Reading List
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CABIN: Off the Grid Adventures with a Clueless Craftsman, Patrick Hutchison
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI, Yuval Noah Harari
Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Paulo Freire
The Kalahari Typing School for Men, Alexander McCall Smith
Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing), Salman Khan
The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters, Tom Nichols
The Man with the Silver Saab, Alexander McCall Smith
How to Know a Person, David Brooks
Peace Like a River, Leif Enger
The Talented Mr. Varg, Alexander McCall Smith
Virgil Wander, Leif Enger
A Synthesizing Mind, Howard Gardner
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection, Charles Duhigg
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Creativity: The Psychology of Discovery and Invention, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
College (Un)Bound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students, Jeffrey J. Selingo
Who Gets in and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions, Jeffrey J. Selingo
I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education, Malcolm Gladwell
Five Minds for the Future, Howard Gardner
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward, Britt Frank
Buffalo for the Broken Heart: Restoring Life to a Black Hills Ranch, Dan O'Brien
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas S. Kuhn
The Road, Cormac McCarthy
The Bomber Mafia: A Dream, a Temptation, and the Longest Night of the Second World War, Malcolm Gladwell
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma, Bessel van der Kolk
Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation, Edward L. Deci
The Earth Moved: On the Remarkable Achievements of Earthworms, Amy Stewart
The Fate of Food: What We'll Eat in a Bigger, Hotter, Smarter World, Amanda Little
Complexity: A Guided Tour, Melanie Mitchell
Mathematics for Human Flourishing, Francis Su
The Mismeasure of Man, Stephen Jay Gould
The Geography of Nowhere: The Rise and Decline of America's Man-Made Landscape, James Howard Kunstler
Traction: Get a Grip on Your Business, Gino Wickman
Elastic: Unlocking Your Brain's Ability to Embrace Change, Leonard Mlodinow
Home, Marilynne Robinson
The Department of Sensitive Crimes, Alexander McCall Smith
Jack, Marilynne Robinson
The Death and Life of Great American Cities, Jane Jacobs
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants, Malcolm Gladwell
Out of Office: The Big Problem and Bigger Promise of Working from Home, Charlie Warzel, Anne Helen Petersen
Gilead, Marilynne Robinson
Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization, Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence, Michael Pollan
The Doors of Perception, Aldous Huxley
Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, Jim Collins
Eat, Sleep, Innovate: How to Make Creativity an Everyday Habit Inside Your Organization, Scott D. Anthony, Paul Cobban, Natalie Painchaud, Andy Parker
Only the Paranoid Survive: How to Exploit the Crisis Points That Challenge Every Company, Andrew S. Grove
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries, Safi Bahcall
A World Without Email: Reimagining Work in an Age of Communication, Cal Newport
Complexity: The Emerging Science at the Edge of Order and Chaos, M. Mitchell Waldrop
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable, Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Ready Player Two, Ernest Cline
Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
Educated: A Memoir, Tara Westover
Outliers: The Story of Success, Malcolm Gladwell
Subliminal: How Your Unconscious Mind Rules Your Behavior, Leonard Mlodinow
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action, Simon Sinek
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters, Priya Parker
Linchpin: Are You Indispensable?, Seth Godin
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference, Malcolm Gladwell
Ninja Innovation: The Ten Killer Strategies of the World's Most Successful Businesses, Gary Shapiro
Ungrading: Why Rating Students Undermines Learning (and What to Do Instead) (Teaching and Learning in Higher Education), Alfie Kohn, Susan D. Blum
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis, J.D. Vance
Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption, Bryan Stevenson
Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution--and How It Can Renew America, Thomas L. Friedman
How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World, Steven Johnson
How Stella Saved the Farm: A Tale About Making Innovation Happen, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, Greg McKeown
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking, Malcolm Gladwell
Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap...And Others Don't, Jim Collins
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It, Chris Voss
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business, Charles Duhigg
The Body: A Guide for Occupants, Bill Bryson
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know, Malcolm Gladwell
Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us, Daniel H. Pink
The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?, Seth Godin
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, Atul Gawande
The Lager Queen of Minnesota, J. Ryan Stradal
Thank You for Being Late: An Optimist's Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations, Thomas L. Friedman
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World, David Epstein
That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behind in the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back, Thomas L. Friedman, Michael Mandelbaum
A Hero Among Heroes: Jimmie Dyess and the 4th Marine Division, Perry M. Smith
The Branding of the American Mind: How Universities Capture, Manage, and Monetize Intellectual Property and Why It Matters, Jacob H. Rooksby
Thinking, Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
Normal Accidents: Living with High-Risk Technologies, Charles Perrow
The Logic Of Failure: Recognizing And Avoiding Error In Complex Situations, Dietrich Dorner
Inviting Disaster: Lessons From the Edge of Technology, James R Chiles
To Do
Complex Adaptive Systems: An Introduction to Computational Models of Social Life, John H. Miller, Scott Page
Admired Disorder: A Guide to Building Innovation Ecosystems: Complex Systems, Innovation, Entrepreneurship, And Economic Development, Alistair M. Brett
Complexity and Creativity in Organizations, Ralph Stacey
Lean Software Systems Engineering for Developers: Managing Requirements, Complexity, Teams, and Change Like a Champ, Doug Durham, Chad Michel
Talking to Humans: Success starts with understanding your customers, Giff Constable
Less But Better, Dieter Rams
Multiple Intelligences: New Horizons in Theory and Practice, Howard E Gardner
Teach Students How to Learn: Strategies You Can Incorporate Into Any Course to Improve Student Metacognition, Study Skills, and Motivation, Saundra Yancy McGuire
The Passenger, Cormac McCarthy
Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate, Ernest L. Boyer