Below is a list of books, articles, and other things that I've found thought-provoking. I've highlighted a few that I found especially good in green. 

📚 Books

• Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows

• Capitalism and Freedom by Milton Friedman 

• Diaspora by Greg Egan

• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley

• Going Infinite by Michael Lewis

• The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin 

• The Big Score: The Billion Dollar Story of Silicon Valley by Michael S. Malone

• Be Here Now by Ram Dass 

• Land: How the Hunger for Ownership Shaped the Modern World by Simon Winchester 

• Hidden in Plain Sight: How to Create Extraordinary Products for Tomorrow's Customers by Chipchase et al. 

• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson 

• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark 

• The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World by David Deutsch

• High Output Management by Andy Grove 

• The Crime of the Congo by Arthur Conan Doyle 

• Poor Charlie's Almanac: The Essential Wit and Wisdom of Charles T. Munger

• Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Johnson 

• The Essence of Buddhism by E. Haldeman-Julius 

• High Growth Handbook: Scaling Startups from 10 to 10,000 People by Elad Gil 

• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World--and Why Things Are Better Than You Think by Rosling et al. 

• The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant 

• History by John Arnold 

• Principles by Ray Dalio

• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Intellectual Property by Siva Vaidhyanathan

• Philosophy of Law by Raymond Wacks

• Forward: Notes on the Future of Our Democracy by Andrew Yang 

• When a Crocodile Eats the Sun: A Memoir by Peter Godwin 

• How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil

• The 48 Laws of Power by Greene et al. 

• The Amazon Way: 14 Leadership Principles Behind the World's Most Disruptive Company by John Rossman

• The Intelligent Investor: The Definitive Book on Value Investing by Buffett et al. 

• Game Theory by Ken Binmore 

• Artificial Intelligence by Margaret A. Boden 

• Neoliberalism by Steger et al. 

• More Than You Know: Finding Financial Wisdom in Unconventional Places by Michael J. Mauboussin 

• Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company by Andy Grove

• I, Steve: Steve Jobs In His Own Words by Steve Jobs

• The Science of Breath by Yogi Ramacharaka 

• Risk by Fischhoff et al. 

• Becoming Trader Joe: How I Did Business My Way and Still Beat the Big Guys by Joe Coulombe

• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham 

• A History of South Africa by Leonard Monteath Thompson

• The Yosemite By John Muir

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand 

• Valley of Genius by Adam Fisher 

• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Christian et al. 

• But What If We're Wrong? Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman

• Zero to One: Notes on Startups, Or How to Build the Future by Thiel et al. 

• The Lean Startup by Eric Ries 

• Playing to Win by Lafley et al. 

• Logic by Graham Priest 

• A Little History of the United States by James West Davidson 

• The War on Normal People: The Truth About America's Disappearing Jobs and Why Universal Basic Income Is Our Future by Andrew Yang

• Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence by Anna Lembke

• Mathematical Finance by Mark H. A. Davis 

• The Network State by Balaji Srinivasan

• The Power Law by Sebastian Mallaby

• More Money than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval N. Harari

📄 Shortform Articles

• The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence by Tim Urban

• The AI Revolution: Our Immortality or Extinction by Tim Urban 

• The Arrival Fallacy by David Epstein

• The AI Doomsday Machine Is Closer to Reality Than You Think by Michael Hirsch 

• Why AI Will Save the World by Marc Andreessen 

• What is a Friend by Tyler Hogge 

• A Risk of Cognitive Convenience by David Epstein

• How to be Successful by Sam Altman

• DeepMind’s CEO Helped Take AI Mainstream, Now He’s Urging Caution by Billy Perrigo

• Why to Start a Startup in a Bad Economy by Paul Graham

• Who is Still Inside the Metaverse? by Paul Murray 

• Time to money as a competitive advantage by Ayo Omojola

• Hindenburg Research Discovers Fintech by Alex Johnson

• Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots by Maggie Appleton

• Borrowed versus Owned Power by Samo Burja 

• Zion Climbing in the 1930s by John Middendorf

• America is never "getting to Denmark" by DHH

• How did solar power get cheap? Part I by Brian Potter 

• How did solar power get cheap? Part II by Brian Potter 

• Housing Policy is Pro-Natalist Policy by Elijah Gullett

• How to know what you really want by Luke Burgis 

• How Much Should You Freak out About AI? by Michael Huemer 

• Apple Vision Pro and Subsidizing R&D by Tanay Jaipuria 

• How to Invest in Startups by Sam Altman 

• Honestly, it's probably the phones by Noah Smith 

• Being in Motion by Nick Grossman

• When did New York start building slowly? by Brian Potter 

• Why Don't My Bay Area Friends Move to LA by Sasha Chapin

• Costco's Building an Apartment. Will it Work? by Turner Novak 

• When Deadly Steamboat Races Enthralled America by Greg Daugherty 

• Bay Area Cities To Lose ALL Housing Zoning Powers in 2 Days by Darrell Owens

• In 2030, You Won't Own Any Gadgets by Victoria Song

• Gorillas, militias, and Bitcoin: Why Congo’s most famous national park is betting big on crypto by Adam Popescu

