Welcome to my reading list
This reading list is organised around a small set of reusable mental models rather than by reading status.
Have Read 5 Reading 6 To Read 64
P0 Core / Next 18 Months P1 3–5 Years P2 Optional
1. Wealth, Compounding & Capital Allocation
How capital grows, how assets are allocated, and how long-term wealth is built.
- 纳瓦尔宝典：财富与幸福指南 (The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness) by 埃里克·乔根森 (Eric Jorgenson) Have Read P1
- The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness by Morgan Housel Have Read P1
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Best Investment Guide That Money Can Buy by Burton G. Malkiel Have Read P1
- Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth by Nick Maggiulli Have Read P2
- 大道：段永平投资问答录 — 段永平 (Duan Yongping); selected by 赵理亚 and compiled by 芒格书院 Have Read P1
- The Wealth Ladder: Proven Strategies for Every Step of Your Financial Life by Nick Maggiulli To Read P2
- The Seven Stages of Money Maturity: Understanding the Spirit and Value of Money in Your Life by George Kinder To Read P2
- The Little Book of Bitcoin: What You Need to Know That Wall Street Has Already Figured Out by Anthony Scaramucci To Read P1
- The Science of Getting Rich by Wallace D. Wattles To Read P2
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle To Read P1
- Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker To Read P2
- I Will Teach You to Be Rich by Ramit Sethi To Read P2
- The Warren Buffett Portfolio: Mastering the Power of the Focus Investment Strategy by Robert G. Hagstrom To Read P1
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham To Read P1
- The Essays of Warren Buffett: Lessons for Corporate America by Warren E. Buffett, selected and arranged by Lawrence A. Cunningham To Read P1
- Capital Returns: Investing Through the Capital Cycle edited by Edward Chancellor To Read P0
2. Decision-Making Under Uncertainty & Risk
How to reason when outcomes are uncertain, avoid ruin, and make robust decisions.
- Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio Reading P1
- 穷查理宝典：查理·芒格智慧箴言录 (Poor Charlie's Almanack: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger) by 查理·芒格 (Charles T. Munger), edited by Peter D. Kaufman Reading P0
- The Most Important Thing by Howard Marks To Read P0
- Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb To Read P0
- The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb To Read P1
- Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure by Tim Harford To Read P2
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman To Read P1
- Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts by Annie Duke To Read P0
- Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner To Read P1
3. Systems, Incentives & Strategic Interaction
How systems behave, how incentives shape outcomes, and how other players respond.
- 系统之美 (Thinking in Systems: A Primer) by 德内拉·梅多斯 (Donella H. Meadows) Reading P0
- Theory of Games and Economic Behavior by John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern To Read P1
- The Art of Strategy: A Game Theorist's Guide to Success in Business and Life by Avinash K. Dixit and Barry J. Nalebuff To Read P1
- Getting to Yes: Negotiating an Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William Ury, and Bruce Patton To Read P1
- The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford To Read P2
- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed or Fail by Ray Dalio To Read P0
- The Strategy of Conflict by Thomas C. Schelling To Read P0
- Micromotives and Macrobehavior by Thomas C. Schelling To Read P1
- The Logic of Collective Action: Public Goods and the Theory of Groups by Mancur Olson To Read P1
4. Scarcity, Attention & Time
How limited time, attention, and bandwidth distort choices—and how to allocate them deliberately.
- Scarcity: The True Cost of Not Having Enough by Sendhil Mullainathan and Eldar Shafir Have Read P0
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport Reading P1
- 四千周 (Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals) by 奥利弗·伯克曼 (Oliver Burkeman) Reading P1
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown To Read P2
- The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr To Read P2
5. Human Behavior, Influence & Self-Management
How motivation, persuasion, identity, boundaries, and psychological states shape behaviour.
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini To Read P0
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi To Read P2
- Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz To Read P2
- Boundaries: When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life by Henry Cloud and John Townsend To Read P2
- Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein To Read P1
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky To Read P1
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt To Read P1
6. Learning, Career & Performance
How to learn effectively, improve professional judgement, and decide what to persist with or stop.
- What Got You Here Won't Get You There: How Successful People Become Even More Successful by Marshall Goldsmith To Read P1
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell To Read P2
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming To Read P0
- The Dip: The Extraordinary Benefits of Knowing When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin To Read P1
- Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson and Robert Pool To Read P1
- Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain by David Eagleman To Read P0
- So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love by Cal Newport To Read P2
- Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World by David Epstein To Read P1
7. Builders, Investors & Real-World Case Studies
Biographical case studies of how people actually built companies, careers, and investment systems.
- Source Code: My Beginnings by Bill Gates To Read P1
- The Book of Elon: A Guide to Purpose and Success by Eric Jorgenson To Read P2
- The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder To Read P1
- Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight To Read P1
- The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success by William N. Thorndike To Read P0
- The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon by Brad Stone To Read P1
8. History, Institutions & State Capacity
How cycles, institutions, incentives, power, and human behaviour shape long-run prosperity, crises, and state capacity.
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson To Read P0
- The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution by Francis Fukuyama To Read P1
- The Lessons of History by Will Durant and Ariel Durant To Read P0
- This Time Is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly by Carmen M. Reinhart and Kenneth S. Rogoff To Read P0
- The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000 by Paul Kennedy To Read P1
- The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro To Read P1
9. Epistemology, Scientific Reasoning & Truth-Seeking
How knowledge grows, how theories are challenged, and how to distinguish explanation from confident error.
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch To Read P0
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn To Read P1
- Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge by Karl Popper To Read P1
10. Organizations, Power & Execution
How organizations convert strategy into coordinated action, and how incentives, authority, and power affect execution.
- Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard Rumelt To Read P0
- High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove To Read P0
- Power: Why Some People Have It—and Others Don't by Jeffrey Pfeffer To Read P0
11. Science, Technology & Industrial Change
How technological systems are built, scaled, financed, and turned into durable industrial advantage.
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson To Read P1
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner To Read P1
- Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller To Read P0