My Bookshelf

What follows is my virtual bookshelf, which keeps a tally of all the books I’ve read during my own enlightenment 😏 and ranks them in order of the impact they’ve had upon me personally. This is a living, breathing document that’s sure to grow and evolve as long as I myself remain a living, breathing organism who himself is growing and evolving. In other words, I’ll revisit the reading list at the bottom of this page and make additions/edits as I finish new titles. But first, a few notes…

Back on January 1, 2011, my New Year’s Resolution was to read 100 books in 5 years. 61 months later, I managed to cross the finish line: I celebrated my century club achievement in 2016; followed by my bicentennial at year-end 2022. Long term goals are hard to reach. So much had changed in my life over those years — and even more has since then — so I feel really accomplished, having clung to the self-motivation needed to stay committed to learning and growing. More importantly, I don’t think the time-commitment has come at the expense of real living or relationships — even in the years since achieving that milestone, throughout which I’ve kept chugging. It’s been a rather enriching experience that’s both catalyzed new relationships and breathed new life into old ones.

Obviously, the measure by which I’ve ranked these titles, “impact”, is highly qualitative. For me, it conveys a combination of enjoyment and ROI, inspiration and motivation. That’s all dependent on the highly idiosyncratic conditions of my professional life cycle and personal development — a fuzzy kind of formula that weighs each book’s effect on me at the time of my reading it and, to a lesser extent, its resonance unto me up through the present.

In some way, this represents half the discipline of my post-academic self-administered education. (The other half is largely the digital content I consume, which I’ve saved and annotated with Annotote.) If business and writing are the outlets of my intellectual curiosity, then consumption and reading are the inputs. From the time these efforts expend of my days and nights, they yield multiples in professional and personal self-improvement.

Learning today is less and less confined to physical classrooms, yet we still limit the quantification of individuals’ qualifications to formal academic settings and accreditations, because heuristics. This characterizes the “Infovore’s Dilemma” — an unnatural tradeoff in which polymaths and autodidacts are forced to choose between the validation of an accredited system and the enlightenment of a shadow system.

It seems like cognitive dissonance to continue ignoring the knowledge that individuals consume outside of the classroom and throughout their lives. Technology’s proliferation of free, accessible knowledge has incited opportunities around self-education today — much like the printing press in the 15th century. Since our education is increasingly derived from these informal channels, the intellectually curious deserve credit for their true quantum of knowledge. From “What If We Quantified Knowledge”:

…the reason potential energy matters in physics is because it may predicate kinetic energy, future action, economic value. Just like a stretched elastic stores potential energy, a critical mass of “information” accumulated by an individual stores economic value.

As an input, this quantum merely represents potential energy, which wholly lacks its own scoreboard — unlike its output, the kinetic energy, which is not only prominently manifest in real economic value, but also accounted for in real financial capital. Given the present system’s compounding flaws, which increasingly reward the arbitrageurs of academia’s structural inefficiencies and misincentives, a codification of this grey market for knowledge is increasingly necessary as a complement, supplement, and/or replacement of the status quo.

(Likely more of the former two and less of the latter one, but it’d at least be useful to have some objective data with which we can study the broader corpus of knowledge and learning — to improve the precision of human capital, capital allocation, and education.)

That all said, my growing wish list might be the best indicator of my ambition; I’m perhaps more proud of what I haven’t read, than what I have. From Nassim Taleb in The Black Swan:

[A] private library is not an ego-boosting appendage but a research tool. Read books are far less valuable than unread ones. The library should contain as much of what you don’t know as your financial means, mortgage rates and the currently tight real-estate market allows you to put there. You will accumulate more knowledge and more books as you grow older, and the growing number of unread books on the shelves will look at you menacingly. Indeed, the more you know, the larger the rows of unread books. Let us call this collection of unread books an antilibrary.

As you’ll notice below, my content diet is relatively balanced. Albeit skewed toward non-fiction, it’s a decidedly liberal arts mix of history, philosophy, psychology, technology, physics, and business. These broad categories lay at the intersection of my aptitude and my interest.

Enjoy, and please respond with an inventory of your own bookshelves. Regardless of the medium — text, audio, video — please share your own recommended curriculum from the past, present, and future.

