Books Recommended by Marc Andreessen

Captivating dive into human decision making, marred by inclusion of several/many? psychology studies that fail to replicate. Will stand as a cautionary tale?

If you pick one person who built Silicon Valley, it was Andy. Andy exemplifies the best of Silicon Valley.

Other Books for Those Getting out of College:

• 4 Steps to the Epiphany
• High Output Management, Andrew Grove– Best book on management ever written
• Only the Paranoid Survive
• Peter Theil – Zero to One

Silicon Valley revolutionizes entire industries through the way we work. It is now time to export our playbook to the rest of the world. The Startup of You is that key playbook: it will help you revolutionize yourself and achieve your own career breakout.

Automatic must read.

Sparkling explanation of how the economy evolves, producing the glorious cornucopia of goods and services available all around us. How to feel good about the future even in dark times.

Compact guide to probabilistic domains like poker, or venture capital. Best articulation of "resulting", drawing bad conclusions from confusing process and outcome. Recommend for people operating in the real world.

Best (?) walk through the ancient/current philosophy of Stoicism. You can't control other people but you can control yourself, so do that.

Smash hit in Japan, and easy to see why. Adlerian psychology meets Stoic philosophy in Socratic dialogue. Compelling from front to back. Highly recommend.

How to get along with people, how to deal with violence, how to adjust to losing someone you love—All versions of a bigger question: How do you live?

Skin in the game as conflict of interest, or as attaching one's livelihood to one's speech? Who to listen to, and why. Ideal counterpart to Philip Tetlock's Expert Political Judgment.

Buy it, read it, keep it under your pillow and absorb it via osmosis.

Startlingly deep cultural history of conspiracies, examined through the lens of the brutally effective Gawker takedown, with full access to the main players.

A brilliant book on the nature of mass movements and collective psychology

A bracing disassembly and reconstruction of a theory of individual progress in the modern world. Fascinating compare and contrast with The Courage To Be Disliked.

Wide-ranging meditation on how to think about the reality that we're probably wrong about most things we believe. Hard to read and not emerge humbled.

Is the future knowable, and by whom? All pundits and commentators should publish their prediction track records, yet don't. What to pay attention to and what to ignore.

Four books on the Spanish Civil War, which was the trial run for the hundred years of Western history that followed

What's it like to train with a Navy SEAL in winter in New York for a whole month? Featuring the truly remarkable American hero David Goggins.

Two more books on who we are and how we got here, one on culture, the other on genetics

Both Marc and Brian Chesky, CEO of Airbnb, have read and recommended Neal Gabler's biography of Walt Disney.

Two more books on who we are and how we got here, one on culture, the other on genetics

Two of Thomas Sowell’s many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be

This idea comes from a wonderful book called A Perfect Mess, which explains how not keeping a schedule has been key to Arnold Schwarzenegger’s success as a movie star, politician, and businessman over the last 20 years.

Accelerando is the best envisioning of the Singularity committed to paper so far.

Inside story of how Britain decided to exit the EU. Economic self-destruction or national liberation? Repercussions to play out for decades.

Altered Carbon is definitely the place to start, Morgan’s first and perhaps most inventive novel, Robert Heinlein meets Raymond Chandler—and first of a trio.

It’s the best book I’ve read on the role of luck, chance, and serendipity in medical research—or, for that matter, any creative endeavor.

On the bus/in the plane with the Hillary campaign. Revealing in many dimensions at once, and highly entertaining. Best book on the 2016 campaign so far?

I recommend the chapter The Curse of Machinery in Henry Hazlitt’s Economics In One Lesson, and Frederic Bastiat’s satirical Candlemaker’s Petition to blot out the sun due to its unfair competition with the lighting industry, here modernized for our times.

On the country and culture the United States is evolving into, not necessarily decline, but something very different

A good book on this is Daniel Okrent’s “Last Call”.

A comprehensive biography and a key chronicle of Vladimir Lenin

Start with Old Man’s War (don’t worry, they put the old dude in a young body, so you don’t need to find out what it’s like to fight aliens after hip replacement surgery).

To read about this new strategy—and it is a fascinating strategy—pick up a copy of David Swensen’s excellent book Pioneering Portfolio Management, which describes his approach in detail.

So this is one of the all time great books. Incredible.

A sobering reexamination of how democratic governments actually make decisions

Stop reading this blog right now. Go get it. Read it, and then come back. I’ll wait. It’s that good.

Revelation Space, Redemption Ark, and Absolution Gap—together, Reynolds’ flagship trilogy—are three of the darkest, largest-scale, and most scientifically complex hard science fiction novels ever written. Highly recommended to anyone who thinks that sounds like a good idea (I did!).

The single best book I have found on who we are and how we got here

The definitive work on intellectual life under totalitarianism

Together, the best explanation for the current structure of our society and politics

Together, the best explanation for the current structure of our society and politics

To quote Aaron Brown—a legendary Morgan Stanley derivatives trader and poker expert—from his extraordinary book The Poker Face of Wall Street, when talking about hiring traders at an investment bank:

The definitive work on practical life under totalitarianism

Four books on the Spanish Civil War, which was the trial run for the hundred years of Western history that followed

"Billions"-esque saga of global financial market manipulation, at mind-boggling scale and hiding in plain sight, by a small cabal of bankers in London.

Two of Thomas Sowell’s many brilliant books on how our current politics and culture came to be

However, I’ve recently been reading Randall Stross’s marvelous book about Thomas Edison, The Wizard of Menlo Park.

Thirteen is undoubtedly Morgan’s best-written novel so far—this is an author whose skills are growing rapidly, and this book shows it.

First, if you haven’t had the pleasure, be sure to read True Names, Vinge’s 1981 novella that forecast the modern Internet with shocking clarity.

There's there are other books on this topic, but this is a new one. It's really good.

Wall Street"-esque battle between Bill Ackman and Carl Icahn over unlikely target Herbalife. Sip a delicious Herbal Aloe Shake while reading.

Learn how to build an empire and transform an industry from the Jedi master of modern Hollywood.