Vlad DudaPragmatist

The bookshelf

Reading

A reading life, year by year. The subjects I return to, recent reads, and a few numbers from the notebook.

Books read
145
Categories explored
6

Year by year

Entries logged each year. 2026 is still in progress.

2015
16
2016
6
2017
10
2018
18
2019
10
2020
13
2021
29
2022
12
2023
12
2024
14
2025
4
2026
1

What I read

Categories across all reading years.

Biography
8
Business
33
Fun
33
Self-Help
35
Startups
12
Tech
24

Counts include repeat entries. Categories follow the original sheet.

From the recent shelf

Five recent reads

Newest reading year first, then highest personal score within that year. The sheet records years, so dates below show the year read.

  1. Personal Knowledge: Towards a post-critical philosophy

    Michael Polanyi

    Self-Help

    8/10

  2. The Millionaire Next Door

    Thomas J. Stanley

    Business

    10/10

  3. Poems & Prayers

    Matthew McConaughey

    Fun

    9/10

  4. Greenlights

    Matthew McConaughey

    Biography

    9/10

  5. Means of Control

    Byron Tau

    Tech

    9/10

The complete reading log

143 distinct titles. Repeat entries are kept. Open a year to see its books, scores, and publication years.

Browse all 145 reading entries, organized by year

145 reading entries

20261 entry

  1. Personal Knowledge: Towards a post-critical philosophy

    8/10

    Michael Polanyi

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2026
    Published
    1974
20254 entries