Without further ado, my list…

Now

• Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank [Newbridge Capital white knight bailout] (Weijian Shan)
• Roosevelt’s Secret War: FDR and World War II Espionage (Joseph Persico)

Next

• Money Games: The Inside Story of How American Dealmakers Saved Korea’s Most Iconic Bank [rescue by Newbridge Capital] (Weijian Shan)
• Freezing Order: A True Story of Russian Money Laundering, State-Sponsored Murder, and Surviving Vladimir Putin’s Wrath (Bill Browder)
• The Wires of War: Technology and the Global Struggle for Power [Google disinformation chief about struggle between democracy and autocracy] (Jacob Helberg)
• Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine and the Murder of a President [James Garfield] (Candice Millard)
• The Undoing Project [Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky] (Michael Lewis)

Done

1. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Liaquat Ahamed)
2. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management (Roger Lowenstein)
3. Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Taleb)
4. The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine (Michael Lewis)
5. Chaos and Order in the Capital Markets (Edgar Peters)
6. The Hard Thing about Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers (Ben Horowitz)
7. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite (Sebastian Mallaby)
8. Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future (Peter Thiel)
9. The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World (Niall Ferguson)
10. Paris 1919: Six Months That Changed the World (Margaret MacMillan)
11. Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Nassim Taleb)
12. The Art of Racing in the Rain (Garth Stein)
13. eBoys: The First Inside Account of Venture Capitalists at Work (Randall Stross)
14. Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe (Gillian Tett)
15. Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)
16. The Last Days of Night [Edison/Westinghouse/Tesla] (Graham Moore)
17. The House of Morgan: An American Banking Dynasty and the Rise of Modern Finance (Ron Chernow)
18. Market Wizards: Interviews with Top Traders (Jack Schwager)
19. The Match King: Ivar Kreuger (Frank Partnoy)
20. The Dead Hand: The Untold Story of the Cold War Arms Race and Its Dangerous Legacy (David Hoffman)
21. The pmarca Blog Archives [select posts, 2007–09] (Marc Andreessen)
22. Margin of Safety (Seth Klarman)
23. In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives (Steven Levy)
24. The Innovator’s Dilemma (Clayton Christensen)
25. Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to 9/11/2001 (Steve Coll)
26. The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos & the Age of Amazon (Brad Stone)
27. Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)
28. The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Tim Wu)
29. The Myth of the Rational Market (Justin Fox)
30. Cable Cowboy: John Malone and the Rise of the Modern Cable Business [TCI and Liberty Media] (Mark Robichaux)
31. Confessions of an Economic Hitman (John Perkins)
32. Hedge Fund Market Wizards (Jack Schwager)
33. The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)
34. Drive: The Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us (Daniel Pink)
35. Hardcore History: The Wrath of the Khans [Parts I-V, Genghis Khan and the Mongol Empire] (Dan Carlin)
36. Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike (Phil Knight)
37. The Accidental Superpower: The Next Generation of American Preeminence and the Coming Global Disorder (Peter Zeihan)
38. Remembrance of Earth’s Past (Book I): The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu)
39. Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber [Travis Kalanick] (Mike Isaac)
40. Alexander Hamilton (Ron Chernow)
41. Dark Pools: High-Speed Traders, A.I. Bandits, and the Threat to the Global Financial System (Scott Patterson)
42. American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road [Ross Ulbricht, Bitcoin, and crypto] (Nick Bilton)
43. The Panic of 1907: Lessons Learned from the Market’s Perfect Storm (Robert Bruner and Sean Carr)
44. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup [Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos] (John Carreyrou)
45. The Price of Peace: Money, Democracy, and the Life of John Maynard Keynes (Zachary Carter)
46. Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth & Impact the World (Peter Diamandis)
47. Liar’s Poker (Michael Lewis)
48. Contagious: Why Things Catch On (Jonah Berger)
49. The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution (Walter Isaacson)
