My Bookshelf

These are the books that inspired me in the last few years. Not updated anymore. If you're cracked, go read PMPP and DDIA.

“The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet” by Justin Peters (4
)

Read in 2021

“Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder” by Nassim Taleb (4
)

Read in 2021

“The Dream Machine” by M. Mitchell Waldrop (4
)

Read in 2021

“2001: A Space Odyssey” by Arthur C. Clarke (4
)

Read in 2021

“Deep Learning for Life Sciences” by Bharath Ramsundar, Peter Eastman, Patrick Walters, Vijay Pande (4
)

If you’re a developer/ML Engineer interested into longevity and aren’t sure on how you can have an impact in that space, I can highly recommend to read the book. It doesn’t go into too much detail on all topics, but gives a great intro to different ML use-cases in Life Sciences.

Read in 2021

“The Beginning of Infinity” by David Deutsch (5
)

One of the most influential books I've ever read!

Read in 2021

“On the Shortness of Life” by Seneca (3
)

Read in 2021

“Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius (3
)

Read in 2021

“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho (4
)

Read in 2021

“The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect” by Roger Williams (5
)

Read in 2021

“Man's Search For Meaning” by Viktor E Frankl (5
)

Read in 2021

“Can't Hurt Me” by David Goggins (3
)

Read in 2021

“Siddartha” by Hermann Hesse (5
)

Read in 2021

“Animal Farm” by George Orwell (5
)

Read in 2021

“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick (5
)

Read in 2020

“The Fish That Ate the Whale” by Rich Cohen (3
)

Read in 2020

“The Almanack of Naval Ravikant” by Eric Jorgenson (5
)

Read in 2020

“The Denial of Death” by Ernest Becker (5
)

Awesome book, but no easy life after reading it...

Read in 2020

“Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justice” by Bill Browder (5
)

Very interesting life story, especially the first part.

Read in 2020

“Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration” by Ed Catmull (4
)

Read in 2020

“The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company” by Robert Iger (5
)

Awesome book! Especially the Pixar acquistion part and his conversations with Steve Jobs.

Read in 2020

“ColdFusion Presents: New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World” by Dagogo Altraide (3
)

Read in 2020

“Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It” by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz (4
)

Read in 2020

“How Not To Die: Discover the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease” by Michael Greger (5
)

Awesome book, even though you don't have to read the 500 pages to understand why a plant based diet is good for your health.

Read in 2020

“Lifespan: Why We Age ― and Why We Don't Have To” by David A. Sinclair PhD (5
)

Best book on the current state of life extension technologies but also a lot of pracitcal advice at the end of the book on how you can expand your lifespan with the science we know today!

Read in 2019

“The Great Nowitzki:” by Thomas Pletzinger (4
)

Made me wanna play Basketball again!

Read in 2019

“Permanent Record” by Edward Snowden (4
)

Read in 2019

“Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” by Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover (4
)

Read in 2019

“Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams” by Matthew Walker (4
)

Read in 2019

“Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell” by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle (3
)

Read in 2019

“Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship” by Robert C. Martin (4
)

Read in 2019

“Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies” by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Bill Gates - foreword (2
)

Read in 2019

“The Gene: An Intimate History” by Siddhartha Mukherjee (4
)

Read in 2019

“AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order” by Kai-Fu Lee (2
)

Read in 2019

“Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age” by Paul Graham (4
)

Read in 2019

“1984” by George Orwell (5
)

Read in 2019

“Ein Jahr im schlimmsten Startup der Welt” by Max Meer (4
)

Read in 2019

“Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (4
)

Read in 2018

“We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory” by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin (4
)

Read in 2018

“Atomic Habits” by James Clear (4
)

Read in 2018

“Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari (4
)

Read in 2018

“Frank Thelen - Die Autobiografie: Startup-DNA. Hinfallen, Aufstehen, die Welt verändern” by (3
)

Read in 2018

“Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup” by John Carreyrou (5
)

Read in 2018

“TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking” by (4
)

Read in 2018

“Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker” by Kevin Mitnick (5
)

Read in 2018

“Sam Walton: Made In America” by John Huey, Sam Walton (5
)

Read in 2018

“Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too” by Gary Vaynerchuk (4
)

Read in 2018

“The Art of Invisibility” by Kevin Mitnick (2
)

Read in 2018

“No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” by Glenn Greenwald (5
)

This one is even better than the one from Edward Swnowden himself.

