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Books I have enjoyed:
1587, A Year of No Significance: The Ming Dynasty in Decline - Ray Huang
1984 - George Orwell
2024 Harvard Business Review
2025 Harvard Business Review
The 38 Letters from J.D. Rockefeller to His Son - John D. Rockefeller Jr.
The 48 Laws of Power - Robert Greene
The Accidental Prime Minister - Sanjaya Baru
The Age of AI and Our Human Future - Henry Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher
Arabian Nights - Anonymous
A History of China - John Keay
The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho
Amp It Up - Frank Slootman
Angel - Jason Calacanis
Antonius and the Zodiacs - Dahlia Ornelas
The Anxious Generation - Jonathan Haidt
A Passage to India - E. M. Forster
Assyria: The Rise and Fall of the World's First Empire - Eckart Frahm
Bad Therapy - Abigail Shrier
Badass Affirmations: The Wit and Wisdom of Wild Women - Becca Anderson
Bag the Elephant: How to Win and Keep BIG Customers - Steve Kaplan
Banana: The Fate of the Fruit That Changed the World: Dan Koeppel
Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco - Bryan Burrough and John Helyar
Becoming - Michelle Obama
Benjamin Franklin - Walter Isaacson
Beyond Good and Evil - Friedrich Nietzsche
Beyond Valor: A World War II Story of Extraordinary Heroism, Sacrifice, and Survival - Jon Erwin and William Doyle
Bibi: My Story - Benjamin Netanyahu
Billionaires' Row: How a Series of Bi-Coastal Tycoons Seized Manhattan's Best Real Estate - Katherine Clarke
Bitter Brew - William Knoedelseder
Black Boy - Richard Wright
A Book of Strangers - Jeff Sharlet
Born of This Land - Chung Ju-yung
The Beautiful and Damned - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers - Jeff Sharlet
The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison
The Campaigns of Alexander - Arrian of Nicomedia
Captain James Cook - Richard Hough
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism - Sarah Wynn-Williams
The Cat in the Hat Comes Back - Dr. Seuss
The Catcher in the Rye - J. D. Salinger
Celebrating the Third Place: Inspiring Stories About the "Great Good Places" at the Heart of Our Communities - Ray Oldenburg1
The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail - Ray Dalio
Charlotte's Web - E.B. White
Chasing Innovation: Making Entrepreneurial Pursuits into Enduring Competitive Advantage - J. D. Schramm
The Chief: The Life of William Randolph Hearst - David Nasaw
Christmas Pig - J.K. Rowling
The Cigarette Century - Alan M. Brandt
Civic Work, Civic Lessons: Two Generations Reflect on Public Service - Thomas Ehrlich and Ernestine Fu
The Cleveland Clinic Way: Lessons in Excellence from One of the World's Leading Healthcare Organizations - Toby Cosgrove
The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age - Leo Damrosch
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure - Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt2
Confessions of an Advertising Man - David Ogilvy
The Confidence Game: Why We Fall for It . . . Every Time - Maria Konnikova
The Conference of the Birds - Attar of Nishapur
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration - Ed Catmull
Doce Cuentos Peregrinos (Twelve Pilgrim Tales) - Gabriel García Márquez
The Donner Party - George Keithley
Dr. Space: The Life of Wernher von Braun - Bob Ward
Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling - John Taylor Gatto
Dynamite and Peace: The Story of Alfred Nobel - Edith Patterson Meyer
The Ear Book - Al Perkins, Illustrated by William Payne
East of Eden - John Steinbeck
Educated - Tara Westover
Edison - Edmund Morris
Einstein - Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
Empire of AI - Karen Hao
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - Greg Mckeown
Ethics - Peter Singer
Europe Central - William Tanner Vollmann
Exercise of Power: American Failures, Successes, and a New Path Forward in the Post-Cold War World - Robert M. Gates
Fall Leaves: A Collection of Prose and Poetry - Will and Ariel Durant
The Facebook Effect - David Kirkpatrick
A Farewell to Arms - Ernest Hemingway
Financial Statement Analysis: A Practitioner's Guide - Charles J Woelfel
Fox in Socks - Dr. Seuss
The Frontier in American History - Frederick Jackson Turner
Grinding it Out: The Making of McDonald’s - Ray Kroc and Robert Anderson
The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
The Great Agnostic: Robert Ingersoll and American Freethought - Susan Jacoby
The Great Divorce - Clive Staples Lewis
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History - John M. Barry
Henry Kaiser: Builder in the Modern American West - Mark S. Foster
His Excellency: George Washington - Joseph J. Ellis
The Hilarious World of Depression - John Moe
The History of Love - Nicole Krauss
History of Rocketry and Space Travel - Wernher Von Braun and Frederick I. Ordway III
The Hobbit - J. R. R. Tolkien
The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance - Ron Chernow
The House of Spirits - Isabel Allende
How Google Works - Eric Schmidt and Jonathan Rosenberg
How to Appear Normal at Social Events - Lord Birthday
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World - Steven Johnson
I Am Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban - Malala Yousafzai
I’m Feeling Lucky: The Confessions of Google Employee Number 59 - Douglas Edwards
The Ickabog - J.K. Rowling
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation - Jon Gertner
India: A Million Mutinies Now - V.S. Naipaul
Invested: How I Learned to Master My Mind, My Fears, and My Money to Achieve Financial Freedom and Live a More Authentic Life3 - Charles Schwab
Irving Thalberg: Boy Wonder to Producer Prince - Mark A. Vieira
John Adams - David McCullough
Kissinger: The Idealist, 1923-1968 - Niall Ferguson