50. Never Lost Again: The Google Mapping Revolution That Sparked New Industries and Augmented Our Reality (Bill Kilday)
51. The Black Swan (Nassim Taleb)
52. The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb, and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley Are Changing the World (Brad Stone)
53. Boyd: The Fighter Pilot Who Changed the Art of War (Robert Coram)
54. Why Does the World Exist? An Existential Detective Story (Jim Holt)
55. The End of Wall Street (Roger Lowenstein)
56. The Alpha Masters (Maneet Ahuja)
57. The Last Tycoons: The Secret History of Lazard Freres (William Cohan)
58. Marissa Mayer and the Fight to Save Yahoo! (Nicholas Carlson)
59. The Fish That Ate the Whale: The Life and Times of America’s Banana King [Sam Zemurray and Cuyamel/United Fruit Company] (Rich Cohen)
60. Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley (Antonio Garcia Martinez)
61. Remembrance of Earth’s Past (Book II): The Dark Forest [The Three-Body Problem] (Cixin Liu)
62. Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption (Laura Hillenbrand)
63. Who Owns the Future? (Jaron Lanier)
64. The Quants (Scott Patterson)
65. The Alchemy of Finance (George Soros)
66. Trillion Dollar Triage: How Jay Powell and the Fed Battled a President and a Pandemic — and Prevented Economic Disaster (Nick Timiraos)
67. McMafia (Misha Glenny)
68. Billion Dollar Fantasy: The High-Stakes Game Between FanDuel and DraftKings That Upended Sports in America (Albert Chen)
69. Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built (Duncan Clark)
70. Growth Hacker Marketing: A Primer on the future of PR, Marketing, and Advertising (Ryan Holiday)
71. Hatching Twitter (Nick Bilton)
72. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)
73. Remembrance of Earth’s Past (Book III): Death’s End [The Three-Body Problem] (Cixin Liu)
74. Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future (Ashlee Vance)
75. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy (Hamilton Helmer)
76. The New Market Wizards: Conversations with America’s Top Traders (Jack Schwager)
77. Confessions of a Street Addict (Jim Cramer)
78. Traction: A Startup Guide to Getting Customers [Duck, Duck, Go] (Justin Mares and Gabriel Weinberg)
79. Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation (Blake Harris)
80. The Goal: A Process of Ongoing Improvement [assembly lines, bottlenecks, and the Socratic Method for business management] (Eliyahu Goldratt and Jeff Cox)
81. The Soul of a New Machine [Data General] (Tracy Kidder)
82. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (J.D. Vance)
83. The Club: How the English Premier League Became the Wildest, Richest, Most Disruptive Force in Sports (Joshua Robinson and Jonathan Clegg)
84. Not One Inch: America, Russia, and the Making of Post-Cold War Stalemate [NATO] (M.E. Sarotte)
85. Project Hail Mary [astrophage] (Andy Weir)
86. WTF?: What’s the Future and Why It’s Up to Us (Tim O’Reilly)
87. The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company (Bob Iger)
88. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator (Edwin Lefevre)
89. All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis (Bethany McLean and Joe Nocera)
90. Poor Economics: A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty (Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo)
91. Creative Selection: Inside Apple’s Design Process During the Golden Age of Steve Jobs (Ken Kocienda)
92. The Futures: The Rise of the Speculator and the Origins of the World’s Biggest Markets (Emily Lambert)
93. Too Big to Fail (Andrew Ross Sorkin)
94. The Little Book That Still Beats the Market (Joel Greenblatt)
95. Freakonomics (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner)
96. Den of Thieves (James Stewart)
97. Red Notice (Bill Browder)
98. Grand Pursuit: The Story of Economic Genius (Sylvia Nasar)
99. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron (Bethany McLean)
100. The Alchemist: A Fable about Following Your Dream (Paulo Coelho)
101. Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths (Bruce Feiler)
102. Lords of Strategy: The Secret Intellectual History of the New Corporate World (Walter Kiechel)
103. Inside the Black Box: A Simple Guide to Quantitative and High Frequency Trading (Rishi Narang)
104. The World for Sale: Money, Power, and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources [Glencore and the rise of commodity trading] (Javier Blas)
105. The First Tycoon: The Epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt (T.J. Stiles)
106. Exponential Organizations (Salim Ismail)
107. The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (John Valliant)
108. The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation (John Gertner)
