Library
Different lists you could create here:
everyone should read to be a better person
new entrepreneurs should read
consultants should read
designers should read
leaders should read
The Internet + Humans
*The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
*World Without Mind by Franklin Foer
Rapt by Winfred Gallagher (notes)
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Human as Media by Andrey Miroshnichenko
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr (notes)
*The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
*World Without Mind by Franklin Foer
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Human as Media by Andrey Miroshnichenko
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr (notes)
Magic and Loss by Virginia Heffernan (notes)
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (quick hitters) (full notes)
*Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr (notes)
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford (notes)
The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew Crawford
The Signals are Talking by Amy Webb
Below are the books that shape my thinking…so far. I like everything included here.
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Philosophy
*Notes from the End of Everything by Robert Pantano
*Anam Cara by John O’Donohue (quick hitters)
All Things Shining by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorance Kelly
At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (Tweetstorm)
The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
As One Is by Jiddu Krishnamurti
American Philosophy by John Kaag (notes)
Hiking with Nietzsche by John Kaag (notes)
Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It by Daniel Klein
Meditations by Jiddu Krishnamurti
A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton
Mind-Benders
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
God’s Debris by Scott Adams
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli (quick-hitters)
The Island of Knowledge by Marcelo Gleiser
The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
But What If We’re Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman
Figuring Out Life
*Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (notes) (Tweetstorm)
*Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz
Personal Development
Flow by Mikhail Csikszentmihalyi (Note - this is the best non-fiction book I’ve read, so far)
Willpower Doesn’t Work by Ben Hardy (quick hitters) (full notes)
The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
The Practicing Mind by Thomas Sterner
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson
The Pocket Guide to Action by Kyle Eschenroeder
Atomic Habits by James Clear
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Mastery by George Leonard
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life by Russ Roberts
So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Fully Engaged by Thomas Sterner
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Make Your Bed by William McRaven
The One Thing by Gary Keller
Psychology
The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
You Can Read Anyone by David J. Lieberman
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Stumbling On Happiness by Dan Gilbert
Capture by David A. Kessler
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt
Writing
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (notes) (Tweetstorm)
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield
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