Reading
Books I
recommend to
founders.
Nothing here is about regulation. That is deliberate: the regulation you can look up, the judgement you cannot. A running list, added to whenever something earns its place.
Building the company
- Brick by BrickDavid Robertson & Bill Breen
- The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsBen Horowitz
- High Output ManagementAndrew Grove
- Crossing the ChasmGeoffrey Moore
Why things fail
- Engineering a Safer WorldNancy Leveson
- Normal AccidentsCharles Perrow
- The Checklist ManifestoAtul Gawande
- Bad BloodJohn Carreyrou
How medicine thinks
- The Emperor of All MaladiesSiddhartha Mukherjee
- ComplicationsAtul Gawande
- Ending Medical ReversalPrasad & Cifu
- The Design of Everyday ThingsDon Norman
How rules get made
- Seeing Like a StateJames C. Scott
- Thinking, Fast and SlowDaniel Kahneman
- The Structure of Scientific RevolutionsThomas Kuhn
- The Social Transformation of American MedicinePaul Starr
One more thing
Send me yours.
The list changes. If there is a book that should be on it, tell me — that is a conversation I will make time for, client or not.