Books

Most books I read with ratings, many not from cover to cover as indicated

2024

• The Man from the future (van Neumann bio) *****
• Deep Learning Foundations and Concepts *****
• 12 essential scientific concepts
• The great ideas of philosophy
• Outlive *****
• Deep Utopia *****
• The fabric of reality by Deutsch *****
• The creative act *****
• On Mysticism by Borges *****
• Gay science by Nietzsche **
• How the world really works; Smil **
• Poor richards almanacs ben Franklin *****
• The meaning of it all; Feynman **
• AI A modern approach *****
• The meaning of life by Garfield *****
• Singularity is near *****

2023

• Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect *****
• Lever of riches by Mokyr *****
• Leonardo da Vinci by Isaacson *****
• Going infinite ***
• Elon Musk by Isaacson *****
• Radical abundance by Drexler *****
• AI A modern approach *****
• Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch *****
• Coming Wave by Suleyman ***
• The God equation by Kaku **
• The meaning of it all by Feynman *****
• Market wizards by Schwager (2013) ** -½ The Bible: New King James Edition ***
• The Bible: New King James Edition *****
• Gaming the future by Allison etc *****
• Market wizards *****
• The Age of Em *****
• what’s our problem by Tim urban **
• AI by Melanie Mitchell **
• The meaning of it all feynman ***
• against intellectual property **
• All in on AI ***
• Getting things done **
• Talent by Cowen ***
• Chip war **
• The Beginning of Infinity *****
• 1/10 Princeton Companion of Mathematics *****
• Proof of stake by Vitalik *****

2022

• Star Builders **
• Reinventing discovery by Nielsen *****
• Pieces of Action *** – Fabric of Reality ***
• Science of Science **
• What we owe the future *****
• ¼ The world as I see it, Einstein ***
• Feyerabend by Preston **
• Great ceo within *****
• Fabric of Reality *****
• Structure of scientific revolutions
• The Sovereign Individual *****
• Cold start problem by Chen *****
• Architects of intelligence *****
• ½ Infinite Machine*** (too basic)
• Ben Franklin by Isaacson
• Einstein by Isaacson
• Rationality: from ai to zombies
• Our mathematical universe
• Security Analysis, 6th Edition *****
• LessWrong: The Engines of Cognition: Trust, Modularity, Incentives, Failure *****
• Principles for dealing with the changing world order *****
• Liftoff / SpaceX by Berger **
• Safe Haven ***
• Where is my flying car *****

2021

• Deep Work *****
• The Great CEO Within *****
• Bioinformatics Algorithms
• The Great Mental Models #2
• Elegant puzzle **
• Wealth of Nations
• Billion Dollar Molecule
• Where is my flying car?
• Genentech *****
• Can science be a business **
• Drug Hunters *****
• Understanding complexity ***
• Scientific Freedom *****
• A thousand brains **
• ¼ Immortality by Cave ***
• Cultivating the empty field **
• How not to die *****
• ¼ Evaluation of Enzyme Inhibitors ***
• Future is faster than you think **
• No rules rules (netflix) ***
• Atomic Habits **
• Boundless ***
• Four hour body **
• How to decide *****
• Game Changer, Dave Asprey **
• ¼ Bauhaus ***
• ¼ Investing for growth ***
• Great mental models 2 *****
• The Alignment Problem *****

2020

• Reinventing Discovery **
• ½ Psychology of Money **
• Almanack of Naval *****
• ½ Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease *****
• ¼ Principles of Virology *****
• Autobiography of Darwin **
• ¼ Oxford Handbook of Happiness *****
• ¼ What works on wall street **
• ½ Free Capital **
• Five love languages summary **
• Man search for meaning summary *****
• Get things done summary *****
• Atomic Habits Summary *****
• How to win friends **
• Bioinformatics **
• Systems Biology **
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership **
• ¼ rebel allocator **
• ¼ five rules for successful investing **
• ¼ Envisioning Information
• ½ From Zero to One *****
• Science Lessons **
• How to change your mind *****
• ½ Effective Altruism: Philosophical Issues *****
• ½ AI Safety and Security *****
• The Five Rules for Successful Stock Investing *****
• Quality Investing ***
• Deep Learning for the life sciences *****
• Molecular Biology of the Cell (6th) *****
• Education and the significance of life *****
• Sum: Forty tales of the afterlife *****
• ¼ Tools of Titans *****
• ¼ Hackers and Painters **
• ¼ Jobs to be done ***
• ¼ The Precipice *****
• ¼ One up on wall street *****
• ¼ The Startup Playbook **
• A short guide to a happy life **
• Case for Space *****
• ½ ML for Asset Managers ***
• AI: A Modern Approach (4ed) *****
• Machine Learning for Asset Managers **
• Deep Learning for the Life Sciences *****
• The Prophet **
• ½ The Art of Value Investing Ideas
• Art of looking sideways *****
• Deep Value Investing *****
• 100 Baggers *****
• ¼ Quantitative Value *****
• ¼ Strategic Logic **
• ¼ 100 to 1 in the stock market ***
• Mastery by Leonard *****
• ½ Technology and the Virtues ***
• ¼ Inventive Minds **
• ¼ How the mighty fall **
• Manias, Panics and Crashes ***
• Technology and the Virtues *****
• Scale by West **
• ½ Africas Business Revolution **
• Deep Work **
• ½ Drugs ***
• What you do is who you are by Horowitz **

