I like to read, and there’s something special about reading a book.

Cal Newport guides us to become more focused and get into deep work instead of the daily hustle and the shallow work that many of us fill our days with.

How to change your habits, one step at a time. And how to make change that lasts.

A book about making products, teams and a career. Fadell gives his view of how to make things that matter to you, drawing on his own career — starting small companies, joining a funded startup, and being employed by big ones like Philips and Apple before starting Nest.

The writings, ideas, and tweets of Naval Ravikant.

The story of Derek Sivers and his CD Baby business that took independent music artists to online stores in the early days of e-commerce.

A book about starting a small company and not always pushing for growth. A small, calm company can be the perfect thing too.

Sort of a follow-up to "Rework" and a guide on how to structure a company to get rid of most of the stress and crazy hours that seem to have become the norm in certain companies.

A different book on self-help and personal growth where the focus is not on avoiding all problems but on putting yourself in a position where you deal with better problems and focus on the things that really matter.

A book about "[h]ow to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you" and a good introduction to customer conversations.

David and Jason describe their alternative approach to running a business and getting work done. Probably more controversial in an American business landscape, but still a lot of good points and thought-provoking ideas.

An interesting book about how different perspectives on spending money can lead to happiness, boredom, failure, and desire.

The book’s subtitle is "Inside Facebook’s Battle for Domination", and this is a critical look into how Facebook has been handling things during the last few years, based on hundreds of interviews conducted by the New York Times reporters Sheera Frenkel and Cecilia Kang. Interesting and unsettling.

We get to follow along on Maria’s journey into the world of poker, from a complete novice to a professional poker player. By her side, she has one of the greatest poker players of all time, Erik Seidel. Her angle is to find out how much we can change the odds in life when certain parts are always based on pure chance. Or, as she puts it on her web page, "[c]an we learn to play our best game even in the face of mounting odds?"

Edward Snowden’s autobiography from 2019 where he describes his childhood, his education, his work in the intelligence industry, and what led him to leak a large amount of classified information about digital surveillance at the nation-state level.

The book The Long Tail, written by Chris Anderson as an expansion of his 2004 article The Long Tail in the magazine Wired, has been around for a few years now.

Still interesting and a valid point of view in the digital era.

This book is the follow-up to The Long Tail, published in 2006.

Interesting book about why some things trend and take off and why other, even better, ideas do not.

Who really makes money from fair trade coffee? Why is it impossible to buy a decent second-hand car? How do the Mafia make money from laundries when street gangs pushing drugs don’t? Who really benefits from immigration?

The story of how the English computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee came up with the idea of a distributed network of published information which became the World Wide Web in 1991. Told by the author himself.