Reading
A very short list of very good readings
not in any particular order
Life:
- The Most Good You Can Do
- Animal Liberation
- How Are We To Live
- The Life You Can Save
- World Poverty and Human Rights
- The Expanding Circle
- Ethics for the New Millennium
- Living High and Letting Die
- The Elements of Moral Philosophy
- Problems from Philosophy
- Why Buddhism is True
- Change of Heart Nick Cooney
- Poor Economics
- Happy Money
- Algorithms to Live By
- Strangers Drowning
- Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
- Lying Sam Harris
Personal:
- How to Win Friends and Influence People
- Difficult Conversations
- The How of Happiness
- Rapt
- The Charisma Myth
- Give and Take
Productivity:
- Getting Things Done
- Eat That Frog!
General:
- Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
- Everything is Obvious
- The Righteous Mind
- A People’s History of the United States
- Better Angels of our Nature
- Guns, Germs, and Steel
- A Short History of Nearly Everything
- The Selfish Gene
- A History of Western Philosophy
- The Spirit Level
- The Information
- Freakonomics
- Outliers
- Blink
- The Tipping Point
- Home: A Short History of Private Life
- Moral Tribes
- The Precipice
Psychology:
- Thinking, Fast and Slow
- Strangers to Ourselves
- Stumbling on Happiness
- The Paradox of Choice
- The Luck Factor
- The Power of Habit
- Making Habits, Breaking Habits
- Predictably Irrational
- Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
- Kluge
- Nudge
- Switch
- The Open-Focus Brain
- Positivity
- The Happiness Hypothesis
- Culture of Honor
- The Brighter Side of Human Nature
- The Person and the Situation
- Redirect
Math:
- Flatland
- How to Lie with Statistics
- How Not To Be Wrong
- The Men of Mathematics
- How to Solve It
- Gödel, Escher, Bach
School:
- The Homework Myth
- No Contest
- Punished by Rewards
- Mindset
- Intelligence and How to Get It
- What Intelligence Tests Miss
- Why Don’t Students Like School
Science Fiction:
- Accelerando
- Manna: Two Visions of Humanity’s Future
- Daemon & FreedomTM
Fiction:
- The Rosie Project
- One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
- Memoirs of a Geisha
- 1984
- Animal Farm
- Walden Two
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
- Catch-22
Wikipedia:
Blogs:
Articles:
- The Singer Solution to World Poverty
- Famine, Affluence, and Morality
- Against the Common-Sense View of Ethical Careers
- If money doesn’t make you happy, then you probably aren’t spending it right
TED.com:
- Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations
- Mike Dickson – What is enough?
- Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?
- Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen
- Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
- Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
- Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness
- Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?
- Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
- Steven Pinker on the myth of violence
- Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
- Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
- Susan Cain: The power of introverts
- Dan Dennett on dangerous memes