Reading List

"The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you’ll go." - Dr. Seuss

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September 2023

• Peak: For Fans of Atomic Habits

• Psychedelics: The revolutionary drugs that could change your life – a guide from the expert

August 2023

• Secret Tradecraft of Elite Advisors: Covert Techniques for a Remarkable Practice

• The Gap and The Gain: The High Achievers' Guide to Happiness, Confidence, and Success

• 10x Is Easier Than 2x: How World-Class Entrepreneurs Achieve More by Doing Less

• The Imperfectionists: Strategic Mindsets for Uncertain Times

July 2023

• Think Bigger: How to Innovate

• What Is ChatGPT Doing ... and Why Does It Work?

• Size: How It Explains the World

June 2023

• Hidden Genius: The secret ways of thinking that power the world’s most successful people

• Immersion: The Science of the Extraordinary and the Source of Happiness

• 1000 True Fans: Use Kevin Kelly's Simple Idea to Earn A Living Doing What You Love

• How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion

May 2023

• Competing Against Time: How Time-Based Competition is Reshaping Global Markets

• Ideaflow: Why Creative Businesses Win

• Excellent Advice for Living: Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier

April 2023

• Decisions Over Decimals: Striking the Balance between Intuition and Information

• The Case For Nukes: How We Can Beat Global Warming and Create a Free, Open, and Magnificent Future

March 2023

• A Hacker's Mind: How the Powerful Bend Society's Rules, and How to Bend them Back

• What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies

February 2023

• Remote Work Revolution: Succeeding from Anywhere

• The Myth of Normal: Trauma, Illness & Healing in a Toxic Culture

• Seeking Wisdom : From Darwin to Munger

January 2023

• The Dealmaker: Lessons from a Life in Private Equity

• The Creative Act: A Way of Being

• Do Hard Things: Why We Get Resilience Wrong and the Surprising Science of Real Toughness

December 2022

• When McKinsey Comes to Town: The Hidden Influence of the World's Most Powerful Consulting Firm

• Money Men: A Hot Startup, A Billion Dollar Fraud, A Fight for the Truth

• Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology

• Megathreats: The Ten Trends that Imperil Our Future, and How to Survive Them

• The Parasitic Mind: How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense

• Last Mile: How Startups Solve the Challenge of Delivering to Your Door

November 2022

• The Synergy Solution: How Companies Win the Mergers and Acquisitions Game

• The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous

October 2022

• Scale: The Universal Laws of Life and Death in Organisms, Cities and Companies

• Adrift: 100 Charts that Reveal Why America is on the Brink of Change

• The WEALTHTECH Book: The FinTech Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs and Finance Visionaries

September 2022

• The Price of Time: The Real Story of Interest

• Like, Comment, Subscribe: Inside YouTube’s Chaotic Rise to World Domination

• How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future

August 2022

• Narrative and Numbers: The Value of Stories in Business

• Exponential: Order and Chaos in an Age of Accelerating Technology

July 2022

• Direct: The Rise of the Middleman Economy and the Power of Going to the Source

• The Network State: How To Start a New Country

• Future Demand

• Free Speech And Why It Matters

• Woke: A Guide to Social Justice

• Social (In)justice: Why Many Popular Answers to Important Questions of Race, Gender, and Identity Are Wrong

• Free Speech: A Global History from Socrates to Social Media

June 2022

• 21st Century Monetary Policy: The Federal Reserve from the Great Inflation to COVID-19

• The Illusion of Control: Why Financial Crises Happen, and What We Can (and Can’t) Do About It

• Inflation: What It Is, Why It's Bad, and How to Fix It

May 2022

• Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making

• The Hidden Habits of Genius: Beyond Talent, IQ, and Grit—Unlocking the Secrets of Greatness

• You're Invited: The Art and Science of Cultivating Influence

• The Art of Stillness: Adventures in Going Nowhere

April 2022

• Autonomousity: Autonomous Vehicles and Emerging Business Models

• Autonomy: The Quest to Build the Driverless Car - And How It Will Reshape Our World

• Transportation Transformation: How Autonomous Mobility Will Fuel New Value Chains

