Bookshelf
Books that have stuck with me, mostly engineering, leadership, AI, and the strategy and operator books that sit alongside that work. I read most of them on Audible while walking the neighborhood or driving around Lehi, which shapes what ends up here. Most of them are books I can absorb in long, uninterrupted listens.
This is a curated list, not a complete one. I read plenty that doesn’t make it onto this page. Books I disagreed with, books I started and abandoned, books that mattered for one specific moment and didn’t generalize. The ones below are the ones I find myself either re-reading or referencing in conversations with founders, engineers, and other operators. A handful have genuinely shifted how I think about a specific problem. Most are good and useful without being life-changing, and that’s fine too.
No particular order. New books land here whenever something settles enough to mention.
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things · Ben Horowitz
- High Output Management · Andy Grove
- 97 Things Every Engineering Manager Should Know · Camille Fournier (editor)
- Radical Candor · Kim Scott
- The Coaching Habit · Michael Bungay Stanier
- Competing in the Age of AI · Marco Iansiti & Karim Lakhani
- Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans · Melanie Mitchell
- Algorithms to Live By · Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
- The Innovators · Walter Isaacson
- Disciplined Entrepreneurship · Bill Aulet
- Scrum · Jeff Sutherland
- BE 2.0 (Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0) · Jim Collins
- Play Bigger · Christopher Lochhead, Kevin Maney & Dave Peterson
- Never Split the Difference · Chris Voss
- Supercommunicators · Charles Duhigg
- Talk Like TED · Carmine Gallo
- Super Thinking · Gabriel Weinberg & Lauren McCann
- The Art of Learning · Josh Waitzkin
- Principles · Ray Dalio
- Essentialism · Greg McKeown
- Drive · Daniel Pink
- Elon Musk · Walter Isaacson
- The Snowball · Alice Schroeder
- The Man Who Solved the Market · Gregory Zuckerman
- The Score Takes Care of Itself · Bill Walsh, Steve Jamison & Craig Walsh