I came across The Book of Elon when it was covered on a recent episode of Founders and then again on The Acquirers Podcast where Eric Jorgenson was interviewed. It was the latter of the two that persuaded me to give it a go.

After my recent review of The Contrarian, I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect from The Philosopher in the Valley: Alex Karp, Palantir and the Rise of the Surveillance State. I went into it wondering whether it would follow a similar vein on political leaning bias in its portrayal or present a more balanced view.

I read The Nvidia Way last year and for a while now, The Thinking Machine by Stephen Witt has been sitting in my Audible recommendations. After a couple of recent below par book selections, I decided to give this one a go.

I first read Extreme Ownership not long after its release just over a decade ago. I can’t recall exactly how I came across Jocko Willink for the first time, though I strongly suspect it was through a guest appearance on a podcast.

Whenever I head into town, I tend to drop into the local Waterstones and pick up a book without necessarily having one in mind. The Art of Winning by Dan Carter was one I picked up on a such a visit and what a find it turned out to be.

Some book titles don’t quite do justice to the depth of what’s inside, and Robert Greene’s The 33 Strategies of War definitely falls into that category. By the time you reach the end, it feels as though far more than thirty-three strategies have been explored.

I’m a bit torn on this one. I first came across The New Science of Momentum after hearing Don Yaeger interviewed on The Glue Guys podcast. I loved that episode as the topic of discussion around momentum in sport and business was right up my alley.

No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer has appeared in my recommendations several times over the past few years, but despite adding it to my wish list, I only got around to reading it recently.

Unreasonable Hospitality had been sitting on my Audible wishlist for months, but after hearing Will Guidara interviewed on a recent My First Million episode, I finally decided to give it a listen. I ended up finishing it in less than a day (albeit at my usual 3.5x listening speed)

You’d be forgiven for wondering, while reading Billion Dollar Loser, whether it’s a book about a company or a cult. By the end, I concluded it might have been both, at least as far as Adam Neumann himself was concerned.

I suspect many people know little about Salesforce as a company, yet probably use its services daily, either directly or through businesses built on its platform.

At 13 hours and 32 minutes in audiobook form (or 448 pages in print), Apple in China is a substantial commitment. Is it worth it? That depends on how deep your interest lies not just in Apple, but in the broader dynamics of U.S. companies’ reliance on Chinese manufacturing and global supply chains.