Ryan Shea Book Recommendations
51 Books Recommended
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The Sovereign Individual
Mastering the Transition to the Information Age
by James Dale Davidson
One of Ryan Shea's 4 answers to "what is the book (or books) you’ve given most as a gift?" (Source)
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Naval Ravikant, Peter Thiel, Brian Armstrong, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Sahil Lavingia, Balaji Srinivasan
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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George Bush, Kyle Maynard, Nolan Bushnell, Lex Fridman, Brian Koppelman
AI Superpowers
China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
by Kai-Fu Lee
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Yuval Noah Harari, Arianna Huffington, Chris Anderson, Marc Benioff, Peter Diamandis, Satya Nadella, Tim O’Reilly, Balaji Srinivasan
Foundation (7 books)
Ryan Shea recommended this series on his website. (Source)
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Adam Gazzaley, Demis Hassabis, Elon Musk, Lex Fridman, Naval Ravikant, Sam Altman, Stewart Brand, Austen Allred, Cameron Winklevoss, Sahil Lavingia
Lee Kuan Yew
The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World
by Graham Allison
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Being Mortal
Medicine and What Matters in the End
by Atul Gawande
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Spiritual Enlightenment, the Damnedest Thing
The Enlightenment Trilogy, Book 1
by Jed McKenna
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The Three-Body Problem (3 books)
Ryan Shea recommended this series on Twitter. (Source)
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Adam Savage, Lex Fridman, Liv Boeree, Mark Zuckerberg, Max Levchin, Naval Ravikant, Tim Urban, Tobi Lütke, Barry Silbert, Mike Novogratz
Dealers of Lightning
Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
by Michael A. Hiltzik
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Finite and Infinite Games
by James Carse
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Tristan Harris, Kevin Kelly, Stewart Brand, Simon Sinek, Graham Duncan, Jane McGonigal, Tobi Lütke, Daniel Gross, Patrick O'Shaughnessy
Predictably Irrational
The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
by Dan Ariely
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The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
by Aldous Huxley
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The Inner Game of Tennis
The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
by W. Timothy Gallwey
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The Prince
by Niccolò Machiavelli
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Neil deGrasse Tyson, Stewart Brand, Ryan Holiday, Eric Ripert, Fred Wilson, Garry Tan, Patrick Bet-David
Shoe Dog
A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
by Phil Knight
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Dune
Dune, Book 1
by Frank Herbert
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Altered Carbon
by Richard K. Morgan
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Thinking in Systems
by Donella H. Meadows
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Slaughterhouse-Five
A Novel
by Kurt Vonnegut
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The Black Swan
Incerto, Book 2
by Nassim Taleb
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Also recommended by:
Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Edward Norton, Nick Kokonas, James Altucher, Art De Vany, Ev Williams, Pavel Durov
The Bed of Procrustes
Incerto, Book 4
by Nassim Taleb
Ryan Shea recommended this book on Twitter. (Source)
Skin in the Game
Incerto, Book 5
by Nassim Taleb
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Marc Andreessen, Ben Horowitz, Peter Mallouk, Keith Rabois, Vinod Khosla, Changpeng Zhao, Chris Dixon
Exhalation
Stories
by Ted Chiang
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Snow Crash
A Novel
by Neal Stephenson
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Tobi Lütke, Larry Page, Naval Ravikant, Sergey Brin, Ev Williams, Seth Godin, Adam Savage, Brandon Stanton, Nolan Bushnell, Austen Allred, Cameron Winklevoss, Fred Wilson, Mark Zuckerberg, Jensen Huang
The Alchemist
by Paulo Coelho
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Aubrey Marcus, Will Smith, LeBron James, Big Sean, Brené Brown, Ryan Flaherty, Lisa Ling, Daniel Ek, Eric Ripert, Gabby Reece, Garry Tan, Lewis Howes, Tony Robbins, Jodie Cook, Andy Frisella, James Clear, Patrick Bet-David
The Beginning of Infinity
Explanations That Transform the World
by David Deutsch
"#1 on my list." - Ryan Shea (Source)
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Patrick Collison, Naval Ravikant, Sam Harris, Mark Zuckerberg, Steven Pinker, Chris Anderson, Mark Bell
The Way of the Superior Man
A Spiritual Guide to Mastering the Challenges of Women, Work, and Sexual Desire
by David Deida
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On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
by Friedrich Nietzsche
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Project Hail Mary
A Novel
by Andy Weir
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The Revolt of The Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
by Martin Gurri
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Empire of Pain
The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty
by Patrick Radden Keefe
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories
by Ken Liu
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The Way to Love
Meditations for Life
by Anthony de Mello
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The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
by Robert A. Heinlein
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Elon Musk, Paul Graham, John Carmack, Bill Gates, Christopher Sommer
The Knowledge
How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm
by Lewis Dartnell
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Leviathan Wakes
The Expanse, Book 1
by James S.A. Corey
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The Myth of the Rational Voter
Why Democracies Choose Bad Policies
by Bryan Caplan
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On Immunity
An Inoculation
by Eula Biss
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Lifespan
Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To
by David Sinclair
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Vinod Khosla, Peter Diamandis, Jason Fried, David Friedberg, Blake Scholl
The Book of Why
The New Science of Cause and Effect
by Judea Pearl
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Fooled by Randomness
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
by Nassim Taleb
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Also recommended by:
Howard Marks, Nick Kokonas, Ev Williams, James Altucher, Art De Vany, James Clear
Sapiens
A Brief History of Humankind
by Yuval Noah Harari
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Joe Rogan, Bill Gates, Naval Ravikant, Lex Fridman, Mark Zuckerberg, Peter Attia, Ashton Kutcher, Whitney Cummings, Richard Branson, Ray Dalio, Vinod Khosla, James Cameron, Demis Hassabis, Keith Rabois, Daniel Ek, Reid Hoffman, Sam Kass, Sebastian Junger, Kishore Biyani, Melinda Gates, Bill Gurley, Karlie Kloss, Anthony Pompliano, Changpeng Zhao, PewDiePie, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Chris Evans, Simon Mayo, Penn Jillette, Mark Manson, James Clear
