Marc Astbury

Marc Astbury

Singapore

Software Designer and 2x startup founder. Currently CPO at Jenni AI. I also make Sticky, a spaced repetition app for iOS.

When I’m away from the screen, I’m usually out bikepacking, exploring the world on two wheels.

Reading

2026

  • Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China by Ezra F. Vogel

2025

  • Why Information Grows by César Hidalgo
  • The Fall of the Ottomans by Eugene Rogan
  • The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
  • Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
  • Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki
  • The Science of Managing Our Digital Stuff by Ofer Bergman and Steve Whittaker
  • No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
  • When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson

2024

  • The Great Mental Models, Volume 3 by Shane Parrish
  • Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
  • Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • A Small Matter of Programming by Bonnie Nardi
  • The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
  • The Death and Life of Great American Cities by Jane Jacobs
  • Notes on the Synthesis of Form by Christopher Alexander
  • Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
  • Are We Human? by Beatriz Colomina and Mark Wigley
  • Blockchain Chicken Farm by Xiaowei Wang
  • How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens

2023

  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
  • Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows
  • Thinking in Bets by Annie Duke
  • Dragon Tactics by Aldo Spaanjaars and Sandrine Zerbib
  • Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jethá
  • Actionable Gamification by Yu-kai Chou
  • How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
  • User Friendly by Cliff Kuang and Robert Fabricant
  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
  • Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Sketching User Experiences by Bill Buxton
  • From Third World to First by Lee Kuan Yew
  • The Timeless Way of Building by Christopher Alexander