Beyond Resume

Books that shaped how I think.

I tend to return to books about systems, decision-making, human behavior, leadership, and the long game. This is not a complete reading log. It is a curated shelf of ideas I have kept with me.

20 books on the shelf
5 themes I keep returning to
Systems Thinking Decision Making Behavior and Habits Work and Focus Money and Judgment

How complex systems move, break, and improve.

The Goal

Eliyahu Goldratt

The Fifth Discipline

Peter Senge

Who Moved My Cheese?

Spencer Johnson

Who Not How

Dan Sullivan and Benjamin Hardy

Shoe Dog

Phil Knight

Books that sharpen judgment and mental models.

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Same as Ever

Morgan Housel

Never Split the Difference

Chris Voss

Give and Take

Adam Grant

Focus, habits, time, and the craft of doing better work.

Deep Work

Cal Newport

Atomic Habits

James Clear

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

Dopamine Nation

Anna Lembke

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson

Technology, AI, and the people behind the shifts.

Genius Makers

Cade Metz

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari

Meaning, resilience, money, and longer-term perspective.

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S. Clason