Reading
2017 - Present
Though I began reading a few years earlier, in 2017 I began reading/listening a lot more. I’ll use that date as a starting point of what I’ve been reading recently. In no particular order…
Non Fiction
A Systems View of Life
Visionary Evaluation
Sapiens
Originals
Why We Sleep
The Practice: Shipping Creative Work
The Information
Creativity: The Psychology and Discovery of Invention
The Narrow Corridor: States, Society, and the Fate of Liberty
The Political Mind
Leonardo DaVinci - Walter Isaacson
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The Patterning Instinct: A Cultural History of Humanity’s Search for Meaning
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States: Revisioning American History
Principles: Life and Work
Antifragile: Things that Gain from Disorder
Black Swan
Skin in the Game
Fooled By Randomness
The Fabric of the Cosmos
The Elegant Universe
The Olive Wars
Givers and Takers
The Bible
Tao Te Ching
The Tao of Pooh
The Te of Piglet
The Unfettered Mind
Ageless
Keep Sharp
Ageless Brain
Linchpin
Brain Maker
Good Work
Rewire
The Brain That Changes Itself
Getting Things Done
The Nocturnal Brain
12 Rules for Life
Strength In Stillness
Radical Compassion
The Infinite Game
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism
Falter
The Water Will Come
The Creativity Code
The Future of Capitalism
Big Magic
Hacking Darwin
Enemy of All Mankind
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
Why We Make Things and Why It Matters
Atomic Habits
Homo Deus
Utopia for Realists
The Uninhabitable Earth
Better
The Checklist Manifesto
The Sixth Extinction
An Elegant Defense
The Hidden Life of Trees
Made to Stick
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Life After Google
Longitude
The Wright Brothers
The Gene
Never Split the Difference
Zero to One
SuperIntelligence
Rise of the Machines
Platform Revolution
Machine, Platform, Crowd
Good to Great
The Four Tendencies
Multipliers
The Information
The Evolving Self
Life 3.0
Modern Monopolies
Matchmakers
Sync
The Moral Landscape
The Omnivores Dilemma
Nudge
The Post American World
Culture and Imperialism
The Smart Swarm
The Starfish and the Spider
The Ascent of Money
Connected
Money: An Unauthorized History
The Weirdest People in the World
The Rational Optimist
Influence
How to Avoid A Climate Disaster
History Map By Map
Universe
Fiction
Destination Casablanca
Where the Crawdads Sing
Daniel Silva Novels
John LeCarre Novels
The Overstory
The Sympathizer
Jason Matthews Novels
The Overstory
Slow Horses
Dead Lions
Need To Know
The Travelers
The Accident
Nelson DeMille Novels
James Clavell Novels
Barkskins
Stuart Little
Betsy Dowdy’s Ride
The Hobbit
Wind in the Willows
Huckleberry Finn
London Rules
Spook Street
Real Tigers
21 Balloons
Misty of Chincoteague
Stormy
Trumpet of the Swan
Player Piano
The Expats
Betrayal in Berlin
Agent Zigzag
Alan Furst Novels
Olen Steinhauer Novels
Len Deighton Novels
Twice a Spy
The Secrets We Kept
American Spy
A Woman of No Importance
The Old Drift
Origin
Defectors
Charles McCarry Novels
We Were The Lucky Ones
Vanished
The Spy and the Traitor
The Third Option
Transfer of Power
Double Cross
Transcription
Frederick Forsyth Novels
The Quiet American
A Gentleman in Moscow
Killers of the Flower Moon
The Paris Spy
Munich
The Honor of Spies
An Officer and a Spy
Other Media
Humanity Rising Webinar
The Economist Magazine (daily)
Great British Baking Show (family event!)
How I Built This Podcast
TED Talks
Tim Ferriss Podcast
DC FinTech Conference
Cosmos
The National Parks: America’s Best Idea