Reading · 104 books
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Collection of things that I've read. Whether it's good, bad, heavy, light, deep, shallow, amazing, or mediocre, most of them shape the way I perceive the world and myself, more than any form of media out there. A ★ means I’ve read it more than once on purpose.
2025
14 books
Why We Die
A Nobel laureate explains the science of aging — why our bodies break down and what cutting-edge research says about slowing the clock.
★ Secrets of Consulting
The art of giving and getting advice — told through stories, paradoxes, and laws that are funny because they're true. Business wisdom …
The Personal MBA
Skip the $150K degree. Every essential business concept in one book — value creation, marketing, sales, finance, systems thinking, and the …
New Plant Parent
A science-based approach to keeping houseplants alive. Forget the guilt — understand light, water, and soil, and your plants will forgive …
★ The Three-Body Problem
“What do you think the enemy is afraid of?” “You! Scientists! The odd thing is that the less practical your research is, the more they're …
The Sales Acceleration Formula: Using Data, Technology, and Inbound Selling to Go from $0 to $100 Million
“Without data, you’re just another person with an opinion.”
Selling the Invisibles: A Field Guide to Modern Marketing
“In most professional services, you are not really selling expertise—because your expertise is assumed, and because your prospect cannot …
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
“If you understand the math behind compounding you realize the most important question is not ‘How can I earn the highest returns?’ It’s …
Sales Management. Simplified: The Straight Truth About Getting Exceptional Results from Your Sales Team
“Sales is about action, and analysis-paralysis is not a quality that tends to produce new business development success.”
Poor Charlie's Almanack
“In my whole life, I have known no wise people who didn’t read all the time—none, zero.”
★ The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth, Greed, and Happiness
“Doing well with money has little to do with how smart you are and a lot to do with how you behave.”
★ 100M Leads: How to Get Strangers to Want to Buy Your Stuff
“Doing the thing that scared me most—giving away my secrets—led to the biggest breakthrough in my life.”
Feel Good Productivity
You're not a drop in the ocean; you're the entire ocean in a teacup—make it a fancy one!
Greenlights
“The arrival is inevitable: Death. A unanimous end, a unified destination. A noun without regard. Our eulogy. Written. Lived. The approach …
2024
8 books
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
No one can compete with you on being you. Most of life is a search for who and what needs you the most.
★ Watership Down
“He was not the strongest, nor the fastest. But he was the bravest. And sometimes, that is enough.”
★ Awareness: Conversations with the Masters
“The easiest way to be miserable is to want people to behave the way you expect them to.”
Master of the Senate
“The greatest legislative victories are rarely loud. They are shaped in whispers, promises, and the quiet pressure of a hand on a shoulder.”
★ Scaling Up
"You don’t have to be years ahead, just minutes ahead of the market, the competition, and those they lead. The key is frequent interaction …
★ A Very Hungry Caterpillar
"But he was still hungry :)."
★ Atomic Habits
Motivation is fickle. Systems are forever.
★ The Element of Typographic Style
“Typeface is the clothes words wear. The better the tailoring, the sharper the message.”
2022
15 books
Thinking Fast and Slow
“Your brain has two drivers: one is impulsive, the other is lazy. Guess who wins most of the time?”
Building a Second Brain
“Creativity isn't about having more ideas. It's about making sense of the ones you already have.”
Autobiography Of a Yogi
“Stillness is the altar of spirit.”
Who We're Reading When We're Reading Murakami
“Birnbaum and Luke both believed in the importance of—to borrow the phrase Jay Rubin uses in his book about Murakami—the “music of words.” …
The Yoga Of Eating
"We are what we eat, but more importantly, we are how we eat."
★ The Perfect Mile
“The race isn't about running. It's about believing you can run that fast.”
The Lessons Of History
“Civilization begins when you stop killing each other over your differences and start killing each other over resources.”
Siddharta
“Peace is not something that happens when you achieve your goals, but something that happens within you when you cease to seek.”
Sapiens: A Graphic History. Vol 1 & 2
“How do you cause people to believe in an imagined order such as Christianity, democracy or capitalism? First, you never admit that the …
Nagabumi II: Buddha, Pedang, dan Penyamun Terbang
Nagabumi I: Jurus Tanpa Bentuk Seno Gumira Ajidarma
A really different reading experience. Seno Gumira di buku ini bekerja benar-benar sangat keras untuk membuat pembaca bisa mendapatkan …
Decoding Greatness
“To become great, you must first become comfortable being bad at something. Only then can you improve.”
Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor
“We all have a tendency to think we are smarter than we are. We need to be aware of that and counteract it.”
★ Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies
“Great leadership isn't about charisma. It's about creating a system that empowers others to succeed.”
Advanced Marathoning
“The real race begins when your legs start to hurt, not before.”
2021
11 books
What I'm Talking About When I Talk About Running
“Especially for someone in my line of work, solitude is, more or less, an inevitable circumstance. Sometimes, however, this sense of …
The Ride Of a Lifetime
"The riskiest thing we can do is just maintain the status quo."
The Alchemist
Semua hal yang terjadi sekali, tidak akan terjadi lagi. Tapi semua hal yang terjadi dua kali, pasti akan terjadi untuk ketiga kalinya.
Sprint: How to Solve Big Problems and Test New Ideas in Just Five Days
Waktu dulu masih jadi Product Manager, buku ini sering saya jadikan pegangan, terutama ketika sedang membutuhkan decision making cepat untuk …
Remote: Office Not Required
Gak lagi commuting, gak harus punya kantor bagus (yang artinya budgetnya bisa dipindah untuk perk lain untuk karyawan), gak harus hire dari …
In Other Words
Seperti ratusan ribu mahasiswa lain di era 2000 an, saya mengidolakan dan mencoba meniru gaya menulis GM yang khas. Dari dia saya jadi paham …
★ High Output Management
"As a general rule, you have to accept that no matter where you work, you are not an employee—you are in a business with one employee: …
★ Elevation
“The night was cold, chilling the sweat on his face, but the air was as sweet and crisp as the first bite of a fall apple. Above him was a …
★ Coaching Coversation
44% karyawan bilang kalau mereka gak pernah dapet constructive feedback. Jangan mau ada di braket manajar itu. Terus memberikan feedback …
★ Ask a Manager
“Feedback is a gift. But it’s not always a pleasant one.”
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
“When we look to the future, we don’t just have to ask what we want to do. We also need to ask what we want to become.”
2020
13 books
What You Do is Who You Are
“It’s not about being the smartest person in the room. It’s about being the one who consistently sets the standard through actions.”
The One Thing
“What’s the ONE Thing you can do such that by doing it everything else will be easier or unnecessary?”
The Magic Of Thinking Big
“The size of your success is determined by the size of your belief.”
★ The Lean Startup
“Build, measure, learn. The only way to win is to learn faster than anyone else”
★ The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Don't Panic! Saya baru membacakan buku ini 42 tahun sejak buku ini pertama kali diterbitkan dan masih tertawa terpingkal-pingkal dengan …
The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman
Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes.
★ The Absolute Brightness of Leonard Pelkey
Wonderfully narrated and written. Kekuatan di Audiobook ini ada di skill narratornya – ceritanya sendiri walaupun engaging, tapi untuk …
Steve Jobs: The Exclusive Biography
“Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.”
I Can't Make This Up
“You can't control the events that happen to you, but you can control your interpretation of them. So why not choose the story that serves …
Free To Focus
You will be the same person in five years as you are today except for the people you meet and the books you read. The Distraction Economy …
★ Educated
“When you grow up in a family where every action is questioned, it is easy to forget that there are things worth questioning.”
Chief Joy Officer
Jujur saja. Gak banyak yang saya ingat dari buku ini. Ceritanya gak begitu berkesan, dan mungkin gak begitu praktikal. Sayang sekali karena …
★ Be Prepared - A Practical Handbook for New Dads
"Fresh out of the womb newborns look very different. As a matter of fact, your newborn may not bear any resemblance to you, your partner, or …
2019
27 books
Why We Sleep
“Sleep should be your superpower, not your afterthought.”
Wally Roux Quantum Mechanics
Coming of the age book. Wally Roux adalah jenius cilik yang tidak pernah fit in dengan lingkungannya dan menemukan pelarian di memperbaiki …
The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*ck
“Stop trying to be extraordinary. Embrace being average and do the things that make you truly happy.”
The Simple Path To Wealth
“The path to wealth is simpler than we think. Spend less than you earn, invest the difference, and wait.”
The Power Of Now
“You don't have to 'do' anything to be. Simply being is enough.”
