Reading List

A collection of fifty short stories across different writers and styles. A useful way to explore the form in small doses.

A case for building something distinctive rather than competing only by imitation. The central question is what a new company can do that others cannot.

Fishkin’s account of building a company, with attention to fundraising, growth, and the difficult choices behind startup success stories.

An accessible introduction to the brain. I liked the connection between the science and everyday questions.

An introduction to how venture capital works, including how investors evaluate companies and how financing decisions affect founders.

Saad’s argument about ideology, intellectual conformity, and open debate, presented through psychology and cultural commentary.

Greene explores the development of expertise through examples of apprenticeship, practice, and independent work.

A dark thriller built around memory and trauma. I found the atmosphere and the character of Father Silence especially unsettling.

LeDoux connects the evolution of survival mechanisms with questions about behavior and consciousness. I used figures from the book in my Yale PhD defense.

An introduction to functional MRI, its development, and the questions it can help researchers investigate.

I liked the challenge to treating perception, cognition, and emotion as separate systems. The book emphasizes their interdependence.

An introduction to causal reasoning, including the challenge of distinguishing associations from causal effects in observational data.