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“Every thinking American must read” (The Washington Book Review) this startling and “insightful” (The New York Times) look at how concentrated financial power and consumerism has transformed American politics, and business.Going back to our country’s founding, Americans once had a coherent and clear understanding of political tyranny, one crafted b...
David Heinemeier Hansson
Jan 31, 2021In this characteristically turbocharged new book, celebrated Rolling Stone journalist Matt Taibbi provides an insider's guide to the variety of ways today's mainstream media tells us lies. Part tirade, part confessional, it reveals that what most people think of as "the news" is, in fact, a twisted wing of the entertainment business.In the Internet...
David Heinemeier Hansson
Jan 12, 2021Fresh from Oxford with a degree in philosophy and no particular interest in business, Matthew Stewart might not have seemed a likely candidate to become a consultant. But soon he was telling veteran managers how to run their companies.In narrating his own ill-fated (and often hilarious) odyssey at a top-tier firm, Stewart turns the consultants merc...
David Heinemeier Hansson
Nov 25, 2020The study reported in this volume grew out of some theoretical work, one phase of which bore specifically on the behavior of individuals in social movements that made specific (and unfulfilled) prophecies. We had been forced to depend chiefly on historical records to judge the adequacy of our theoretical ideas until we by chance discovered the soci...
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Jul 09, 2020Also recommended by
Ben CollinsThe Road to Wigan Pier authored by George Orwell (Eric Arthur Blair) was an autobiographical novel by the author written in those days of his life that we say struggling days. He was moving around from one city to the other and it were those days when he left his job at the Booklovers' Corner. A photograph taken by the esteemed photographer 'Ceridw...
David Heinemeier Hansson
Mar 24, 2020Also recommended by
Jordan PetersonMore than four billion people—some 60 percent of humanity—live in debilitating poverty, on less than $5 per day. The standard narrative tells us this crisis is a natural phenomenon, having to do with things like climate and geography and culture. It tells us that all we have to do is give a bit of aid here and there to help poor countries up the de...
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Aug 31, 2019Also recommended by
Aaron BastaniIn 2014, Theranos founder and CEO Elizabeth Holmes was widely seen as the next Steve Jobs: a brilliant Stanford dropout whose startup "unicorn" promised to revolutionize the medical industry with its breakthrough device, which performed the whole range of laboratory tests from a single drop of blood. Backed by investors such as Larry Ellison and Ti...
David Heinemeier Hansson
Jul 22, 2018“Why We Sleep is an important and fascinating book…Walker taught me a lot about this basic activity that every person on Earth needs. I suspect his book will do the same for you.” —Bill Gates A New York Times bestseller and international sensation, this “stimulating and important book” (Financial Times) is a fascinating dive into the purpose and po...
David Heinemeier Hansson
Jun 24, 2018Written in 1914 but not published until 1925, a year after Kafka’s death, The Trial is the terrifying tale of Josef K., a respectable bank officer who is suddenly and inexplicably arrested and must defend himself against a charge about which he can get no information. Whether read as an existential tale, a parable, or a prophecy of the excesses of ...
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May 31, 2018Brave New World is a dystopian novel by English author Aldous Huxley, written in 1931 and published in 1932. Largely set in a futuristic World State, inhabited by genetically modified citizens and an intelligence-based social hierarchy, the novel anticipates huge scientific advancements in reproductive technology, sleep-learning, psychological mani...
David Heinemeier Hansson
May 31, 2018Among the seminal texts of the 20th century, Nineteen Eighty-Four is a rare work that grows more haunting as its futuristic purgatory becomes more real. Published in 1949, the book offers political satirist George Orwell's nightmarish vision of a totalitarian, bureaucratic world and one poor stiff's attempt to find individuality. The brilliance of ...
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May 31, 2018The Stranger by Albert Camus
On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty
Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyama
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
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Blue Ocean Strategy by W. Chan Kim
Drive by Daniel H. Pink
The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
Maverick by Ricardo Semler
The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis
The Halo Effect by Phil Rosenzweig
An Introduction to General Systems Thinking by Gerald M. Weinberg
The New Tsar by Steven Lee Myers
The Myth of the Spoiled Child by Alfie Kohn
A Guide to the Good Life by William B. Irvine
Refactoring by Martin Fowler
On Writing Well by William Zinsser
Domain-Driven Design by Eric Evans
Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture by Martin Fowler
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr.
Smalltalk Best Practice Patterns by Kent Beck
Are Your Lights On? by Donald C. Gause
Turn the Ship Around! by L. David Marquet
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
The Manual by Epictetus
The Daily Stoic by Ryan Holiday
Understanding Exposure by Bryan Peterson
The Big Short by Michael Lewis
The 4-Hour Workweek by Timothy Ferriss
Anxiety Culture by Michael Foley
Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard
Punished by Rewards by Alfie Kohn
Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm