Michael Mauboussin Recommended Books

"Details the extraordinary success of CEOs who took a radically different approach to corporate management." - Charlie Munger

"An outstanding book about CEOs who excelled at capital allocation." - Warren Buffett

"Stories about eight CEOs and how they mastered capital allocation." - Brian Armstrong

"Contains great lessons for investors because it highlights the importance of capital allocation." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

"A business-y thing." - Sam Hinkie

"A good read for any business leader but especially those willing to chart their own course."- Michael Dell

"An amazing, amazing book." - Ezra Klein

"I love reading first-hand accounts about how people build great companies like Pixar and nurture innovation and creativity." - Mark Zuckerberg

"Pixar has made some of the greatest stories of our time, but [the author]’s personal story, is perhaps the greatest story that has come out of Pixar." - Jason Calacanis

"About Pixar." - Demis Hassabis

"Must read." - Alexis Ohanian

"One of the most entertaining and useful business books I’ve ever read." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

"The first chapter alone will change your life." - Seth Godin

"Compact guide to probabilistic domains like poker, or venture capital." - Marc Andreessen

"I wish I had learned the discipline of how to decide when I was younger." - Mike Maples, Jr.

"I read this book all the way through because I found the premise so intriguing. [The author] is a well-known poker player and won a World Series of Poker gold bracelet." - Max Levchin

"So many of [the author's] thoughts on poker and on decision-making in general agreed with mine." - Howard Marks

Jason Fried mentioned this book on Twitter.

"[Has] some good advice on how to improve your ability to make accurate predictions." - Julia Galef

"Such a great book. Building software right now that's informed by this." - Alexis Ohanian

"[One of the] best books I read in 2017." - Anthony Pompliano

"Remarkable." - Sam Hinkie

Shane Parrish recommended this book in his blog.

"It's a really good book!" - Preston Pysh

"I hand out more copies of this book than any other. How to take responsibility for yourself and for those around you. Modern Stoicism, as applied in the military, business, and life." - Marc Andreessen

"My favorite Jocko book." - Casey Neistat

"I am really enjoying this book." - Tim Ferriss

"This book will change your life." - Alexis Ohanian

Tom Bilyeu recommended this book on his website.

"Reading and applying these tactics will make you a better person." - Danny Miranda

"A fundamental outline as to how to be successful... Highly recommended read." - Ashton Kutcher

"Will shatter your assumptions about how the world works and keep your brain firing for weeks after you’ve turned the last page." - Daniel Pink

"Givers in the workplace change everybody." - Krista Tippett

"As brilliant as it is wise, this is not just a book—it’s a new and shining worldview." - Susan Cain

"Good guy. Good book." - Simon Sinek

"A milestone! Well-researched, generous, actionable and important." - Seth Godin

"As Bad Blood is to biotech, Billion Dollar Whale is to international finance... a wonderful read... Thrilling." - Bill Gates

"An incredible story.... If you need some billionaires to despise--look no further than these charlatans." - Alexis Ohanian

"Worth checking out if this story interests you." - Anthony Pompliano

"Amazing read." - Raoul Pal

"Details how a pudgy Malaysian 20-something was able to con the highest levels of the financial, media, and political elite into making himself a billionaire." - Saagar Enjeti

"I couldn’t put down this thriller with a tragic ending." - Bill Gates

"Soooo good." - Andrew Wilkinson

"An incredible book that should be read by each and every player in the startup/Silicon Valley ecosystem." - Bill Gurley

"I highly recommend. It really is the most accessible discussion of brain science you will find." - Sam Harris

"Robert Sapolsky's magnum opus on human behavior." - Marc Andreessen

"Among the best insights into our brain and behavior." - Vinod Khosla

Bryan Johnson recommended this book on Twitter.

"A bit of a long commitment but worth it. Provocative." - Keith Rabois

"As someone who’s helped a small company become a huge, valuable company, I know firsthand the power of the startup ecosystem and entrepreneurship. This book is the definitive book on navigating VC as part of that." - Eric Schmidt

"[This book] is great." - Elad Gil

Ryan Hoover mentioned this book on Twitter.

"A valuable resource for any founder who wants to work with VCs." - Sam Altman

"So good." - Howard Marks

"An older book, but a wonderful history of our concept of risk." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Naval Ravikant tweeted about this book.

