Books

Benji´s 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.

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