Books, essays, and papers I'm working through, and how each one connects to the project. Not a curated list, not a suggested syllabus. Just an honest record of what's on my mind and how I'm reading it.
Ludwig von Mises · 1949 · 907 pp.
Mises' lifework is not an economics textbook. It is a worldview built around a single uncomfortable claim: nobody knows the future. Once that is accepted, almost every institution that pretends otherwise — the central bank, the planning ministry, the boardroom that claims prophetic vision — begins to look the same.
Read the full entry →Robert O'Neill and Dakota Meyer · 2022 · 256 pp.
Two warfighters — a Navy SEAL and a Marine Corps Medal of Honor recipient — talk about what came after. Not the missions. The part nobody trains you for: who you are when the team is gone, and the train has already left without you.
Read the full entry →Eric Jorgenson · 2026 · 280 pp.
Jorgenson compiles Elon Musk's words across two decades into a single organized volume. The value is not discovery; it is compression — and the absence of an interpreter's filter. The most useful read is a diagnostic: Musk's success rests on correctly identifying which class of problem he is solving. That clarity is the prerequisite for everything else.
Read the full entry →Ethan Mollick · 2024 · 256 pp.
Mollick's practical case for treating AI as a collaborator rather than a tool. The book's empirical anchor — the BCG study — points toward something Mollick doesn't fully theorize: in an AI-augmented economy, the form of capital that matters most is taste.
Read the full entry →Christopher Clarey · 2021 · 432 pp.
A portrait of Roger Federer's career across three decades of elite tennis — and an investigation into the rarer question of how someone sustains excellence over that long a run. Not just what Federer did, but what made it last.
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