It really depends what field you're in. How to Create a Mind by Kurzweil, Glut by Wright, and On Intelligence by Hawkins are useful to me right now. The Goal by Goldratt helped me boost a lengthy online application's completion rate by 50%. Depends on con
All the original Sherlock Holmes, Through the Looking Glass by Carroll, The Library of Babel by Borges... anything that makes me think.
I'd be starting a startup, or investing in startups. And the two are not mutually exclusive.
It's a small world; be patient.
I once had a multiple minute conversation speaking exclusively in double or triple entendre. The person I was speaking with wasn't following, but it was still ridiculously fun.
Amazon/ Jeff Bezos and Google/ Larry Page... even though they can hardly be called startups anymore. Nobody has leveraged the present into the future on a physical level better than Bezos (and his TED talk is awesome, FYI). Page has a vision for moonshots
I always had a gift for geometry. It didn't matter if a proof was 30 steps or more, I could instantly see the path with the shortest number of steps. I can synthesize and explain vast amounts of information concisely, and can see the implications of an en
Text. But I'm pretty hard to get a hold of. Time is my most precious resource.
"Let the money of others be as dear to you as your own." - Rabbi Yossay