• The Big Data Opportunity in Our Driverless Future

• The Implosion of Public Transit and the Case for an Infinite Game

• The Future of Public Transportation

• Autonorama: The Illusory Promise of High-Tech Driving

• New Mobilities: Smart Planning for Emerging Transportation Technologies

March 2022

• The Contrarian: Peter Thiel and Silicon Valley's Pursuit of Power

• Startup Studio Playbook: For entrepreneurs, pioneers and creators who want to build ventures faster and with higher chance of success

• Exit Right: How to Sell Your Startup, Maximize Your Return and Build Your Legacy

• The Polymath: Unlocking the Power of Human Versatility

• Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor

• The Psychology of Money: Timeless lessons on wealth, greed, and happiness

• Your Next Five Moves: Master the Art of Business Strategy

February 2022

• A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The Time-Tested Strategy for Successful Investing

• In Pursuit of the Perfect Portfolio: The Stories, Voices, and Key Insights of the Pioneers Who Shaped the Way We Invest

• The Revolution That Wasn't: How GameStop and Reddit Made Wall Street Even Richer

• The Founders: Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and the Company that Made the Modern Internet

January 2022

• Where Is My Flying Car?

• The Bomber Mafia: A Story Set in War

• Atomic Awakening

• Beyond Order: 12 More Rules for Life

• Your True Home: The Everyday Wisdom of Thich Nhat Hanh

• The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann

December 2021

• 10½ Lessons from Experience: Perspectives on Fund Management

• There’s No Free Lunch: 250 Economic Truths

• The Pay Off: How Changing the Way We Pay Changes Everything

• Change by Design, Revised and Updated: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation

• The Cold Start Problem: Using Network Effects to Scale Your Product

• Buy Now, Pay Later: The extraordinary story of Afterpay

November 2021

• The PAYTECH Book: The Payment Technology Handbook for Investors, Entrepreneurs, and FinTech Visionaries

• The End of the Everything Bubble: Why $75 trillion of investor wealth is in mortal jeopardy

• Trillions: How a Band of Wall Street Renegades Invented the Index Fund and Changed Finance Forever

• Human Frontiers: The Future of Big Ideas in an Age of Small Thinking

• Framers: Human Advantage in an Age of Technology and Turmoil

• Enough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life

• Calling Bullshit: The Art of Scepticism in a Data-Driven World

October 2021

• The Great Mental Models Volume 3: Systems and Mathematics

• Masters of Scale: Surprising truths from the world’s most successful entrepreneurs

• The Platform Delusion: Who Wins and Who Loses in the Age of Tech Titans

• Courage Is Calling: Fortune Favours the Brave

• Cashless: China's Digital Currency Revolution

• The Future of Money: How the Digital Revolution Is Transforming Currencies and Finance

• The Heart of Business: Leadership Principles for the Next Era of Capitalism

• Finite and Infinite Games

September 2021

• Levers: The Framework for Building Repeatability into Your Business

• The Long Game: How to Be a Long-Term Thinker in a Short-Term World

• The Practice of Groundedness: A Transformative Path to Success That Feeds--Not Crushes--Your Soul

• Better, Simpler Strategy: A Value-Based Guide to Exceptional Performance

• The Case for Creativity: The link between imaginative marketing & commercial success

• Seeds of Science: Why We Got It So Wrong On GMOs

August 2021

• Food 5.0: How We Feed the Future

• Four Thousand Weeks: The smash-hit Sunday Times bestseller that will change your life

• Maxims for Thinking Analytically: The wisdom of legendary Harvard Professor Richard Zeckhauser

• How to Make the World Add Up: Ten Rules for Thinking Differently About Numbers

• Let There Be Water: Israel's Solution for a Water-Starved World

July 2021

• Water 4.0: The Past, Present, and Future of the World's Most Vital Resource

• The Lessons of History

• Runaway Technology: Can Law Keep Up?