"Finally, science enters historical fields." - Nassim Taleb

"The brief argument is: our true history is written in our genes." - Balaji Srinivasan

Marc Andreessen recommended this book on Twitter.

"Explains how neglecting sleep undercuts your creativity, problem solving, decision-making, learning, memory, heart health, brain health, mental health, emotional well-being, immune system, and even your life span." - Bill Gates

"Not only did I become convinced that getting high-quality sleep is the best protector and enhancer of health and cognition, but it is also the most underappreciated." - Bryan Johnson

Keith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter.

"One of the best and most important books I've read [in 2019]." - Alexis Ohanian

"Best book on the subject [of sleep]." - Vinod Khosla

"Highly recommended." - Jason Fried

"Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant." - Kelly Starrett

"The ground breaking book on sports, genetics and performance. A must read!" - Mark Cuban

Bill Miller mentioned this book on Twitter.

"Few people write about finance with the graceful clarity of [this author]." - Daniel Pink

"[The author]’s observations often hit the daily double: they say things that haven’t been said before, and they make sense." - Howard Marks

"Want to read a great book? Go grab [this one]." - Anthony Pompliano

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"Wonderful book." - Brad Feld

"Dives into the new problem on college campuses, Safetyism." - Vinod Khosla

"Excited to read this new book by my friends." - Bryan Johnson

"Highlights the need to continue to have such discussions about sensitive topics instead of ignoring them for the sake of comfort." - Max Levchin

"Utterly superb book, recommended unreservedly." - Richard Dawkins

Tom Bilyeu recommended this book on Twitter.

Derren Brown mentioned this book on Twitter.

"Read this book, it changes everything." - Bill Gurley

On Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books.

"Discovers that in most fields , generalists, not specialists, are primed to excel. [...] Every high school and college student should read it." - Vinod Khosla

Keith Rabois mentioned this book on Twitter.

Most Recommended Books reached out to Daniel Pink directly.

"I think [the author's] ideas even help explain some of Microsoft's success." - Bill Gates

"[About] how many great inventions happen at the intersection of disciplines." - Changpeng Zhao

"[One of] the best books I read [in 2019]." - Ryan Holiday

"SUPER SIMPLE, fun exercises!" - Adam Robinson

"[This] handbook for decision-making isn’t just evidence-based and practical—it’s fun too." - Adam Grant

"Provides exercises for how to decide." - Marc Andreessen

"Simple, powerful and generous, it should be required reading." - Seth Godin

Patrick Collison labeled this book "substantially above average."

"Is the future knowable, and by whom? All pundits and commentators should publish their prediction track records, yet don't." - Marc Andreessen

Naval Ravikant tweeted about this book.

"Read [this book], and thank me later." - Scott Adams

"Good but closer to a single-themed book." - Naval Ravikant

"Very interesting and readable." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

Alex Hormozi recommended this book on Instagram.

"Nice compliment to Sapiens." - Bill Gurley

"Talks about work-related insights derived from the author’s time at Google." - Changpeng Zhao

John Doerr recommended this book at the end of "Measure What Matters."

Bill Gurley recommended this book on Quora.

"An incredible book." - Laird Hamilton

Kelly Starrett recommended this book in the "Tools of Titans" book.

"I read this book 13 years ago, and I still think about it almost every week." - Joel McHale

"Incredible book." - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

"Excited to read this. I have been searching for a book to recommend on this topic for a decade." - Keith Rabois

"If you have not read [this book] you should." - Bill Miller

Eric Weinstein tweet about books that mattered enough to him.

"My new favorite book of all time." - Bill Gates

Sam Harris picked this as the first book in his Book Club.

Recommended on Jordan Peterson's website.

"It is the most optimistic book I’ve read in a long time." - Yuval Noah Harari

"We should be thrilled to be alive now." - A.J. Jacobs

"There are a few philosophical errors and poor arguments in [this] otherwise excellent book." - David Deutsch

"Fantastic book." - Amelia Boone

"Has done a better job than any I’ve read so far on this subject at rationally, calmly, and scientifically exploring just how impactful psychedelics can be for the individual and our culture." - Aubrey Marcus

Hamilton Morris mentioned a passage from this book on Twitter.

Naval Ravikant's answer to "do you have any advice for dealing with the death of a parent?"

Paul Stamets mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.

"Excellent." - Peter Attia