I men­tioned the Per­sonal MBA Book List last week, and today have come across this inter­view between Josh Kauf­man and Ben Cas­nocha, author of My Start-Up Life.

Josh runs the Per­sonal MBA Rec­om­mended Read­ing List — a list of the best busi­ness books one would need to read for a com­pre­hen­sive busi­ness edu­ca­tion. It’s a ter­rific resource that’s well worth review­ing. In our exchange, we talk about the list of books and whether recently pub­lished ones should be excluded, and then mean­der into the dif­fer­ence between books offer­ing sys­tems / mod­els and prac­ti­cal advice, and con­clude on how promi­nent a role books should play in the self-education process.