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Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future by Peter Thiel, Blake Masters — business, entrepreneurship, startups, technology, innovation, investment, strategy, philosophy
You Are Not a Gadget by Jaron Lanier — technology, culture, internet, social media, ai, philosophy, ethics, creativity
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut — science, history, quantum mechanics, mathematics, biography, philosophy, ethics
What They Forgot to Teach You at School by The School of Life • 2021 — psychology, philosophy, self-help, emotional intelligence
What Computers Can't Do: A Critique of Artificial Reason by Hubert L. Dreyfus — technology, ai, philosophy, cognitive science, artificial intelligence
Utopia Is Creepy: And Other Provocations by Nicholas Carr — technology, culture, society, internet, ai, philosophy, ethics
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone — fiction, science fiction, romance, time travel, philosophy, language, identity
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman — science, philosophy, psychology, biology, physics
Thinking for a Living: The Coming Age of Knowledge Work by Kenneth Megill — business, technology, future of work, knowledge work, collaboration, culture, philosophy
The Tyranny of Merit: What's Become of the Common Good? by Michael J. Sandel • 2020 — philosophy, politics, sociology, inequality, education
The Slight Edge by Jeff Olson, John David Mann — self-help, personal development, habits, success, philosophy
The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker — essays, literature, philosophy, language, knowledge, thought, culture
The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 by Theodore M. Porter • 1986 — statistics, history, mathematics, social science, probability, philosophy
The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work by Alain de Botton • 2009 — philosophy, sociology, work, modernity, globalization
The Meaning of Life by The School of Life • 2019 — philosophy, psychology, self-help, personal development
The Matter With Things: Our Brains, Our Delusions and the Unmaking of the World by Iain McGilchrist — neuroscience, philosophy, consciousness, psychology, cognition, perception, creativity, brain, hemispheres, science, truth, intuition, reason
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 Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin • 1971 — science fiction, philosophy, dreams, reality, ethics, technology, utopia, dystopia, taoism
The Gift: Creativity and the Artist in the Modern World by Lewis Hyde • 1983 — art, creativity, gift-economy, anthropology, philosophy, culture
The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin — history, art, creativity, culture, religion, philosophy
The Consolations of Philosophy by Alain de Botton — philosophy, self-help, happiness, ethics, relationships, life
The Bed of Procrustes by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — philosophy, economics, psychology, uncertainty, randomness, stoicism, decision-making
The Beauty of Everyday Things by Soetsu Yanagi — aesthetics, craft, design, japan, philosophy, art, mingei
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Naval Ravikant, Eric Jorgenson — wealth, happiness, philosophy, entrepreneurship, self-help, meditation, business, investing, personal-development
Systemantics: How Systems Work and Especially How They Fail by John Gall — systems theory, complexity, management, philosophy, cybernetics
Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport • 2024 — productivity, work, knowledge-work, burnout, philosophy
Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — philosophy, economics, risk, decision-making, rationality, business, society, psychology
Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock by Jenny Odell — time, philosophy, culture, capitalism, wellbeing, environment
On Being Nice by The School of Life • 2017 — psychology, philosophy, self-improvement, emotional intelligence
Metafiction: The Theory and Practice of Self-Conscious Fiction by Patricia Waugh • 1984 — literary theory, postmodernism, narrative, philosophy, fiction
Last and First Men: A Story of the Near and Far Future by Olaf Stapledon • 1930 — science fiction, philosophy, future history, evolution
Knowing What We Know by Simon Winchester — knowledge, history, technology, culture, society, philosophy, ai
How to Think More Effectively: A guide to greater productivity, insight and creativity by The School of Life • 2020 — philosophy, psychology, creativity, self-improvement, productivity
How to Overcome Your Childhood: Understand the Past, Move on to the Future by The School of Life • 2019 — psychology, self-help, philosophy, emotional intelligence
Great Thinkers by The School of Life • 2016 — philosophy, self-improvement, history of ideas, emotional intelligence
General Intellects: Twenty-One Thinkers for the Twenty-First Century by McKenzie Wark • 2017 — philosophy, media theory, political theory, technology, ecology
From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel C. Dennett — philosophy, cognitive science, evolution, consciousness, ai, culture, language
Foundations of Trusted Autonomy by Hussein A. Abbass, Jason Scholz, Darryn J. Reid — technology, ai, robotics, ethics, trust, philosophy, cybersecurity, defense
Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb — randomness, probability, finance, philosophy, cognitive bias, decision making, statistics
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas • 2024 — philosophy, complexity, chaos theory, decision-making, science
Deep Thinking: Where Machine Intelligence Ends and Human Creativity Begins by Garry Kasparov, Mig Greengard • 2017 — ai, chess, technology, philosophy
Constructing the World by David J. Chalmers — philosophy, epistemology, metaphysics, philosophy of mind, knowledge, consciousness, ai
Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI by Hector J. Levesque — artificial intelligence, machine learning, common sense, turing test, knowledge representation, philosophy, computer science, cognitive science
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity by David Lynch • 2006 — creativity, meditation, consciousness, filmmaking, philosophy
Brainchildren: Essays on Designing Minds by Daniel C. Dennett — philosophy, artificial intelligence, consciousness, cognitive science, mind, neuroscience, psychology, thinking, intentionality, multiple personality disorder, understanding, qualia, robotics, animal behavior
Beyond Stoicism: A Guide to the Good Life with Stoics, Skeptics, Epicureans, and Other Ancient Philosophers by Massimo Pigliucci, Gregory Lopez, Meredith Alexander Kunz • 2025 — philosophy, ethics, self-improvement, history
Against Method by Paul Feyerabend — philosophy, science, philosophy of science, history of science, epistemology, knowledge, rationality, anarchism
Abstraction and Empathy by Wilhelm Worringer — art, art history, philosophy, aesthetics, psychology, culture, perception, abstraction, empathy
A Simpler Life by Alain De Botton, The School of Life • 2022 — philosophy, psychology, self-help, minimalism
A Job to Love by The School of Life • 2017 — psychology, career, development, self, help, philosophy