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Books · 2023

Favorite Books of 2023

I read fewer books in 2023, but they were dense. These four stayed with me.

Top picks

Competing Against Luck

Clayton Christensen

Christensen’s Jobs to Be Done framework for understanding why customers choose products.

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Thiel’s argument for building companies that create something new.

Real Analysis

Walter Rudin

A rigorous introduction to real analysis.

Professional CUDA C Programming

John Cheng, Max Grossman, and Ty McKercher

A practical guide to parallel programming with CUDA.

What I was thinking about

I spent the year thinking about innovation, company design, mathematics, and systems performance.