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You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier — technology, culture, internet, social media, ai, philosophy, ethics, creativity
What You Do Is Who You Are: How to Create Your Business Culture by Ben Horowitz — business, culture, leadership, management, history, strategy
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr — technology, culture, society, internet, ai, philosophy, ethics
Utopia Is Creepy by Nicholas Carr — technology, internet, automation, privacy, ai, digital, culture, reading
Unreasonable Hospitality: The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect by Will Guidara — hospitality, business, customer-service, leadership, culture
To Hell with the Hustle: Reclaiming Your Life in an Overworked, Overspent, and Overconnected World by Jefferson Bethke • 2019 — spirituality, culture, technology, burnout, christianity
Thinking for a Living: The Coming Age of Knowledge Work by Kenneth Megill — business, technology, future of work, knowledge work, collaboration, culture, philosophy
The Technical and Social History of Software Engineering by Capers Jones — technology, software engineering, history, programming, culture, business, security
The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker — essays, literature, philosophy, language, knowledge, thought, culture
The Secret History of Mac Gaming by Richard Moss — technology, gaming, history, culture, apple, macintosh
The Rub of Time by Martin Amis — essays, literature, politics, culture, biography, personal experience
The Master and his Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World by Iain McGilchrist — neuroscience, psychology, philosophy, brain, culture, consciousness
The Language Game: How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World by Morten H. Christiansen, Nick Chater • 2022 — linguistics, cognitive science, evolution, culture, artificial intelligence
The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers by Ben Horowitz — business, entrepreneurship, leadership, management, startups, technology, culture
The Great Wave: The Era of Radical Disruption and the Rise of the Outsider by Michiko Kakutani — politics, technology, culture, disruption, democracy, social movements, outsiders, innovation
The Glass Cage: Automation and Us by Nicholas Carr — technology, ai, automation, society, culture, psychology
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde • 1983 — art, creativity, gift-economy, anthropology, philosophy, culture
The Ecstasy of Influence: Nonfictions, Etc. by Jonathan Lethem — writing, creativity, influence, culture, art, essays, literary criticism
The Cult of Creativity: A Surprisingly Recent History by Samuel W. Franklin • 2023 — history, psychology, innovation, business, culture
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin — history, art, creativity, culture, religion, philosophy
The Amazing Bud Powell: Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop by Guthrie P. Ramsey, Jr. — music, jazz, history, culture, race, biography, creativity, innovation
The 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman, Kaley Warner Klemp — leadership, self-help, consciousness, emotional intelligence, communication, teamwork, culture
Stamped from the Beginning: The Definitive History of Racist Ideas in America by Ibram X. Kendi • 2016 — history, race, racism, social justice, culture, politics, america
Software Engineering at Google by Titus Winters, Tom Manshreck, Hyrum Wright — technology, software engineering, programming, teams, culture, scaling, google
Scaling People: Tactics for Management and Company Building by Claire Hughes Johnson — business, management, leadership, teams, culture, scaling, human-resources, growth
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell — time, philosophy, culture, capitalism, wellbeing, environment
Ruined by Design: How Designers Destroyed the World, and What We Can Do to Fix It by Mike Monteiro — design, technology, ethics, social responsibility, activism, culture
Racing the Beam: The Atari Video Computer System by Nick Montfort, Ian Bogost — technology, gaming, history, design, platform studies, culture
Principles by Ray Dalio — business, management, leadership, self-help, success, decision-making, culture
Playing Changes: Jazz for the New Century by Nate Chinen — music, jazz, history, culture, innovation, globalization
Otherwise Known as the Human Condition by Geoff Dyer — essays, culture, art, photography, literature, music, travel, personal experience
Org Design for Design Orgs: Building and Managing In-House Design Teams by Peter Merholz, Kristin Skinner — design, leadership, management, teams, culture, innovation, business, organizational design
Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool's Guide to Surviving with Grace by Gordon MacKenzie — business, creativity, self-help, leadership, work, culture
Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami — writing, fiction, creativity, publishing, culture, self-reflection
Myself When I Am Real: The Life and Music of Charles Mingus by Gene Santoro — music, jazz, biography, history, culture, race, creativity
Miles Davis: The Definitive Biography by Ian Carr — music, jazz, biography, history, culture, race, innovation
Measure What Matters: How Google, Bono, and the Gates Foundation Rock the World with OKRs by John Doerr — business, management, leadership, goal setting, productivity, culture, technology, nonprofit
Knowing What We Know by Simon Winchester — knowledge, history, technology, culture, society, philosophy, ai
Innovation for the Fatigued by Alf Rehn — business, innovation, creativity, culture, leadership, teams
From Birdland to Broadway: Scenes from a Jazz Life by Bill Crow — music, jazz, memoir, history, culture
From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C. Dennett — philosophy, cognitive science, evolution, consciousness, ai, culture, language
Design Leadership: How Top Design Leaders Build and Grow Successful Organizations by Richard Banfield — design, leadership, management, teams, culture, innovation, business
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull, Amy Wallace — business, management, leadership, creativity, culture, innovation, teamwork, film, animation
But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz by Geoff Dyer — music, jazz, fiction, biography, culture, creativity
Built to Last by Jim Collins, Jerry I. Porras — business, management, leadership, culture, vision, innovation, long-term, thinking
Build: An Unorthodox Guide to Making Things Worth Making by Tony Fadell — business, leadership, product development, design, innovation, technology, entrepreneurship, culture, startups
Becoming a Video Game Designer by Daniel Noah Halpern — gaming, design, culture, games, creativity, empathy, storytelling
Applied Empathy: The New Language of Leadership by Michael Ventura — business, leadership, empathy, communication, culture, design thinking, innovation, customer experience, social impact
An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management by Will Larson — technology, engineering, management, leadership, organizational design, teams, culture, scaling, problem-solving
Addiction by Design: Machine Gambling in Las Vegas by Natasha Dow Schüll — technology, design, psychology, addiction, consumerism, gambling, ethnography, culture
Abstraction and Empathy by Wilhelm Worringer — art, art history, philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, culture, perception, abstraction, empathy
A Year with Peter Drucker: 52 Weeks of Coaching for Leadership Effectiveness by Joseph A. Maciariello — business, management, leadership, knowledge, work, self-management, organizational, culture, innovation, social, nonprofit
50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to AI Dungeon by Aaron A. Reed — technology, gaming, history, culture, design, innovation, ai, interactive fiction, virtual worlds, online communities
3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool by James Kaplan • 2024 — music, jazz, biography, history, culture, race, addiction, creativity, collaboration, innovation