Books
2025
The Storm of Steel by Ernst Jünger
The Anatomy of the State by Murray Rothbard
The Emerald Mile: The Epic Story of the Fastest Ride in History Through the Heart of the Grand Canyon by Kevin Fedarko
2024
Grant by Ron Chernow
Bronze Age Mindset by BAP
Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
2023
Southern Storm: Sherman's March to the Sea by Noah Andre Trudeau
William Tecumseh Sherman: In the Service of My Country: A Life by James Lee McDonough
Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win by Jocko Willink & Leif Babin
Hue 1968: A Turning Point of the American War in Vietnam by Mark Bowden
Napoleon: A Life by Andrew Roberts
Waterloo: The History of Four Days, Three Armies, and Three Battles by Bernard Cornwell
2022
Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
Blood in the Garden: The Flagrant History of the 1990s New York Knicks by Chris Herring
Breathe: A Life in Flow by Rickson Gracie
The Danaher Diaries: Musings on Jiu-Jitsu, Kaizen, Training, and Living by John Danaher
Fighting Talk: Forty Maxims on War, Peace, and Strategy by Colin S. Gray
No More Mr Nice Guy by Robert A. Glover
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
The Spy Who Came In From The Cold by John le Carré
The Good Hand: A Memoir of Work, Brotherhood, and Transformation in an American Boomtown by Michael Smith
2021
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan Peterson
About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior by Col. David H. Hackworth
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
The Devil's Highway: A True Story by Luis Alberto Urrea
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga by Hunter S. Thompson
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
Achtung - Panzer! The Development of Tank Warfare by Heinz Guderian
Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture by David Kushner
Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business by Chet Richards
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony Bourdain
The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli
2020
Sherman: Soldier, Realist, American by B.H. Liddell Hart
Augustus: First Emperor of Rome by Adrian Goldsworthy
The Anarchy: The Relentless Rise of the East India Company by William Dalrymple
The Right Stuff by Tom Wolfe
Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed by Ben Rich
The Ride of a Lifetime by Robert Iger
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa by E.B. Sledge
Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne
The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson
Topgun: An American Story by Dan Pedersen
Legacy of Ashes: The History of the CIA by Tim Weiner
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World by Gen. Stanley McChrystal
Eat a Peach: A Memoir by David Chang
True Grit: A Novel by Charles Portis
A Long Obedience in the Same Direction by Eugene Peterson
How F*cked Up Is Your Management? by Johnathan & Melissa Nightingale
2019
Dispatches by Michael Herr
One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer by Nathaniel Fick
Thinking in Systems: A Primer by Donella Meadows
The Soul of a New Machine by Tracy Kidder
The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr & George Spafford
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany by William L. Shirer
The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman
Bed and Board: Plain Talk About Marriage by Robert Farrar Capon
The Image: A Guide to Pseudo-Events in America by Daniel J. Boorstin
Call Sign Chaos: Learning to Lead by Jim Mattis
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution by Gregory Zuckerman
2018
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
Becoming a Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach by Gerald Weinberg
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
2017
The Armed Forces Officer (1950 Edition) by S.L.A. Marshall
Modern Social Imaginaries by Charles Taylor
Evolution and The Fall by William Cavanaugh & James K.A. Smith
Steel My Soldiers' Hearts by Col. David H. Hackworth
Platoon Leader: A Memoir of Command in Combat by James R. McDonough
A Common-Sense Guide to Data Structures and Algorithms by Jay Wengrow
The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
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Good Strategy Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt
Becoming A Technical Leader: An Organic Problem-Solving Approach by Gerald Weinberg
Institutes of the Christian Religion by John Calvin
Platoon Leader: A Memoir Of Command in Combat by James R. McDonough
Being Geek: The Software Developer's Career Handbook by Michael Lopp
How (Not) To Be Secular by James K.A. Smith
The Wisdom Of Stability by Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove
Lean Architecture: for Agile Software Development by James O. Coplien and Gertrud Bjornvig
The Pragmatic Programmer by Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas
From The Garden To The City by John Dyer
The Art of the Commonplace by Wendell Berry
Kiss Or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber by Mark Twight
The Forsyte Saga: Man of Property by John Galsworthy
The Forsyte Saga: In Chancery by John Galsworthy
Starting Strength by Mark Rippetoe
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming by Rod Derher
Thus Spake Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietszche
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy by John le Carre