Books

Michael Lewis' Blockers goes deep on six people caught in DOGE's path, and on what DOGE and the new administration did to them.

Last night I finished Richard Powers' Playground, a novel about a dying tech founder, while Jensen Huang's story was unfolding at Nvidia. I kept waiting for Todd to be an AI.

I'm completely baffled by the narratives about the last decade, so I've added contemporary political history to my reading diet. Four books that helped.

I finished book eight of Dungeon Crawler Carl. It took me eight months to get through the series and I savored every one of them. Matt Dinniman is doing something extraordinary.

I read Theo Baker's How to Rule the World in the last 24 hours. It works on a lot of levels at once - memoir, investigation, a study in how power dismisses inconvenient reporting, and a master class in what not to do at the board level.

On April 29 at 10am PT, Eric Ries and I are doing a free fireside chat for startup communities. We're going to talk about the lessons we've learned as founders, investors, and advisors - and the books we've each just put into the world.

I first read Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance in college. I've read it at least a half dozen times since. Ted Gioia just published a piece about the real story behind the book.

I read three books yesterday that have nothing to do with each other on the surface. One is about founder mental health. Another is about monks who hike. The third is about quitting your job and figuring out what comes next.

My partner Seth Levine has an important new book out today titled Capital Evolution: The New American Economy. I saw it last night at the Boulder Bookstore in the New

Give First is now available to pre-order in Audiobook format (it will be officially released on 12/2/26). I’m the reader, so if you are an audiobook person, you’ll have to