About

Currently reading on selling, marketing, business and AI. Shortening the build-test-learn loop

Biographies / Founders

1. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future — Ashlee Vance
2. Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
3. Source Code: My Beginnings — Bill Gates
4. Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
5. It Ain’t as Easy as It Looks: Ted Turner’s Amazing Story — Porter Bibb
6. Cheney: The Untold Story of America’s Most Powerful and Controversial Vice President — Stephen F. Hayes
7. RN: The Memoirs of Richard Nixon — Richard Nixon

Non-Fiction

1. Ask More: The Power of Questions to Open Doors, Uncover Solutions, and Spark Change — Frank Sesno
2. Atomic Habits — James Clear
3. Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It — Chris Voss, Tahl Raz
4. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World — Cal Newport
5. Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day — Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky
6. The 5 Second Rule — Mel Robbins
7. How to Lead When You’re Not in Charge — Clay Scroggins

Intelligence & Politics

1. Intelligence for an Age of Terror — Gregory F. Treverton
2. Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy — Mark M. Lowenthal
3. The Five Disciplines of Intelligence Collection — Mark M. Lowenthal, Robert M. Clark
4. Intelligence Analysis: A Target-Centric Approach — Robert M. Clark
5. Communicating with Intelligence: Writing and Briefing in the Intelligence and National Security Communities — James S. Major
6. Critical Thinking for Strategic Intelligence — Katherine Hibbs Pherson, Randolph H. Pherson
7. U.S. Government Counterterrorism: A Guide to Who Does What — Michael B. Kraft, Edward Marks
8. The Secret State: A History of Intelligence and Espionage — John Hughes-Wilson
9. Permanent Record — Edward Snowden
10. The Technological Republic: Hard Power, Soft Belief, and the Future of the West — Alex Karp, Nicholas W. Zamiska
11. The Ultimate Goal: A Former R&AW Chief Deconstructs How Nations and Intelligence Agencies Construct Narratives — Vikram Sood
12. The Unending Game: A Former R&AW Chief’s Insights into Espionage — Vikram Sood
13. The Tragedy of Great Power Politics — John J. Mearsheimer
14. The India Way: Strategies for an Uncertain World — S. Jaishankar
15. Why Bharat Matters — S. Jaishankar
16. The Mitrokhin Archive II: The KGB and the World — Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin
17. The Mitrokhin Archive: The KGB in Europe and the West — Christopher Andrew, Vasili Mitrokhin

Tech Books

1. Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence — Max Tegmark
2. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI — Ray Kurzweil
3. AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order — Kai-Fu Lee
4. Computer Security: Principles and Practice — William Stallings, Lawrie Brown

Cybersecurity/Programming

1. The Art of Invisibility — Kevin Mitnick, Robert Vamosi
2. The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security — Kevin D. Mitnick, William L. Simon
3. Go H*ck Yourself: A Simple Introduction to Cyber Attacks and Defense — Bryson Payne
4. This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race — Nicole Perlroth
5. Practical Malware Analysis: The Hands-On Guide to Dissecting Malicious Software — Michael Sikorski, Andrew Honig

Many are not mentioned because either they are - partially completed, forgot their names, were part of studies, or I just don’t want to post them here.