 15, 2018
The Last Lecture
A deeply human book about mortality, generosity, and the practical habits that make a life feel well used.
Apr 28, 2018
Siddhartha
A quiet novel about seeking, drifting, and discovering that wisdom is not the same thing as borrowed knowledge.
Feb 17, 2018
Man's Search for Meaning
A book that made suffering feel less abstract and meaning feel like a daily practice, not a slogan.