L.A. Confidential - James Ellroy
Last Man Standing: The Ascent of Jamie Dimon and JPMorgan Chase - Duff McDonald
Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead - Sheryl Sandberg and Nell Scovell
The Life of our Lord - Charles Dickens
The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times - Michelle Obama
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone - Olivia Laing
The Man Who Tapped the Secrets of the Universe - Glenn Clark
The Man Who Talks with the Flowers - Glenn Clark
Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor E. Frankl
Mao: The Unknown Story - Jon Halliday and Jung Chang
MBS: The Rise to Power of Mohammed Bin Salman - Ben Hubbard
My Inventions - Nikola Tesla
My Life and Work - Henry Ford
The Muqaddimah - Ibn Khaldûn
The Myth of Sisyphus - Albert Camus
No More Tears - Gardiner Harris
The Norton Anthology of Drama - J. Ellen Gainor
Notes from Underground - Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Odyssey - Homer
The Old Man and the Sea - Ernest Hemingway
Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish - Dr. Seuss
Open - Andre Agassi
Paid in Full: Building a World-Class Organization on the Gospel - Paul Chappell
Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World - Margaret MacMillan
The Plague - Albert Camus
Pour Your Heart Into It: How Starbucks Built a Company One Cup at a Time - Howard Schultz
The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York - Robert A. Caro
The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future - Sebastian Mallaby
The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest - Edward Chancellor
The Prophets - Abraham J. Heschel
The Real Anthony Fauci: Bill Gates, Big Pharma, and the Global War on Democracy and Public Health - Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Renewable: The World-Changing Power of Alternative Energy - Jeremy Shere
The Richest Man in Babylon - George Samuel Clason
The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company - Robert Iger
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany - William L. Shirer
Samurai's Garden - Gail Tsukiyama
Saving Your Marriage Before It Starts: Seven Questions to Ask Before -- and After -- You Marry - Les Parrott and Leslie Parrott
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building - Claire Hughes Johnson
Security Analysis - Benjamin Graham and David Dodd
Shah Jahan: The Rise and Fall of the Mughal Emperor - Fergus Nicoll
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike - Phil Knight
Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life - Alice Schroeder
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations - Toni Morrison
Speaking Out: Lectures and Speeches, 1937-1958 - Albert Camus
Stalking the Wild Pendulum - Itzhak Bentov
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
Story: Substance, Structure, Style, and the Principles of Screenwriting - Robert McKee
The Story of Civilization I: Our Oriental Heritage - Will and Ariel Durant
The Story of Civilization II: The Life of Greece - Will and Ariel Durant
The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers - Will Durant
The Stranger - Albert Camus
Stuck in the Shallow End: Education, Race, and Computing - Jane Margolis
Success Through a Positive Mental Attitude - Napoleon Hill and W. Clement Stone
The Sun Also Rises - Ernest Hemingway
The Swiss Banks - T. T. Fehrenbach
The Technological Republic - Alexander C Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska
Ted Talks: The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking - Chris Anderson
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know - Adam Grant
The Thomas Sowell Reader - Thomas Sowell
The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing - Bronnie Ware
The Toyota Way: 14 Management Principles from the World's Greatest Manufacturer - Jeffrey K. Liker
Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power - Jon Meacham
The Three-Body Problem - Liu Cixin
Trump: The Art of the Deal - Donald J. Trump and Tony Schwartz
Understanding Human Nature - Alfred Adler
Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life - Luke Burgis
The Wealth of Nations - Adam Smith
When McKinsey Comes to Town - Walt Bogdanich and Mickael Forsythe
When Money Dies: The Nightmare of Deficit Spending, Devaluation, and Hyperinflation in Weimar Germany - Adam Fergusson
The Wilderness Warrior: Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America - Douglas Brinkley
William and Mary - Roald Dahl
Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon - Colin Bryar and Bill Carr
The Wright Brothers - David McCullough
Writing Screenplays That Sell - Michael Hauge
The Yosemite - John Muir
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice - Shunryu Suzuki
Background:
UC Santa Cruz (B.A) Economics & Business Management (Emphasis in Finance)
Assistant Director (SIP 2023 & 2024)
Operations Coordinator (SIP 2022)
Implementation Consultant at Enforce Consulting; nCino (Salesforce) (2021)
SIP Program Assistant (SIP 2020)
Finance Assistant at UC Santa Cruz Athletics (2019)
Student Manager at UC Santa Cruz College 9/10 Dining (2018)
The Tuition has been Paid: Learn from Others’ Mistakes and AVOID THEM!!
Inside the Downfall of Doppler Labs (Link)
I’m Calling It. Southwest’s New Seat Policy Is Just a Money Grab. (Read the comments! - The customers are always right!)
Decoding Zuck’s Superintelligence Memo
America must be a nation of doers!
Inside Target, Frustrated Employees and Search for New CEO (Read the comments! - Longtime loyal customers share their thoughts!)
Housing is where the buck stops
Building AGI is a distributed systems problem, not a machine learning problem.
Honda hasn’t innovated since 2004