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Rather than read individual books, why not read clusters on related topics? Using AI to summarize, compare, and fact-check? 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) Grit (Angela Duckworth) Peak (Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool) Range (David Epstein) 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) The “Attention Resistance” and Digital Minimalism (2016–2022) Deep Work (Cal Newport, 2016) Digital Minimalism (Cal Newport, 2019) Indistractable (Nir Eyal) 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) My Grandmother’s Hands (Resmaa Menakem, 2017) Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Lori Gottlieb) It Didn’t Start with You (Mark Wolynn, 2016) 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) Here are books I’d like to cluster: ...

Results of my software tool evaluations. 🟢 is my current choice and 🟡 is worth evaluating. Partial JSON parsers, 25 Dec 2025 JS Libraries for Partial JSON 🟡 jsonrepair 2,138 ⭐ Dec 2025: Repair invalid JSON documents. Summary: most credible “repair then parse” baseline—2.1k stars and very widely used; has a docs site + CLI; great when LLM output is nearly JSON and you can repair at end or checkpoints. stream-json 1,142 ⭐ Feb 2025: Streaming JSON processing toolkit. Summary: 1.1k stars; broadest feature set for true streaming (token streams, filters, assemblers, JSONL, verifier) with minimal-memory design; best when your stream is valid JSON/JSONL and you want pipeline composition. clarinet 465 ⭐ Aug 2023: SAX-like streaming JSON parser. Summary: 465 stars; tiny/evented incremental parsing; great when you want events fast and will manage state yourself; less helpful for malformed/truncated JSON repair. jsonparse 368 ⭐ Nov 2021: Pure-JS streaming JSON parser. Summary: 368 stars; older but simple; good building block, though modern maintenance signals weren’t captured here. best-effort-json-parser 262 ⭐ Jul 2025: Best-effort parsing for incomplete JSON. Summary: 262 stars; explicitly aimed at partial/LLM-truncated JSON; strongest choice when you need a usable partial value mid-stream. streamparser-json 197 ⭐ Jan 2025: Streaming JSON parser for Node/Deno/browser. Summary: positioned as “fast dependency-free” and spec compliant; looks modern; I didn’t capture stars in sources, so verify popularity and cadence before committing. 🟡 partial-json-parser-js 196 ⭐ Aug 2025: Parse partial JSON strings (LLM streaming). Summary: explicitly motivated by LLM partial JSON; supports streaming-to-UI use cases; popularity metrics weren’t captured, so treat as promising but verify maintenance and adoption. JSON– 7 ⭐ Sep 2016: Selective streaming JSON parser. Summary: niche streaming approach inspired by JSONStream/jsonparse; evaluate if you want path-based extraction from streams. json-parse-stream 14 ⭐ Apr 2014: Minimal streaming JSON parser. Summary: small project (14 stars); may be useful for tiny pipelines, but weaker popularity/momentum signals than the above. SonarQube alternatives, 22 Dec 2025 SonarQube alternatives ...