045 - Wisdom in Books

"Knowledge is cultivated with books, communication with practice, anger with Twitter, and mediocrity with Generative AI."

For those interested in learning more about how humans function, reason, cooperate, and experience the world, there is a sizable pile of books I can recommend.

For materials covering human reasoning, experience, and psychology:

  1. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment, By: Daniel Kahneman, Olivier Sibony, Cass R. Sunstein

  2. Nudge: The Final Edition: Improving Decisions About Money, Health, and the Environment, By: Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein

  3. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain, By: Lisa Feldman Barrett

  4. The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion, By: Jonathan Haidt

  5. Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions, By: Dan Ariely

  6. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World, By: Adam Grant, Sheryl Sandberg - foreword

  7. You're About to Make a Terrible Mistake!: How Biases Distort Decision-Making-and What You Can Do to Fight Them, By: Olivier Sibony

  8. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, By: Jonathan Haidt, Greg Lukianoff

  9. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know, By: Adam Grant

  10. The Happiness Hypothesis, By: Jonathan Haidt

  11. Influence, New and Expanded: The Psychology of Persuasion, By: Robert B. Cialdini

  12. Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics, By: Richard H. Thaler

For knowledge about humans, spanning biology, genetics, evolution, and a bit more:

  1. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst, By: Robert Sapolsky

  2. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, By: Matthew Walker

  3. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence, By: Jeff Hawkins, Richard Dawkins - foreword

For more general knowledge and useful things to remember in life:

  1. Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference, By: William MacAskill

  2. What Technology Wants, By: Kevin Kelly

  3. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life, By: Mark Manson

This pile is always growing, and there is another whole pile of books and papers related to the systems I'm involved in researching, developing, and deploying.

What are some of the books you can recommend?