Books

Where the latticework idea comes from. I reread it often.

On what makes a life worth living. 

How a learn-it-all culture turned Microsoft around. Incredible insights from one of the great CEOs of our time. 

The Santa Fe Institute and the science of systems that organize themselves. If you've ever heard me talk about "complex adaptive systems", this is the book that catalyzed that curiosity.

Tversky and Kahneman, and how a friendship changed how we think about thinking.

There are so many ideas I've taken from this story and applied to venture investing. Paul DePodesta and Billy Beane were as entrepreneurial as they come, just in the context of baseball. 

You can appreciate this book from so many angles-- whether you're a Jordan/Kobe fan, whether you're interested in team-building and culture-building, or even just interested in Jackson's wisdom as the "Zen master" who won more championships than any coach in NBA history. 

Salesforce is one of the canonical companies of the SaaS era. Fun to hear the stories behind this defining business. 

Larry Ellison and Oracle. Must-read for any software enthusiast.

Every Amazon shareholder letter in one place. Long-term thinking, written down year after year.

Multidisciplinary thinking applied to investing.