I believe that reading is a path to personal growth. It improves our understanding of the world and ourselves. Books can create new ideas and encourage reflection on our experiences. They introduce us to different perspectives and expand our knowledge, helping us become better individuals.

This is a list of books I have read and recommend. I will add books to this list every year.

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one." — George R.R. Martin

Books

The books are divided into categories. I have also added a list of books I want to read in the future.

Business

• Cold start problem by Andrew Chen
• Sprint by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky, Braden Kowitz
• Mechaniek voor managers by Romeo Baertsoen
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• The lean startup by Eric Ries

Books i want to read:

• Blitzscaling by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh

Economics

Need to read more of this! some books I have in mind:

• Van aandeel tot zichtrekening by Leen Carrijn
• some openstax economics books by Openstax

Philosophy

• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Philosophy by Openstax

Marketing

• Building a story brand by Donald Miller
• Principles of Marketing by Openstax
• Universal Principles of design by William Lidwell, Kritina Holden, Jill Butler
• Business Battleships by Tim Rylatt

Climate Change

• Klimaatschok by Geert Noels, Kristof Eggermont, Yanaika Denoyelle

Logistics

• Van logistieke flow to supply chain by Sophia Pasbecq, Karen van Bastelaere

Engineering & Science

• The age of AI by Eric Schmidt, Henry Kissinger, Daniel Huttenlocher
• Life 3.0 Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
• System design interview by Alex Xu

Books I have in mind to read:

• The network state by Balaji Srinivasan
• Astronomy by Openstax

Daily skills

• The 7 habits of highly effective people by Stephen R. Covey
• The first minute by Chris Fenning
• Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
• Thinking fast and slow by Daniel Kahneman

Books I have in mind to read:

• How to ikigai by Tim Tamashiro
• The upside of stress by Kelly McGonigal:
• The great mental models by Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien (all volumes)

History

Need to read more of this! some books I have in mind:

• Churchill: The power of words by Winston S. Churchill & Martin Gilbert
• 200 years of financial panics by Thomas P. Vartanian
• Shoe dog by Phil Knight
• World History by Openstax (all volumes)

Blogs I like to read

Engineering blogs (I read only the articles that interest me)

• System Design
• Netflix tech blog
• Google research blog
• Google developers blog
• Google DeepMind blog
• Meta engineering blog
• AirBnb tech blog
• Github engineering blog
• LinkedIn engineering blog
• X (Twitter)
• Tinder tech blog
• MusicMatch blog
• Spotify engineering blog
• High Scalability

Blogs from people I follow

• Paul Graham Personal favorite
• Sam Altman
• Naval Ravikant
• Patrick Collison A lot of interesting topics
• Balaji Srinivasan:
• Positive Tenacity
• Garrett Camp
• Stanley Tang
• Mike Knoop
• Calix Huang
• Ethan Mick
• Sophia Li
• Fundamental rules of software engineering

Enjoy reading!