The Bhagavad Gita | Eknath Easwaran
True growth comes from detachment, not ambition. The more desperately we chase achievement, the more it eludes us. Our obsession with outcomes is the very thing that prevents us from finding what we seek. The path to mastery lies in letting go.
Meditations | Marcus Aurelius
Power reveals weakness, not strength. The higher you climb, the more your flaws become visible. Even the emperor of Rome was plagued by the same doubts as everyone else. Status amplifies who we already are; it doesn't transform us into who we wish to be.
Zero to One | Peter Thiel
Competition is for losers. The best founders don't enter competitive markets; they create new ones. We praise competition as the heart of capitalism, but true value creation happens where competition doesn't exist. Don't compete with rivals; make them irrelevant.
The Hard Thing About Hard Things | Ben Horowitz
Good leaders make unpopular decisions. The hardest choices in business aren't between good and bad, but between bad and worse. Consensus kills innovation. The best leaders aren't those who find the right answers, but those who act decisively with incomplete information.
Thinking, Fast and Slow | Daniel Kahneman
Your intuition is usually wrong. We're not just occasionally irrational; we're systematically biased in predictable ways. Our confidence in our judgments grows even as their accuracy diminishes. The smarter you are, the better you become at rationalizing your own mistakes.
Sapiens | Yuval Noah Harari
Progress is built on shared fiction. Money, nations, and human rights exist only in our collective imagination. The most powerful forces in history aren't physical objects but shared beliefs. We're not rational beings who believe in stories; we're storytelling beings who occasionally think rationally.