Ev Williams's Reading List
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Jonathan Livingston Seagull
Richard Bach
Ev Williams, Laird Hamilton, Mike Maples, Jr., Wim Hof
The Effective Executive
The Definitive Guide to Getting the Right Things Done
Peter F. Drucker
Ev Williams, Drew Houston, Jim Collins, Matt Mullenweg, Tim Ferriss
Antifragile
Things That Gain from Disorder
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ev Williams, James Altucher, Matt Mullenweg, Vlad Tenev
Mindfulness for Beginners
Reclaiming the Present Moment and Your Life
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Ev Williams
Getting Things Done
The Art of Stress-Free Productivity
David Allen
Ev Williams, Michael McCullough
Mindset
The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
Ev Williams, Bill Gates, Josh Waitzkin, Tobi Lütke, Tony Robbins
Reinventing Fire
Bold Business Solutions for the New Energy Era
Amory Lovins
Ev Williams, Bill Gates
The Martian
A Novel
Andy Weir
Ev Williams, Noah Kagan
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
An Inquiry Into Values
Robert M. Pirsig
Ev Williams, Bryan Johnson, Drew Houston, Jordan Peterson, Josh Waitzkin, Paul Graham
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
Ev Williams, Bill Gates, Bryan Johnson, Derek Sivers, Marc Andreessen, Ray Dalio, Ron Conway, Scott Adams, Stewart Brand
Wool
Hugh Howey
Ev Williams
Cumulus
Eliot Peper
Ev Williams, Daniel Pink
Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day
Judith Viorst
Ev Williams
Hackers
Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Steven Levy
Ev Williams
Crossing the Chasm
Marketing and Selling High-Tech Products to Mainstream Customers
Geoffrey A. Moore
Ev Williams, Drew Houston, Ron Conway
Built to Last
Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
Jim Collins
Ev Williams, Jeff Bezos
The Monk and the Riddle
The Art of Creating a Life While Making a Living
Randy Komisar
Ev Williams
Wired
A Romance
Gary Wolf
Ev Williams
Jitterbug Perfume
A Novel
Tom Robbins
Ev Williams
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A Novel
Milan Kundera
Ev Williams, Alain de Botton, Evan Spiegel, Justin Boreta
Emergence
The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software
Steven Johnson
Ev Williams
Mind Wide Open
Your Brain and the Neuroscience of Everyday Life
Steven Johnson
Ev Williams
Travels
Michael Crichton
Ev Williams
Airframe
Michael Crichton
Ev Williams
Sphere
Michael Crichton
Ev Williams
Winning
The Ultimate Business How-To Book
Jack Welch
Ev Williams
The Bonfire of the Vanities
A Novel
Tom Wolfe
Ev Williams
On the Road
Jack Kerouac
Ev Williams, Walter Isaacson
Tesla
Man Out of Time
Margaret Cheney
Ev Williams
The Da Vinci Code
Dan Brown
Ev Williams
Xenocide
Ender Quintet Book 3
Orson Scott Card
Ev Williams
Speaker for the Dead
Ender Quintet Book 2
Orson Scott Card
Ev Williams
The Catcher in the Rye
J.D. Salinger
Ev Williams, Bill Gates, Gretchen Rubin, Larry King
The Power Of One
Bryce Courtenay
Ev Williams
It's Not About the Bike
My Journey Back to Life
Lance Armstrong
Ev Williams
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
Ev Williams, Aniela Gregorek, Bryan Johnson, Chelsea Handler, Chip Conley, Daniel Pink, Dave Elitch, David Blaine, Emma Watson, Esther Perel, Fedor Holz, Jimmy Fallon, Jocko Willink, Jordan Peterson, Maria Popova, Michael Gervais, Naval Ravikant, Ryan Holiday, Terry Crews, Tony Robbins, Turia Pitt
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Mark Haddon
Ev Williams
Einstein's Dreams
Alan Lightman
Ev Williams, Eric Weinstein
Bit Literacy
Productivity in the Age of Information and E-mail Overload