The Power Of Habit
“It's not motivation that drives change—it's momentum, created by small, consistent steps. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, …
The Obesity Code
“Eating less and exercising more is not the solution—it's just a temporary fix to a deeper, metabolic issue. It's not about how much you …
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
“You don't learn the most from the good days. You learn from the bad days—the ones that really test your strength.”
The Effective Executive
“There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.”
The Dispatcher
Novel audio tentang masa depan di mana orang akan kembali hidup jika dia mati bukan karena kondisi alami. Kombinasi unik antara fantasi dan …
The Dichotomy Of Leadership
“Discipline equals freedom, but too much discipline can become rigidity and stifle creativity.”
The Customer Founded Business
“The vast majority of fast-growing companies never take any venture capital. So where does the money come from to start and grow their …
The Culture Code
“When you ask people inside highly successful groups to describe their relationship with one another, they all tend to choose the same word: …
The Complete Guide to Contracting Your Home: A Step-by-Step Method for Managing Home Construction
Family bathrooms used by children need plenty of storage to combat clutter. Install large medicine cabinets with zones for each child. Use …
The 5 AM Club
Own your morning. Elevate your life.
Simple Number, Straight Talk, Big Profits
Value profitability over tax savings. Stop distorting your net income because of improper owner compensation. Use market-based wages for …
Refactoring UI
“Design isn't about making things look good, it's about making them work well.”
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader's Guide to the Real World
9 Kebohongan di tempat kerja. #1: Reputasi perusahaan sangat penting untuk karyawan. #2: Rencana terbaik yang menentukan kesuksesan …
Meditations of Marcus Aurelius
and he never showed amazement and surprise, and was never in a hurry, and never put off doing a thing, nor was perplexed nor dejected,
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
“Our brains are in the business of gathering information and steering behavior appropriately. It doesn't matter whether consciousness is …
How To Read A Book
“Marking a book is not an act of mutilation but of love.”
Failure Is An Option
“Success is boring. Failure is where the good stories come from.”
Eat Their Lunch
“You don’t win deals by being the best at selling. You win by being the best at creating value.”
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
“Human beings are not wired to be constantly wired.”
Can't Hurt Me
“The most important conversations you'll ever have are the ones you'll have with yourself.”
★ Good To Great
“Good is the enemy of great.”
★ A Walk In The Woods
“Life takes you down many paths, but the best ones lead to the woods.”
2018
7 books
When - The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
“Beginnings matter. A strong start can shape the trajectory of everything that follows. Midpoints can be a slump or a spark. It’s up to us …
★ The Hate U Give
“Brave doesn’t mean you’re not scared. It means you go on even though you’re scared.”
The Book Of M
“Sometimes, in order to remember who you are, you need to forget who they told you to be.”
Solving Product Design Exercies
“Today top companies are looking for business-minded designers who are not just focused on visuals.”
Sapiens
“The real difference between us and chimpanzees is the mysterious glue that enables millions of humans to cooperate effectively.”
Principles
Be an imperfectionist. Perfectionists spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of the important things.
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki
Alienation and loneliness became a cable that stretched hundreds of miles long, pulled to the breaking point by a gigantic winch. And …
2017
2 books
What to Expect the First Year
Oh what a god send book for amateur dad. Jadi orang tua pemula artinya akan banyak hal yang kita tidak pahami tentang Dedek bayi, Buku ini …
7 Habits of Highly Effective People
“The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities.”
2016
7 books
★ The Zombie Survival Guide
Buku yang memulai kecintaan saya terhadap genre Zombie. Konyol, cerdas, brilliant, glorious, jenius, dan juga timeless.
The Design of Everyday Things
“Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, because good design fits our needs so well that the design is invisible.”
The Checklist Manifesto
“The challenge is not to make a checklist, but to make a checklist that works.”
Problem Solving 101 : Simple Book for Smart People
Ditulis oleh the famous Ken Watanabe (just kidding, this is not THAT Ken Watanabe), buku ini adalah pelajaran tentang bagaimana cara …
Orgnizational Physics
“The right organizational structure isn't the one that looks good on paper, it's the one that supports the flow of energy within the …
Norwegian Wood
“I once had a girl, or should I say, she once had me.”
How to Be a Great Boss
You can't “manage someone.” Management is not what you do to someone; it's what you provide for someone. As Jim Collins states in his book …