Reading list · 10 books
Josh Wolfe's reading list
Co-founder and managing partner of Lux Capital, a deep-science and frontier-tech VC. A self-described voracious reader who frames investing through Munger-style mental models and the history of science.
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01
Charlie Munger
He cites Charlie Munger's "worldly wisdom" and mental-models approach as central to how he invests.
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Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!
Richard P. Feynman
A favorite science memoir he references for its playful, first-principles curiosity.
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Nick Lane
He recommends Lane's book on the deep chemistry of life and death, fitting Lux's science thesis.
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Sebastian Mallaby
He recommends Mallaby's history of venture capital and its outlier-driven returns.
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Sebastian Mallaby
He recommends Mallaby's history of hedge funds and the rise of a new financial elite.
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Michael Mauboussin
A recommended read on untangling luck and skill, aligned with his decision-making frame.
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Douglas Hofstadter & Daniel Dennett
He names this collection on self and soul among his influential reads.
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Neal Stephenson
He cites Stephenson's sci-fi among the books that shaped his thinking about the future.
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Carlo Rovelli
He recommends Rovelli's meditation on physics and the nature of time.
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Steven Pinker
He references Pinker's cognitive-science synthesis as an influential read.
More on Josh Wolfe's picks
Wolfe discusses books across podcasts (North Star, Ritholtz's MiB), Lux's Medium writing, and Twitter, and explicitly credits E.O. Wilson and Charlie Munger as intellectual lodestars. His picks favor physics and biology of life/death, science memoirs, investing/decision frameworks, and literary fiction. Recommendations surface mostly in long interviews and his curated lists.