109. The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race [CRISPR, mRNA, and the race for a COVID-19 vaccine] (Walter Isaacson)
110. The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver)
111. The Launch Pad: Inside Y Combinator (Randall Stross)
112. The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story [Jim Clark’s Silicon Graphics/Netscape/Healtheon] (Michael Lewis)
113. Superpower Interrupted: The Chinese History of the World [from China’s perspective] (Michael Schuman)
114. Hardcore History: The Blueprint for Armageddon [Parts I-VI, World War I] (Dan Carlin)
115. Mogul: The Life & Death of Chris Lightly [legendary hip-hop manager] (Gimlet Media)
116. Conspiracy: Peter Thiel, Hulk Hogan, Gawker, and the Anatomy of Intrigue (Ryan Holiday)
117. Powerhouse: The Untold Story of Hollywood’s Creative Artists Agency [CAA] (James Andrew Miller)
118. The Caesars Palace Coup: How a Billionaire Brawl Over the Famous Casino Exposed the Power and Greed of Wall Street (Max Frumes and Sujeet Indap)
119. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN (James Andrew Miller and Tom Shales)
120. The Fifth Risk [The Trump Administration’s transition into the US federal government] (Michael Lewis)
121. Writing My Wrongs: Life, Death, and Redemption in an American Prison (Shaka Senghor)
122. Amazon Unbound: Jeff Bezos and the Invention of a Global Empire (Brad Stone)
123. The Last Hunger Season: A Year in an African Farm Community on the Brink of Change (Roger Thurow)
124. Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of BlackBerry (Jacqui McNish and Sean Silcoff)
125. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Trevor Noah)
126. Choose Yourself (James Altucher)
127. Atlas Shrugged (Ayn Rand)
128. The Alchemists: Three Central Bankers and a World on Fire (Neil Irwin)
129. The Attention Merchants (Tim Wu)
130. The Devil in the White City: Murder, Magic, and Madness at the Fair That Changed America [1893 World’s Fair/Columbian Exposition in Chicago] (Erik Larson)
131. Enemy of All Mankind: A True Story of Piracy, Power, and History’s First Global Manhunt [17th century pirate Henry Every] (Steven Johnson)
132. The Immortal Irishman: The Irish Revolutionary Who Became an American Hero (Tim Egan)
133. Masters of Doom (David Kushner)
134. Who Is Michael Ovitz? [Autobiography of Creative Artists Agency/CAA] (Michael Ovitz)
135. Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller Sr. (Ron Chernow)
136. Creativity, Inc. [Pixar] (Ed Catmull)
137. The Spider Network [LIBOR rigging scandal] (David Enrich)
138. The Pentagon’s Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA (Annie Jacobson)
139. A Triumph of Genius: Edwin Land, Polaroid, and the Kodak Patent War (Ronald Fierstein)
140. The King of Content: Sumner Redstone’s Battle for Viacom, CBS, and Everlasting Control of His Media Empire (Keach Hagey)
141. Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania (Erik Larson)
142. The Founders: The Story of Paypal and the Entrepreneurs Who Shaped Silicon Valley [The Paypal Mafia] (Jimmy Soni)
143. Uncommon Grounds: The History of Coffee and How It Transformed Our World (Mark Pendergrast)
144. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom [India’s Ranbaxy and pharmaceutical/biotech manufacturing quality control] (Katherine Eban)
145. Mint Condition: How Baseball Cards Became an American Obsession (Dave Jamieson)
146. 3 Kings: Diddy, Dr. Dre, Jay-Z, and Hip-Hop’s Multibillion-Dollar Rise (Zack O’Malley Greenburg)
147. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York (Robert Caro)
148. The Man without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Masha Gessen)
149. Inside Money: Brown Brothers Harriman and the American Way of Power (Zachary Karabell)
150. The Blocksize War: The Battle for Control Over Bitcoin’s Protocol Rules (Jonathan Bier)
151. The Bond King: How One Man Made a Market, Built an Empire, and Lost It All [Bill Gross and PIMCO] (Mary Childs)
152. Tractor Wars: John Deere, Henry Ford, International Harvester, and the Birth of Modern Agriculture (Neil Dahlstrom)
153. Street Smarts (Jim Rogers)
154. SuperFreakonomics (Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner)
155. Diary of a Hedge Fund Manager (Keith McCullough and Richard Blake)
156. Abundance: The Future Is Better Than You Think (Peter Diamandis)
157. My Life as a Quant: Reflections on Physics and Finance (Emanuel Derman)
158. The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy [Book 1] (Douglas Adams)
159. The Last Lecture (Randy Pausch)
160. What’s Mine Is Yours: The Rise of Collaborative Consumption (Rachel Botsman and Roo Rogers)
161. Flash Boys (Michael Lewis)