• Part II: The failure points from $5m to $100m in ARR by Tracy Young

• Facebook’s Bridge to Nowhere by Issie Lapowsky 

• The Strength of Being Misunderstood by Sam Altman 

• The diversity myth by Peter Thiel 

• Differentiation by Packy McCormick

• Rise of the Silicon Valley Small Business by Anu Atluru

• My Life Is a Lie: How a Broken Benchmark Quietly Broke America by Michael W. Green

• Community Fission & Fusion by Anu Atluru 

• The forgotten mistake that killed Japan’s software industry by Disrupting Japan 

• The Rise of Steel Part I and Part II by Brian Potter 

• How (and Why) SpaceX Will Colonize Mars by Tim Urban 

• The Fermi Paradox by Tim Urban 

• Regulation, the Internet way by Nick Grossman 

• The surprising truth about which homes have heat pumps by Casey Crownhart 

• Software 2.0 by Andrej Karpathy 

• Exit Liquidity by Arthur Hayes 

• Productivity by Sam Altman 

• Why trying to "shape" AI innovation to protect workers is a bad idea by Noah Smith 

• Why the famous Peter Thiel interview question is so predictive by Auren Hoffman 

🎧 Podcasts

• Brett Crozier On Bravery, Impossible Decisions And What It Takes To Be A Leader by the Daily Stoic 

• Tobi Lütke: Calm Progress by The Knowledge Project

• Balaji Srinivasan: The Network State by The Knowledge Project

• Marc Andreessen: Interview with an Icon by The Knowledge Project 

• Ryan Holiday: A Stoic Life by The Knowledge Project 

• Sahil Lavingia: Observing the Present by The Knowledge Project

• Bill Ackman: Getting Back Up by The Knowledge Project

• Mike Maples: Living in the Future by The Knowledge Project

• Jason Fried: Doing the Enough Thing by The Knowledge Project

• Tobi Lütke: The Trust Battery by The Knowledge Project

• Naval Ravikant: The Angel Philosopher by The Knowledge Project

• Elon Musk : How to Build the Future by Y Combinator 

• David Vélez, Founder and CEO of Nubank by Stanford GSB

• The A.I. Dilemma by Center for Humane Technology 

• Silicon Valley Part I and Part II by the Rest is History 

• California by The Rest Is History

• The French Revolution by the Rest is History 

• The Wild West by the Rest is History 

• The Echo of a Coffee House by the Rest is History  

• Civil War by the Rest is History 

• Coinbase: Brian Armstrong by How I Built This

• Expedia & Zillow: Rich Barton by How I Built This

• Robinhood: Vlad Tenev by How I Built This

• Warren Buffett & Charlie Munger: Projections

• Chipotle: Steve Ells (2017) by How I Built This 

• Dropbox: Drew Houston by How I Built This

• How I Built Resilience: Jeremy Stoppelman of Yelp by How I Built This 

• Calendly: Tope Awotona by How I Built This 

• How I Built Resilience: Brian Chesky of Airbnb by How I Built This

• Stripe: Patrick and John Collison (2018) by How I Built This

• Competition is for Losers by Y Combinator / Peter Thiel 

• Airbnb CEO Brian Chesky on early rejection, customer focus & AI’s future in hospitality by TWiST 

• Where are all the aliens? by Stephen Webb

• The single biggest reason why start-ups succeed by Bill Gross

• Steve Jobs' 2005 Stanford Commencement Address by Stanford 

• Brian Chesky, Co-Founder and CEO of Airbnb: Designing a 10-star Experience by Stanford GSB

• Gwynne Shotwell, President and COO of SpaceX by Stanford GSB

• From 2 Weeks of Runway to a $1.5B Valuation: The Founder Playbook with Loom's CEO and Co-Founder by SaaStr

• Immad Akhund (CEO, Mercury) on How Mercury Added $2 Billion in Deposits After SVB Collapse by the Logan Bartlett Show

• The New World - Joshua Kushner, Thrive Capital, and the American Dream By Jeremy Stern