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359 books, ranked by what each is good for.

Two different questions. A book earns a skill by being runnable, a procedure you execute this week. It earns a series by being watchable, needing a turn, a concrete detail, a scene. The same book rarely answers both the same way, and building the wrong one produces something correct and lifeless.

327 machine readable · 104scored · 223 not yet judged · 32 are scans and need OCR

Best for skills

things you run
  1. poor charlie's almanackMental models and inversion, stated as usable checklists. Munger is already a guide and installs nothing.10
  2. the checklist manifestoA book about procedure that is itself a procedure, with surgical and aviation stories to carry it.10
  3. the psychology of persuasionSix principles, each with a named mechanism and a countermeasure. Among the most directly runnable books written.10
  4. getting to yesSeparate people from problem, interests not positions, invent options, insist on criteria. A negotiation procedure.10
  5. high output managementGrove on managerial leverage, one to ones, and output as a measurable quantity.10
  6. the effective executiveDrucker on managing yourself. Manage time before tasks, organise around contribution, first things first.10
  7. the art of game designA hundred lenses, each a question you point at a design. The densest framework book on the shelf.10
  8. the score takes care of itselfWalsh's Standard of Performance, plus the story of applying it to a team that had just gone 2 and 14.9
  9. the war of artsourceseries builtAlready has seven episodes and zero skills, which is backwards for a book this procedural.9
  10. pareto principles in infinite ethicsDalio's decision rules plus the story of the bet that nearly ended him. Already a guide with one skill.9
  11. algorithms to live byExplicit algorithms for real decisions: when to stop looking, how to sort, when to explore.9
  12. blue ocean strategyStrategy canvas and the four actions framework. Draw it, then act on what the drawing shows.9
  13. atomic habitsHabit stacking, make it obvious and easy, systems over goals. Built to be executed.9
  14. deep workScheduled blocks and ruthless elimination of shallow work, aimed at the modern knowledge worker.9
  15. 100M offersThe grand slam offer, built as a formula you fill in. Hormozi is the roster's missing go to market voice.9
  16. the 8020 principleOne idea applied relentlessly to time, customers, and effort.9
  17. getting things doneA complete capture and review system. All method, no narrative.9
  18. David Deutsch The Beginning of Infinity Explanations that Transform the WorldsourceDeutsch is a guide with a full book page. Hard to vary is a genuinely usable test.8
  19. the inner game of tennisSelf 1 and Self 2, which transfers far outside sport, with vivid coaching scenes.8
  20. skin in the gameTaleb on asymmetry and who bears the downside. Taleb is a guide with one skill.8

Best for a series

things you watch
  1. Ron Chernow Titan The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr. Vintage (2004)sourceThe fullest text on the shelf for a guide we already have. Ledger A, the Cleveland Massacre, the dimes.10
  2. steve jobsguide existsIsaacson's biography. Jobs is a guide who installs nothing, and this is the source for both paths.10
  3. shoe dogThe best pure narrative on the shelf. Near ruin repeatedly, concrete scenes, a real voice.10
  4. surely you're joking mr. feynmanAn anecdote machine. Every chapter is already an episode with a turn and a punchline.10
  5. from third world to firstsourceLee Kuan Yew is a guide with two skills and this registered source is 260k words unused.9
  6. moneyballA thesis carried entirely by narrative. The method is visible through the story rather than listed.9
  7. the nvidia wayJensen is a guide who installs nothing. Near death, the CUDA bet, thirty days from going out of business.9
  8. leonardo da vinciIsaacson again. The notebooks give concrete, filmable detail that most biographies lack.9
  9. elon musksourceIsaacson. Elon is a guide already, so this deepens rather than starts.9
  10. the foundersThe PayPal mafia, which is a story about a group rather than a person, and rare for that.9
  11. siddarthaDone. Five episodes shipped.9
  12. how the internet happenedA sequence of decisive moments, which is the natural shape of an episode series.9
  13. deng xiaopingThe largest life on the shelf with no guide yet. Enormous turns, and 371k words of text.9
  14. the score takes care of itselfWalsh's Standard of Performance, plus the story of applying it to a team that had just gone 2 and 14.8
  15. the war of artsourceseries builtAlready has seven episodes and zero skills, which is backwards for a book this procedural.8
  16. let my people go surfingChouinard's operating philosophy, carried by the story of building it against every convention.8
  17. play nice but winMichael Dell on the going private fight. A single high stakes arc.8
  18. the creative actRubin in short sections that are almost pre-cut into episodes.8
  19. the hero with a thousand facesCampbell's monomyth, which is both a framework and inherently narrative.8
  20. hard truths to keep singapore goingLee in his own blunt voice, which is the hardest thing to fake and the best thing to clone.8

Not yet judged

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Extracted and readable, but not scored. Unscored is not a verdict. These are simply books nobody has judged yet.

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