what influenced me
Books
- The Fountainhead – Ayn Rand
- Atlas Shrugged – Ayn Rand
- The Virtue of Selfishness – Ayn Rand
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
- The Cold Start Problem – Andrew Chen
- The One Thing – Gary Keller
- What You Do Is Who You Are – Ben Horowitz
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
- Zero to One – Peter Thiel
- Models – Mark Manson
- Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
- No Rules Rules – Reed Hastings
- The Feynman Lectures on Physics – Richard Feynman
- Course of Theoretical Physics – Landau & Lifshitz
- Bhagavad Gita
Essays
- Do Things that Don't Scale – Paul Graham
- How to Do Great Work – Paul Graham
- Startup = Growth – Paul Graham
- Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule – Paul Graham
- How to Make Wealth – Paul Graham
- The Right Kind of Stubborn – Paul Graham
- Keep Your Identity Small – Paul Graham
- A Project of One's Own – Paul Graham
- Billionaires Build – Paul Graham
- How to Get Startup Ideas – Paul Graham
- The Lesson to Unlearn – Paul Graham
- Why It's Safe for Founders to Be Nice – Paul Graham
- The Top Idea in Your Mind – Paul Graham
- The Fine Line Between Fear and Courage – Ben Horowitz
- Which Way Do You Run? – Ben Horowitz
- How Superhuman Built an Engine to Find Product-Market Fit – Rahul Vohra
- How to Get Rich – Naval Ravikant
- Every Marketing Channel Sucks Right Now – Andrew Chen
- Why Object Oriented Programming is Bad – Paul Graham
- The Only Thing That Matters in Software is User Experience – Ryan Dahl
- The Days Are Long but the Decades Are Short – Sam Altman
- Acquisition & Engagement Loops – Andrew Chen
- Retention – Sequoia
Videos
- Elon Musk: How I Became The Real 'Iron Man'
- Designing a 10-star Experience – Brian Chesky
- Naval on Recruiting
- Jony Ive on What Steve Jobs Taught Him About Focus
- Stay Hungry, Stay Foolish – Steve Jobs
- The Number 1 Thing People Get Wrong About Happiness and Success – Brian Chesky
- 44 Cheat Codes for the Game of Life – Naval Ravikant
- Pavel Durov on Telegram, Freedom, and Censorship – Lex Fridman
- Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma – Veritasium
Games
- Pokémon FireRed
- Pokémon HeartGold
- Pokémon Emerald
- Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
- SimCity
- StarCraft
- Heroes of Might and Magic
Movies
- Interstellar
- The Dark Knight
- Iron Man
- Mr. Nobody
- October Sky
- Black Mirror
- Inception
- Good Will Hunting
- 3 Idiots
- Notting Hill
- Cristiano Ronaldo: World at His Feet
- The Theory of Everything
- Star Wars
- The Lord of the Rings
- Harry Potter
- Her
- Vanilla Sky
- 3 Body Problem
- The Good Place
- Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
- Squid Game
- Great Expectations
- Gladiator
- (500) Days of Summer
- Slumdog Millionaire