The essential books behind Navigator, distilled to their big ideas and key lessons — and linked to the people and models they illuminate. New summaries publish regularly.
Chris Miller — How semiconductors became the most critical technology on earth — and the fight to control them.
Jim Collins — What separates companies that make the leap to greatness from those that stay merely good.
Charlie Munger (ed. Peter Kaufman) — Charlie Munger's worldly wisdom — a latticework of mental models for thinking clearly.
Sam Walton with John Huey — Walmart's founder tells how relentless cost discipline and borrowed ideas built the world's largest retailer.
Walter Isaacson — The authorised life of Apple's founder — the intensity, the taste, and the reality distortion.
Brad Stone — How Amazon and Jeff Bezos built a relentless machine around customer obsession and long-term thinking.
Benjamin Graham — The foundational text of value investing — and the origin of the margin of safety.
Eric Ries — Build startups as experiments — validated learning through a fast Build-Measure-Learn loop.
Alice Schroeder — The definitive life of Warren Buffett — how compounding, applied to money and to life, builds an empire.
Daniel Kahneman — The two systems of the mind — and the biases that make smart people think badly.
Ron Chernow — The life of John D. Rockefeller — how one man organised chaos into a monopoly, then reinvented philanthropy.
Peter Thiel with Blake Masters — Build something genuinely new — and aim for monopoly, not competition.