Javier Romanelli
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what i consume

texts that shaped my thinking

science

  • Chemical Reactor Analysis and Design Fundamentals -- James Rawlings & John Ekerdt
  • Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology -- Eric Drexler
  • Lifespan: Why We Age and Why We Don't Have To -- David Sinclair
  • Navigating Metabolism -- Navdeep Chandel
  • Outlive -- Peter Attia
  • The Billion Dollar Molecule -- Barry Werth
  • The Code Breaker -- Walter Isaacson ★
  • The Emperor of All Maladies -- Siddhartha Mukherjee ★
  • The Song of the Cell -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
  • The Vital Question -- Nick Lane
  • Transformer -- Nick Lane ★

startups

  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things -- Ben Horowitz
  • The Innovator's Dilemma -- Clayton Christensen
  • The Lean Startup -- Eric Ries
  • Zero to One -- Peter Thiel

markets

  • A Short History of Financial Euphoria -- John Kenneth Galbraith
  • Biotech Forecasting and Valuations -- Frank S. David
  • Fooled by Randomness -- Nassim Taleb
  • Margin of Safety -- Seth Klarman
  • The Changing World Order -- Ray Dalio
  • The Intelligent Investor -- Benjamin Graham
  • The Little Book of Common Sense Investing -- John C. Bogle

biographies

  • Elon Musk -- Walter Isaacson
  • Shoe Dog -- Phil Knight
  • Source Code -- Bill Gates
  • When Breath Becomes Air -- Paul Kalanithi ★

fiction

  • Catcher in the Rye -- J.D. Salinger
  • Frankenstein -- Mary Shelley
  • Of Mice and Men -- John Steinbeck
  • The Great Gatsby -- F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • The Outsiders -- S.E. Hinton

life

  • Atomic Habits -- James Clear
  • Deep Work -- Cal Newport ★
  • Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance -- Angela Duckworth
  • Nexus -- Yuval Noah Harari
  • Outliers -- Malcolm Gladwell
  • Principles -- Ray Dalio
  • Sapiens -- Yuval Noah Harari
  • Supercommunicators -- Charles Duhigg
  • The 5 Types of Wealth -- Sahil Bloom ★
  • The Art of War -- Sun Tzu
  • The Road Less Traveled -- M. Scott Peck ★
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow -- Daniel Kahneman

spanish literature

  • Cien Años de Soledad -- Gabriel García Márquez
  • Don Quijote -- Miguel de Cervantes
  • El Alquimista -- Paulo Coelho ★
  • La Carreta -- René Marqués
  • La Vida es Sueño -- Pedro Calderón de la Barca
  • Lazarillo de Tormes -- Anónimo
  • Veinte Poemas de Amor y una Canción Desesperada -- Pablo Neruda

select podcasts

  • Acquired
  • All-In
  • Biotech Hangout
  • Dwarkesh Pod
  • Founders
  • Huberman Lab
  • Peter Attia Drive
  • The Long Run with Luke Timmerman
  • We're Not Getting Any Younger... Yet