Books

References, necessities, and tonic for the mind.

Philosophy & Historical

• The Inner Citadel - Pierre Hadot
• Philosophy as a way of life - Pierre Hadot
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• Epictetus, A Stoic and Socratic Guide to Life - A.A Long
• The Art of Rhetoric - Aristotle
• Letters - Seneca
• Enchiridion - Epictetus
• The Conquest of Happiness - Bertrand Russell
• Philosophy for Life - Jules Evans
• The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
• The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt

Mind & Growth

• How To Build a Mnemonics Memory Palace - Sjur Midttun
• Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• The Black Swan - Nassim Taleb
• Thank You For Arguing - Jay Heinrichs

Character & Purpose

• The Road to Character - David Brooks
• Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
• Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
• The Quest For a Moral Compass - Kenan Malik

Leadership, Systems & Strategy

• Thinking in Systems - Donella H. Meadows
• Servant Leadership - Robert Greenleaf
• Strategy, A History - Lawrence Freedman
• Managing Flow - A Process Theory of the Knowledge-Based Firm - Ikujiro Nonaka et al.
• Managing Oneself - Peter Drucker
• The DevOps Handbook - Gene Kim, Jez Humble, Patrick Debois, John Willis
• Drive - Daniel Pink
• On War - Clauschwitz
• The Fifth Discipline - Peter Senge
• Data Mesh - Zhamak Dehghani
• Data Stewardship for Open Science - Barend Mons