The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers
by Ben Horowitz
My wife has been raving about this, and I’m eager to read it. Ben is one of Silicon Valley’s most respected and experienced entrepreneurs, and I’m interested in his take on building and running a start-up and practical wisdom for the tough problems business school doesn’t cover.
Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
by Douglas A. Blackmon
I recently started this book about the re-enslavement of Black Americans after the Civil War as part of my journey to better understand the history of the South, the Lost Cause, and structural injustice.