Read in 2018

“The Hard Thing About Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz (3
)

Read in 2018

“Wait But Why Year One” by Tim Urban (5
)

Read in 2018

“Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime” by Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae (4
)

Started my passion for live extension technologies. Though very challenging to read

Read in 2018

“The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions…and Created Plenty of Controversy” by Leigh Gallagher (3
)

Read in 2018

“Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (4
)

Read in 2018

“How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story” by Billy Gallagher (3
)

Read in 2018

“The Internet of Money” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (4
)

Read in 2018

“Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificialn” by Max Tegmark (3
)

Read in 2017

“Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” by Nick Bostrom (5
)

Started my passion for AI tech. Awesome book!

Read in 2017

“The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” by Brad Stone (4
)

Read in 2017

“American Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike” by Phil Knight (5
)

Read in 2017

“Der Facebook-Effekt: Hinter den Kulissen des Internet-Giganten” by David Kirkpatrick (3
)

Read in 2017

“A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking (4
)

Read in 2017

“Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal” by Nick Bilton (5
)

Read in 2017

“The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)” by Clayton M. Christensen (5
)

Read in 2017

“Was Google wirklich will” by Thomas Schulz (4
)

Read in 2017

“The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World” by Brad Stone (3
)

Read in 2017

“Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future” by Ashlee Vance (4
)

Read in 2017

“American Kingpin” by Nick Bilton (5
)

My favorite book so far!

Read in 2017

“Hacking Growth: How Today's Fastest-Growing Companies Drive Breakout Success” by Sean Ellis (3
)

Read in 2017

“Machen!: Das Startup-Buch der mymuesli-Gründer” by Hubertus Bessau, Philipp Kraiss, Max Wittrock (3
)

Read in 2017

“Die Silicon-Valley-Mentalität” by Mario Herger (3
)

Read in 2017

“Silicon Valley” by Christoph Keese (5
)

Read in 2017

“Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence” by Jerry Kaplan (2
)

Read in 2017

“Silicon Germany” by Christoph Keese (4
)

Read in 2017

“The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy” by This was already my father's favorite book. So he gifted me this book and since then I'm not leaving the house for interstellar space travel without a towel. (5
)

Read in 2016

My Bookshelf

“Coders at Work” by Peter Seibel (4)

“The Precipice” by Toby Ord (4)

“Rationality: From AI to Zombies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky (4)

“The Fabric of Reality” by David Deutsch (4)

“The Great Stagnation:” by Tyler Cowen (5)

“Permutation City” by Greg Egan (4)

“Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination” by Neal Gabler (4)

“Replacing Aging” by Jean Hébert (5)

“Deep Learning with Python, Second Edition” by Francois Chollet (5)

“Physics and Beyond” by Werner Heisenberg (5)

“The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins (4)

“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert M. Pirsig (4)

“The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet” by Justin Peters (4)

“Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder” by Nassim Taleb (4)

“The Dream Machine” by M. Mitchell Waldrop (4)

“2001: A Space Odyssey” by Arthur C. Clarke (4)

“Deep Learning for Life Sciences” by Bharath Ramsundar, Peter Eastman, Patrick Walters, Vijay Pande (4)

“The Beginning of Infinity” by David Deutsch (5)

“On the Shortness of Life” by Seneca (3)

“Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius (3)

“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho (4)

“The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect” by Roger Williams (5)

“Man's Search For Meaning” by Viktor E Frankl (5)

“Can't Hurt Me” by David Goggins (3)

“Siddartha” by Hermann Hesse (5)

“Animal Farm” by George Orwell (5)

“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick (5)

“The Fish That Ate the Whale” by Rich Cohen (3)

