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Sources & Further Reading from Brad Jacob’s How to Make a Few Billon Dollars

Brad Jacobs compiled an excellent, cross discipline list in the back of his equally impressive book, How to Make a Few Billon Dollars. I highly recommend starting out here if in the early innings of taking your personal library & reading consumption seriously.

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Consciousness

  • Breathe, You Are Alive: The Sutra on the Full Awareness of Breathing by Thich Nhat Hanh (1990)

  • Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond by Judith S. Beck (2021)

  • Cognitive-Behavior Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder by Marsha Linehan (1993)

  • DBT Skills Training Manual by Marsha Linehan (2015) “Evolution of the Brain: From Behavior to Consciousness in 3.4 Billion Years” by John J. Oró (2004); Neurosurgery 54, no. 6

  • Feeling Good by David Burns, MD (1980)

  • A History of the Mind: Evolution and the Birth of Consciousness by Nicholas Humphrey (1999)

  • How to Stubbornly Refuse to Make Yourself Miserable about Anything—Yes, Anything! by Albert Ellis, PhD (1988)

  • Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life by Martin E. P. Seligman, PhD (1990)

  • The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat by Oliver Sacks (1985)

  • My Voice Will Go with You: The Teaching Tales of Milton H. Erickson by Sidney Rosen (1982)

  • On the Origins of Human Emotions by Jonathan Turner (2000)

  • On the Origin of the Human Mind by Andrey Vyshedskiy, PhD (2001)

  • Parent Effectiveness Training by Dr. Thomas Gordon (1975)

  • Positive Evolutionary Psychology: Darwin’s Guide to Living a Richer

  • Life by Glenn Geher and Nicole Wedberg (2020)

  • Prisoners of Hate: The Cognitive Basis of Anger, Hostility and Violence by Aaron T. Beck, MD (1999)

  • The Psychobiology of Gene Expression: Neuroscience and

  • Neurogenesis in Hypnosis and the Healing Arts by Ernest Rossi (2002)

  • Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life with the Heart of the Buddha by Tara Brach, PhD (2003)

  • Uncommon Therapy: The Psychiatric Techniques of Milton H. Erickson, M.D. by Jay Haley (1973)

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Big History

  • Big History: From the Big Bang to the Present by Cynthia Stokes Brown (2008)

  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics by Richard Feynman, Robert Leighton, and Matthew Sands (1977)

  • The Life of the Cosmos by Lee Smolin (1997)

  • Maps of Time: An Introduction to Big History by David Christian (2004)

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari (2011)

  • A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson (2003)

  • Sizing Up the Universe: The Cosmos in Perspective by Robert Vanderbei and J. Richard Gott (2010)

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Evolution

  • The Ants by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson (1990)

  • The Canon: A Whirligig Tour of the Beautiful Basics of Science by Natalie Angier (2007)

  • Evolution for Everyone: How Darwin’s Theory Can Change the Way

  • We Think about Our Lives by David Sloan Wilson (2007)

  • On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life by Charles Darwin (1911)

  • Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages of the Evolution of Culture and Cognition by Merlin Donald (1991)

  • The Superorganism: The Beauty, Elegance, and Strangeness of Insect Societies by Bert Hölldobler and Edward O. Wilson (2009)

  • Your Inner Fish: A Journey into the 3.5-Billion-Year History of the Human Body by Neil Shubin (2008)

 

Technology

  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari (2015)

  • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (2014)

  • The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil (2005)

  • This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race by Nicole Perlroth (2021)

 

Business

  • Confronting Reality: Doing What Matters to Get Things Right by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan (2004)

  • Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan (2002)

  • Executive Leadership: A Rational Approach by Albert Ellis, PhD (1978)

  • How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie (1936)

  • I Love Capitalism! An American Story by Ken Langone (2018)

  • The Innovator’s Dilemma by Clayton M. Christensen (1997)

  • Return to the Little Kingdom: How Apple and Steve Jobs Changed the World by Michael Moritz (2009)

  • Service Success! Lessons from a Leader on How to Turn around a

  • Service Business by Daniel Kaplan (1994)

  • The Titans of Takeover by Robert Slater (1999)

  • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers by Tim Ferriss (2017)

  • You’re in Charge, Now What?: The 8-Point Plan by Thomas Neff and James Citrin (2007)

  • Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Win in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term by David M. Cote (2020)

 

Biographies

  • Andrew Carnegie by David Nasaw (2006)

  • Big Deal: The Battle for Control of America’s Leading Corporations by Bruce Wasserstein (1998)

  • The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of

  • Modern Finance by Ron Chernow (1990)

  • M&A Titans: The Pioneers Who Shaped Wall Street’s Mergers and Acquisitions Industry by Brett Cole (2008)

  • Philipp Brothers: The Rise and Fall of a Trading Giant 1901–1990 by Helmut Waszkis (1992)

  • Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike by Phil Knight (2016)

  • Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller by Ron Chernow (1998)

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Communication

  • The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White (1918)

  • Get the Truth: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Persuade

  • Anyone to Tell All by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, and Susan Carnicero (2014)

  • Marina Abramović: The Artist Is Present by Arthur Danto, Chrissie

  • Iles, Nancy Spector, Jovana Stokić, Klaus Biesenbach, and Marina Abramović (2010)

  • Spy the Lie: Former CIA Officers Teach You How to Detect Deception by Philip Houston, Michael Floyd, Susan Carnicero, and Don Tennant (2012)

  • Why Marriages Succeed or Fail: And How You Can Make Yours Last by John Gottman, PhD (1994)

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