Chaitanya Jongra

Books

• How Innovation Works – Matt Ridley
• Loonshots – Safi Bahcall
• Factfulness – Hans Rosling
• Mastery – Robert Greene
• Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
• The Culture Code – Daniel Coyle
• Zero to One – Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
• The Millionaire Fastlane – MJ DeMarco
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things – Ben Horowitz
• Elon Musk – Walter Isaacson
• The Myth of Sisyphus – Albert Camus
• The Laws of Human Nature – Robert Greene
• The Art of Seduction – Robert Greene
• The 33 Strategies of War – Robert Greene
• Behave – Robert Sapolsky
• Fooled by Randomness – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Einstein: His Life and Universe – Walter Isaacson
• Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson
• Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt & Stephen J. Dubner
• The Wealth of Nations – Adam Smith
• Better Small Talk – Patrick King
• Surrounded by Idiots – Thomas Erikson
• Psycho-Cybernetics – Maxwell Maltz
• Shoe Dog – Phil Knight
• The Idea Factory – Jon Gertner
• The Personal MBA – Josh Kaufman
• The Innovators – Walter Isaacson

Movies

• The Notebook
• Minari
• Good Days
• A Beautiful Mind
• A Moment to Remember
• Parasite
• Past Lives
• Always
• The Boy and the Heron
• Spirited Away

Interests

Psychology, neuroscience, economics, systems thinking, and the craft of thinking itself. Biographies, particularly Isaacson's work. Leonardo da Vinci as a model for polymathy.