Lists I maintain - of various kinds.
Book Clusters
Rather than read individual books, why not read clusters on related topics? Using AI to summarize, compare, and fact-check? Tiny-habits + behavior design wave (2018–2020) Atomic Habits (James Clear, 2018) Tiny Habits (BJ Fogg, 2019/2020 editions) The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg, 2012) Learning faster, remembering more (2014–2020) Make It Stick (Peter C. Brown, 2014) A Mind for Numbers (Barbara Oakley, 2014) Ultralearning (Scott Young, 2019) How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Ahrens, 2017) Motivation, grit, and “how people get good” (2016–2019). # Gemini Grit (Angela Duckworth, 2016) Peak (Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool, 2016) Range (David Epstein, 2019) Hidden Potential (Adam Grant, 2023) Mindset (Carol S. Dweck, 2006) The Talent Code (Daniel Coyle, 2009) Drive (Daniel H. Pink, 2009) The “Attention Resistance” and Digital Minimalism (2016–2022) Deep Work (Cal Newport, 2016) Digital Minimalism (Cal Newport, 2019) Indistractable (Nir Eyal, 2019) How to Do Nothing (Jenny Odell, 2019) Stolen Focus (Johann Hari, 2022) Trauma, healing, and therapy “going mainstream” (2014–2022) What Happened to You? (Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey, 2021) The Myth of Normal (Gabor Maté, 2022) The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk, 2014) No Bad Parts (Richard Schwartz, 2021) My Grandmother’s Hands (Resmaa Menakem, 2017) Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Lori Gottlieb, 2019) It Didn’t Start with You (Mark Wolynn, 2016) Endurance running as history + meaning + limits (2006-2016) The Road to Sparta (Dean Karnazes, 2016) Born to Run (Christopher McDougall, 2009) Endure (Alex Hutchinson, 2018) Ultramarathon Man (Dean Karnazes, 2006) What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami, 2007) Running with the Kenyans (Adharanand Finn, 2011) Socialism “after the 20th century”: rebuilding the case, testing alternatives, arguing with critics (1944-2021) Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! (Todor Bombov, 2017/2021 editions) The Socialist Manifesto (Bhaskar Sunkara, 2019) Why You Should Be a Socialist (Nathan J. Robinson, 2016) Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas Piketty, 2013/2014) The Nordic Theory of Everything (Anu Partanen, 2016) The Road to Serfdom (Friedrich Hayek, 1944) Coaching-centered leadership and building high-performing teams (1998-2019) Trillion Dollar Coach (Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle, 2019) High Output Management (Andrew S. Grove, 1983) The Coaching Habit (Michael Bungay Stanier, 2016) Radical Candor (Kim Scott, 2017) The Making of a Manager (Julie Zhuo, 2019) Multipliers (Liz Wiseman, 2010) Nexus and the history of information networks: media, power, and the AI turn (2010-2024) Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Yuval Noah Harari, 2024) The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (James Gleick, 2011) The Master Switch (Tim Wu, 2010) The Shallows (Nicholas Carr, 2010) The Square and the Tower (Niall Ferguson, 2017) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff, 2019) “Remarkable service” leadership playbook (1993-2022) Unreasonable Hospitality (Will Guidara, 2022) Setting the Table (Danny Meyer, 2006) Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service (The Disney Institute, 2001; updated editions later) Delivering Happiness (Tony Hsieh, 2010) The Experience Economy (B. Joseph Pine II & James H. Gilmore, 1999) Raving Fans (Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles, 1993) Science graphics, visual explanation, and evidence-based information design (1983-2023) Building Science Graphics (Jen Christiansen, 2023) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte, 1983) Visual Explanations (Edward Tufte, 1997) The Truthful Art (Alberto Cairo, 2016) Storytelling with Data (Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, 2015) Show Me the Numbers (Stephen Few, 2004) Superforecasting and the craft of good judgment under uncertainty (2001-2018) Superforecasting (Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner, 2015) The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver, 2012) Thinking in Bets (Annie Duke, 2018) How Not to Be Wrong (Jordan Ellenberg, 2014) Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2001) The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007) Explanations, progress, and the Popperian worldview (1963–2018) The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (David Deutsch, 2011) Conjectures and Refutations (Karl Popper, 1963) The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Karl Popper, 1934; English 1959) The Fabric of Reality (David Deutsch, 1997) Enlightenment Now (Steven Pinker, 2018) Decision-making, noise, and cognitive bias (2011–2021) Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman) Superforecasting (Tetlock & Gardner) Noise (Kahneman, Sibony, Sunstein) Thinking in Bets (Annie Duke) Happiness → meaning → the good life (2016–2023) The Happiness Trap (ACT-based) The Power of Meaning (Emily Esfahani Smith) The Good Life (Waldinger & Schulz) Build the Life You Want (Brooks & Winfrey) Relationships + attachment + communication (2010–2018) Attached (Levine & Heller) Nonviolent