My Shelf

I have a very broad taste in movies, books and music. I always find something to enjoy. I always find something to learn. And after years of trying to do things myself, I really appreciate the hard work others put in when they build something.

Yes, of course there are some things that are better than others. And masterpieces are rare, but we don't need to eat in a three-star Michelin restaurant everyday to feel fulfilled and happy.

Still, here's a small collection of the masterpieces I've encountered in my life, seen through the prism of Entrepreneurship.

Philosophy

• A History of Western Philosophy – Bertrand Russell
• Incerto: Fooled by Randomness, The Black Swan, The Bed of Procrustes, Antifragile, Skin in the Game — Nassim Taleb
• Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
• Physics, Ethics, Poetics, Metaphysics, Categories, On Logic, On the Soul – Aristotle
• Critique of Pure Reason – Emmanuel Kant
• The Prince – Niccolò Machiavelli
• A Treatise of Human Nature – David Hume
• The Transcendent Philosophy of the Four Journeys of the Intellect – Mulla Sadra
• The Politics of Obedience: The Discourse of Voluntary Servitude — de La Boetie
• Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine — Norbert Wiener
• Philosophical Investigations — Ludwig Wittgenstein
• On Liberty - John Stuart Mills
• The Road to Serfdom — Friedrich Von Hayek
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Khun
• The Open Society and Its Enemies — Karl Popper
• Human Kindness and the Smell of Warm Croissants: An Introduction to Ethics — Ruwen Ogien

Novels

• The Picture of Dorian Gray — Oscar Wilde
• His Dark Materials Trilogy: The Golden Compass / The Subtle Knife / The Amber Spyglass — Philip Pullman
• Swann's Way: In Search of Lost Time  — Marcel Proust
• The Epic of Gilgamesh
• City — Alessandro Baricco
• Anna Karenina — Leo Tolstoy
• Gargantua and Pantagruel — Rabelais
• Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes — Edith Hamilton
• Memoirs of Hadrian — Marguerite Yourcenar
• The Arabian Nights — Scheherazade ;)
• Illiad & Odyssey — Homer
• Foundation — Isaac Asimov
• The Man Who Sold the Moon and Orphans of the Sky — Robert Heinlein
• Collected Fictions — Borges
• The Masterpiece — Zola
• Father Goriot — Balzac

Biography

• Ex-Prodigy: My Childhood and Youth — Norbert Wiener
• Becoming Beauvoir: A Life — Simone de Beauvoir
• The Dictionary of Imaginary Places — Alberto Manguel
• A Beautiful Mind —Sylvia Nasar
• Alan Turing: The Enigma — Andrew Hodges
• Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow
• Napoleon: A Life — Andrew Roberts
• Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
• Leonardo da Vinci — Walter Isaacson
• Marie-Antoinette — Stefan Zweig
• Magellan — Stefan Zweig
• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life — Alice Schroeder
• Morgan, American Financier — Jean Strouse
• Jack, Straight From the Gut — Jack Welch
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon – Brad Stone
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built – Duncan Clark
• Creativity, Inc. – Ed Catmull
• Empire State of Mind: How Jay Z Went from Street Corner to Corner Office – Zack O'Malley Greenburg
• Losing My Virginity: How I Survived, Had Fun, and Made a Fortune Doing Business My Way – Richard Branson

Movies

• Novecento The Pianist
• Remember The Titans
• Beaumarchais l'Insolent
• Ratatouille
• M
• 12 Angry Men
• The Godfather
• Bary Lindon
• 2001 The Space Odyssey
• Gattaca
• Aladdin
• Amadeus
• House of Flying Daggers
• Gladiator
• Good Will Hunting
• Forrest Gump
• Dead Poets Society
• Lawrence of Arabia
• All the Marvel Movies ;) — even Captain America
• & if you are courageous, any Terence Malek movie

Documentaries

• Jiro Dreams of Sushi
• Behind the Curve
• Fyre Festival
• Life, Animated
• The Times of Harvey Milk
• Exit Through The Gift Shop
• Chef's Table
• The Final Year
• I am not your Guru - Tony Robins

Series

• The West Wing
• Kaamelott
• Sense8
• Lucifer
• Vikings
• Roman Empire
• The Good Place
• Battle Star Galactica
• The Goodwife
• The Master of None
• Jane, The Virgin
• Money Heist
• Midnight Dinners
• Sherlock
• Friends

Anime

• The Seven Deadly Sins
• Dragon Ball Z
• Sword Art Online
• Hunter x Hunter
• Zodiac Knights
• Love, Death & Robots
• Death Note
• Fairy Tail
• Full Metal Alchemist
• The Complete Works of Miyazaki