Books

Here is a list of some of the books/audio books I’ve read/listened to over the years that I really enjoyed and recommend:

Business and Investing

• The Numerati by Stephen Baker
• Groundswell: Winning in a World Transformed by Social Technologies by Charlene Li and Josh Bernoff
• Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky
• Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t by Jim Collins
• Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
• Confessions of an Economic Hit Man by John Perkins
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcom Gladwell
• The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing by Taylor Larimore, Mel Lindauer, and Michael LeBoeuf
• The Coffeehouse Investor: How to Build Wealth, Ignore Wall Street, and Get On With Your Life by by Bill Schultheis
• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley and William D. Danko
• The Only Investment Guide You’ll Ever Need by Andrew Tobias

History

• The World is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century by Thomas L. Friedman

Information Technology

• The Practice of System and Network Administration by Thomas A. Limoncelli and Christina J. Hogan
• Time Management for System Administrators by Thomas A. Limoncelli

Mathematics

• Fermat’s Enigma by Simon Singh and John Lynch

Security

• The Art of the Steal by Frank W. Abagnale
• The Art of Deception: Controlling the Human Element of Security by Kevin D. Mitnick and William L. Simon
• The Art of  Intrusion: The Real Stories Behind the Exploits of Hackers, Intruders, & Deceivers by Kevin D. Mitnick and William L. Simon
• The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
• The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll
• Secrets and Lies: Digital Security in a Networked World by Bruce Schneier
• Spies Among Us: How to Stop the Spies, Terrorists, Hackers, and Criminals You Don’t Even Know You Encounter Every Day by Ira Winkler

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Currently reading/listening to:

• The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell
• Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction by Steve McConnell
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• The Passionate Programmer by Chad Fowler

Planning on reading/listening to:

• Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

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