• The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self

June 2021

• Cyber Privacy: Who Has Your Data and Why You Should Care

• The Power of Giving Away Power: How the Best Leaders Learn to Let Go

• Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

• The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness

May 2021

• The Entrepreneur’s Weekly Nietzsche: A Book for Disruptors

• Billion Dollar Loser: The Epic Rise and Fall of WeWork: A Sunday Times Book of the Year

• The Anatomy of the Swipe: Making Money Move

• Catalyst

• Amazon Unbound

• Payments Systems in the U.S. - Third Edition: A Guide for the Payments Professional

• Game Changer: How to Be 10x in the Talent Economy

April 2021

• Rethinking Competitive Advantage: New Rules for the Digital Age

• Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist

• Mission Economy: A Moonshot Guide to Changing Capitalism

• Banking On It: How I Disrupted an Industry

March 2021

• Edison

• Present Future: Business, Science, and the Deep Tech Revolution

February 2021

• Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World

• Chatter: The Voice in Our Head and How to Harness It

• A CEO Only Does Three Things: Finding Your Focus in the C-Suite

• Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know

• Product Roadmaps Relaunched: How to Set Direction while Embracing Uncertainty

January 2021

• How To Raise A Venture Capital Fund: The Essential Guide on Fundraising and Understanding Limited Partners

• The Jobs To Be Done Playbook: Align Your Markets, Organization, and Strategy Around Customer Needs

• Ask Your Developer: How to Harness the Power of Software Developers and Win in the 21st Century

• Zen: The Art of Simple Living

• You’re Not Listening: What You’re Missing and Why It Matters

• Post Corona: From Crisis to Opportunity

• 2030: How Today's Biggest Trends Will Collide and Reshape the Future of Everything

• Apollo's Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

December 2020

• EMPOWERED: Ordinary People, Extraordinary Products (Silicon Valley Product Group)

• Beyond Entrepreneurship 2.0

• Too Much Information: Understanding What You Don't Want to Know

November 2020

• Uncharted: How to Map the Future

• Invent and Wander: The Collected Writings of Jeff Bezos

• Super Thinking: Upgrade Your Reasoning and Make Better Decisions with Mental Models

• Across The Board: The Modern Architecture Behind an Effective Board of Directors

October 2020

• Lives of the Stoics: The Art of Living from Zeno to Marcus Aurelius

• Upstream: How to solve problems before they happen

• Build What Matters: Delivering Key Outcomes with Vision-Led Product Management

• All In: How Obsessive Leaders Achieve the Extraordinary

• Radical Acceptance: Awakening the Love that Heals Fear and Shame

September 2020

• Winning Now, Winning Later: How Companies Can Succeed in the Short Term While Investing for the Long Term

• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention

• The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World

• Margin of Trust: The Berkshire Business Model

• Dear Shareholder: The best executive letters from Warren Buffett, Prem Watsa and other great CEOs

August 2020

• Humanocracy: Creating Organizations as Amazing as the People Inside Them

• Invisible Solutions: 25 Lenses that Reframe and Help Solve Difficult Business Problems

• The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful Strategies for Products that Win

• The Road Less Stupid: Advice from the Chairman of the Board

• The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup

• Living in a Bubble: A Guide to being diagnosed with High Functioning Asperger’s as an Adult

• Think for Yourself: Restoring Common Sense in an Age of Experts and Artificial Intelligence

July 2020

• Humankind: A Hopeful History

• Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All

• Be the Go-To: How to Own Your Competitive Market, Charge More, and Have Customers Love You For It

June 2020

• Beyond Product: How Exceptional Founders Embrace Marketing to Create and Capture Value for their Business

• Mastering The Market Cycle: Getting the odds on your side

• The Nature of Personal Reality: Specific, Practical Techniques for Solving Everyday Problems and Enriching the Life You Know (A Seth Book)

May 2020

• Eleven Rings

• Flash Crash: A Trading Savant, a Global Manhunt and the Most Mysterious Market Crash in History

• Story 10x: Turn the Impossible Into the Inevitable

• Tao of Charlie Munger: A Compilation of Quotes from Berkshire Hathaway's Vice Chairman on Life, Business, and the Pursuit of Wealth

• Bezonomics: How Amazon Is Changing Our Lives, and What the World's Best Companies Are Learning from It

