The most impactful books to my reality. I place here those that I recall much more often than the others.

From what in a human cannot be changed to what can, and then about people around us

Studying Human

The most value as early as possible, from the present toward the future, with the source texts closing the shelf as an appendix.

Studying World

The reading tool first, then how the brain thinks and where it fails, then emotions, the brain as an organ, tools, and repair with the clinical books last.

Studying Brain

From one person to the crowd: the mechanics of "yes" one on one, negotiation, the room, relationships, masses and media, power and dark techniques, history last.

Studying Influence

Sorted by growing scale of responsibility: managing people, thinking strategy, building a company, leading culture, counting money, stories as the reward at the end.

Doing Business

Each book relies only on the ones before it: frame, method, craft, team delivery, company transformation, dated material last.

Building Products

Mostly speculative garbage. In some cases pseudo-science. In other cases something that harmed people greatly.

Pile of Trash

Most of these I listen on-repeat when alone

My worldview

Wolf

Books on leading people, in the order I would give them to a friend who just got his first team. Nothing here needs an MBA. The mafia book is not a joke, read it.

Leadership

About how people stop thinking in a group and who uses it. Le Bon, Bernays and Goebbels are the source, everything after them is a copy. Not a comfortable read.

Crowds

How badly we decide and what to do about it. Kahneman and Taleb are the core, the rest are easier ways in. The first book shows the price of being wrong, read it before the theory.

Decisions

What I use when there is a person across the table. Half of it is about how you get manipulated, the other half about holding your position. Voss is the best one, read him last.

Negotiation

If you are new to this library, read these in this order. These are the books that formed me and they are easy to read. After them pick any other tag.

Start Here

Anxiety cannot be avoided, it can be managed. The workbooks are the method, the rest make it easier to start and to keep going. Read them before a friend pours bs into your head.

Calm

Being understood, with one person and with a room. First half is how people hear you, second half is how to talk to a hall and to the press. Overlaps with Negotiation on purpose.