Library
Feel free to get in touch with suggestions.
There is a slightly out-of-date page on BookShop. Books To Read More Than Once: An Ongoing List
Power and Love — Adam Kahane
The World Beyond Your Head — Matthew B. Crawford
Rule Makers, Rule Breakers — Michele Gelfand
Simple Habits for Complex Times — Jennifer Garvey Berger & Keith Johnston
The End of Average — Todd Rose
Men in Progress
All Fours (Miranda July) resonated deeply with me at a time of grief. I often wish I could read a Man’s experience of going through those years.
I am starting to articulate a group for men, away from the man-sphere podcast land, and alpha, beta, and other alphabetical categorizations.
The Will to Change — bell hooks
The Möbius Book — Catherine Lacey
All About Love
— bell hooks
Everything Will Happen: design for AI, language, and augmentation
Rebooting AI: Building Artificial Intelligence We Can Trust — Gary Marcus & Ernest Davis
Mind in Motion: How Action Shapes Thought — Barbara Tversky
Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life — Rory Sutherland
Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind — Annaka Harris
The Big Nine: How the Tech Titans and Their Thinking Machines Could Warp Humanity — Amy Webb
You Are Not a Gadget: A Manifesto — Jaron Lanier
The Big Disconnect: Protecting Childhood and Family Relationships in the Digital Age — Catherine Steiner-Adair & Teresa H. Barker
Stumbling on Happiness — Daniel Gilbert
The Ideas Industry: How Pessimists, Partisans, and Plutocrats are Transforming the Marketplace of Ideas — Daniel W. Drezner
The Hero and the Outlaw: Building Extraordinary Brands Through the Power of Archetypes — Margaret Mark & Carol S. Pearson
The Diversity Bonus: How Great Teams Pay Off in the Knowledge Economy — Scott E. Page
The Square and the Tower: Networks and Power, from the Freemasons to Facebook — Niall Ferguson
Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress — Steven Pinker
The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction — Matthew B. Crawford
Who Gets What — and Why: The New Economics of Matchmaking and Market Design — Alvin E. Roth
Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies — Geoffrey West
What To Do When Machines Do Everything: How to Get Ahead in a World of AI, Algorithms, Bots, and Big Data — Malcolm Frank, Paul Roehrig & Ben Pring
The Fourth Industrial Revolution — Klaus Schwab
The Silo Effect: The Peril of Expertise and the Promise of Breaking Down Barriers — Gillian Tett
Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm — Christian Madsbjerg
What to Think About Machines That Think: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence — John Brockman (ed.)
Overcomplicated: Technology at the Limits of Comprehension — Samuel Arbesman
Emergence: The Connected Lives of Ants, Brains, Cities, and Software — Steven Johnson
Whiplash: How to Survive Our Faster Future — Joi Ito & Jeff Howe
The Industries of the Future — Alec Ross
The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness — Todd Rose
The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds — Michael Lewis
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future — Martin Ford
The Inevitable: Understanding the 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future — Kevin Kelly
This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking Progress — John Brockman (ed.)
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution — Walter Isaacson
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation — Jon Gertner
Turing’s Cathedral: The Origins of the Digital Universe — George Dyson
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed — Ray Kurzweil
Machines of Loving Grace: The Quest for Common Ground Between Humans and Robots — John Markoff
The Jazz of Physics: The Secret Link Between Music and the Structure of the Universe — Stephon Alexander
On Intelligence: How a New Understanding of the Brain Will Lead to the Creation of Truly Intelligent Machines — Jeff Hawkins & Sandra Blakeslee
Myths to Live By — Joseph Campbell
Big Mind: How Collective Intelligence Can Change Our World — Geoff Mulgan
Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age — Sherry Turkle
You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future — Jonathon Keats
Metaphors We Live By — George Lakoff & Mark Johnson