2013 Best Books Read

30 Dec 2014

Here are my picks for the best books I read in 2013. How Innovations are Adapted

• Crossing the Chasm - business
• The Innovator’s Dilemma - engineer
• Purple Cow - marketing

Crossing the Chasm, The Innovator’s Dilemma and Purple Cow are all about the same thing, but from different occupational perspectives. Investing

• Unconventional Success - Yale investing
• The Intelligent Investor - Warren Buffet’s mentor

These are must reads for people getting into investing Happiness and Self

• Getting Things Done
• Willpower
• 30 Lessons for Living
• So Good They Can’t Ignore You
• Stumbling on Happiness

Books about being productive and happy. Psychology

• The Charisma Myth
• Predictably Irrational
• The Black Swan
• Little Bets

Knowing about the traps that people fall in will hopefully let you avoid them. Companies

• I’m Feeling Lucky - Google
• Masters of Doom - id Software

Books about the early days at influential companies