Books I Read in 2020 and 2021
These are the books that I read in 2020 and so far in 2021 that are worth mentioning.
- Deliberate Discomfort: How U.S. Special Operations Forces Overcome Fear and Dare to Win by Getting Comfortable Being Uncomfortable, Jason B.A. Van Camp
- Stillness Is the Key, Ryan Holiday
- Warrior's Creed: A Life of Preparing for and Facing the Impossible, Roger Sparks, with Don Rearden
- The Simplicity Cycle: A Field Guide to Making Things Better Without Making Them Worse, Dan Ward
- Soldier: Respect Is Earned, Jay Morton
- The Common Sense Way: A New Way to Think About Leading and Organizing, Pete Blaber
- Notes on Silence, Patrick Shen and Cassidy Hall
- Leaders: Myth and Reality, Stanley McChrystal
- Goodbye, Things: The New Japanese Minimalism, Fumio Sasaki
- The Unfettered Mind: Writings from a Zen Master to a Master Swordsman. Takuan Soho
- Leadership Strategy and Tactics: Field Manual, Jocko Willink
- One Mission: How Leaders Build a Team of Teams, Chris Fussell, and Gen. Stanley McChrystal
- Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life, William Finnegan
- As Little Design As Possible, Dieter Rams
- Ex-formation, Kenya Hara
- The Book of Five Rings, Miyamoto Musashi
- Let My People Go Surfing: The Education of a Reluctant Businessman, Yvon Chouinard
- Kiss or Kill: Confessions of a Serial Climber, Mark Twight
There are more, mostly fun novels by Jack Carr, and re-reading the classics from William Gibson, Neal Stephenson, and Frank Herbert.