Matthew Voss

I love learning how things work because it gives me more options when solving problems.
  • Learning new technologies means you can find the best tool for the job.
  • Learning emotional intelligence and communication means better ability to read people and respond appropriately.
  • Learning history and philosophy means I don't have to learn everything the hard way (just some things).
Here are the books that taught me the most, I hope they can help you too!

Effectiveness
  • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey
  • Miracle Morning - Hal Elrod
  • The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
  • Self Compassion: The proven power of being kind to yourself - Kristen Neff, PhD
  • Who Moved My Cheese? - Spencer Johnson
  • Extreme Ownership: How U.S. Navy SEALs Lead and Win - Jocko Willink and Leif Babin
  • The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
  • Deep Work - Cal Newport
  • Dopamine Nation - Dr. Anna Lembke
  • The Enigma of Reason - Hugo Mercier, Dan Sperber
  • Tribe of Mentors - Tim Ferriss
Communication/Interpersonal skills
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  • Emotional Intelligence 2.0 - Daniel Goleman
  • Elements of Eloquence - Mark Forsyth
  • What Every BODY is saying - Joe Navarro
Philosophy
  • Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
  • Dahmapadda - Buddha
  • As a Man Thinketh - James Allen
  • Nicomachean Ethics - Aristotle
  • The Book of Joy - Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu
  • What the Buddha Taught - Walpola Rahula Thero
  • The Second Mountain: The Quest for a Moral Life - David Brooks
  • 101 Essays That Will Change the Way You Think - Brianna West
Relationships
  • The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work - John Gottman
  • The Five Love Languages - Gary Chapman
  • Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus - John Gray
Economics/Finance
  • Boglehead's Guide to Investing - Mel Lindauer, Michael LeBoeuf, and Taylor Larimore
  • Freakononomics - Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
Biology/Health
  • Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity - Bill Gifford and Peter Attia
  • Why We Get Sick - Benjamin Bikman, PhD
  • The Primal Blueprint - Mark Sisson
  • Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
  • The Vital Question - Nick Lane
  • The Origins of Virtue - Matt Ridley
History
  • The Lessons of History - Will, Ariel Durant
  • Dan Carlin's Hardcore History: Blueprint for Armageddon
  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
  • Seven Pillars of Wisdom - T.E. Lawrence
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies - Jared Diamond
Literature
  • East of Eden - John Steinbeck
  • The Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
Tech
  • The Phoenix Project - Gene Kim, Keven Behr, George Spafford
  • The E-Myth Revisited - Michael E. Gerber