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As the boundary between the known and the unknown is constantly pushed, The Frontier is dedicated to investigating these new territories.

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Books worth reading

• The Score: How to Stop Playing Somebody Else’s Game by C. Thi Nguyen: explores how games and metrics shape what we value and how to keep control of those values.
• How Asia Works by Joe Studwell: examines how land reform, manufacturing, and financial policy shaped Asia’s economic successes and failures.
• 1984 by George Orwell: follows a man resisting a state that controls information, language, and private thought.
• 25 Hours a Day by Nick Bare: shares lessons from military service and building a business about discipline, consistency, and pushing past perceived limits.
• Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl: recounts a voyage from Peru to Polynesia on a wooden raft to test a theory about ancient migration.
• High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove: explains how managers improve a team’s output through better processes, meetings, and coaching.
• Ultralearning by Scott H. Young: presents principles for learning difficult skills through focused, self-directed projects.
• The Child in You by Stefanie Stahl: uses the inner-child model to explore how childhood experiences shape adult emotions and relationships.
• Kubernetes: Up and Running by Brendan Burns, Joe Beda, Kelsey Hightower, and Lachlan Evenson: introduces the concepts and practical steps for deploying and operating applications with Kubernetes.
• Fundamentals of Data Engineering by Joe Reis and Matt Housley: explains how to design data systems across the lifecycle from ingestion and storage to transformation and delivery.
• The Technological Republic by Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska: argues that technology companies should take responsibility for national security and the future of Western democracies.
• Range by David Epstein: examines why broad experience and experimentation can help people succeed in complex fields.
• The Startup of You by Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha: applies entrepreneurial thinking to careers through adaptability, networks, and deliberate risk-taking.
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel and Blake Masters: argues that lasting businesses create something new rather than compete by copying what already exists.
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman: explores intuitive and deliberate thinking and the biases that shape judgment and decisions.
• Rafa: My Story by Rafael Nadal and John Carlin: recounts Nadal’s upbringing and tennis career through the relationships, discipline, and pressures behind his success.
• Dune by Frank Herbert: follows Paul Atreides into a struggle over power, religion, and resources on the desert planet Arrakis.
• Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert: follows Paul Atreides as he confronts the political and human consequences of his rise to power.
• 80/20 Running by Matt Fitzgerald: explains a training approach that combines mostly easy running with a smaller share of high-intensity work.
• The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk: explores how trauma affects the mind and body and discusses approaches to recovery.
• Invent and Wander by Jeff Bezos: collects shareholder letters, speeches, and interviews about Amazon, customer focus, and long-term thinking.
• The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: examines how rare, consequential events expose the limits of prediction and our explanations after the fact.
• Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: explores systems that benefit from stress, uncertainty, and disorder.
• Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: argues that people making decisions should share in the risks and consequences those decisions create.
• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: examines how we mistake luck for skill and overlook chance in success and failure.
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie: offers practical advice on listening, showing appreciation, and handling disagreements in everyday relationships.
• The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz: explains how cycles of effort and recovery help manage physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual energy.
• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson: traces Musk’s life and companies while examining his ambitions, working habits, and relationships.
• The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb: collects aphorisms about uncertainty and our tendency to force reality into tidy explanations.
• Winning: The Unforgiving Race to Greatness by Tim S. Grover and Shari Lesser Wenk: explores the discipline, pressure, and difficult choices involved in pursuing exceptional performance.
• The Cafe on the Edge of the World by John Strelecky: follows a traveler whose visit to a remote cafe prompts questions about purpose, fulfillment, and how to spend his life.
• Outlive by Peter Attia and Bill Gifford: examines longevity through prevention, exercise, nutrition, sleep, and emotional health.
• Quiet by Susan Cain: explores the strengths of introverts and how cultures that favor extroversion can overlook them.
• Die 36 Strategeme der Krise by Christian Rieck: applies traditional Chinese stratagems to recognizing deception and navigating crises in work and everyday life.
• The Pathless Path by Paul Millerd: recounts leaving a conventional career and exploring a different relationship with work and life.
• The Little Book That Still Beats the Market by Joel Greenblatt: presents a stock-selection approach based on buying profitable businesses at relatively low prices.
• Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger with Peter Petre: recounts Schwarzenegger’s journey from Austria through bodybuilding, Hollywood, business, and politics.
• Souverän investieren mit Indexfonds und ETFs by Gerd Kommer: explains passive investing through diversified index funds and ETFs, with attention to costs and risk.
• Appliance by J. O. Morgan: explores how the spread of teleportation technology changes people’s relationships, memories, and sense of identity.
• Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty: uses historical data to examine wealth concentration and the relationship between capital returns and economic growth.
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life by Alice Schroeder: traces Warren Buffett’s life, investing decisions, and the relationships behind his business success.
• Kaufen oder mieten? by Gerd Kommer: compares buying a home with renting, considering long-term costs, financial risks, and lifestyle choices.