Cameron's Reading List

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Here are books, links, and things in my library and (coming soon) my antilibrary

I try to focus on understanding things that won't change and to take everything else as it comes. These have helped me do that a bit.

Library

• Leadership -
  • Solitude and Leadership
  • The Mission, The Men, and Me: Lessons from a Delta Force Commander
  • The Longest Winter: The Battle of the Bulge
  • A Passion for Leadership (Leading Big Orgs)
  • Call Sign Chaos
  • Team of Teams
  • The Heights of Courage: A Tank Leader's War on the Golan
  • Starship Troopers
  • This Kind of War: The Classic Korean War History
  • A Simple Leadership Framework for Tech Founders (Me)
  • Bulldozer vs Vetocracy
  • Give Away Your Lego's
  • All Amazon Shareholder Letters


• Tech -
  • Code: The Hidden Language of Hardware and Software
  • Patrick Collison's Fast Page
  • The Ethereum Whitepaper
  • The Cursed Iceberg of Computer Quirks
  • The Everything Store: Amazon Book 1
  • Stevey's Google Platforms Rant
  • The Only Thing that Matters
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics
  • Amazon Unbound: Amazon Book 2
  • Invent and Wander (Bezo's Writings - sorta sterile)
  • The Founders: Paypal Story
  • Crossing the Chasm
  • Zero to 1
  • The Tinkerings of Robert Noyce
  • The History of User Interfaces
  • Rise and Fall of Online Culture Wars
  • What the Internet Kind of Used to Look Like
  • Networks from Scratch
  • The Tao of Programming
  • Startups in 13 Sentences - Paul Graham
  • Do Things that Don't Scale - Paul Graham
  • The Rest of Paul Graham's Essays
  • World Building
  • Tech's Two Philosophies
  • Thinking like an Algorithm (Tik Tok)
  • The Boneyard Principle
  • Cloudflare and Ambition
  • The Great Online Game
  • Crypto Bezos
  • Worse is Better
  • The Cook and the Chef (on Elon Musk)
  • Tesla's Secret Master Plan
  • Social Network Status Traps
  • Why Do We Interface?
  • Good PM, Bad PM
  • The Cathedral and the Bazaar
  • Amazon's 1998 Distributed Computing Manifesto
  • Social Networks 101: Nikita Bier
  • Systematic Approach to Debugging


• Finance -
  • The Bitcoin Whitepaper
  • Derivatives Markets
  • The Rise and Fall of LTCM
  • The Smartest Guys in the Room: Enron Failure
  • Too Big to Fail
  • Value Investing
  • A Concise Guide to Macroeconomics
  • Soros on Soros
  • The Intelligent Investor
  • Value Investing
  • It's a Bull Market, y'know
  • Where have all the .400 Investors gone?
  • Other People's Money
  • Payment Systems in the U.S.
  • Accounting for Developers
  • Startup Growth Rate Calculator


• Big Thoughts -
  • How to Do Great Work
  • Fear of Oozification
  • Boyd: The Fighter Pilot who Changed the Art of War
  • The Tyranny of Structurelessness
  • Life After Lifestyle
  • The Golden Passport: HBS and Society
  • Legibility
  • High Tech Innovation and Free Markets
  • The Three Body Problem
  • Paul Graham - Billionaires Build
  • The Premium Mediocre Life of Maya Millenial
  • What Makes Entrepreneurs Entrepreneurial?
  • All Systems Red
  • Kendrick Lamar's Five Rules
  • Antifragile
  • The Forever War
  • Catch-22
  • The Sovereign Individual
  • The Network State
  • The Right Stuff
  • Rules for Radicals
  • Can we Solve Public Problems Anymore?
  • Stranger in a Strange Land
  • Obsolete Occupations
  • Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
  • Building 20: Mutable Space
  • Your Life in Weeks
  • Science is a Strong-Link Problem
  • The Returns to Volatility (me)


• Self -
  • Deep Work
  • How to Feel Good
  • De-bogging yourself
  • Another Day
  • Be Skeptical of your own Work
  • Iron and the Soul
  • How to Be Successful - Sam Altman
  • Tina Fey's Rules of Improv
  • The Stranger
  • Atomic Habits
  • What Entrepreneurs Can Learn from Normal People
  • How to Present to Executives
  • Structured Procrastination
  • The Slow Regard of Silent Things
  • HBS: A Veteran in Tech's Perspective
  • Paul's Online Math Notes
  • The Collector's Fallacy
  • Infinite Jest
  • Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • The E.E. Cummings Anthology
  • Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman
  • Slaughterhouse Five
  • Advice for 14 Year Olds

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