📚I have read 100+ books last year
👇Here is my top 10
📕The beginning of infinity - David Deutsch
One of these rare books that changes the way you think. It will also make you an optimist.
Technically, it’s an epistemology book. The theory of knowledge. But it’s also about human progress. How we can get better at everything. It claims that all our problems are related to a lack of knowledge, and our solvable.
There is an absolute morality, and we can find it. The book offers strong arguments against environmental zealots, post-modernism, and cultural relativism.
📕The average is over - Tyler Cowen
10y ago, a famous economist accurately predicted the impact of AI on jobs and the economy.
He reveals which jobs will disappear, and which ones will survive.
AI is different from previous tech revolutions: less jobs will be created than those destroyed. And it will reinforce existing inequalities on the job market: the top performers will make more money, all the other less, or be unemployed
📕The road - Cormac McCarthy
A post-apocalyptic novel. Dark but beautiful. A father and son try to survive in a post-apocalyptic America.
📕Hail Mary - Andy Weir
Great Sci-Fi novel. A scientist is sent in a spaceship in a last ditch attempt to save humanity. I loved the dual-timeline narration, with interleaved flashbacks. Same author as the Martian.
📕Make: bootstrappers handbook - Pieter Levels
The book on indiehacking and building SaaS, written by the most famous indiehacker.
You don’t need to build something big. Build a small solution for small problem for a small audience. It’s both inspiring, and immediately useful with lots of practical advice.
📕AI Engineering - Chip Huyen
In 2025, I wanted to catch up with AI. I wasn’t sure where to start. I wanted to know just enough about LLMs to interface with them, but I didn’t need to go too deep, as I won’t build them. This book was exactly what I needed.
📕How to fail at everything and still win big - Scott Adams
The author of the famous Dilbert comics tells us about his long string of failures before finally becoming successful.
You don't need to be excellent in any field to be successful. You can create a lot of value with a unique combination of average skills.
📕Into Africa - Martin Dugard
The exploration of Africa for finding the source of the Nile. It’s like Indiana Jones except it is a real, brutal story.
📕Spice - Roger Crawley
The quest for the Moluccas archipelago - the unique source of rare spices - long coveted by Europeans, but only discovered in the 16th century.
Fantastic travel adventures, including the epic expedition of Magellan who sailed the Pacific Ocean for the first time.
📕Imperial Twilight - Stephen R Platt
The early commercial relations between the British and Chinese, and how it led up to the Opium Wars and the cession of Hong Kong to Britain.
It's very relevant for understanding China and its relationship with the West.