Recommended Reading
Life is too short to read a bad book. This page includes a brief list of my recommendations sorted by category.
Communication/Persuasion
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most by Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, and Sheila Heen
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How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini
The Influential Mind: What the Brain Reveals About Our Power to Change Others by Tali Sharot
Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
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The Non-Designer's Presentation Book by Robin Williams
The Pyramid Principle: Logic in Writing and Thinking by Barbara Minto
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Diversity & Inclusion
How to Be an Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Whistling Vivaldi: How Stereotypes Affect Us and What We Can Do by Claude Steele
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? by Beverly Daniel Tatum
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Entrepreneurship/Innovation
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Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur
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Diffusion of Innovations by Everett Rogers
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Good to Great by James C. Collins
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The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
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The Startup Owner’s Manual: The Step-by-Step Guide for Building a Great Company by Steve Blank
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Talking to Humans by Frank Rimalovski and Giff Constable
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World by Adam Grant
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Goals / Decision Making / Habits
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
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Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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Switch: How to Change when Change is Hard by Chip Heath and Dan Heath
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Write it Down Make it Happen by Henriette Klauser
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Living
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Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
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Meditations: A New Translation by Marcus Aurelius (Gregory Hays translation)
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The Road to Character by David Brooks
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Relationships
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The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work by Eli J. Finkel
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Five Love Languages by Gary Chapman
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The Hard Questions by Susan Piver
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Peaceful Parent, Happy Kids by Laura Markham
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Teaching
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Courage to Teach by Parker Palmer
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The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch
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Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, Mark A. McDaniel
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What the Best College Teachers Do by Ken Bain
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