Bookshelf
Books are my favorite co-founders; they challenge my assumptions, keep my curiosity caffeinated, and remind me there is always a smarter path to ship. This shelf is the mix I reach for when I need sharper instincts on money, mind, models, health, and climate, and every note here turns into something I practice in real life.
Finance
- The Intelligent Investor: Taught me to anchor every investment in intrinsic value, helping me stay patient when markets get noisy.
- The Psychology of Money: Clarified how behavior shapes returns more than math, so I now design financial habits around calm decision-making.
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad: Reframed wealth as building assets instead of chasing paychecks, guiding how I prioritize cash-flowing projects.
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street: Reinforced the power of diversified, low-cost indexing, which keeps my long-term plan resilient.
Psychology
- Thinking, Fast and Slow: Helped me spot cognitive shortcuts in my decisions, making my problem-solving more deliberate.
- Atomic Habits: Gave me a system for stacking micro-improvements, keeping my routines sustainable.
Machine Learning
- Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow: Bridged theory and code for me, speeding up how I prototype new models.
- Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning: Deepened my intuition for probabilistic models, improving how I reason about uncertainty.
- The Hundred-Page Machine Learning Book: Distilled the landscape into a quick refresher, perfect when I need to recap fundamentals before a build.
Health
- Why We Sleep: Convicted me to protect sleep hygiene, which sharpened my focus on deep work days.
- The Body Keeps the Score: Highlighted how trauma lives in the body, making me more patient and compassionate in collaborations.
- Breath: Taught me to return to nasal breathing drills, which helps me reset during hectic weeks.
Climate
- The Sixth Extinction: Made biodiversity loss tangible, pushing me to consider planetary costs in product choices.
- This Changes Everything: Linked climate action to economic systems, reframing how I think about policy trade-offs.
- Drawdown: Offered a ranked playbook of solutions, giving me concrete levers to support.
- How to Avoid a Climate Disaster: Broke down pathways to net-zero, guiding where I volunteer and invest.
These picks track the lessons I revisit whenever life gets loud, and they show up in how I plan, collaborate, and recharge. I am sharing them so the next time someone asks how I stay energized, intentional, and climate-conscious, I can point here and say start with chapter one. If you discover a book that belongs on this shelf, tell me so we can swap takeaways.