2019

• Capital Ideas Evolving **
• Mut, Osho **
• Alchemy by Sutherland **
• Lifespan **
• ¼ Great by Choice *****
• The Machinery of Life *****
• ½ Python Data Science Handbook **
• John D Rockefeller on making money **
• ½ Strategic Reframing: Oxford Scenario Planning Approach ***
• The man who solved the market **
• Turning the flywheel *****
• The Future of Professions **
• Growth by Smil **
• Human Compatible by Stuart Russell ***
• Foresight Primer **
• ½ Modern Robotics *****
• The Divide by Hickel *****
• ½ Rebooting AI ***
• ¼ Nlp with pyTorch ** (maybe pick up later again)
• ¼ Design for how people think **
• ¼ The investment checklist **
• ½ The only three questions that count ***
• Das Wesentliche ist einfach, Krishnamurti *****
• ¼ Contrarian Investment Strategies ***
• Generative Deep Learning *****
• The Gene **
• Unternehmensbewertung und Kennzahlen Analyse *****
• ½ Ultralearning ***
• Deep Learning for the Life Sciences *****
• Damn Right: Charlie Munger **
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits *****
• Art of Stock Picking, Munger **
• Warren Buffett Speaks **
• A dozen lessons for entrepreneurs *****
• The Brand Flip *****
• ¼ Start small stay small **
• ¼ Capital Returns ***
• Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor **
• ½ A first course in quantitative finance ***
• ½ The Investors Manifesto **
• ½ Your Money & Your Brain ***
• The Brand Gap **
• Troublemakers *****
• Think and Grow Rich **
• Secrets of Sand Hill Road ***
• ½ UnderstandingUnderstanding **
• ½ Advances in Financial Machine Learning **
• ½ Range **
• Complexity ***
• The Great Mental Models **
• ½ Reinforcement Learning *****
• Start with Why **
• Positioning, Al Ries *****
• 10 Perfections, Kornfield *****
• Reflections on the Self, Krishnamurti *****
• The Future of Humanity ***
• The Art of Investing **
• The Story of Philosophy **
• ½ Small History of Science *** (too philosophic, fragmented and unfocused on key science developments)
• ½ An Intro to Statistical Learning ***
• Hands- On Unsupervised Learning **
• Investing: The last liberal art *****
• ½ Collaborative Circles **
• ½ The Systems Bible ***
• ½ The Making of a Manager **
• ½ Deep Learning by Goodfellow, Bengio, Courville **
• ½ Architectural Intelligence ***
• Deep Medicine **
• The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking *****
• ½ Possible Minds **
• High Output Management *****
• The Laws of Human Nature *****
• ½ Human + Machine **
• ½ Causal Inference in Statistics ***
• The Future of the Mind **
• Hands- On Machine Learning with Scikit- Learn & TensorFlow *****
• ½ Bell Labs **
• The Little Book of Behavioural Investing **
• ½ Why Moats Matter *****
• ½ The politics of design **
• 22 Immutable laws of marketing ***
• 33 Strategies of war ***