  1. The Millionaire Next Door

    10/10

    Thomas J. Stanley

    Business
    Read in
    2025
    Published
    1998

  2. Poems & Prayers

    9/10

    Matthew McConaughey

    Fun
    Read in
    2025
    Published
    2025

  3. Greenlights

    9/10

    Matthew McConaughey

    Biography
    Read in
    2025
    Published
    2024

  4. Means of Control

    9/10

    Byron Tau

    Tech
    Read in
    2025
    Published
    2024
202414 entries

  1. A Thousand Splendid Suns

    10/10

    Khaled Hosseini

    Fun
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    2007

  2. Don Juan von Kolomea (Lviv)

    10/10

    Leopold von Sacher-Masoch

    Fun
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    1866

  3. The Little Book of Valuation

    10/10

    Aswath Damodaran

    Business
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    2011

  4. The Goldfinch

    10/10

    Donna Tartt

    Fun
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    2013

  5. A Gentleman in Moscow

    9/10

    Amor Towles

    Fun
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    2016

  6. Extraordinary Popular Delusions & Madness of Crowds

    9/10

    Charles Mackay

    Business
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    1841

  7. The Intelligent Investor

    9/10

    Benjamin Graham

    Business
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    1949

  8. Kiki's Delivery Service

    8/10

    Eiko Kadono

    Fun
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    2021

  9. The Book Thief

    8/10

    Markus Zusak

    Fun
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    2005

  10. The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    7/10

    Ben Horowitz

    Biography
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    2014

  11. The Venture Mindset

    7/10

    Ilya Strebulaev, Alex Dang

    Startups
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    2024

  12. A Hacker's Mind

    7/10

    Bruce Schneier

    Fun
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    2023

  13. Diving Into Scaling Through Chaos

    5/10

    Martin Mignot, Index Ventures

    Business
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    2024

  14. The Man from St. Petersburg

    2/10

    Ken Follett

    Fun
    Read in
    2024
    Published
    1982
202312 entries

  1. The Millionaire Next Door

    10/10

    Thomas J. Stanley

    Business
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    1998

  2. Exit Path: How to Win the Startup End Game

    10/10

    Touraj Parang

    Startups
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    2022

  3. Black Hat Rust

    10/10

    Sylvain Kerkour

    Tech
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    2022

  4. Going Infinite: The Rise and Fall of a New Tycoon

    9/10

    Michael Lewis

    Startups
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    2023

  5. Doing Good Better

    9/10

    William MacAskill

    Business
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    2016

  6. Nonviolent communication

    9/10

    Marshall B. Rosenberg

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    1999

  7. The Machine Stops

    8/10

    E.M. Forestor

    Fun
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    1909

  8. Speak Like Churchill, Stand Like Lincoln

    8/10

    James C. Humes

    Business
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    2002

  9. The Power of Habit

    8/10

    Charles Duhigg

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    2012

  10. The Rust Programming Language

    8/10

    Carol Nichols, Steve Klabnik

    Tech
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    2018

  11. 17 Equations That Changed the World

    7/10

    Ian Stewart

    Fun
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    2013

  12. Shell coders handbook

    6/10

    Chris Anley, Felix Lindner, and John Heasman

    Tech
    Read in
    2023
    Published
    2004
202212 entries

  1. The Mom Test

    10/10

    Rob Fitzpatrick

    Startups
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    2019

  2. Who Moved My Cheese

    9/10

    Spencer Johnson

    Business
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    1998

  3. The Changing World Order

    9/10

    Ray Dalio

    Fun
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    2021

  4. Growth Hacker Marketing

    8/10

    Ryan Holiday

    Startups
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    2013

  5. The Dip

    8/10

    Seth Godin

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    2007

  6. Doing Content Right

    8/10

    Steph Smith

    Business
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    2021

  7. 7 Highly Effective Habits

    8/10

    Stephen Covey

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    1989

  8. The Black Swan

    8/10

    Nassim Taleb

    Fun
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    2007

  9. Beyond Order

    8/10

    Jordan Peterson

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    2021

  10. The Big Leap

    7/10

    Gay Hendricks

    Fun
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    2009

  11. Tokenomics

    7/10

    Sean Au, Thomas Power

    Tech
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    2018

  12. The Network State

    6/10

    Balaji Srinivasan

    Tech
    Read in
    2022
    Published
    2022
202129 entries

  1. The Millionaire Fastlane

    10/10

    MJ DeMarco

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2011

  2. Unscripted

    10/10

    MJ DeMarco

    Business
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2017

  3. Personality Isn’t Permanent

    10/10

    Benjamin Hardy

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2020

  4. Predictably Irrational

    9/10

    Dan Ariely

    Startups
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2008

  5. Charisma on Command

    9/10

    Charlie Houpert

