Your full library — all 56 books — stack-ranked to your goals: focus · life goal-setting · longevity & lipids · decision quality · mental wellness · discipline · wealth · present-dad. Updated 21 Jul 2026.
Essentialism
Your #1 foundation for beating over-commitment — do less, but better. Nothing in the goal system works if everything is a priority.
Wellbeing: The Five Essential Elements new
The dimensions map for your goal-setting system — Physical, Social, Career, Financial, Community. Set one objective per element.
The 4 Disciplines of Execution new
Your own instinct formalized — lead measures (inputs you control) vs lag measures (the goal). The execution engine for the dimensions.
Measure What Matters new
OKRs proper — turns each dimension's objective into measurable key results with weekly targets. The scorecard for the goal system.
Designing Your Life new
The Health/Work/Play/Love dashboard — prototype-and-test approach to designing the life, feeding straight into the Oct–Dec career call.
Outlive
Longevity + lipids, evidence-based — directly ties to your health plan and the September ApoB/LDL retest. Your "Physical" objective in book form.
The 5 Resets
Stress-and-resilience protocol that pairs with the lipid plan — chronic stress moves the same markers you're retesting in September.
How to Decide
Simple tools for structured choices under uncertainty — the toolkit for the career weighing and the MELI business calls.
Quit
The science of knowing when to walk away — sharp for the Oct–Dec career decision. Grit's underrated other half.
Transitions
Making sense of life's changes — the emotional mechanics of a career change, so the Oct–Dec move is navigated, not just decided.
Thinking for a Change
Deliberate, structured thinking as a habit — reinforces decision quality across the career and MELI threads.
Solve for Happy new
The happiness equation you were after — happiness ≥ perception minus expectations. An engineer's framework for joy.
Unstressable new
Practical stress management — the operational companion to Solve for Happy. Protects the mental-wellness dimension.
The Courage to Be Disliked new
Adlerian take on freeing yourself from others' expectations — a clean counter to over-commitment and the source of a lot of stress.
Calm Your Chaotic Mind
Practical anxiety-grounding — a fast, tactical read for the mental-wellness dimension when the noise gets loud.
Hope for Cynics
The science of human goodness — an antidote to cynicism that supports the "Social/Community" side of wellbeing.
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem
The classic on self-worth as a practice — underpins the confidence the career move and mental-wellness goals both lean on.
Grit
Passion + perseverance, the research behind your Goggins thread — the trait that carries goals from set to done.
The War of Art
Beating Resistance — short, hard, Goggins-adjacent. The discipline lever; read it on a low-motivation day.
Master Your Code
The art and science of leading an extraordinary life — a self-leadership frame that binds discipline to the goal system.
Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
Reframing fear as fuel — a reflective complement to the grit reads before a big career leap.
Poor Charlie's Almanack read
Worldly wisdom + investing — the Munger source text behind your mental-models and MELI thinking. Worth a re-dip.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Wealth + happiness, aphoristic and dip-in-able — bridges the investing and mental-wellness dimensions.
The Joys of Compounding read
Lifelong learning as an investing edge — reinforces the long-horizon FIRE mindset. A good re-read alongside MELI.
What I Learned About Investing from Darwin
Evolution-as-investing-lens, high-quality-compounder thinking — directly useful for how you hold MELI.
Investing Between the Lines
Decoding CEO communications for candour — a practical skill for reading the companies in your portfolio.
The Little Book of Common Sense Investing read
The index-fund case — the low-cost baseline your FIRE plan is measured against. Quick refresher.
The Way to Wealth
Franklin's compact money-and-industry maxims — timeless frugality principles that sit under the FIRE math.
Poor Richard's Almanac read
The aphorisms behind The Way to Wealth — dip-in wisdom on thrift and habit. Light re-read.
Influence read
The psychology of persuasion — foundational for the MELI negotiations and any leadership move. Worth revisiting the expanded edition.
The 48 Laws of Power
The unsentimental map of power dynamics — read it to recognise the game, useful context for the career and business fronts.
The Infinite Game
Playing for the long game over quarterly wins — frames the career decision as durability, not a single move.
The Friction Project
Making the right things easier and the wrong things harder — a leadership lens that doubles as a personal-productivity tool.
Self Leadership and the One Minute Manager read
Situational self-leadership — a quick model for managing your own motivation across the goal dimensions.
Career Superpowers
Succeeding on purpose — practical career-direction thinking that feeds the Oct–Dec weighing.
Cracking the PM Interview
The PM-role playbook — directly relevant if the career move points back toward a product leadership seat.
The Product Manager's Survival Guide
The end-to-end PM operating manual — reference material for the product side of any career option.
When You Wonder, You're Learning
The present-dad dimension — patience and curiosity with Noah. A gentler counterweight to the drive.
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller
The definitive capital-and-discipline biography — a masterclass in long-horizon wealth-building and self-control.
The Power Broker
How power is actually accumulated and wielded — the great study of ambition and its costs. Long, but formative.
Elon Musk
Extreme drive and risk tolerance up close — useful contrast for calibrating your own ambition and trade-offs.
Lincoln: The Unknown
Resilience and character under sustained hardship — a quiet study in perseverance for the grit thread.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Curiosity and first-principles play — a light, joyful read that models learning for its own sake.
The 4-Hour Workweek
Lifestyle-design and leverage ideas — dated in parts, but a few useful automation prompts for the FIRE angle.
Make Time
Tactics for defending attention day to day — a lightweight complement to Essentialism.
Payoff
The hidden logic of motivation — a short TED-length read on what actually drives effort.
Istanbul: City of Majesty
History for pleasure — broadens the aperture; a change of pace from the goal-setting stack.
How to Read a Book read
The method for reading actively — already read; keep as reference for getting more out of this whole list.
Happy Sexy Millionaire read
Redefining success beyond the clichés — already read; overlaps with the happiness thread above.
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Fiction — the palate-cleanser on the shelf. Read purely for the pleasure of a good story.
Between the World and Me
A short, powerful essay on identity and America — perspective-broadening, outside the goal stack.
The Book on Rental Property Investing
Buy-and-hold real-estate mechanics — niche relative to your current MELI/equities focus; keep for if property re-enters the FIRE plan.
What Causes Cancer?
Reference-grade risk overview — tangential to the active lipid plan; dip in only if a specific question comes up.
The Game
Old 2016 acquisition, well outside your current goals — deprioritized. Cultural curiosity at best.
The Truth
Old 2016 acquisition on relationships — deprioritized; not aligned with the current stack.
Rules of the Game
Old 2016 acquisition — deprioritized; bottom of the shelf.