Books
Most books I read with ratings, many not from cover to cover as indicated
2023
- Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect *****
- Lever of riches by Mokyr *****
- The man from the future (John von Neumann) **
- Leonardo da Vinci by Isaacson *****
- 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 **