Books
"We play not to avoid losing but to find out what we are capable of"
— Jane McGonigal
Favorite books in 2025
- Player Piano. By Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
- UX for Beginners: A Crash Course in 100 Short Lessons. By Joel Marsh
- The 4 Pillar Plan: How to Relax, Eat, Move, Sleep Your Way to a Longer, Healthier Life. By Dr Rangan Chatterjee
- Six Memos for the Next Millennium. By Italo Calvino
- The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company. By Robert Iger
- The Music Lesson: A Spiritual Search for Growth Through Music. By Victor L. Wooten
- Breathe: A Life in Flow. By Rickson Gracie
- The Creative Act: A Way of Being. By Rick Rubin
- Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal. By Nick Bilton
Favorite books in 2024
- Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect. By Will Guidara
- The Lessons of History. By Will Durant and Ariel Durant
- How to Be Perfect: The Correct Answer to Every Moral Question. By Michael Schur
- The Manual: A Philosopher’s Guide to Life. By Epictetus
- How to Write One Song: Loving the Things We Create and How They Love Us Back. By Jeff Tweedy
- It’s So Easy: And Other Lies. By Duff McKagan
- Never Finished: Unshackle Your Mind and Win the War Within. By David Goggins
- The New One Minute Manager. By Kenneth H. Blanchard and Spencer Johnson
- Field Trip to the Moon. By John L. Hare
Favorite books in 2023
- The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet. By John Green
Favorite books in 2022
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups. By Daniel Coyle
- I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf. By Grant Snider
- Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture. By David Kushner
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention. By Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer
- An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness. By Kay Redfield Jamison
Favorite books in 2021
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. By David Allen
- The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business. By Erin Meyer
- Born a Crime: Stories From a South African Childhood. By Trevor Noah
- In the Name of Wild: One Family, Five Years, Ten Countries, and a New Vision of Wildness. By Phillip Vannini, April Vannini, Autumn Vannini
Project Inception: Favorite Book Sharing
Imagine that you drop your 3 favorite books in exchange for my top 3. And so on.
- Could that work?
Of course I´ve already shared them, but still a neat idea for a digital app. I saw it in person at a physical book store with pen and paper to exchange with people you don´t meet: a bit of a anonymous pen pal kind of thing. Mysterious, random and fun.