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-===Recent roll===
-As of 1/4/2020
-{{br|Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life}} — {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} (re-read!) <br>
-{{br|Normal Accidents}} — {{author|Charles Perrow}} <br>
-{{br|The Silo Effect}} — {{author|Gillian Tett}} <br>
-{{br|The Rules of Contagion}} — {{author|Adam Kucharski}} <br>
-{{br|The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable}} — {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} (re-read!) <br>
-{{br|The Design of Everyday Things}} — {{author|Don Norman}} <br>
-{{br|Never Split the Difference}} — {{author|Chris Voss}} <br>
-{{br|Why We East (Too Much)}} — {{author|Andrew Jenkinson}} <br>
-{{br|How we Know What Isn’t So}} — {{author|Thomas Gilovich}} <br>
-{{br|In the Plex}} — {{author|Steven Levy}} <br>
-{{br|A World Without Work}} — {{author|Daniel Susskind}} <br>
-{{br|The Science of Story Telling}} — {{author|Will Storr}} <br>
-{{br|All the Devils are Here}} — {{author|Bethany McLean}} <br>
-{{br|Hank}} — {{author|Mark Ribowski}} <br>
-{{br|Tools and Weapons}} — {{author|Brad Smith}} <br>
-{{br|Last Train to Memphis}} — {{author|Peter Guralnick}} <br>
-{{br|The End is Always Near}} — {{author|Dan Carlin}} <br>
-{{br|Because Internet}} — {{author|Gretchen McCulloch}} <br>
-{{br|The Germans and Europe}} — {{author|Peter Millar}} <br>
-{{br|In Europe’s Shadow}} — {{author|Robert D. Kaplan}} <br>
-{{br|Red Notice}} — {{author|Bill Browder}} <br>
-{{br|The Surprising Science of Meetings}} — {{author|Steven C. Rogelberg}} <br>
-{{br|The Madness of Crowds}} — {{author|Douglas Murray}} <br>
-{{br|Chernobyl}} — {{author|Serhii Plokhy}} <br>
-{{br|The Art of Gathering:How We Meet and Why It Matters}} — {{author|Priya Parker}} <br>
-{{br|Pre-suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade}} — {{author|Robert Cialdini}} <br>
-{{br|Have a Good Day: Harness the Power of Behavioural Science to Transform Your Working Life}} — {{author|Caroline Webb}} <br>
-{{br|Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion}} — {{author|Robert Cialdini}} <br>
-{{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder}} — {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} <br>
-{{br|Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life}} — {{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}} <br>
-{{br|The Book of Why}} — {{author|Judea Pearl}} <br>
-{{br|Time Travel}} — {{author|James Gleick}} <br>
-{{br|Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction}} — {{author|Phillip Tetlock}} <br>
-{{br|Superpumped:The Battle for Uber}} — {{author|Mike Isaac}} <br>
-{{br|Rebel Ideas: The Power of Diverse Thinking}} — {{author|Matthew Syed}} <br>
-{{br|Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust}} — {{author|Gary Marcus}} & {{author|Ernest Davis}} <br>
-{{br|Win Bigly: Persuasion in a World Where Facts Don't Matter}} — {{author|Scott Adams}} <br>
-{{br|The World of Yesterday}} — {{author|Stefan Zweig}} <br>
-{{br|The Information}} — {{author|James Gleick}} <br>
-{{br|Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don't Make Sense}} — {{author|Rory Sutherland}} <br>
-{{br|Range: How Generalists Triumph in a Specialised World}} — {{author|David Epstein}} <br>
-{{br|The Goal}} — {{author|Eliyahu Goldratt}} <br>
-{{br|Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioural Economics}} — {{author|Richard Thaler}} <br>
-{{br|Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup}} — {{author|John Carreyrou}} <br>
-===The [[Daniel Dennett]] collection===
-*{{br|Darwin’s Dangerous Idea}}
-*{{br|Consciousness Explained}}
-*{{br|Freedom Evolves}}
-*{{br|Breaking the Spell}}
-*{{Br|From Bacteria to Bach and Back Again}}
-==={{author|Nassim Nicholas Taleb}}’s “Incerto” collection===
-{{bookreview|Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets}}<br>
-{{bookreview|The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable}} <br>
-{{br|Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life}} <br>
-{{br|Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder}}
-===Rip-snorting business books===
-{{br|Barbarians at the Gate}} - {{author|Bryan Burrough}}
-{{br|Liar’s Poker}}
-===Science, mathematics and the {{T|philosophy of science}}===
-{{bookreview|The Structure of Scientific Revolutions}} - {{author|Thomas Kuhn}} <br>
-{{bookreview|A Grand Design}} - {{author|Stephen Hawking}} <br>
-{{bookreview|Complexity: Life at the Edge of Chaos}} - {{author|Roger Lewin}} <br>
-{{bookreview|Consilience}} - {{author|E. O. Wilson}} <br>
-{{bookreview|Models.Behaving.Badly: Why Confusing Illusion with Reality can be a Disaster, on Wall Street and in Life}} - {{author|Emanuel Derman}} <br>
-{{bookreview|How to Teach Quantum Physics to your Dog}} - {{author|Chad Orzal}} <br>
-{{bookreview|The Dappled World – A Study of the Boundaries of Science}} - {{author|Nancy Cartwright}} <br>
-{{bookreview|Lake Views: This World and the Universe}} - {{author|Steven Weinberg}} <br>
-{{bookreview|The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules our Lives}} - {{author|Leonard Mlodinow}} <br>
-{{bookreview|The Trouble with Physics: The Rise of String Theory, The Fall of a Science and What Comes Next}} - {{author|Lee Smolin}} <br>
-===Good books about technology===
-{{bookreview|Code: Version 2.0}} - {{author|Lawrence Lessig}} <br>
-{{bookreview|The Nature of Technology: What it is and How it Evolves}} - {{author|Brian Arthur}} <br>
-===Bad books about technology===
-{{bookreview|Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization}} – {{author|Parag Khanna}} and {{author|Ayesha Khanna}} <br>
-{{bookreview|The Singularity is Near}} - {{author|Ray Kurzweil}} <br>
-===Business and process engineering===
-{{bookreview|Blockbusters: Why Big Hits - and Big Risks - Are the Future of the Entertainment Business}} - {{author|Anita Elberse}} <br>
-{{bookreview|Enterprise 2.0}} – {{author|Andrew MacAfee}} <br>
-{{bookreview|Steve Jobs}} - {{author|Walter Isaacson}} <br>
-{{bookreview|The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right}} - {{author|Atul Gawande}} <br>
-{{bookreview|The Design of Business: Why Design is the Next Competitive Advantage}} - {{author|Roger Martin}} <br>
-{{br|Rework}} - {{author|Jason Fried}}
-===Writing and the law===
-{{bookreview|How to Write a Sentence and How to Read One}} - {{author|Stanley Fish}} <br>
-===Good books about philosophy and psychology===
-{{bookreview|Man’s Search for Meaning}} - {{author|Viktor Frankl}} <br>
-{{bookreview|The Origins of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind}} - {{author|Julian Jaynes}} <br>
-{{bookreview|Thinking, Fast and Slow}} - {{author|Daniel Kahneman}} <br>
-{{bookreview|Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance}} - {{author|Robert M. Pirsig}} <br>
-===Bad books about philosophy ===
-{{bookreview|Affluenza}} - {{author|Oliver James}} <br>
-{{br|The God Delusion}} - {{author|Richard Dawkins}} <br>
-{{c|The Jolly Contrarian}}
-{{c|Review}}

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