• Blockchain Basics: A Non-Technical Introduction in 25 Steps

• No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram

April 2020

• The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology

• Always Day One: How the Tech Titans Stay on Top

• The Barefoot Investor for Families: How to teach your kids the value of a buck

• What's Your Problem?: To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve

• Get to Aha!: Discover Your Positioning DNA and Dominate Your Competition

• Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age

March 2020

• Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End (Wellcome Collection)

• The Art of Persuasion: Winning Without Intimidation

• Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup

• 99 Negotiating Strategies: Tips, Tactics & Techniques Used by Wall Street's Toughest Dealmakers

• Product-Led Growth: How to Build a Product That Sells Itself

• The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

February 2020

• One Simple Thing: A New Look at the Science of Yoga and How It Can Transform Your Life

• Non Obvious Megatrends: How to See What Others Miss and Predict the Future

• Embodiment - Moving beyond mindfulness

• Billion Dollar Whale: The Man Who Fooled Wall Street, Hollywood, and the World

• Just Breathe: Mastering Breathwork

• Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership

January 2020

• Metahuman: Unleashing your infinite potential

• Wealth, Actually: Intelligent Decision-Making for the 1%

• Geeks Who Can Schmooze: A Credit Suisse Private Banker Tells All

December 2019

• Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value

• Start at the End: How to Build Products That Create Change

• The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data

• Surely You're Joking Mr Feynman: Adventures of a Curious Character

• The Barefoot Investor: The Only Money Guide You'll Ever Need

November 2019

• The Grid: The Decision-making Tool for Every Business (Including Yours)

• Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences, The: The Ten Principles Behind Great Customer Experiences (Financial Times Series)

• Financial Intelligence, Revised Edition: A Manager's Guide to Knowing What the Numbers Really Mean

• Transforming The Telco: Developing the instinct for survival in the digital economy

• Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas That Don't Make Sense

• The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management

• What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence

• The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts

October 2019

• What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture

• Stay the Course: The Story of Vanguard and the Index Revolution

• The Compound Effect

• Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller

• The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon

• The Infinite Game: From the bestselling author of Start With Why

• Stillness is the Key: An Ancient Strategy for Modern Life (The Way, the Enemy and the Key)

• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons in Creative Leadership from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

• The Only Skill that Matters: The Proven Methodology to Read Faster, Remember More, and Become a SuperLearner

September 2019

• Fascinate, Revised and Updated: How to Make Your Brand Impossible to Resist

• That Will Never Work: The Birth of Netflix by the first CEO and co-founder Marc Randolph

• Barking Up the Wrong Tree: The Surprising Science Behind Why Everything You Know About Success Is (Mostly) Wrong

• Think Like Amazon: 50 1/2 Ideas to Become a Digital Leader

• Get Together: How to build a community with your people

August 2019

• Ultralearning: Accelerate Your Career, Master Hard Skills and Outsmart the Competition

• Strategy That Works: How Winning Companies Close the Strategy-to-Execution Gap

• Banking Bad: Whistleblowers. Corporate cover-ups. One journalist's fight for the truth.

• Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence

July 2019

• Hacking Darwin: Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity

• Brief Answers to the Big Questions: the final book from Stephen Hawking

• The Fifth Risk: Undoing Democracy

• How to Win Friends and Influence People

June 2019

• Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI

• Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

• Everything Is F*cked: A Book About Hope

• The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life

• The Outsiders: Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success

May 2019

• Words That Change Minds: The 14 Patterns for Mastering the Language of Influence

• Tim Cook: The Genius Who Took Apple to the Next Level

• Strategy Rules: Five Timeless Lessons from Bill Gates, Andy Grove, and Steve Jobs

• The Business of Platforms: Strategy in the Age of Digital Competition, Innovation, and Power

• Pivot to the Future: Discovering Value and Creating Growth in a Disrupted World

April 2019

• The Art of Seduction

• Trillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell

• Unlocking the Customer Value Chain: How Decoupling Drives Consumer Disruption

• The Laws of Human Nature: Robert Greene

• Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams

March 2019

• The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency

• Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

• Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Astrophysics for People in a Hurry Series)