“The Almanack of Naval Ravikant” by Eric Jorgenson (5)

“The Denial of Death” by Ernest Becker (5)

“Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justice” by Bill Browder (5)

“Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration” by Ed Catmull (4)

“The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company” by Robert Iger (5)

“ColdFusion Presents: New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World” by Dagogo Altraide (3)

“Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It” by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz (4)

“How Not To Die: Discover the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease” by Michael Greger (5)

“Lifespan: Why We Age ― and Why We Don't Have To” by David A. Sinclair PhD (5)

“The Great Nowitzki:” by Thomas Pletzinger (4)

“Permanent Record” by Edward Snowden (4)

“Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” by Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover (4)

“Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams” by Matthew Walker (4)

“Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell” by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle (3)

“Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship” by Robert C. Martin (4)

“Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies” by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Bill Gates - foreword (2)

“The Gene: An Intimate History” by Siddhartha Mukherjee (4)

“AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order” by Kai-Fu Lee (2)

“Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age” by Paul Graham (4)

“1984” by George Orwell (5)

“Ein Jahr im schlimmsten Startup der Welt” by Max Meer (4)

“Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (4)

“We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory” by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin (4)

“Atomic Habits” by James Clear (4)

“Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari (4)

“Frank Thelen - Die Autobiografie: Startup-DNA. Hinfallen, Aufstehen, die Welt verändern” by (3)

“Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup” by John Carreyrou (5)

“TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking” by (4)

“Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker” by Kevin Mitnick (5)

“Sam Walton: Made In America” by John Huey, Sam Walton (5)

“Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too” by Gary Vaynerchuk (4)

“The Art of Invisibility” by Kevin Mitnick (2)

“No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” by Glenn Greenwald (5)

“The Hard Thing About Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz (3)

“Wait But Why Year One” by Tim Urban (5)

“Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime” by Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae (4)

“The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions…and Created Plenty of Controversy” by Leigh Gallagher (3)

“Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (4)

“How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story” by Billy Gallagher (3)

“The Internet of Money” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (4)

“Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificialn” by Max Tegmark (3)

“Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” by Nick Bostrom (5)

“The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” by Brad Stone (4)

“American Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike” by Phil Knight (5)

“Der Facebook-Effekt: Hinter den Kulissen des Internet-Giganten” by David Kirkpatrick (3)

“A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking (4)

“Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal” by Nick Bilton (5)

“The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)” by Clayton M. Christensen (5)

“Was Google wirklich will” by Thomas Schulz (4)

“The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World” by Brad Stone (3)

“Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future” by Ashlee Vance (4)

“Coders at Work” by Peter Seibel (4
)

“The Precipice” by Toby Ord (4
)

“Rationality: From AI to Zombies” by Eliezer Yudkowsky (4
)

“The Fabric of Reality” by David Deutsch (4
)

“The Great Stagnation:” by Tyler Cowen (5
)

“Permutation City” by Greg Egan (4
)

“Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination” by Neal Gabler (4
)

“Replacing Aging” by Jean Hébert (5
)

“Deep Learning with Python, Second Edition” by Francois Chollet (5
)

“Physics and Beyond” by Werner Heisenberg (5
)

“The Selfish Gene” by Richard Dawkins (4
)

“Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance” by Robert M. Pirsig (4
)

“The Idealist: Aaron Swartz and the Rise of Free Culture on the Internet” by Justin Peters (4
)

“Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder” by Nassim Taleb (4
)

“The Dream Machine” by M. Mitchell Waldrop (4
)

“2001: A Space Odyssey” by Arthur C. Clarke (4
)

“Deep Learning for Life Sciences” by Bharath Ramsundar, Peter Eastman, Patrick Walters, Vijay Pande (4
)

“The Beginning of Infinity” by David Deutsch (5
)

“On the Shortness of Life” by Seneca (3
)

“Meditations” by Marcus Aurelius (3
)

“The Alchemist” by Paulo Coelho (4
)

“The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect” by Roger Williams (5
)

“Man's Search For Meaning” by Viktor E Frankl (5
)