Mark Hurst
Ev Williams
User Interface Design for Programmers
Joel Spolsky
Ev Williams
The Art of the Start
The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything
Guy Kawasaki
Ev Williams
The Perfect Store
Inside eBay
Adam Cohen
Ev Williams
Smart and Gets Things Done
Joel Spolsky's Concise Guide to Finding the Best Technical Talent
Avram Joel Spolsky
Ev Williams
Dune
Frank Herbert
Ev Williams, Elon Musk, Kelly Starrett, Kyle Maynard, Laird Hamilton, Seth Godin, Stewart Brand, Tim Ferriss, Tim O’Reilly
The Cluetrain Manifesto
Rick Levine
Ev Williams
Get Back in the Box
How Being Great at What You Do Is Great for Business
Douglas Rushkoff
Ev Williams, Keith Rabois
Cat's Cradle
A Novel
Kurt Vonnegut
Ev Williams
The Corrections
A Novel
Jonathan Franzen
Ev Williams, Oprah Winfrey
Blink
The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
Malcolm Gladwell
Ev Williams, Mike Shinoda
Anthem
Ayn Rand
Ev Williams
Atlas Shrugged
Ayn Rand
Ev Williams, Amelia Boone, Bob Metcalfe, Brian Armstrong, Bryan Callen, Elon Musk, Gabby Reece, Joe De Sena, Nick Szabo, Peter Diamandis, Peter Thiel
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!"
Adventures of a Curious Character
Richard P. Feynman
Ev Williams, Brian Armstrong, Larry Page, Mark Zuckerberg, Naval Ravikant, Noah Kagan, Peter Attia, Tim Ferriss
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Michael Chabon
Ev Williams
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Ev Williams, Jordan Peterson, Scott Belsky
Me Talk Pretty One Day
David Sedaris
Ev Williams
The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ev Williams, Bill Gates, Daniel Pink, Neil deGrasse Tyson
Ender's Game
Orson Scott Card
Ev Williams, Mark Zuckerberg, Travis Kalanick
The Wisdom of Crowds
James Surowiecki
Ev Williams, Ben Shapiro, Kevin Rose
Why Most Things Fail
Evolution, Extinction and Economics
Paul Ormerod
Ev Williams
The Seven-Day Weekend
A Better Way to Work in the 21st Century
Ricardo Semler
Ev Williams
Fooled by Randomness
The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ev Williams, Art De Vany, Howard Marks, James Altucher, Matt Mullenweg, Nick Kokonas
Slack
Getting Past Burnout, Busywork, and the Myth of Total Efficiency
Tom DeMarco
Ev Williams
The Halo Effect
... and the Eight Other Business Delusions That Deceive Managers
Phil Rosenzweig
Ev Williams, Matt Mullenweg
Dancing Naked in the Mind Field
Kary Mullis
Ev Williams
The Know-It-All
One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World
A.J. Jacobs
Ev Williams
Mating
A Novel
Norman Rush
Ev Williams
Everything Bad is Good for You
How Today's Popular Culture is Actually Making Us Smarter
Steven Johnson
Ev Williams
The Tipping Point
How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
Ev Williams, Joe Rogan, Mike Shinoda
Moneyball
The Art of Winning an Unfair Game
Michael Lewis
Ev Williams
The Blind Side
Evolution of a Game
Michael Lewis
Ev Williams
Nonzero
The Logic of Human Destiny
Robert Wright
Ev Williams, Nick Thompson
Seeing What's Next
Using the Theories of Innovation to Predict Industry Change
Clayton M. Christensen
Ev Williams
The Long Tail
Why the Future of Business Is Selling Less of More
Chris Anderson
Ev Williams
Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering
Robert L. Glass
Ev Williams
The Social Life of Information
John Seely Brown
Ev Williams
Absurdistan
A Novel
Gary Shteyngart
Ev Williams
Mastery
The Keys to Success and Long-Term Fulfillment
George Leonard
Ev Williams, Maurice Ashley, Terry Laughlin, Tim Ferriss
In the Beginning...Was the Command Line
Neal Stephenson
Ev Williams
Positioning