• Breathing through the Whole Body: The Buddha's Instructions on Integrating Mind, Body, and Breath

• Letters from a Stoic: All Three Volumes

• The Neuroscience of Mindfulness: The Astonishing Science behind How Everyday Hobbies Help You Relax

• The Science of Rapid Skill Acquisition: Advanced Methods to Learn, Remember, and Master New Skills and Information

February 2019

• The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself

• The Myth of Capitalism: Monopolies and the Death of Competition

• Purple Cow: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable

• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

• Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice

• Man's Search For Meaning: The classic tribute to hope from the Holocaust

January 2019

• Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World

• The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure

• Elastic: Flexible Thinking in a Constantly Changing World

• Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valley (As Told by the Hackers, Founders, and Freaks Who Made It Boom)

• Farsighted: How We Make the Decisions that Matter the Most

• Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen

• Contagious: How to Build Word of Mouth in the Digital Age

• Explosive Growth: A Few Things I Learned While Growing My Startup To 100 Million Users & Losing $78 Million

December 2018

• The Headspace Guide to... Mindfulness & Meditation

• The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing

• The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results: Achieve your goals with one of the world's bestselling success books

• Quantum Economics: The New Science of Money

• Give People Money: The simple idea to solve inequality and revolutionise our lives

November 2018

• Silicon States: The Power and Politics of Big Tech and What It Means for Our Future

• Marketing: A Love Story: How to Matter to Your Customers

• Story Driven: You don't need to compete when you know who you are

• This is Marketing: You Can’t Be Seen Until You Learn To See

• Scaling Up: How a Few Companies Make It...and Why the Rest Don't (Rockefeller Habits 2.0)

• Straight Talk for Startups: 100 Insider Rules for Beating the Odds--From Mastering the Fundamentals to Selecting Investors, Fundraising, Managing Boards, and Achieving Liquidity

October 2018

• Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies

• The Future of Everything : Big, audacious ideas for a better world

September 2018

• Origin Story: A Big History of Everything

• Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics

• Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About The World - And Why Things Are Better Than You Think

August 2018

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century

• Monetizing Innovation: How Smart Companies Design the Product Around the Price

• Capitalism without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy

• Nudge: The Final Edition

• Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

July 2018

• Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

• Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter

• Good Strategy/Bad Strategy: The difference and why it matters

• Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant

• Porter's Five Forces: Understand competitive forces and stay ahead of the competition

• Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup

• Go Long: Why Long-Term Thinking Is Your Best Short-Term Strategy

• Matchmakers: The New Economics of Multisided Platforms

• The Laws of Simplicity (Simplicity: Design, Technology, Business, Life)

June 2018

• How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics

• Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently

May 2018

• The Order of Time

• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

• The Personal MBA: A World-Class Business Education in a Single Volume

• Measure What Matters: OKRs: The Simple Idea that Drives 10x Growth

April 2018

• Seductive Interaction Design: Creating Playful, Fun, and Effective User Experiences

• Intercom on Product Management

• Intercom on Onboarding

• When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing

• Powerful: Building a Culture of Freedom and Responsibility

• Berkshire Hathaway Letters to Shareholders, 2021

• Boards That Lead: When to Take Charge, When to Partner, and When to Stay Out of the Way

• Startup Boards: Getting the Most Out of Your Board of Directors

March 2018

• The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business of Life

• Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life

• Work Rules!: Insights from Inside Google That Will Transform How You Live and Lead

• INSPIRED: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love (Silicon Valley Product Group)

February 2018

• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

• Creativity, Inc.: an inspiring look at how creativity can - and should - be harnessed for business success by the founder of Pixar

• Stealing Fire: How Silicon Valley, the Navy SEALs, and Maverick Scientists Are Revolutionizing the Way We Live and Work

• The Undoing Project: A Friendship that Changed the World

• Simplify: How the Best Businesses in the World Succeed

• The Upstarts: How Uber, Airbnb and the Killer Companies of the New Silicon Valley are Changing the World

January 2018

• Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose

• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World

• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon

• How Google Works

• Ego is the Enemy: The Fight to Master Our Greatest Opponent (The Way, the Enemy and the Key)

• The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

• Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House