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Quotes

“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” -Maya Angelou

“We don’t have a word for the opposite of loneliness, but if we did, I could say that’s what I want in life.” -Marina Keegan

Articles & essays

  • Nothing in the News Is Actually New (WSJ, 2003)
  • Your Employee Stock Purchase Plan (ESPP) is Worth a Lot More Than 15% (Adam Nash, 2006)
  • Even Artichokes Have Doubts (Yale Daily News, 2011)
  • The Untold Story of Silk Road (Wired, 2015)

Books

Business & Biographies

  • Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain
  • Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead by Sheryl Sandberg
  • Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
  • Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Dan Gardner and Philip E. Tetlock
  • Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! Adventures of a Curious Character by Richard Feynman
  • The Diving Bell & The Butterfly by Jean-Dominique Bauby
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz
  • The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson

Finance

  • A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel
  • My Financial Toolbox by Harry Sit
  • Narrative & Numbers: The Power of Stories in Business by Aswath Damodaran
  • Security Analysis by Benjamin Graham & David Dodd
  • The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
  • The Interpretation of Financial Statements by Benjamin Graham
  • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing: The Only Way to Guarantee Your Fair Share of Stock Market Returns by John C. Bogle
  • You Can Be A Stock Market Genius by Joel Greenblatt

Media & Philosophy

  • Let My People Go Surfing by Yvon Chouinard
  • Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court by John Wooden
  • Yours in Truth: A Personal Portrait of Ben Bradlee, Legendary Editor of The Washington Post by Jeff Himmelman

Movies & TV

Movies

  • All the President’s Men
  • Contact
  • Parasite
  • The Alpinist
  • The Godfather
  • The Graduate
  • The Incredibles
  • The Worst Person in the World

TV Shows

  • Frasier
  • Halt & Catch Fire
  • Mr. Robot
  • Seinfeld
  • Skins
  • The IT Crowd