2018

• Architects of Intelligence *****
• ½ Don’t make me think **
• ½ Titan: Rockefeller **
• ½ Love freedom aloneness **
• ½ AI by Russell & Norvig **
• ½ Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park ***
• Total Freedom *****
• ½ Playing to win ***
• Straight talk for startups *****
• ½ The Rules of Genius **
• Strategic Intuition *****
• ½ Toward Brain Computer Interfacing **
• Marc Andreessen Essays *****
• ½ The Awakening of Intelligence *****
• ½ Type Tricks **
• ½ Geometry of Type *****
• Designing Type *****
• Theory of Type Design
• Blitzscaling ***
• Making and breaking the grid *****
• ½ 21 lessons harari ***
• Art & Fear *****
• ½ Mastering the market cycle (too obvious mostly but still interesting..)**
• ½ Messy middle (too obvious/known..)***
• ½ Radical Markets ** (too unrealistic)
• ½ Reinventing Orgs *** (too generic)
• Morality, Foresight and Human Flourishing **
• ½ The Dance of the Possible ***
• ½ Enchanted Objects ***
• ½ What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars **
• The Courage to be disliked *****
• ½ Essentialism ***
• ½ When **
• Seneca: vom glücklichen Leben *****
• Behind the cloud ***
• Designing Agentive Tech **
• Only the paranoid survive **
• Antifragile **
• ½ Founders Dilemmas ***
• How will you measure your life ***
• University of Berkshire **
• High Growth Handbook *****
• The Upstarts ***
• The Bed of Proscrustes **
• ½ Build better products **
• Make your mark ***
• The Daily Stoic *****
• Measure what matters by Doerr *****
• Ending Aging *****
• Data Science, MIT essentials **
• Malicious use of ai *****
• ½ Managing Oneself **
• ½ The TAO of Charlie Munger **
• ½ The Score takes care of itself **
• Understanding Porter **
• ½ Break into VC **
• #4 Luminous Ground *****
• ½ think twice **
• ½ the emotionally intelligent investor ***
• ½ Systems View of Life **
• ½ Why Liberalism has failed **
• On Planning by Kretz/Chipperfield ***
• Algorithmic sustainable design **
• A Designers Art **
• Power of Moments ***
• ½ Interaction of Color ***
• ½ Billion dollar app *
• Radical Candor ***
• ½ Brain Computer Interfacing *****
• The most important things illuminated *****
• Square, Circle, Triangle *****
• Lean UX **
• Anything you want *****
• Culture Code **
• ½ Lean Analytics **
• She *****
• The Book of Life *****
• ½ Information Architecture **
• Great at work ***
• Seven Brief Lessons on Physics **
• Life Style by Bruce Mau ***
• Crossing the chasm ***
• Inspired by Cagan *****
• ½ Porter Competitive Advantage **
• ½ Microinteractions **
• ½ On Strategy by Harvard B.R. **
• ½ The Manual of Ideas ***
• Platform Revolution **
• Articulating design decisions **
• Mapping Experiences **
• Product Leadership **
• The Wisdom of Crowds ***
• ½ The Alchemy of Finance **
• ½ Designing connected products ***
• Nature of Order #2: Process of creating life *****

2017

• Designing Brand Identity *****
• Kunst der Farbe, Itten **
• Der blaue Ozean **
• Product field ***
• Designing multi- device experiences **
• The best interface is no interface **
• Bottlenecks: Aligning UX design with User Psychology **
• Machine Learning **
• Code 2.0, Lessig ***
• The Art of Being **
• UX Strategy ***
• Life 3.0 Being Human in an Age of AI ***
• Kern and Burn **
• Sprint *****
• From Zero to One *****
• Black Swan **
• On Intelligence **
• The Nature of Order #1 *****
• A new theory of urban design *****
• A pattern language *****
• Superforecasting **
• What to do when machines do everything **
• Open Houses: Studio Olafur Eliasson **
• Attunement: Architectural Meaning *****
• The Outsiders, Thorndike *****
• Spatial Strategies for Interior Design ***
• Donald Judd Writings *****
• Taut: Onkel Tom Siedlung **
• Margiela: The Hermès Years **
• The Timeless Way of Building *****
• Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec **
• Axel Vervoordt Living with Light **
• Design, When Everybody Designs **
• The Start- up of You **
• Blockchain Basics ***
• Design as Art *****
• Platform Scale *****
• Shoe Dog **
• Principles by Ray Dalio *****
• Hedge Fund Market Wizards *****
• Poor Richards Almanack**
• Strategic sourcing and category management *****
• Die Aura des Wertvollen ***
• Full House Diez Office *****
• The Effective Executive *****
• Der Möbelbau, Spannagel
• Handbuch der Farbe **
• Designing in a complex world **
• Alvar Aalto *****
• Biodesign **
• Preismanagement **
• Rethinking Prestige Branding *****
• Sam Walton **
• Never split the difference *****
• Ego is the Enemy *****
• Notes On The Synthesis of Form**
• The Lessons of History *****
• Lieferantenmanagement 2030 **
• Poor Charlies Almanack *****
• Die Wahrheit über IKEA ***
• How to thrive in the next economy ***
• James Dyson Against The Odds **
• S, M, L, XL *****
• The green imperative *****
• Research Methods for Product Design ***
• Becoming Steve Jobs *****
• A fine line by Esslinger **
• The Digital Doctor **
• Risiko von Gerd Gigerenzer ***
• Sustainable Materials ***
• Let my people go surfing **

