30 must read books for tech entrepreneurs

For me, time to read is never enough. I find books one of the best information and inspiration sources. Here at Singularity University, it’s not unusual to have best-selling authors giving lectures and since I love reading, I have been noting down any interesting book recommendations.

It’s still summer so add these 30 books to your reading list to get inspired about the latest technologies, the future of our society and how to build the necessary resilience to survive the entrepreneurship path. Most importantly, they will shape your mindset in a way that you will be able to incorporate future trends and exponential thinking in your business which are crucial skills in a world that is changing fast due to technology.

While most of them I haven’t find time to read yet, here are the most promising book recommendations from my #gsp16 summer adventure, in no particular order. To check the entire list please refer to my singularityu goodreads list.

Singularity and notes about the future

#1: Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth and Impact the World by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

#2: Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think by Peter H. Diamandis, Steven Kotler

#3: Exponential Organizations: Why new organizations are ten times better, faster, cheaper than yours (and what to do about it) by Salim Ismail, Mike Malone, Yuri van Geest, Peter Diamandis

#4: The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil

#5: How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil

#6: The Limits to Growth: The 30-Year Update by Donella H. Meadows, Dennis L. Meadows, Jørgen Randers

Entrepreneurship and building resilience

#7: Slicing Pie — Funding Your Business Without Funds by Mike Moyer

#8: Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace

#9: Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, by Simon Sinek

#10: The Art of the Start 2.0: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki

#11: Give and Take: A Revolutionary Approach to Success by Adam M. Grant

#12: The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future by Kevin Kelly

Understanding humans and society

#13: When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein

#14: The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia by James C. Scott

Energy and environment

#15: The Infinite Resource: The Power of Ideas on a Finite Planet by Ramez Naam

#16: Nature’s Fortune: Why Saving the Environment is the Smartest Investment We Can Make by Mark R. Tercek, Jonathan Adams

Health and medicine

#17: The Creative Destruction of Medicine: How the Digital Revolution Will Create Better Health Care by Eric Topol

#18: Pharmageddon by David Healy

#19: The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health by Justin Sonnenburg, Erica Sonnenburg, Andrew Weil

Mind and human performance

#20: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience byMihaly Csikszentmihalyi

#21: Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol S. Dweck

#22: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment by Eckhart Tolle

#23: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott

#24: Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant by Daniel Tammet

Technology

#25: Future Crimes: Everything Is Connected, Everyone Is Vulnerable, and What We Can Do About It, by Marc Goodman

#26: The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.

#27: Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data Is Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response by Patrick Meier

#28: Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension
by Samuel Arbesman

#29: Love and Sex with Robots: The Evolution of Human-Robot Relationships by David N.L. Levy

#30: Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom

This post was inspired by my experience at Singularity University where I am spending the summer as part of #gsp16.