My library

The books behind the method.

A curated shelf, not a reading list — each one earned its place. Here's why it's in my collection, the ideas worth stealing, and what I built with it. 71 books and counting.

Business (4)

Business Model Generation

Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur · 2010

Do/Lead

Les McKeown · 2014

Talk Like TED

Carmine Gallo · 2014

The Naked Presenter

Garr Reynolds · 2010

Business & positioning (12)

Someone Has to Be the Most Expensive, Why Not Make It You?

★★★★★ Andrew Griffiths · 2020

The Lowest Hanging Fruit: How to Build a Target Audience Persona for Better Marketing Plans & Find People Who Really Want to Buy From You

★★★★★ Orsolya Anna Toth · 2019

Portfolio Life: The New Path to Work, Purpose, and Passion After 50

★★★★☆ David D. Corbett, Richard Higgins · 2006

Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!

★★★★☆ Robert T. Kiyosaki · 1997

The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

★★★★☆ Josh Kaufman · 2010

Think and Grow Rich!: The Original Version, Restored and Revised

★★★★☆ Napoleon Hill · 2015

What the Heck Do I Do With My Life? How to Flourish in Our Turbulent Times

★★★★☆ Ravi Venkatesan · 2022

Designing Your Life

Bill Burnett, Dave Evans · 2016

ReWork

Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson · 2010

The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity

Lynda Gratton, Andrew Scott · 2016

The Visual MBA

Jason Barron · 2019

Practical Guide to Agile Strategy Execution: Design, Architect, Prioritize, and Deliver your Corporate Future Successfully

Daniel Lambert · 2020

Communication (3)

Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High, Third Edition

Joseph Grenny, Kerry Patterson, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler, Emily Gregory · 2021

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss, Tahl Raz · 2016

Dreyer’s English: An Utterly Correct Guide to Clarity and Style

Benjamin Dreyer · 2019

Design (5)

Do/Design

Alan Moore · 2016

Do/Inhabit

Sue Fan, Danielle Quigley · 2018

It's Not How Good You Are, It's How Good You Want to Be

Paul Arden · 2003

Visual Doing

Willemien Brand · 2019

Visual Thinking

Willemien Brand · 2017

Mental models (8)

Thinking in Systems: A Primer

★★★★☆ Donella H. Meadows, Diana Wright · 2008

Clear Thinking

Shane Parrish · 2023

Super Thinking: Upgrade Your Reasoning and Make Better Decisions With Mental Models

Gabriel Weinberg, Lauren McCann · 2019

The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts

Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien · 2019

The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics

★★★★☆ Rhiannon Beaubien, Rosie Leizrowice · 2021

The Great Mental Models: General Thinking Concepts

★★★★☆ Shane Parrish · 2018

The Great Mental Models: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

★★★★☆ Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien · 2019

Nature and Other Essays

Ralph Waldo Emerson · 1906

Minimalism (5)

Minimalism for Families: The Guide to Parenting, Living and Simplify Your Cozy Home, Live a Meaningful Life With Minimalist Lifestyle

★★★★☆ Marie Becker, Joshua Kondo · 2019

The Minimalist Home: A Room-By-Room Guide to a Decluttered, Refocused Life

★★★★☆ Joshua Becker · 2018

Things That Matter

Joshua Becker · 2022

Simplify: 7 Guiding Principles to Help Anyone Declutter Their Home and Life

Jean Lipe · 2021

From Clutter to Clarity - Sample

Kerri L Richardson · 2020

PKM & note-taking (6)

How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking - for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers

★★★★☆ Sönke Ahrens · 2017

Digital Zettelkasten: Principles, Methods, & Examples

★★★★☆ David Kadavy · 2021

The Organized Mind

Daniel J. Levitin · 2015

The PARA Method

Tiago Forte · 2023

The Bullet Journal Method

Ryder Carroll · 2018

The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff

Ofer Bergman, Steve Whittaker · 2016

Productivity (12)

Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity

★★★★☆ David Allen · 2015

Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

Cal Newport · 2016

Four Thousand Weeks

★★★★☆ Oliver Burkeman · 2021

Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and the Business of Life

★★★★☆ David Allen · 2008

Master Your Time, Master Your Life: The Groundbreaking Program for Discovering How to Put Time on Your Side

★★★★☆ Brian Tracy · 2016

Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive

★★★★☆ Charles Duhigg · 2016

The Checklist Manifesto

Atul Gawande · 2010

Everything in Its Place

Dan Charnas · 2017

Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less - Third Edition

Sam Carpenter · 2014

Your Best Year Ever

Michael Hyatt · 2018

Tiny Experiments - Sample

Anne-Laure Le Cunff · 2025

Prompt Engineering and ChatGPT: How to Easily 10X Your Productivity, Creativity, and Make More Money Without Working Harder - Sample

Russel Grant · 2023

Software architecture (4)

Architecture Patterns with Python

Harry Percival, Bob Gregory · 2020

Clean Architecture

Robert C. Martin · 2017

Clean Code

Robert C. Martin · 2008

Semantic Software Design

Eben Hewitt · 2019

Software craft (12)

Create GUI Applications With Python & Qt5 (PyQt5 Edition): The Hands-On Guide to Making Apps With Python

★★★★☆ Martin Fitzpatrick · 2020

Happy to Work Here: Understanding and Improving the Culture at Work

★★★★☆ Tom DeMarco, Peter Hruschka, Tim Lister, James Robertson, Suzanne Robertson, Steven McMenamin · 2021

INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love

Marty Cagan · 2017

Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams

★★★★☆ Tom DeMarco, Timothy R. Lister · 1987

Pragmatic Programmer, The

David Thomas, Andrew Hunt · 2019

Team Topologies

Matthew Skelton, Manuel Pais · 2019

The DevOps Handbook: How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, & Security in Technology Organizations

★★★★☆ Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Nicole Forsgren · 2015

Balancing Agility and Discipline

Barry Boehm, Richard N. Turner · 2003

Get Your Hands Dirty on Clean Architecture: A hands-on guide to creating clean web applications with code examples in Java

Tom Hombergs · 2019

Prompt Engineering for Generative AI

James Phoenix, Mike Taylor · 2024

System Design Interview – An insider's guide

Alex Xu · 2020

Domain-Driven Design - Sample

Evans Eric · 2003