Reads

Books, essays, and articles that shaped my thinking.
Thoughtful content I return to or recommend.

The Great Mental Models - Shane Parrish

If I could recommend one series to change how you think, this would be it. Shane Parrish distilled decades of wisdom into a framework for clearer, more deliberate decision-making.
Each volume explores a different lens:

Vol. 1: General Thinking Concepts — timeless ideas like inversion, first principles, and second-order thinking.
Vol. 2: Physics, Chemistry & Biology — how the natural sciences shape the patterns we see in life and business.
Vol. 3: Systems & Mathematics — feedback loops, probabilities, and the elegant logic behind complexity.
Vol. 4: The Decision-Making Handbook — practical tools for better choices in an uncertain world.

What I love most is how usable it all is. These aren’t abstract theories, they’re habits of thought that quietly change the way you see everything.

How To Live - Derek Sivers

I’ve always admired Derek Sivers, part philosopher, part musician, part contrarian monk. How to Live is his distilled worldview: 27 answers to the same question, each completely different and yet somehow true.
It’s a book to pick up when you need perspective, not instruction.

Some chapters push you toward adventure, others toward stillness or service. Together, they remind me that there isn’t one right way to live, only the courage to live intentionally.

Outlive - Peter Attia

This is the book I wish everyone would read before chasing the next fitness trend. Outlive reframes health not as avoiding disease, but as extending the years we actually live well.

Attia dives deep into exercise, nutrition, sleep, and emotional well-being, but what makes it so powerful is how science-backed and practical it is. In my view, it contains everything you need to know right now to live healthier, longer.

This is Water - David
Foster Wallace

A few years ago I discovered David Foster Wallace’s commencement speech, later published as This Is Water, and it inspired me to think differently about the everyday. In under 20 minutes he asks us to notice the water around us: the default assumptions, the invisible routines, the unconscious choices we make. It’s not a self-help book but it's a wake-up call: freedom begins when you stop believing you’re the center of the universe. The full transcript and audio are available here.

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