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2014

  6. Rework

    9/10

    Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

    Business
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2010

  7. The Art of War

    9/10

    Sun Tzu

    Fun
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    500 BCE

  8. Delivering Happiness

    9/10

    Tony Hsieh

    Biography
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2010

  9. The 10X Rule

    9/10

    Grant Cardone

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2011

  10. Will it Fly

    9/10

    Pat Flynn

    Business
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2016

  11. The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

    9/10

    Al Ries and Jack Trout

    Business
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    1993

  12. The 10 Pillars of Wealth

    9/10

    Alex Becker

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2016

  13. Traction

    9/10

    Gabriel Weinberg and Justin Mares

    Business
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2014

  14. Atomic Habits

    8/10

    James Clear

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2018

  15. Dating Essentials for Men

    8/10

    Dr. Robert Glover

    Fun
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2019

  16. Made to Stick

    8/10

    Chip and Dan Heath

    Business
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2007

  17. The One Thing

    8/10

    Gary Keller

    Business
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2012

  18. The Art of Thinking Clearly

    7/10

    Rolf Dobelli

    Tech
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2014

  19. The 1 Million Web Designer Guide

    7/10

    Anthony Rob O’Rourke

    Business
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2021

  20. Fundraising

    7/10

    Ryan Breslow

    Startups
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2021

  21. The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

    7/10

    Eric Jorgenson

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2020

  22. Bold

    6/10

    Peter Diamandis

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2015

  23. How to Market a Book

    6/10

    Ricardo Fayet

    Business
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2021

  24. The Setup

    5/10

    Dan Bilzerian

    Fun
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2021

  25. Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

    5/10

    Mark Manson

    Fun
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2019

  26. To Sell Is Human

    4/10

    Daniel H. Pink

    Business
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2012

  27. The Tao of Charlie Munger

    4/10

    David Clark

    Biography
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2017

  28. The Slight Edge

    2/10

    Jeff Olson

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2005

  29. This Is Marketing

    2/10

    Seth Godin

    Business
    Read in
    2021
    Published
    2018
202013 entries

  1. The Art and Business of Online Writing

    10/10

    Nicolas Cole

    Biography
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    2020

  2. The Last Lecture

    10/10

    Randy Pausch

    Biography
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    2008

  3. Copywriting Secrets

    10/10

    Jim Edwards

    Business
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    2019

  4. Bad Data

    9/10

    Peter Schryvers

    Tech
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    2020

  5. Breakthrough Advertising

    9/10

    Eugene Schwartz

    Business
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    1966

  6. Measure What Matters

    9/10

    John Doerr

    Tech
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    2017

  7. Surrounded by Idiots

    8/10

    Thomas Erikson

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    2020

  8. Civilized to Death

    8/10

    Chris Ryan

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    2019

  9. The Personal MBA

    8/10

    Josh Kaufman

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    2017

  10. The Psychology of Money

    7/10

    Morgan Housel

    Business
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    2020

  11. Can't Hurt Me

    7/10

    David Goggins

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    2018

  12. The Bed of Procrustes

    7/10

    Nassim Taleb

    Fun
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    2010

  13. The 48 Laws of Power

    7/10

    Robert Greene

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2020
    Published
    1998
201910 entries

  1. Never Split the Difference

    10/10

    Chris Voss

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2019
    Published
    2016

  2. Zero to One

    10/10

    Peter Thiel

    Startups
    Read in
    2019
    Published
    2014

  3. The Unicorn Project

    10/10

    Gene Kim

    Tech
    Read in
    2019
    Published
    2019

  4. Scientific Advertising

    8/10

    Claude Hopkins

    Business
    Read in
    2019
    Published
    1923

  5. Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins

    8/10

    Garry Kasparov

    Tech
    Read in
    2019
    Published
    2017

  6. Contagious: Why Things Catch On

    7/10

    Jonah Berger

    Business
    Read in
    2019
    Published
    2013

  7. Practical Female Psychology for the Practical Man

    7/10

    Joseph, David, and Franco

    Fun
    Read in
    2019
    Published
    2015

  8. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*CK

    7/10

    Mark Manson

    Fun
    Read in
    2019
    Published
    2016

  9. Way of The Wolf: Straight Line Selling

    5/10

    Jordan Belfort

    Business
    Read in
    2019
    Published
    2017

  10. Outliers: The Story of Success

    4/10

    Malcom Gladwell

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2019
    Published
    2011
201818 entries

