Library

The books Nexora reasons from.

Each one is a source, not a product. Open any book to see its core idea, mental models and the works that argue against it.

15 books

Source book · Money

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Wealth is mostly behaviour, not arithmetic. Housel argues the gap between knowing and doing is where most financial outcomes are decided.

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Source book · Money

The Millionaire Next Door

Thomas J. Stanley & William D. Danko

A research study on people who accumulated wealth quietly, and how their consumption patterns differ from high earners who never do.

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Source book · Money

Your Money or Your Life

Vicki Robin & Joe Dominguez

Reframes money as life energy already spent, and builds a system for measuring whether each expense returns enough of it.

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Source book · Money

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

Eric Jorgenson

A compiled argument that wealth comes from owning equity in things that scale without your time.

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Source book · Mind

Atomic Habits

James Clear

A systems account of behaviour change: make the desired action obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.

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Source book · Mind

The Power of Habit

Charles Duhigg

Habits as cue-routine-reward loops, with an emphasis on diagnosing the craving before attempting to change the behaviour.

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Source book · Mind

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

Two systems of thought, and a catalogue of the predictable ways the fast one misleads the slow one.

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Source book · Work

Deep Work

Cal Newport

An argument that undistracted concentration is both rare and economically valuable, plus the scheduling practice to protect it.

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Source book · Work

So Good They Can't Ignore You

Cal Newport

Rejects passion as a starting point and argues that rare, valuable skills buy the autonomy people actually want.

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Source book · Work

The Hard Thing About Hard Things

Ben Horowitz

A candid account of leading through the decisions that have no good option, written from inside the failures.

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Source book · Life

Four Thousand Weeks

Oliver Burkeman

A finitude-first response to productivity culture: the point is choosing what to neglect, deliberately.

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Source book · Life

Nonviolent Communication

Marshall B. Rosenberg

A protocol for saying what happened, what you feel, what you need and what you request — without the judgement layer.

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Source book · Future

The Lean Startup

Eric Ries

Treats a new business as a series of experiments about what customers will actually pay for.

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Source book · Future

Zero to One

Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

Argues that iteration produces copies, and that valuable companies come from a non-obvious secret pursued with conviction.

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Source book · Money

The Intelligent Investor

Benjamin Graham

The classic case for defensive investing: define value independently of price, and treat the market's mood as a service rather than a signal.

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