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Man's Search for Meaning

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

Principles

Principles

Ray Dalio

Zero to One

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Steve Jobs

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Shoe Dog

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Meditations

Meditations

Marcus Aurelius

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"

Richard P. Feynman

The Score Takes Care of Itself

The Score Takes Care of Itself

Bill Walsh

Einstein

Einstein

Walter Isaacson

How to Change Your Mind

How to Change Your Mind

Michael Pollan

Bird by Bird

Bird by Bird

Anne Lamott

The Ride of a Lifetime

The Ride of a Lifetime

Robert Iger

Between the World and Me

Between the World and Me

Ta-Nehisi Coates

Elon Musk

Elon Musk

Ashlee Vance

When Breath Becomes Air

When Breath Becomes Air

Paul Kalanithi

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Christine

Christine

Stephen King

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson

How It All Blew Up

How It All Blew Up

Arvin Ahmadi

All Our Shimmering Skies

All Our Shimmering Skies

Trent Dalton

A Year of Simple Family Food

A Year of Simple Family Food

Julia Busuttil Nishimura

My Dark Vanessa

My Dark Vanessa

Kate Elizabeth Russell

Summer Snow

Summer Snow

Robert Hass

The Immortality Key

The Immortality Key

Brian Muraresku

Blindness

Blindness

José Saramago

The Immoral Majority

The Immoral Majority

Ben Howe

F*cked

F*cked

Krystyna Hutchinson & Corinne Fisher

Suicide of the West

Suicide of the West

Jonah Goldberg

How to Have Impossible Conversations

How to Have Impossible Conversations

Peter Boghossian & James Lindsay

The End is Always Near

The End is Always Near

Dan Carlin

Unveiled

Unveiled

Yasmine Mohammed

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