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title	author	publication_year	book_start	book_end	status	rating	tags	notes
America’s Bank: The Epic Struggle to Create the Federal Reserve	Roger Lowenstein	2016	null	null	unread	null	bankfinanceusa	null
American Rascal: How Jay Gould Built Wall Street's Biggest Fortune	Greg Steinmetz	2022	null	null	unread	null	19c-adfinancehistorynew-yorkusa	null
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life	Walter Isaacson	2003	null	null	read	84	constitutionphiladelphiascienceusa	null
Breakneck	Dan Wang	2025	2026	2026	abandoned	11	californiachinapolicysilicon-valleytechnologyusaxi-jinping	Wang tries his hardest to create a compelling narrative to reconcile the USA and China, advocating for a world of beneficial coexistence and mutual learning (while leaning into the narrative of the US's descent versus China's ascent). The problem is that he hinges this almost entirely on his "too many lawyers, not enough engineers" thesis, which is an over-simplification and does not bear out. I became increasingly frustrated when he authoritatively cited "too much judicial review" as a cause for so much time and resource being wasted on lawyers in the US, without seeming to understand the difference between review by the judiciary (a court case) and review of the judiciary (actual judicial review). Ultimately, he writes with an unfounded confidence citing his equal periods living in China and the US as backup for his 3-4 specific examples of his theory. It's weak, sloppy and unconvincing.
Buffett: The Biography	Roger Lowenstein	1995	2016	2016	read	84	bankingberkshire-hathawaybiographybuffettbusinessinsuranceinvestmentmungernebraskaomahausa	null
Creativity, Inc.	Ed Catmull Amy Wallace	2014	2021	2021	read	77	businesscaliforniacreativitydesigndisneyentrepreneurleadershippixarproductsilicon-valleysteve-jobstechnologyusa	null
Hit Refresh	Satya Nadella	2017	2017	2021	read	63	businesscloudleadershipmicrosoftsaassilicon-valleytechnologyinternettech-giantscaliforniausa	null
Howl	Allen Ginsberg	1956	null	null	read	null	beat-generationcaliforniapoetry	null
In the Plex	Steven Levy	2011	2025	2026	read	76	biographybusinesscaliforniagoogleinternetsearchsilicon-valleytech-giantstechnologyusa	null
No Rules Rules	Reed Hastings Erin Meyer	2020	2020	2020	read	78	businesscaliforniacloudcreativitycultureentrepreneurinternetleadershipnetflixsaassilicon-valleystrategytech-giantstechnologyusa	null
On The Road	Jack Kerouac	1957	null	null	read	82	beat-generationcaliforniacoloradodrugsusa	null
Snow Crash	Neal Stephenson	1992	2025	2025	read	78	cyberpunklos-angelesmetaverseninjasci-fiusa	snow-crash.md
Steve Jobs	Walter Isaacson	2011	null	null	read	87	applebusinesscaliforniacreativitydesigndisneyentrepreneurleadershippixarproductsilicon-valleysteve-jobstechnologyusa	null
Tales Of The Fish Patrol	Jack London	1906	2016	null	unread	null	animalscalifornianaturalismspanish	null
The Call Of The Wild	Jack London	1903	2011	2011	read	84	alaskanaturalismnatureusawolf	null
The Dharma Bums	Jack Kerouac	1958	null	null	read	88	beat-generationbuddhismcaliforniadharmausa	null
The Everything Store	Brad Stone	2013	2019	2019	read	80	amazonbiographybooksbusinesse-commerceseattle	null
The Great Crash 1929	John Kenneth Galbraith	1954	2019	2020	read	65	20seconomicsfinancehistoryusawall-street	null
The Nvidia Way	Tae Kim	2024	2025	2025	read	67	biographybusinessnvidiasilicon-valleytechnology	null
The President and the Plutocrat: Roosevelt, Mellon and the Triumph of Big Government	Greg Steinmetz	2026	null	null	unreleased	null	governmentmellonrooseveltusawashington	null
The Search: How Google and Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Transformed Our Culture	John Battelle	2006	null	null	unread	null	businesscaliforniaentrepreneurgooglehistoryinternetsearchsilicon-valleytechnologyusa	null
Tools and Weapons	Brad Smith Carol Ann Browne	2019	null	null	unread	null	businessmicrosoftpolicytechnologytech-giantssilicon-valleycaliforniausa	null
Ways and Means: Lincoln and His Cabinet and the Financing of the Civil War	Roger Lowenstein	2022	null	null	unread	null	abraham-lincolnfinanceusawar	null
White Fang	Jack London	1906	2011	2011	read	62	alaskanaturalismnatureusawolf	null

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full_name	birth_year	death_year	tags	notes
Allen Ginsberg	null	null	beat-generation california poetry	null
Jack Kerouac	1922	1969	beat-generation california usa	null
Karen Hao	1993	null	ai mit usa	null
Mark Twain	1835	1910	usa	null
Ursula Le Guin	1929	2018	sci-fi usa	null

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