The Shelf
0001 Thinking in Bets
Good decisions and good outcomes are not the same thing.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0002 The Science of Hitting
Patience is not passivity. Know your zone. Wait for your pitch. Then commit.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0003 The Old Money Book
Quiet habits compound long before wealth becomes visible.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0004 The Richest Man in Babylon
Keep part of what you earn. Put it to work. Protect what you build.
READ AN EDITION0005 Hayy ibn Yaqdhan
What can a person discover when observation, solitude, and reason are given time?
READ AN EDITION0006 The Intelligent Investor
The market offers prices. It does not supply temperament.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0007 The Warren Buffett Portfolio
Concentration only makes sense when conviction has survived careful work.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0008 Damn Right!
Rationality often looks like patience, independence, and the willingness to do nothing.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0009 Titan
Scale magnifies character as surely as it magnifies capital.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0010 Influence
The forces that move a decision are often quiet, familiar, and already in the room.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0011 Yes!
Small changes in context can change whether a reasonable request becomes a yes.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0012 Judgment in Managerial Decision Making
Judgment improves when we learn where judgment predictably bends.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0013 Against the Gods
Risk became a subject of calculation only after people stopped treating uncertainty as fate.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0014 The Book on Games of Chance
Before probability had a formal language, dice were already teaching its grammar.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0015 Why Should White Guys Have All the Fun?
Ambition becomes more durable when preparation meets leverage and opportunity.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0016 The 48 Laws of Power
Power is easiest to study when you can see both the move and the motive.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0017 The Prince
Power is often understood most clearly by studying what people do, not what they say they ought to do.
READ AN EDITION0018 As a Man Thinketh
Circumstances are not everything; the habits of thought we carry into them matter too.
READ AN EDITION0019 Mastermind
Attention is a discipline: observation improves when the mind learns what to notice.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0020 Animal Farm
Power can change the rules while convincing everyone that the rules never changed.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0021 1984
Control of language, memory, and information can become control of reality itself.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0022 The Most Dangerous Game
The distance between confidence and vulnerability can disappear in a single reversal.
READ AN EDITION0023 Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
Curiosity, loyalty, and courage matter most when the truth is hidden behind fear.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0024 The Alchemist
The journey toward an external goal can reveal what the traveler was actually seeking.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0025 The Log from the Sea of Cortez
Careful observation of a small world can open into questions about the whole one.
FIND / BORROW / BUY0026 Don Quixote
The boundary between foolishness and nobility becomes surprisingly difficult to draw.
READ AN EDITION0027 The Great Gatsby
Ambition can build an extraordinary life without making the past recoverable.
READ AN EDITION0028 Black Boy
Reading and writing can become instruments for understanding circumstances that seem designed to confine you.
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