Books

Book reviews and publishers are better (and safer) gatekeepers of the information I dare expose my brain to than the vagaries of people on the Internet (for you, the reader, this includes me so close the tab!). Old-fashioned, I know.

This list is organized by the subject I was delving into at the time.

Management

Disclaimer. Unfortunately, management books are oft too long and low information density. Skimming is your friend. And in any case, the hard part about growing as a manager is not to read but to apply.

My best advice to budding managers is simple: read High Output Management, apply as much of it as you can for the next 365 days, re-read it, then repeat the whole process year after year. You’ll quickly find yourself in the 99th percentile of managers. The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker is another good candidate for the yearly read-and-apply routine!

If you’re a manager or executive at a fast-growing technology company of the Silicon Valley variety, you may want to consider the following:

For engineering management tactics, refer to Lara Hogan’s excellent blog or The Manager’s Path by Camille Fournier.

Strategy

Books won’t really help you land on a winning strategy. That’s the hard part. However, they will help you evaluate whether your strategy is a good one.

New York City

Energy

Capitalism, Markets, and Socio-Economics