Just a Book List from Someone Who's not Famous

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Dealing with Cancer and Personal Crises 
a. Upheaval 
b. When a Breath Becomes Air 
c. The Breakthrough

Self-Control and Discipline 
a. This Time Will Be Different: A Short Book on Making Permanent Changes 
b. The Marshmallow Test: Mastering Self-Control 
c. (long and technical, recommend over a few months) Thinking, Fast and Slow

Understanding the Business of Start-ups, Management, and Growth 
a. The Hard Thing About Hard Things 
b. Creativity, Inc 
c. The Phoenix Project 
d. The Adventures of an IT Leader 
e. The Goal 
f. High Output Management

Parenting and being a good family person 
a. Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime 
b. The Game Theorist's Guide to Parenting: How the Science of Strategic Thinking Can Help You Deal with the Toughest Negotiators You Know--Your Kids

Understanding the Challenges of Moving through Class Strata and Dealing with Impostor Syndrome 
a. Educated: A Memoir 
b. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis Making

Reasonable Decisions 
a. Stretch: Unlock the Power of Less - and Achieve More Than You Ever Imagined 
b. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts 
c. Measure What Matters
d. The Metrics Manifesto: Confronting Security with Data 

Understanding Leaders and the People I Work With 
0. Snapshots of Great Leadership (First Edition) 
a. The Culture Code 
b. The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable
c. Radical Candor 
d. No Asshole Rule 
e. 1-minute Manager 
f. The First 90-days
e. The Advantage: Why Organizational Health Trumps Everything Else In Business
g. No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention 
h. Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
i. Extreme Ownership
j. Staff Engineer
k. An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
l. Scaling Up


Looking Ahead 
a. Snow Crash 
b. Ghost Fleet 
c. Rainbows End 
d. Thinking Like a Futurist