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Jun 26 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

7 books to understand 7 forces shaping the future:

1) Machine Intelligence

The Coming Wave by Mustafa Suleyman

2) Concentration of Power

The Narrow Corridor by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

Jun 24 • 10 tweets • 3 min read

9 books to think more clearly than 99% of people:

1) The Enigma of Reason by Mercier & Sperber

( why you're biased by design )

2) Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows

( feedback loops & second-order effects )

Jun 19 • 8 tweets • 2 min read

7 books to stop making emotional decisions:

1) The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef

2) Decisive by Chip & Dan Heath

Jun 18 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

10 books to start 10 life-changing habits:

1) Meditation

Mindfulness in Plain English by Bhante Gunaratana

2) Running

Born to Run by Christopher McDougall

Jun 13 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

7 books to read when you feel behind in life:

1) Meditations for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman

2) Late Bloomers by Rich Karlgaard

Jun 12 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

10 books to master 10 skills:

1) Creativity

The Creative Act by Rick Rubin

2) Rhetoric

Thank You for Arguing by Jay Heinrichs

Jun 12 • 12 tweets • 3 min read

10 books to fall in love with economics:

1) The Economist's Hour by Binyamin Appelbaum

2) The Ascent of Money by Niall Ferguson

Jun 10 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

10 books to read before you turn 30:

1) Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond

2) The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life by Erving Goffman

Jun 10 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

10 books that could replace a university degree:

1) How to Solve It by George Pólya

2) Ultralearning by Scott Young

Jun 7 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

10 books you'll regret not reading sooner:

1) Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott

2) The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy

Jun 3 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

10 books to fall in love with history:

1) Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford

2) Empire of the Summer Moon by S.C. Gwynne

Jun 1 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

7 books to understand how markets really work:

1) Against the Gods by Peter Bernstein

2) A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Malkiel

May 29 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

10 books worth more than a psychology degree:

1) How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman Barrett

2) Behave by Robert Sapolsky

May 25 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

9 books to understand the global economy:

1) Globalizing Capital by Barry Eichengreen

2) The Great Rebalancing by Michael Pettis

May 22 • 12 tweets • 3 min read

10 books to build a billion-dollar company:

1) Zero to One by Peter Thiel

2) The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz

May 19 • 13 tweets • 3 min read

10 short lessons from Skin in the Game:

1)

May 15 • 11 tweets • 3 min read

9 books that will teach you more than 3 years of university:

1) Skin in the Game by Nassim Taleb

2) Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger by Peter Bevelin

May 14 • 13 tweets • 3 min read

10 lessons from Principles by Ray Dalio:

1)

May 9 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

10 books — 10 mental models:

1) Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

( antifragility )

2) The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn

( paradigm shifts )

May 8 • 12 tweets • 4 min read

10 books to become high agency:

1) The Art of Doing Science and Engineering by Richard Hamming

2) Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing

May 7 • 9 tweets • 3 min read

7 books to fall in love with geopolitics:

1) The Power of Geography by Tim Marshall

2) The Revenge of Geography by Robert D. Kaplan