Stewart Brand: “This spectacular book on how logarithmic scaling governs everything is packed with news—from the self-similar dynamics of cells and ecosystems to exactly why companies always die and cities don’t.

I dog-eared and marked up damn near every page.”

Marc Benioff: "Geoffrey West's Scale is filled with brilliant insights.

He illuminates the laws of nature underlying everything from tiny organisms and humans to cities and companies, and provides a quantitative framework for decoding the deep complexity of our interconnected world.

If you want to know why companies fail, how cities persist and what is needed to sustain our civilization in this era of rapid innovation, read this amazing book.”

Bill Miller: “If there were a Nobel Prize for transdisciplinary science Geoffrey West would have won it for the work covered in Scale.

This is a book of great originality and deep importance, containing startling insights about topics as seemingly unrelated as aging and death, sleep, metabolism, cities, energy use, creativity, corporations, and even the sustainability of our existence.

If you are curious about how the world really works, you must read this book.”

Nassim Taleb: “Each human should learn to read and write, to count, and for those who know how to count, scalability.

Scaling is the most important yet most hidden and rarely discussed attribute—without understanding it one cannot possibly understand the world.

This book will expand your thinking from three dimensions to four. Get two copies, just in case you lose one.”

Vinod Khosla: "The physics behind biology, cities, economics and companies.

Do they grow, scale and die by the same math equations? New insights that are enlightening and delightful."

Seth Godin: "The first chapter alone will change your life.

'Thinking in Bets' helps us understand what it actually means to make a decision, because decisions and outcomes are different things."

Michael Mauboussin: "An awesome book"

Marc Andreessen: "Compact guide to probabilistic domains like poker, or venture capital.

Best articulation of "resulting", drawing bad conclusions from confusing process and outcome. Recommend for people operating in the real world."

Howard Marks: "Thinking in Bets talks about how to systematize our thinking about making decisions under uncertainty because that's what we do as investors, just like poker players or gamblers"

Max Levchin: "One of the takeaways I found most relevant to business is that you should not conflate the quality of your judgement with the ultimate outcome of an initiative."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "An older book, but a wonderful history of our concept of risk.

This is a valuable read for any serious investor out there (and an enjoyable one for casual investors)."

Michael Mauboussin: "Traces the path of the intellectual understand of risk. A must read."

Howard Marks: “Bernstein talks in this book about the development of the science of probability and how the concepts of probability permitted us to get involved in transferring risk from those of us who want to avoid risk to those of us who are willing to take it – and I think that that is an essential concept.”

Raoul Pal recommended 'Against the [Gods]' on Twitter.

Bill Gurley: "Read this book, it changes everything"

Michael Mauboussin: "Great book"

Included on Jamie Dimon's list of favorite books he sent to JP Morgan summer interns in 2010.

Naval Ravikant: "Good books are worth re-reading. Great books are worth re-buying."

Raoul Pal recommended 'The Black Swan' on Twitter.

Included on Jeff Bezos' list of books that Amazon employees refer to as “Jeff’s Reading List.”

Michael Mauboussin: "[The Model Thinker] helped me think better in 2018."

Keith Rabois: "I have been searching for a book to recommend on this topic for a decade"

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "I’ve read this book three times now, and need to recommend it again.

It is a top five investing book of all time. It will make you question all or large parts of your investing philosophy. It is an absolute classic."

Nassim Taleb: "I closed this book feeling that it was the first book in economics that spoke directly to me.

Not only that, but the astonishing simplicity, realism, and relevance of the subject makes it the only general work in finance I've ever read that seemed to make sense."

Michael Mauboussin: "Awesome"

Naval Ravikant mentioned reading 'Infinite Powers' on Twitter.

Naval Ravikant: "Amazing book, but good luck finishing it"

One of Sahil Lavingia's most recommended books.

Balaji Srinivasan: "The desert island book. So good."

Naval Ravikant mentioned reading 'The Princeton Companion to Mathematics' on Twitter.

Melinda Gates: “Hans Rosling tells the story of ‘the secret silent miracle of human progress’ as only he can.

But Factfulness does much more than that. It also explains why progress is so often secret and silent and teaches readers how to see it clearly.”

Bill Gates: "Factfulness is one of the most educational books I’ve ever read."

Naval Ravikant: "Good books are worth re-reading. Great books are worth re-buying."

Howard Marks: "I like to read books that in are indicative of investor psychology and so Fooled by Randomness talks about how important randomness is in the financial markets and how randomness is confused with things happening for a reason.”

Michael Saylor recommended Bitcoin: Sovereignty Through Mathematics on his Bitcoin website, Hope.com

Vinod Khosla: "A better way to teach math. Wish he had ideas to fit state curriculums. Important book"

One of Andrew Wilkinson's favorite books he read in 2020.

Bill Gates: "How to Lie With Statistics is a great introduction to a crucial topic."

Paul Graham: "Paul Halmos's autobiography, I Want to Be a Mathematician, is a very pleasing book.

I don't understand all the math, but it's clear he'd be an amusing guy to know."

Patrick O'Shaughnessy: "A fun book on gambling, odds, and finding suckers."

Michael Mauboussin: "I recommend Melanie Mitchell's book for people who want to understand the basic concepts of complexity. It is excellent."

One of the books Keith Rabois recommends for entrepreneurs.

Anthony Pompliano: "I've really enjoyed it and highly recommend!"

Shane Parrish: "It’s a bit dense at times and overly technical in parts but the roots of information mathematics and science are worth exploring."

Paul Graham: "Great biography of Ramanujan."

Paul Graham: "While there are many popular books on math, few seem good.

The best I can think of are W. W. Sawyer's. And of course Euclid."

Paul Graham: "While there are many popular books on math, few seem good.

The best I can think of are W. W. Sawyer's. And of course Euclid."

Paul Graham: "Among the most inspiring books I know."

Kevin Systrom mentioned 'The Signal and the Noise' on Instagram.

Bill Gates: "Silver knows a lot about baseball, and I especially liked his explanation of hold’em poker."

Kevin Systrom mentioned 'The Mathematics of Politics' on 'The Tim Ferriss Show' podcast.

Nassim Taleb: "Ed Thorp's memoir reads like a thriller - mixing wearable computers that would've made James Bond proud, shady characters, great scientists, and poisoning attempts"

Nassim Taleb: "When readers and students ask to me for a useable book for nonmathematicians to get into probability (or a probabilistic approach to statistics), before embarking into deeper problems, I suggest this book by the Late A. Papoulis."

Nassim Taleb: "Very comprehensive, sufficiently technical to get most of the plumbing behind machine learning."

Nassim Taleb: "Very useful book, particularly in what concerns alternative L-Stable distributions."

Nassim Taleb: "This book is a great attempt at finding some universality based on systems in a "critical" state, with departures from such state taking place in a manner that follows power laws."

Nassim Taleb: "The best statistics book I've seen"

Nassim Taleb: "This book, "Idea Makers", is written from an insider. It is the real thing on several accounts."

Nassim Taleb: "No financial book has the clarity of this text."

Nassim Taleb: "This book stands above, way above the rest: I've never seen a deeper exposition of the subject, as this text covers, in addition to the mathematical bases, the true philosophical origin of the notion of probability."

Nassim Taleb: "Mathematicians should be using this book as a model for their own composition. You can read it and reread it.

Professors should assign this in addition to modern texts, as readers can get intutions, something alas absent from modern texts."

Nassim Taleb: "I am relieved to finally find a book that deals with Black Swan Events in a new way."

Nassim Taleb: "I know which books I value when I end up buying a second copy after losing the first one.

This book gives a complete overview of the basis of probability theory with some grounding in measure theory, and presents the main proofs."

Nassim Taleb: "Emanuel Derman has written my kind of a book, an elegant combination of memoir, confession, and essay on ethics, philosophy of science and professional practice."

Nassim Taleb: "I am buying a second copy for the office. If I had to go on a desert island with 2 probability books, I would take Feller's two volumes (written >40 years ago) and this one."

Nassim Taleb: "I would have read the book in one sitting. It grips you like a detective novel."

One of Sam Altman's recommended books for young startup founders.

One of Sam Altman's recommended books for young startup founders.

Naval Ravikant mentioned 'A Cultural History of Physics' as one of his favorite books on Twitter.

Naval Ravikant mentioned reading 'Q.E.D.' on Twitter.

Naval Ravikant: "I love that book"

Naval Ravikant mentioned reading 'Math, Better Explained' on Twitter.

Naval Ravikant mentioned reading 'No Bullshit Guide to Math and Physics' on Twitter.

Naval Ravikant mentioned this book on 'The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish'.

One of Naval Ravikant's recommended Game Theory books.

One of the books Howard Marks has on his bookshelf.

One of three books Chamath Palihapitiya tells new graduates to read.

One of three books Chamath Palihapitiya tells new graduates to read.

One of Mark Cuban's Summer 2018 Books to Read.