“Can't Hurt Me” by David Goggins (3
)

“Siddartha” by Hermann Hesse (5
)

“Animal Farm” by George Orwell (5
)

“Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” by Philip K. Dick (5
)

“The Fish That Ate the Whale” by Rich Cohen (3
)

“The Almanack of Naval Ravikant” by Eric Jorgenson (5
)

“The Denial of Death” by Ernest Becker (5
)

“Red Notice: A True Story of Corruption, Murder and One Man’s Fight for Justice” by Bill Browder (5
)

“Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration” by Ed Catmull (4
)

“The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company” by Robert Iger (5
)

“ColdFusion Presents: New Thinking: From Einstein to Artificial Intelligence, the Science and Technology That Transformed Our World” by Dagogo Altraide (3
)

“Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It” by Chris Voss, Tahl Raz (4
)

“How Not To Die: Discover the foods scientifically proven to prevent and reverse disease” by Michael Greger (5
)

“Lifespan: Why We Age ― and Why We Don't Have To” by David A. Sinclair PhD (5
)

“The Great Nowitzki:” by Thomas Pletzinger (4
)

“Permanent Record” by Edward Snowden (4
)

“Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products” by Nir Eyal, Ryan Hoover (4
)

“Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams” by Matthew Walker (4
)

“Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell” by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle (3
)

“Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship” by Robert C. Martin (4
)

“Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies” by Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh, Bill Gates - foreword (2
)

“The Gene: An Intimate History” by Siddhartha Mukherjee (4
)

“AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order” by Kai-Fu Lee (2
)

“Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age” by Paul Graham (4
)

“1984” by George Orwell (5
)

“Ein Jahr im schlimmsten Startup der Welt” by Max Meer (4
)

“Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (4
)

“We Are the Nerds: The Birth and Tumultuous Life of Reddit, the Internet’s Culture Laboratory” by Christine Lagorio-Chafkin (4
)

“Atomic Habits” by James Clear (4
)

“Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind” by Yuval Noah Harari (4
)

“Frank Thelen - Die Autobiografie: Startup-DNA. Hinfallen, Aufstehen, die Welt verändern” by (3
)

“Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup” by John Carreyrou (5
)

“TED Talks: The official TED guide to public speaking” by (4
)

“Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World's Most Wanted Hacker” by Kevin Mitnick (5
)

“Sam Walton: Made In America” by John Huey, Sam Walton (5
)

“Crushing It!: How Great Entrepreneurs Build Their Business and Influence-and How You Can, Too” by Gary Vaynerchuk (4
)

“The Art of Invisibility” by Kevin Mitnick (2
)

“No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State” by Glenn Greenwald (5
)

“The Hard Thing About Hard Things” by Ben Horowitz (3
)

“Wait But Why Year One” by Tim Urban (5
)

“Ending Aging: The Rejuvenation Breakthroughs That Could Reverse Human Aging in Our Lifetime” by Aubrey de Grey, Michael Rae (4
)

“The Airbnb Story: How Three Ordinary Guys Disrupted an Industry, Made Billions…and Created Plenty of Controversy” by Leigh Gallagher (3
)

“Mastering Bitcoin: Programming the Open Blockchain” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (4
)

“How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story” by Billy Gallagher (3
)

“The Internet of Money” by Andreas M. Antonopoulos (4
)

“Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificialn” by Max Tegmark (3
)

“Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies” by Nick Bostrom (5
)

“The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon” by Brad Stone (4
)

“American Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike” by Phil Knight (5
)

“Der Facebook-Effekt: Hinter den Kulissen des Internet-Giganten” by David Kirkpatrick (3
)

“A Brief History of Time” by Stephen Hawking (4
)

“Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal” by Nick Bilton (5
)

“The Innovator’s Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Management of Innovation and Change)” by Clayton M. Christensen (5
)

“Was Google wirklich will” by Thomas Schulz (4
)

“The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World” by Brad Stone (3
)

“Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future” by Ashlee Vance (4
)

“American Kingpin” by Nick Bilton (5
)