Now Reading

• Matthew Stewart, The Courtier and the Heretic
• Jomny Sun, Everyone’s an Aliebn When You’re an Aliebn Too
• Philip K. Dick, A Maze of Death
• Tim Kay, Obliquity
• Daniel Yergin, The Quest
• Herman Hesse, The Glass Bead Game
• Geoff Manaugh, A Burglar’s Guide to the City
• James Gleick, Time Travel: A History
• Kim Malone Scott, Radical Candor
• Keller Easterling, Extrastatecraft

• James Scott, Against the Grain
• James Carse, The Religious Case Against Belief
• Andrew Grove, High Output Management
• Ben Horowitz, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• Robert Sapolsky, Behave
• Alfred T. Mahan, The Influence of Sea Power Upon History
• Peter H. Wilson, The Thirty Years War

(frequently-cited works, in no particular order…)

Books

• Pierre Bayard, How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read 
• Hannah Arendt, The Human Condition
• Bruce Sterling, Schismatrix Plus
• Francis Fukuyama, Political Order and Political Decay
• Bruno de Mesquita, The Dictator’s Handbook
• Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens
• Eric Hoffer, The True Believer
• Gregory Berns, Satisfaction
• James Carse, Finite and Infinite Games
• Buckminster Fuller, Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Antifragile
• Michael Lind, Land of Promise
• James Scott, Seeing Like a State
• Keith Johnstone, Impro
• Lakoff and Johnson, Metaphors We Live By
• Ron Chernow, Titan
• Charles Morris, The Tycoons
• T. J. Stiles, The First Tycoon
• Barbara Ehrenreich, Bright-Sided
• David Allen, Getting Things Done
• Pankaj Ghemawat, World 3.0
• Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order
• Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man
• Samuel Florman, The Existential Pleasures of Engineering
• Francine Prose, Reading Like a Writer
• William Whyte, The Organization Man
• Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization
• Marc Levinson, The Box
• Marshall McLuhan, Understanding Media
• Joel Mokyr, The Lever of Riches
• Carlotta Perez, Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital
• Chet Richards, Certain to Win
• Robert Coram, Boyd
• Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson, Why Nations Fail
• Joseph Tainter, The Collapse of Complex Societies
• George Steiner, Nostalgia for the Absolute
• Edmund S. Phelps, Mass Flourishing

Papers/Articles

• Karl Weick, What Theory is Not, Theorizing is
• David Murray, That’s Interesting
• Juergen Schmidhuber, Driven by Compression Progress
• Douglas North, Institutions
• Harry Frankfurt, On Bullshit 

Video

(I only post/cite video content when the ideas are not available in book form)

• Bruce Sterling Reboot 11 Talk (transcript)
• Adam Curtis, Century of the Self
• Elizabeth Gilbert, TED talk on “daemons” and genius

Honorable Mentions

• Dan Pink, Free Agent Nation
• Vernor Vinge, Rainbow’s End
• Art Kleiner, Who Really Matters
• George Dyson, Turing’s Cathedral
• James Gleick, The Information
• Steven Kaplan, The Hidden Tools of Comedy