The books I read greatly influence my perspective on life. My curiosity of the world drives personal learning in many subjects outside of my traditional degree in engineering:

 

Economics and Psychology

  • Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman

  • True Wealth - Juliet Schor

  • Freakonomics - Steven D. Levitt

  • Millennial Money - Patrick O'Shaughnessy

  • Rich Habits - Thomas Corley

  • The Price of Everything - Russel Roberts

  • The Millionaire Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy - Thomas J. Stanley

  • The Lean Startup - Eric Ries

  • The New Business Road Test - John Mullins

  • Business Model Generation - Alexander Osterwalder and Yves Pigneur

Philosophy

  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig

  • The Story of Philosophy - Will Durant

  • The Book - Alan Watts

  • The Way of Zen - Alan Watts

  • Mere Christianity - C.S. Lewis

  • Siddhartha - Hermann Hesse

  • Revered Wisdom Buddhism - Sir Charles Elliot

  • High Tech/High Touch: Technology and Our Search for Meaning - John Naisbitt

  • The Power of Now - Eckhart Tolle

Art and Design

  • Change By Design - Tim Brown

  • The Design of Everyday Things - Don Norman

  • The Pencil: A History of Design and Circumstance - Henry Petroski

  • Proust Was a Neuroscientist - Jonah Lehrer

  • Wabi-Sabi - Leonard Koren

 

 

 

 

 

Hard Sciences

  • Being Digital - Nicholas Negroponte

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything - Bill Bryson

  • The Cosmos - Carl Sagan

  • A Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan

  • The Conundrum: How Scientific Innovation, Increased Efficiencey, and Good Intentions Can Make Our Energy Problem Worse - David Owen

  • No Small Matter: Science on the Nanoscale - G. M. Whitesides, Felice Frankel

  • Stuff Matters: Exploring the Marvelous Materials That Shape Our Man-Made World -  Mark Miodownik