  1. Skin in the Game

    10/10

    Nassim Taleb

    Business
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2017

  2. The Inner Game of Tennis

    10/10

    Timothy Gallwey

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    1972

  3. Psycho-Cybernetics

    10/10

    Maxwell Maltz

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    1960

  4. Thinking, Fast and Slow

    10/10

    Daniel Kahneman

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2013

  5. The Phoenix Project

    10/10

    Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr

    Tech
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2013

  6. Information Theory, Inference, and Learning Algorithms

    9/10

    David MacKay

    Tech
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2003

  7. Algorithms to Live By

    9/10

    Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths

    Tech
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2017

  8. Shoe Dog

    9/10

    Phil Knight

    Biography
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2016

  9. Your Brain on Porn

    9/10

    Gary Wilson

    Fun
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2014

  10. 12 Rules for Life

    9/10

    Jordan Peterson

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2017

  11. Checklist Manifesto

    9/10

    Atul Gawande

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2009

  12. The Lean Startup

    9/10

    Eric Ries

    Startups
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2011

  13. Think Like a Data Scientist

    8/10

    Brian Godsey

    Tech
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2017

  14. Hello, My Name Is Awesome

    8/10

    Alexandra Watkins

    Startups
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2014

  15. The Magic of Thinking Big

    8/10

    David Schwartz

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    1959

  16. Models

    7/10

    Mark Manson

    Fun
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2011

  17. On Writing Well

    5/10

    William Zinsser

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    1976

  18. Nomad Capitalist

    3/10

    Andrew Henderson

    Fun
    Read in
    2018
    Published
    2018
201710 entries

  1. Natural Image Statistics

    9/10

    Aapo Hyvärinen, Jarmo Hurri, and Patrik O. Hoyer

    Tech
    Read in
    2017
    Published
    2009

  2. Principles

    9/10

    Ray Dalio

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2017
    Published
    2017

  3. Python Data Science Handbook

    9/10

    Jake VanderPlas

    Tech
    Read in
    2017
    Published
    2017

  4. The Tao te Ching

    9/10

    Lao Tzy

    Fun
    Read in
    2017
    Published
    400 BCE

  5. Everybody Lies

    9/10

    Seth Stephens-Davidowitz

    Tech
    Read in
    2017
    Published
    2017

  6. Positioning

    9/10

    Al Ries and Jack Trout

    Business
    Read in
    2017
    Published
    1980

  7. The Hard Thing About Hard Things

    8/10

    Ben Horowitz

    Biography
    Read in
    2017
    Published
    2014

  8. Hackers & Painters

    7/10

    Paul Graham

    Startups
    Read in
    2017
    Published
    2003

  9. Blue Ocean Strategy

    6/10

    W. Chan Kim, Renée Mauborgne

    Business
    Read in
    2017
    Published
    2004

  10. Brand Seduction

    4/10

    Daryl Weber

    Business
    Read in
    2017
    Published
    2016
20166 entries

  1. Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems

    9/10

    Sam Newman

    Tech
    Read in
    2016
    Published
    2014

  2. Antifragile

    9/10

    Nassim Taleb

    Fun
    Read in
    2016
    Published
    2012

  3. The Gifts of Imperfection

    8/10

    Brené Brown

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2016
    Published
    2010

  4. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

    8/10

    Greg McKeown

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2016
    Published
    2014

  5. The Four Agreements

    6/10

    Don Miguel Ruiz

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2016
    Published
    1997

  6. Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble

    6/10

    Daniel Lyons

    Startups
    Read in
    2016
    Published
    2016
201516 entries

  1. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich

    10/10

    Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

    Fun
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    1970

  2. The Alchemist

    10/10

    Paulo Coelho

    Fun
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    1988

  3. Animal Farm

    10/10

    George Orwell

    Fun
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    1945

  4. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

    9/10

    Al Sweigart

    Tech
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    2015

  5. And The Mountains Echoed

    9/10

    Khaled Hosseini

    Fun
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    2013

  6. Fooled by Randomness

    9/10

    Nassim Taleb

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    2001

  7. The Way of the Superior Man

    9/10

    David Deida

    Self-Help
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    1997

  8. Cloud Atlas

    9/10

    David Mitchell

    Fun
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    2004

  9. The Rootkit Arsenal

    9/10

    Bill Blunden

    Tech
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    2009

  10. Data Mining and Statistics for Decision Making

    8/10

    Stéphane Tufféry

    Tech
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    2011

  11. Different

    8/10

    Youngme Moon

    Fun
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    2011

  12. The Richest Man in Babylon

    8/10

    George S. Clason

    Business
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    1926

  13. Cashvertising

    8/10

    Drew Eric Whitman

    Business
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    2008

  14. Voilent Python

    7/10

    TJ O'Connor

    Tech
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    2012

  15. Exploiting Software: How to Break Code

    6/10

    Greg Hoglund, Gary McGraw

    Tech
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    2004

  16. The Communist Manifesto

    5/10

    Karl Marx

    Fun
    Read in
    2015
    Published
    1848

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