Communication (Rosenberg) Crucial Conversations The 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work (Gottman) Longevity / healthspan “protocol” wave (2017–2023) The Telomere Effect (Blackburn & Epel, 2017) Lifespan (David Sinclair, 2019) Outlive (Peter Attia, 2023) Sleep finally gets its “public health” moment (2016–2018) Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker, 2017) The Sleep Revolution (Arianna Huffington) Sleep Smarter (Shawn Stevenson, 2016) The Power of When (Michael Breus, 2016) The Sleep Solution (W. Chris Winter, 2017) Metabolic health, obesity, and food environment (2015–2023) The Obesity Code (Jason Fung) How Not to Die (Michael Greger) Ultra-Processed People (Chris van Tulleken) Exercise as medicine + movement as mood (2008–2020) Spark (John Ratey) Born to Run (McDougall) The Joy of Movement (Kelly McGonigal) Modern management craft: feedback, coaching, teams (2016–2019) The Coaching Habit (Michael Bungay Stanier) Radical Candor (Kim Scott) The Culture Code (Daniel Coyle) The Fearless Organization (Amy Edmondson) Execution systems: OKRs and operating cadence (2015–2018) Measure What Matters (John Doerr) Radical Focus (Christina Wodtke) The 4 Disciplines of Execution (McChesney et al.) Startups & product-building playbook wave (2011–2016) The Lean Startup (Eric Ries) Zero to One (Peter Thiel, 2014) Sprint (Knapp et al.) Hooked (Nir Eyal) The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Ben Horowitz, 2014) Creativity, Inc. (Ed Catmull, 2014) Strategy “clarity” wave (2011–2017) Good Strategy Bad Strategy (Rumelt) Playing to Win (Lafley & Martin) The Innovator’s Dilemma (Christensen) Seven Powers (Hamilton Helmer) Incentives, misalignment, and corporate pathology (2015–2020) Misbehaving (Thaler) The Undoing Project (Lewis) The Man Who Solved the Market (Zuckerman) (if you like finance angle) No Rules Rules (Hastings & Meyer) “Why nations succeed/fail” + institutions (2012–2015) Why Nations Fail (Acemoglu & Robinson) The Dictator’s Handbook (Bueno de Mesquita & Smith) Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall) Big History and the “Sapiens” Effect (2014–2021) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari, 2014) The Better Angels of Our Nature (Pinker) The Silk Roads (Peter Frankopan, 2015) Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari, 2016) The Dawn of Everything (David Graeber & David Wengrow, 2021) Geopolitics reboot (2012–2020) The Revenge of Geography (Robert Kaplan, 2012) Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall, 2015) The Future is Asian (Parag Khanna) Connectography (Parag Khanna, 2016) Inequality, capitalism, and who wins (2012–2019) Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas Piketty, 2013/2014) Winners Take All (Anand Giridharadas) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff) The Price of Inequality (Joseph Stiglitz, 2012) Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Anthony Atkinson, 2015) After Piketty (Heather Boushey et al., 2017) Race, systems, and social structure (2019–2020) How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi) White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo) Caste (Isabel Wilkerson) Social contagion, networks, and how behavior spreads (2009–2013) Connected (Christakis & Fowler) Contagious (Jonah Berger) The Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt) AI and the future of work (2017–2023) Life 3.0 (Tegmark) AI Superpowers (Kai-Fu Lee) The Alignment Problem (Brian Christian) The Coming Wave (Mustafa Suleyman) Climate “this is the constraint” wave (2014–2021) The Sixth Extinction (Kolbert) Drawdown (Hawken, ed.) The Uninhabitable Earth (Wallace-Wells) How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (Gates) Physics/cosmology for humans (2014–2017) Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Rovelli) The Big Picture (Sean Carroll) Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Tyson) Modern Stoicism and Ego Management (2014–2019) The Obstacle Is the Way (Ryan Holiday, 2014) Ego Is the Enemy (Ryan Holiday, 2016) The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F-ck (Mark Manson, 2016) Stillness Is the Key (Ryan Holiday, 2019) The “Wood Wide Web”: Plant and Fungal Intelligence (2015–2021) The Hidden Life of Trees (Peter Wohlleben, 2015) The Overstory (Richard Powers, 2018) Entangled Life (Merlin Sheldrake, 2020) Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard, 2021) Breathwork and Respiratory Health (2015–2020) The Oxygen Advantage (Patrick McKeown, 2015) Just Breathe (Dan Brulé, 2017) Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (James Nestor, 2020) The Microbiome and Gut-Brain Axis (2014–2016) Missing Microbes (Martin Blaser, 2014) The Good Gut (Justin & Erica Sonnenburg, 2015) 10% Human (Alanna Collen, 2015) I Contain Multitudes (Ed Yong, 2016) The Psychedelic Renaissance (2018–2021) How to Change Your Mind (Michael Pollan, 2018) The Psychedelic Renaissance (Ben Sessa, 2012/2018 edition) Acid Revival (Danielle Giffort, 2020) This Is Your Mind on Plants (Michael Pollan, 2021) CRISPR and the Gene Editing Revolution (2017–2021) A Crack in Creation (Jennifer Doudna & Samuel Sternberg, 2017) The Gene (Siddhartha Mukherjee) Hacking Darwin (Jamie Metzl, 2019) Editing Humanity (Kevin Davies, 2020) The Code Breaker (Walter