Category:Book review
Recent roll
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 — 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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