Books

Learning is acting different in the same circumstance. If your behavior does not change from reading a book, you did not learn. Pick a few concepts from each book to apply to your life.

The best way to learn is to start trying and see what works. Before starting, books provide only a vague idea of how you should act to see results. Reading after starting gives context to the book’s ideas.

If a topic is new to you, read original and foundational books first. Here are my recommendations:

Theology

• The Reformation Study Bible
• Bahnsen, Greg - Van Til’s Apologetic: Readings and Analysis

Computer Science

• Petzold, Charles - Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
• Petzold, Charles - The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
• Kernighan, Brian and Ritchie, Dennis - The C Programming Language
• Laaksonen, Antti - Competitive Programmer’s Handbook

Business

• Carnegie, Dale - How to Win Friends & Influence People
• Dalio, Ray - Principles
• Jorgenson, Eric - The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
• Parrish, Shane - The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
• Clear, James - Atomic Habits
• Sinek, Simon - Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action

Finance

• Klarman, Seth - Margin of Safety: Risk-Averse Value Investing Strategies for the Thoughtful Investor
• Kiyosaki, Robert - Rich Dad Poor Dad: What the Rich Teach Their Kids About Money That the Poor and Middle Class Do Not!
• Turner, Brandon - The Book on Rental Property Investing: How to Create Wealth and Passive Income Through Smart Buy & Hold Real Estate Investing
• Graham, Benjamin - The Intelligent Investor
• Hill, Napolean - Think and Grow Rich

Physics

• Feynman, Richard - Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher
• Hawking, Stephen - A Brief History of Time