Interests — Pablo

I devour content, love to read and listen to podcasts.

Books 23

The five I keep going back to. The whole shelf, by theme, follows.

Trafalgar Benito Pérez Galdós favourite
The first of the Episodios Nacionales: a boy from Cádiz aboard the Santísima Trinidad at the battle of 1805.
La colmena Camilo José Cela
Three days in the Madrid of 1943, through some three hundred characters who cross paths in a café.
La familia de Pascual Duarte Camilo José Cela
A condemned peasant from Extremadura writes down his life and its violence. The novel that opened tremendismo.
Comedia Dante Alighieri
Dante's journey through Hell, Purgatory and Paradise, guided first by Virgil and then by Beatrice.
Odisea Homero
Odysseus's ten-year way home from Troy to Ithaca, and what he finds when he gets there.

Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España Bernal Díaz del Castillo favourite
A foot soldier's eyewitness account of Cortés's conquest of Mexico, written in old age to set the record straight.
The Box Marc Levinson
How the shipping container, and the fights over its standards, made global trade cheap.

Skunk Works Ben R. Rich & Leo Janos favourite
The inside story of Lockheed's secret division, from the U-2 and the SR-71 to the F-117 stealth fighter.
Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! Richard P. Feynman favourite
Feynman's anecdotes: safecracking at Los Alamos, samba in Rio, and how a curious character does physics.
When We Cease to Understand the World Benjamín Labatut favourite
Haber, Schwarzschild, Grothendieck, Heisenberg, Schrödinger: the moments where discovery and madness touch. Part fact, part fiction.

El inversor inteligente Benjamin Graham
Graham's case for value investing: margin of safety, Mr. Market, and the line between investing and speculating.
Poor Charlie's Almanack Charles T. Munger
Munger's talks collected: mental models, the psychology of human misjudgment, and inverting every problem.
The Man Who Solved the Market Gregory Zuckerman
Jim Simons and Renaissance Technologies: how mathematicians built the most profitable fund in history.
The Trading Game Gary Stevenson
A Citibank trader from East London bets that the economy will not recover, wins, and walks away.
Padre rico, padre pobre Robert T. Kiyosaki
Two fathers, two views of money: assets against liabilities, and why school never teaches the difference.

Titan Ron Chernow
The life of John D. Rockefeller: Standard Oil, the trusts, and the philanthropy that followed.
What It Takes Stephen A. Schwarzman
Schwarzman on building Blackstone, from a two-man M&A shop to the largest alternative asset manager.
The Mom Test Rob Fitzpatrick
How to talk to customers about your idea without them lying to you: ask about their life, not your product.
Built to Sell John Warrillow
A parable about turning a service business that depends on its owner into one that runs, and sells, without them.
Show Your Work! Austin Kleon
Ten ways to share what you make while you make it, and let the work find its audience.

Hábitos atómicos James Clear
Small changes, compounded: make a habit obvious, attractive, easy and satisfying.
Deep Work Cal Newport
Long, undistracted focus as the rare skill of the knowledge economy, and how to protect it.
Grit Angela Duckworth
Why sustained passion and perseverance predict achievement better than talent does.

Kapital Joan Tubau
Long conversations about money, work and how to think about both. In Spanish.
Podcast de itnig itnig
Weekly conversations with founders, executives and investors on business cases and tech news.
La Ingobernable microbio & Singular Solving
A podcast about Marca España: how Spain is run, and how it is seen.
Conferencias de la March Fundación Juan March
The lectures given at the Fundación Juan March in Madrid and Palma, as audio.