162. Modern Monopolies: What It Takes to Dominate in the 21st Century Economy [tech platforms] (Alex Moazed and Nicholas Johnson)
163. The Jersey Brothers: A Missing Naval Officer in the Pacific and His Family’s Quest to Bring Him Home (Sally Mott Freeman)
164. Behind the Cloud [salesforce.com] (Marc Benioff)
165. The War of Art (Steven Pressfield)
166. Barbarians at the Gate (Bryan Burrough)
167. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics [rowing/crew] (Daniel James Brown)
168. Chaos Kings: How Wall Street Traders Make Billions in the New Age of Crisis [Nassim Taleb’s “Black Swan”; Didier Sornette’s “Dragon Kings”; Mark Spitznagel’s Universa; and the rise of tail risk hedging] (Scott Patterson)
169. Verizon Untethered: An Insider’s Story of Innovation and Disruption (Ivan Seidenberg and Scott McMurray)
170. The End of Big: How the Internet Makes David the New Goliath (Nicco Mele)
171. Good to Great (Jim Collins)
172. The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium (Martin Gurri)
173. Hit Refresh: The Quest to Rediscover Microsoft’s Soul and Imagine a Better Future for Everyone (Satya Nadella)
174. A Hedge Fund Tale of Reach and Grasp (Barton Biggs)
175. Platform Revolution: How Networked Markets Are Transforming the Economy (Geoffrey Parker)
176. A Tale of the Vienna Woods: Eine Geschichte Aus Dem Wienerwald (Anthony Arena)
177. Little Black Stretchy Pants [lululemon] (Chip Wilson)
178. Life After Google: The Fall of Big Data and the Rise of the Blockchain Economy (George Gilder)
179. Tao Te Ching [Dao De Jing] (Laozi)
180. Manias, Panics, and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises (Charles Kindleberger)
181. The Innovation Stack: Building an Unbeatable Business One Crazy Idea at a Time [cofounder of Square/Block] (Jim McKelvey)
182. My Life in Advertising (Claude Hopkins)
183. Black Elk: The Life of a Native American Visionary (Joe Jackson)
184. Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric [GE and its CEOs Jack Welch/Jeff Immelt/John Flannery] (Thomas Gryta and Ted Mann)
185. Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World (Michael Lewis)
186. Built from Scratch: How a Couple of Regular Guys Grew The Home Depot from Nothing (Bernie Marcus and Arthur Blank)
187. The Dream Machine [J.C.R. Licklider’s contributions to ARPA, Xerox PARC, the birth of personal computing, and the consumer internet] (Mitchell Waldrop)
188. Startupland: How Three Guys Risked Everything to Turn an Idea into a Global Business [Denmark’s Zendesk] (Mikkel Svane)
189. Traffic: Genius, Rivalry, and Delusion in the Billion-Dollar Race to Go Viral [the rise of the blogs and bloggers from Buzzfeed’s Jonah Peretti to Gawker’s Nick Denton] (Ben Smith)
190. One Up On Wall Street (Peter Lynch)
191. Built to Last (Jim Collins)
192. The World Is Flat (Thomas Friedman)
193. The March of Folly: From Troy to Vietnam (Barbara Tuchman)
194. Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years of Lockheed (Ben Rich and Leo Janos)
195. Undermoney [novel by former Elliot Management Chairman about US military/CIA operation to recover billions of dollars lost to the black market in Syria] (Jay Newman)
196. Leap First: Creating Work That Matters (Seth Godin)
197. The Most Important Thing (Howard Marks)
198. The Entrepreneurial State: Debunking Public vs. Private Sector Myths [case studies about the US federal government funding innovation] (Mariana Mazzucato)
199. Wealth, War & Wisdom (Barton Biggs)
200. The King of Con: How a Smooth-Talking Jersey Boy Made and Lost Billions, Baffled the FBI, Eluded the Mob, and Lived to Tell the Crooked Tale [Italian mafia] (Thomas Giacomaro and Natasha Stoynoff)
201. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking (Saifedean Ammous)
202. Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Playbook of Silicon Valley’s Bill Campbell [CEO whisperer] (Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle)
203. Invested: Changing Forever the Way Americans Invest (Charles Schwab)
204. The Startup of You (Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha)
205. Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)
206. The $100 Startup (Chris Guillebeau)
207. The Price of Tomorrow: Why Deflation Is the Key to an Abundant Future [Bitcoin and crypto] (Jeff Booth)
208. Principles: Life and Work [Bridgewater] (Ray Dalio)
209. Manuscript Found in Accra (Paulo Coelho)
210. Business Adventures (John Brooks)

Your digital library

Don’t waste everything you read, watch, or listen to — and definitely don’t waste your time. There’s a network that gives you highlights of everything you need to read and lets you annotate anything you want for yourself. For the content worth keeping, check out Annotote: