Starlit Books

Books recommended by Stewart Butterfield

Stewart Butterfield

  1. Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (by J. D. Vance). Recommended by Ben Shapiro , Bill Gates , Bill Nye , Jason Calacanis , Max Levchin , Stewart Butterfield
  2. Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High (by Kerry Patterson). Recommended by Max Levchin , Stewart Butterfield
  3. Death Rattle: (by Alex Gilly). Recommended by Stewart Butterfield
  4. Devil's Harbor: (by Alex Gilly). Recommended by Stewart Butterfield
  5. Play Anything: The Pleasure of Limits, the Uses of Boredom, and the Secret of Games (by Ian Bogost). Recommended by Stewart Butterfield
  6. The Dream Machine: (by M. Mitchell Waldrop). Recommended by Patrick Collison , Tobi Lütke , Stewart Butterfield
  7. Charged: The New Movement to Transform American Prosecution and End Mass Incarceration (by Emily Bazelon). Recommended by Stewart Butterfield
  8. The Making of a Manager: What to Do When Everyone Looks to You (by Julie Zhuo). Recommended by Daniel Pink , Ev Williams , Gretchen Rubin , Sam Altman , Stewart Butterfield , Ali Abdaal , Marty Cagan
  9. Leadership and Self-Deception: Getting Out of the Box (by The Arbinger Institute). Recommended by Dustin Moskovitz , Stewart Butterfield , Justin Kan
  10. How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (by Michael Pollan). Recommended by Amelia Boone , Aubrey Marcus , Hamilton Morris , Kara Swisher , Naval Ravikant , Paul Stamets , Peter Attia , Tim Ferriss , Vinod Khosla , Yuval Noah Harari , Stewart Butterfield , Michael Mauboussin
  11. The Courage to Be Disliked: The Japanese Phenomenon That Shows You How to Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness (by Ichiro Kishimi). Recommended by Marc Andreessen , Ryan Hoover , Tobi Lütke , Stewart Butterfield , Anthony Pompliano , Jodie Cook , Ali Abdaal
  12. Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln (by Doris Kearns Goodwin). Recommended by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez , Bill Gates , J.K. Rowling , Scott Belsky , Stewart Butterfield , Jamie Dimon , Sunny Hostin
  13. The Rise and Fall of American Growth: The U.S. Standard of Living since the Civil War (by Robert J. Gordon). Recommended by Bill Gates , Marc Andreessen , Patrick Collison , Satya Nadella , Stewart Butterfield