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Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson • 2010 — innovation, creativity, networks, collaboration, business, science
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut — science, history, quantum mechanics, mathematics, biography, philosophy, ethics
Trust in Numbers: The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life by Theodore M. Porter — science, objectivity, quantification, sociology, politics, measurement
This Idea Is Brilliant: Lost, Overlooked, and Underappreciated Scientific Concepts Everyone Should Know by John Brockman — science, concepts, anthology, scientific literacy
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works by John Brockman — science, philosophy, psychology, biology, physics
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn • 1962 — science, philosophy of science, history of science, knowledge, paradigms, revolutions, ai
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 Man Who Loved China: The Fantastic Story of the Eccentric Scientist Who Unlocked the Mysteries of the Middle Kingdom by Simon Winchester • 2008 — biography, history, china, science, innovation
The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner — technology, innovation, business, history, telecommunications, research, science
The Great Mental Models, Vol. 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology by Shane Parrish, Rhiannon Beaubien • 2019 — mental models, science, decision-making, systems thinking, biology
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard W. Hamming — science, engineering, learning, mathematics, computer science, physics, artificial intelligence, systems thinking
Professor Maxwell's Duplicitous Demon by Brian Clegg — physics, science, biography, electromagnetism, thermodynamics, maxwell, demon, victorian, mathematics
How the World Really Works: A Scientist's Guide to Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil • 2022 — science, technology, environment, energy, civilization
Genius at Play: The Curious Mind of John Horton Conway by Siobhan Roberts — mathematics, biography, game theory, creativity, artificial intelligence, cellular automata, infinity, games, science
Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas • 2024 — philosophy, complexity, chaos theory, decision-making, science
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, From Birth to Preschool by Emily Oster — parenting, data analysis, science, child development, health
Bell Labs Memoirs: Voices of Innovation by A. Michael Noll, Michael N. Geselowitz — bell labs, innovation, research, technology, history, science
American Sketches by Walter Isaacson — biography, leadership, history, politics, creativity, journalism, america, founding-fathers, foreign-policy, science, technology, einstein, franklin
Against Method by Paul Feyerabend — philosophy, science, philosophy of science, history of science, epistemology, knowledge, rationality, anarchism