2016

• Glück und Architektur **
• Picasso. His Life and Work. **
• Enzo Mari Autoprogettazione **
• The Intelligent Investor *****
• 1000 Chairs, Fiell/Taschen ***
• Design des 20 Jhd, Fiell/Taschen ***
• Peter Zumthor Häuser **
• Interiors. Atelier AM. *****
• ½ Drawing Ideas **
• Drawing for product designers **
• Das Geheimnis hinter IKEA *****
• Wegner: just one good chair *****
• Wabi– Sabi: Woher? Wohin? **
• Die Villen von Venetien **
• 48 Gesetze der Macht **
• Designzeichnen *****
• Zumthor Architektur denken *****
• Wabi Sabi *****
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits *****
• Lean Startup *****
• Matisse in Marokko *****
• Vincent van Duysen Monography *****
• Axel Vervoordt Wabi Inspirations *****
• Die unsichtbaren Städte **
• A Guide to the Good Life **
• Traction *****
• Designer Founders 1&2 **
• Growth Hacker Marketing ***
• Talking Fashion ***
• Mein Werk by Le Corbusier **
• Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins *****
• Exponential Organizations **
• ½ Scaling Up by Verne Harnish
• Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Fisher **
• Barragan: Raum und Schatten, Mauer und Farbe by Pauly *****
• The Charisma Myth by Cabane **
• The Hard Things about Hard Things by Horowitz *****
• Le Corbusier Conversation with students ***
• ½ THE Philosophy of Andy Warhol ***
• Es kommt nicht darauf an, wer Du bist, sondern wer Du sein willst by Paul Arden ***
• Tadao Ando Conversation with students **
• Die Lust des Lebens und der Liebe by Casanova ***
• Picasso über Kunst *****
• Vignelli Kanon by Massimo Vignelli *****
• Growth Hacker Marketing ***
• Le Corbusier by Jean– Louis Cohen **
• Die Vier Versprechen by Don Miguel Ruiz *****
• Aesthetics by Charles Taliaferro **
• The Life and Work of Frank Gehry by Paul Goldberger **
• Pier Luigi Nervi by Heinz Wirz **
• Plain Space by John Pawson *****
• Mastery by Robert Greene *****
• Bionik by Martina Rüter **

2015

• Rebell Buddha by Rinpoche.. ***
• Zen mind *****
• Smartcuts **
• How Google works *****
• Der Sandmann von Hoffmann **
• The innovators dilemma *****
• Influence by Cialdini *****
• The art of manliness ***
• Smart Business Concepts by Gromberg ***
• Letters from a stoic by Seneca *****
• ½ She by kerner **
• ½ Joy of less **
• Wir sind das Kapital ***
• Cradle to Cradle **
• Design for the Real World Human Ecology and Social Change **
• Mit Buddhismus das Leben meistern *****
• Selbstbetrachtungen von Marc Aurel
• ½ The Willpower Instinct **
• One up on Wall Street **
• Biomimickry in Architecture
• Designing Design *****
• Elon Musk Biografie *****
• Zumthor Architektur denken *****
• Buckmister Fuller Spaceship Earth **
• Lost Japan **
• Buckminster Fullers Universe *****
• Biomimikry

2014

• Weiss by Kenya Hara *****
• Design as Art by Munari **
• Hooked (habit forming products) **
• As A Man Thinketh by James Allen **
• The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz **
• Bobby Dekeyser: Unverkäuflich!: Schulabbrecher, Fußballprofi, Weltunternehmer **
• Naokos Lächeln *****
• ½ Mit Buddhismus das Leben meistern **
• 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness
• Twelve pillars by Rohn **
• Anleihen simplified **
• Physik der Zukunft *****
• Der Weg zum erfolgreichen Unternehmer **
• Zero to One *****
• Our final invention by Barrat ***
• Man’s search for Meaning by Frankl *****
• The Future by Al Gore ***
• Wir müssen die Welt verändern by Niemeyer ***
• Think and Grow Rich *****
• The design of everyday things **
• Creativity Inc *****
• ½ Homo Faber **
• ½ Parzival ***
• Daily Rituals: How Artists Work **
• ½ Walden ***
• ½ The startup owner?
• The 100$ startup ***
• Sorge dich nicht – lebe ***
• Der Weg zum Glück (Dalai Lama) **
• Der Alchemist *****
• ½ Elf Minuten **

2013

• Richard Branson Biografie *****
• Steve Jobs Biografie **
• 4– Stunden– Woche ***
• Kopf schlägt Kapital, Faltin *****
• Velocity **