The Battle for Your Mind
Al Ries
Ev Williams
Ready for Anything
52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done
David Allen
Ev Williams
Fuzzy Thinking
The New Science of Fuzzy Logic
Bart Kosko
Ev Williams
On Intelligence
How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines
Jeff Hawkins
Ev Williams, Keith Rabois, Patrick Collison
The First American
The Life and Times of Benjamin Franklin
H. W. Brands
Ev Williams
Stumbling on Happiness
Daniel Todd Gilbert
Ev Williams, Derek Sivers, Maria Popova, Sam Harris, Tim Ferriss
Small Pieces Loosely Joined
A Unified Theory Of The Web
David Weinberger
Ev Williams
Focus
The Future of Your Company Depends on It
Al Ries
Ev Williams
Out Of Control
The New Biology Of Machines, Social Systems, And The Economic World
Kevin Kelly
Ev Williams, Steve Jurvetson
Joel on Software
And on Diverse and Occasionally Related Matters That Will Prove of Interest to Software Developers, Designers, and Managers, and to Those Who, Whether by Good Fortune or Ill Luck, Work with Them in Some Capacity
Joel Spolsky
Ev Williams
Gates
How Microsoft's Mogul Reinvented an Industry--and Made Himself the Richest Man in America
Stephen Manes
Ev Williams
Hackers & Painters
Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Paul Graham
Ev Williams, Brian Armstrong, Keith Rabois, Ryan Holiday
Adverbs
A Novel
Daniel Handler
Ev Williams
Good to Great
Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't
Jim Collins
Ev Williams, Brian Armstrong, Frank Blake, Jeff Bezos, Max Levchin, Tracy DiNunzio
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius
Dave Eggers
Ev Williams
You Shall Know Our Velocity
Dave Eggers
Ev Williams
Shopgirl
A Novella
Steve Martin
Ev Williams
Fierce Invalids Home From Hot Climates
A Novel
Tom Robbins
Ev Williams
What Should I Do with My Life?
The True Story of People Who Answered the Ultimate Question
Po Bronson
Ev Williams
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Ev Williams, Bob Metcalfe, Brian Armstrong, Charlie Munger, Matt Ridley, Nick Szabo, Phil Libin
The Dip
A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Seth Godin
Ev Williams, Brian Armstrong
Ogilvy on Advertising
David Ogilvy
Ev Williams, Noah Kagan
Revolutionary Wealth
Alvin Toffler
Ev Williams
Microserfs
A Novel
Douglas Coupland
Ev Williams
Jimmy Corrigan
The Smartest Kid on Earth
Chris Ware
Ev Williams
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov
Ev Williams
The Fountainhead
Ayn Rand
Ev Williams, Bryan Callen, Emma Watson, Jesse Williams, Kevin Kelly, Larry Ellison, Mark Cuban, Tim Urban, Travis Kalanick, Vince Vaughn
Freakonomics
A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Steven D. Levitt
Ev Williams, James Altucher
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
Ev Williams, Tim Ferriss
Snow Crash
A Novel
Neal Stephenson
Ev Williams, Brandon Stanton, Larry Page, Naval Ravikant, Ryan Shea, Seth Godin, Tim Ferriss
The Diamond Age
Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer
Neal Stephenson
Ev Williams, Kelly Starrett, Peter Thiel, Seth Godin
Understanding Comics
The Invisible Art
Scott McCloud
Ev Williams, Seth Godin
The Innovator's Dilemma
When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail
Clayton M. Christensen
Ev Williams, Caterina Fake, Drew Houston, Jeff Bezos, Marc Benioff, Mark Cuban, Max Levchin, Steve Jobs, Tim O’Reilly
The China Study
The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss, and Long-Term Health
T. Colin Campbell
Ev Williams, James Cameron, Suzy Amis Cameron
Other Lists to explore
Brian Armstrong's list
Bill Gates's list
Drew Houston's list
Keith Rabois's list
