Category:Book review
Recent roll
As of 1/9/2020
The Hidden Half: How the World Conceals its Secrets — Michael Blastland
The Courage to be Disliked — Ichiro Kishimi
Lights Out: Pride, Delusion, and the Fall of General Electric — Ted Mann
Bezonomics — Brian Dumaine
Drive: The Surprising Truth about what Motivates Us — Daniel Pink
The Spider Network — David Enrich
The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One — William Black
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future — Peter Thiel
The Three Body Problem — Cixin Liu
As of 20/6/2020
The Clock Mirage: Our Myth of Measured Time — Joseph Mazur
Seeing Like a State — James C. Scott
Love in the Time of Cholera — Gabriel Garcia Márquez
The Wisdom of Crowds — James Surowiecki
Darke — Rick Gekoski
Meltdown — Chris Clearfield and András Tilcsik
Dark Towers: Deutsche Bank, Donald Trump, and an Epic Trail of Destruction — Template:David Enrich
The Light That Failed: A Reckoning — Ivan Krastev and Stephen Holmes
A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush — Eric Newby
The Dorito Effect: The Surprising New Truth About Food and Flavor — Mark Schatzker
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning — Jeremy Lent
War for Eternity: The Return of Traditionalism and the Rise of the Populist Right — Benjamin R. Teitelbaum
Uncanny Valley: A Memoir — Anna Wiener
The Bystander Effect: Understanding the Psychology of Courage and Inaction — Catherine Sanderson
Understanding Complexity — Scott E. Page
Einstein’s War: How Relativity Conquered Nationalism and Shook the World — Matthew Stanley
The Mind Is Flat — Nick Chater
As of 1/4/2020
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (re-read!)
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies — Charles Perrow
The Silo Effect — Gillian Tett
The Rules of Contagion — Adam Kucharski
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable — Nassim Nicholas Taleb (re-read!)
The Design of Everyday Things — Don Norman
Never Split the Difference — Chris Voss
Why We East (Too Much) — Andrew Jenkinson
How we Know What Isn’t So — Thomas Gilovich
In the Plex — Steven Levy
A World Without Work — Daniel Susskind
The Science of Story Telling — Will Storr
All the Devils are Here — Bethany McLean
Hank — Mark Ribowski
Tools and Weapons — Brad Smith
Last Train to Memphis — Peter Guralnick
The End is Always Near — Dan Carlin
Because Internet — Gretchen McCulloch
The Germans and Europe — Peter Millar
In Europe’s Shadow — Robert D. Kaplan
Red Notice — Bill Browder
The Surprising Science of Meetings — Steven C. Rogelberg
The Madness of Crowds — Douglas Murray
Chernobyl — Serhii Plokhy
The Art of Gathering:How We Meet and Why It Matters — Priya Parker
Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade — Robert Cialdini
Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioural Science to Transform Your Working Life — Caroline Webb
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion — Robert Cialdini
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Book of Why — Judea Pearl
Time Travel — James Gleick
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction — Phillip Tetlock
Superpumped:The Battle for Uber — Mike Isaac
Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking — Matthew Syed
Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust — Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis
Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter — Scott Adams
The World of Yesterday — Stefan Zweig
The Information — James Gleick
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don't Make Sense — Rory Sutherland
Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialised World — David Epstein
The Goal — Eliyahu Goldratt
Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics — Richard Thaler
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup — John Carreyrou
The Daniel Dennett collection
- Darwin’s Dangerous Idea
- Consciousness Explained
- Freedom Evolves
- Breaking the Spell
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back Again
Nassim Nicholas Taleb’s “Incerto” collection
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Rip-snorting business books
Barbarians at the Gate - Bryan Burrough Liar’s Poker
Science, mathematics and the philosophy of science
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions - Thomas Kuhn
A Grand Design - Stephen Hawking
Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos - Roger Lewin
Consilience - E. O. Wilson
Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality can be a Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life - Emanuel Derman
How to Teach Quantum Physics to your Dog - Chad Orzal
The Dappled World – A Study of the Boundaries of Science - Nancy Cartwright
Lake Views: This World and the Universe - Steven Weinberg
The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives - Leonard Mlodinow
The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next - Lee Smolin
Good books about technology
Code: Version 2.0 - Lawrence Lessig
The Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves - Brian Arthur
Bad books about technology
Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization – Parag Khanna and Ayesha Khanna
The Singularity is Near - Ray Kurzweil
Business and process engineering
Blockbusters: Why Big Hits - and Big Risks - Are the Future of the Entertainment Business - Anita Elberse
Enterprise 2.0 – Andrew MacAfee
Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right - Atul Gawande
The Design of Business: Why Design is the Next Competitive Advantage - Roger Martin
Rework - Jason Fried
Writing and the law
How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One - Stanley Fish
Good books about philosophy and psychology
Man’s Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind - Julian Jaynes
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - Robert M. Pirsig
Bad books about philosophy
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