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Economics, Philosophy & Psycology

Thinking Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
A Nobel Laureates life's work uncovering human cognitive biases, bimodal thinking, and happiness.

Small Is Beautiful
E.F. Schumaker
A collection of essays by Economist E.F. Schumakar that aims to show that often small, appropriate technologies are believed to empower people more than traditional capitalism.

The Worldly Philosophers
Robert Heilbroner
A book summarizing the lives and ideas of the great economists throughout history.

The Black Swan
Nassim Talib
A narrative in which Talib seeks to illuminate one core idea: “our blindness with respect to randomness, particularly large deviations.”

The Big Short
Michael Lewis
Detailed account of the conditions and culture that created the U.S. housing bubble and subsequent recession of the late 2000's.

Boomerang
Michael Lewis
Michael Lewis's expanded investigation of global macroeconomic conditions that began in the U.S. and lead the world into a global recession.

The Intelligent Investor
Benjamin Graham
The seminal book on value investing, an investment approach that focuses on finding undervalued assets.

Outliers
Malcolm Gladwell
An examination of how individuals and groups achieve extraordinary levels of success.

Blink
Malcolm Gladwell
A novel investigating the pros and cons of split second decisions, basically, when to trust first impressions and when to discount them.

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Startups, Business and Product

a16z Podcast
A podcast by VC firm Andreessen Horowitz covering emerging tech and the future.

Y Combinator Podcast
Y Combinator
A wide ranging podcast covering technology, science and art.

Paul Graham's Essays
Paul Graham
An amazing collection of Paul Graham's, Cofounder of Y-combinator, essays on startups and tech.

The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Ben Horowitz
Ben Horowitz's advice about the difficulties starting and running a business - all grounded in personal experiences and illustrated through real life anecdotes.

Sprint
Jake Knapp
A five day process to create, test and evaluate new ideas with customers.

Zero to One
Peter Thiel
The collection of Peter Thiel's notes on how to build a successful startup and his personal philosophies.

Hooked
Nir Eyal
A book combining technology, business and psychology to create a how-to guide about building habit forming products.

The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick
The Mom Test is a practical guide about how to talk to customers and maximize learnings.

The Four Steps to the Epiphany
Steve Blank
The definitive guide on the customer development methodology applied to startups.

The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
A foundational guide to running a lean startup.

Running Lean
Ash Maurya
A practical handbook that expands on the lean startup methodology of finding product-market fit.

Business Model Generation
Alexander Osterwalder
Handbook for improving a business model or crafting a new one.

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Political Science & History

Hardcore History
Deep, gritty podcasts about the epic human struggles throughout history.

Guns, Germs, and Steel
Neil Diamond
A global account of the rise of civilizations based on feedback loops created by the cultural, geographic and genetic differences between them.

Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
A trip throughout history from the six human species of 100,000 years ago to the Homo Sapiens of today.

The Emperor of All Maladies
Siddhartha Mukherjee
An oncologists chronicle of cancer - from its history, biology and current day war.

The Mantle of the Prophet
Roy Mottahedeh
The story of how religion - particularly Islam - affected the politics of Iran from the Persian Empire to the Islamic Revolution.

City of Gold
Jim Krane
Dubai's history, challenges and deliberate strategies which shaped it into the global city it is today.