Reading List
A list of books that I have read, am reading, or would like to read, in no particular order. Eventually, my hope is for this to become a book review list as well.
Standard disclaimer that the presence of a book on this list is not necessarily an endorsement of any ideas contained within said book. Non-standard disclaimer that the presence of a book on this list probably signals that it’s pretty interesting.
Miscellaneous
- Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Keith Johnstone)
- McNamara’s Folly (Hamilton Gregory)
- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter)
- Progress and Poverty (Henry George)
- The Party (Richard McGregor)
- The Age of Entitlement (Christopher Caldwell)
- Class (Paul Fussell)
- The 99% Invisible City (Kurt Kohlstedt, Roman Mars)
- Pimp (Iceberg Slim)
- Talent (Tyler Cowen)
- Metaphors We Live By (George Lakoff)
- The Master and His Emissary (Iain McGilchrist)
- Legal Systems Very Different From Ours (David Friedman)
- Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
- Dune (Frank Herbert)
- Warfighting (A.M. Gray)
- Finite and Infinite Games (James Carse)
- Getting to Maybe (Richard Fischl and Jeremy Paul)
- Intellectuals and Society (Thomas Sowell)
- How Children Fail (John Holt)
- Moral Mazes (Robert Jackall)
- The Power Broker (Robert Moses)
- The Collapse of Complex Societies (Joseph Tainter)
- The Educated Mind (Kieran Egan)
- The Cult of Smart (Fredrik deBoer)
- Remembrance of Things Past (Marcel Proust)
Tangentially related
- Seeing Like a State (James Scott)
- Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue (Michael Keen, Joel Slembrod)
- Governing Least (Dan Moller)
- The Machinery of Freedom (David Friedman)
- Order Without Law (Robert Ellickson)
- Thinking in Systems (Donella Meadows)
- An Introduction to General Systems Thinking (Gerald Weinberg)
- Lying for Money (Daniel Davies)
- Poor Economics (Abhijit Banerjee and Ester Buflo)
- Who Gets What and Why (Alvin Roth)
- Incerto series (Nassim Taleb)
- How Markets Fail (John Cassidy)
- The Laws of Trading (Agustin Lebron)
- Thinking in Bets (Annie Duke)
- Liar’s Poker (Michael Lewis)
Practical
- Radical Candor (Kim Scott)
- The Design of Everyday Things (Don Norman)
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Ben Horowitz)
- Zero to One (Peter Thiel)
- Managing Humans (Michael Lopp)
- Product Management in Practice (Matt Lemay)
- Using Scenarios (Thomas Chermack)
- Team Topologies (Matthew Skelton, Manual Pais)
- Switch (Chip & Dan Heath)
- The Scout Mindset (Julia Galef)
- Managing the Professional Service Firm (David Maister)