Isaacson, 2021) The Meritocracy Trap (2019–2020) The Meritocracy Trap (Daniel Markovits, 2019) The Tyranny of Merit (Michael Sandel, 2020) The Cult of Smart (Fredrik deBoer, 2020) The Crisis of Democracy and Authoritarianism (2018–2020) How Democracies Die (Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, 2018) Fascism: A Warning (Madeleine Albright, 2018) The People vs. Democracy (Yascha Mounk, 2018) Twilight of Democracy (Anne Applebaum, 2020) The Gender Data Gap and Invisible Labor (2019–2021) Invisible Women (Caroline Criado Perez, 2019) Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters (Deborah Stone, 2020) The Authority Gap (Mary Ann Sieghart, 2021) The “Unicorn” Fall: Corporate Fraud and Failure (2018–2021) Bad Blood (John Carreyrou, 2018) Super Pumped (Mike Isaac, 2019) Billion Dollar Loser (Reeves Wiedeman, 2020) The Cult of We (Eliot Brown & Maureen Farrell, 2021) New Urbanism and Walkable Cities (2012–2019) Walkable City (Jeff Speck, 2012) Happy City (Charles Montgomery, 2013) Streetfight (Janette Sadik-Khan, 2016) Soft City (David Sim, 2019) Silk Roads and “history as networks”: trade routes, exchange, and the Eurasian pivot (2008–2018) The Silk Roads (Peter Frankopan, 2015) The New Silk Roads (Peter Frankopan, 2018) Empires of the Silk Road (Christopher I. Beckwith, 2009) A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World (William J. Bernstein, 2008) The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (David Abulafia, 2011) The Modern Synthesis forming: evolution meets genetics and math (1930–1942) The Causes of Evolution (J. B. S. Haldane, 1932) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (R. A. Fisher, 1930) Genetics and the Origin of Species (Theodosius Dobzhansky, 1937) Evolution: The Modern Synthesis (Julian Huxley, 1942) What Evolution Is (Ernst Mayr, 2001) Forecasting science’s consequences: biotech futures and moral whiplash (1924–2005) Daedalus; or, Science and the Future (J. B. S. Haldane, 1924) The World Set Free (H. G. Wells, 1914) Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1932) Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962) The Singularity Is Near (Ray Kurzweil, 2005) Erudite historical mystery: monasteries, manuscripts, and ideas as suspects (1977–1993) The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco, 1980) Foucault’s Pendulum (Umberto Eco, 1988) The Club Dumas (Arturo Pérez-Reverte, 1993) A Morbid Taste for Bones (Ellis Peters, 1977) Labyrinth (Kate Mosse, 2005) Chemistry as memoir, ethics, and survival: science told as literature (1975–2016) The Periodic Table (Primo Levi, 1975) If This Is a Man / Survival in Auschwitz (Primo Levi, 1947) Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Oliver Sacks, 2001) The Disappearing Spoon (Sam Kean, 2010) Lab Girl (Hope Jahren, 2016) Insight under pressure: intuition, expertise, and how people actually decide (1998–2015) Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights (Gary Klein, 2013) Sources of Power (Gary Klein, 1998) Blink (Malcolm Gladwell, 2005) Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman, 2011) Superforecasting (Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner, 2015) Awe and everyday transcendence: the science of wonder and its effects (2006–2023) Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life (Dacher Keltner, 2023) The Happiness Hypothesis (Jonathan Haidt, 2006) Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1990) The Book of Delights (Ross Gay, 2019) Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013) Introversion, temperament, and the “extrovert ideal” (1996–2012) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (Susan Cain, 2012) The Highly Sensitive Person (Elaine N. Aron, 1996) The Introvert Advantage (Marti Olsen Laney, 2002) The Introvert’s Way (Sophia Dembling, 2012) Personality (Daniel Nettle, 2007) Why societies diverge: geography, germs, institutions, and big-history arguments (1997–2021) Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond, 1997) Why Nations Fail (Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson, 2012) The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (David S. Landes, 1998) Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall, 2015) The Dawn of Everything (David Graeber & David Wengrow, 2021) Presence, mindfulness, and “waking up” from mental noise (1975–2014) The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle, 1997) The Miracle of Mindfulness (Thích Nhất Hạnh, 1975) Wherever You Go, There You Are (Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994) Waking Up (Sam Harris, 2014) 10% Happier (Dan Harris, 2014) Therapy made legible: human stories, clinical craft, and change (1989–2020) Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Lori Gottlieb, 2019) Love’s Executioner (Irvin D. Yalom, 1989) The Gift of Therapy (Irvin D. Yalom, 2001) Good Morning, Monster (Catherine Gildiner, 2019) Group (Christie Tate, 2020) Classic success psychology: ambition, persuasion, and “prosperity” narratives (1903–1937) Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill, 1937) How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie, 1936) The Richest Man in Babylon (George S. Clason, 1926) The Science of Getting Rich (Wallace D. Wattles, 1910) As a Man Thinketh (James Allen, 1903) TODO ...