Suggested Reading
48 Laws of Power
Required reading for anyone who’s ever been underestimated.
This is the original blueprint for navigating status, seduction, and strategy without losing your soul (or at least, knowing where you left it). Read it not to manipulate, but to recognize the moves before they hit you.
The Sovereign Individual
An eerie oracle from the ‘90s that saw the rise of crypto, decentralization, and your current reality.
Dense, prescient, and not without its flaws, this book pulls you out of linear time and into the tectonic shifts shaping civilization. Feels less like reading, and way more like discovering a map nobody wanted you to see.
Seeing Like a State
How top-down control flattens ecosystems, cultures, and humans, and why true innovation comes from the ground up.
A rebel’s manifesto in academic clothing. Read this if you’re building anything that challenges centralized power, rigid systems, or the mythology of “progress.”
Prometheus Rising
Part manual, part mind maze.
This is what happens when psychology, quantum theory, magick, and conspiracy get invited to the same dinner party. It’ll break your brain in the best way. You won’t agree with everything, and that’s the point.
The Master and His Emissary
A beautifully brutal case for why the “rational” West may be destroying its own source code.
Explores the left-right brain divide not just neurologically, but culturally, philosophically, even spiritually. Long. Dense. Worth it. Read it to remember what we’ve forgotten.
Finite and Infinite Games
Every strategist should tattoo this on their psyche.
Short, strange, poetic, and clarifying in a soul-shifting kind of way. Distinguishes between games played for power and games played for possibility. (Guess which one we’re playing.)
The Tao of Physics
Where mysticism meets matter.
If you’ve ever felt like quantum physics sounds suspiciously like ancient spirituality… you’re not crazy. This book will help you believe your instincts and see how everything connects.
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
A novel, yes. But mostly, a gentle punch to the chest.
This is a love story that aches with existentialism, desire, politics, and the softness of being human. If you’re building an empire, this will remind you why softness must live at the center.
Trickster Makes This World
The archetype of the entrepreneur is The Trickster.
Hyde shows how the rule-breaker, boundary-crosser, and clever mischief-maker is not only necessary, but sacred. You’ll see yourself here, if you’re brave enough.