Reading List

This is a list of books that I have read over the last couple of years. Going forward, I will try to add a short summary for each book that I have read.

2021

• La llamada de la tribu by Mario Vargas Llosa

  In this book, Mario Vargas Llosa shares his experience of reading and thinking about some of the greatest philosophers of the last century (Karl Popper, Isaiah Berlin and many others). He describes how reading these philosophers have helped him in developing his own ideas as well as shaping his views of the liberal agenda.

• Option Volatility and Pricing: Advanced Trading Strategies and Techniques by Sheldon Natenberg

  This book is a good textbook introduction into option trading. I just skimmed over the majority of the content, but my main takeaway is that option trading is a very complex and risky activity and that, as a non-professional trader, you should better stay away from it (and instead directly invest in the underlying security)…

• Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler, Robin Hanson

  A good read to gain a bit more understanding of human psychology. The book first dives into the topic of animal behaviour and social norms that lead us to rely on signaling and self-deceptition. It then covers a variety of aspects in our lifes (such as body languange, religion and politics) in which our behaviour can often be explained by very different motives than those that we claim to follow.

• Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder by Nassim Taleb
• Deep Work by Cal Newport
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Taleb
• Schrödingers Katze auf dem Mandelbrotbaum by Ernst Peter Fischer

2020

• One Up on Wall Street by Peter Lynch
• La Tierra de las Papas by Paloma Bordons
• Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
• Lab Rats by Daniel Lyons
• Against the Gods - The Remarkable Story of Risk by Peter Bernstein
• EDGE: Value-driven digital transformation by James Highsmith
• The Go Programming Language by Alan Donovan
• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Harari
• Line by Line - How to edit your own writing by Claire Cook
• Die 5 Sprachen der Liebe by Gary Chapman
• Upheaval by Jared Diamond
• Lifes per Gallon by Terry Tamminen
• The great reversal by Thomas Philippon
• The Triathlete’s Training Guide - Joe Friel
• The prosperity paradox by Clayton M. Christensen
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• How to build a billion dollar app by George Berkowski
• Why we sleep by Mathew Walker
• Beruflich in Australien by Lea Joskowicz
• Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
• In a sunburned country by Bill Bryson