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- The Origins of Political Order — Francis Fukuyama on Political Evolution
- In Praise of Idleness — Bertrand Russell on Misguided Action and Topsy-Turvy Economics
- What’s Eating the Universe? Paul Davies on Cosmic Eggs and Blundering Atoms
- The Trusted Advisor — David Maister on Credibility and Self-Orientation
- How We Learn — Stanislas Dehaene on Education and the Brain
- Catching the Big Fish — David Lynch on Creativity and Cinema
- Guns, Germs, and Steel — Jared Diamond on the Axis of History
- Sculpting in Time — Andrei Tarkovsky on Art, Cinema and Society
- The Dragons of Eden — Carl Sagan on Limbic Doctrines and Our Bargain with Nature
- Musical Chairs, Ski Lifts, Thermostats, and Other Mental Models — Thomas Schelling
- Terror, Love, and Brainwashing — Alexandra Stein on Cults and Totalist Systems
- The Unexpected Universe — Loren Eiseley on Star Throwers and Incidental Triumphs
- On Humbug, Bullshit and Hot Air — Notes from Max Black and Harry Frankfurt
- Donald Murray on the Apprentice Mindset and Return to Discovery
- Walden — Henry David Thoreau on Simplicity and Home-Cosmography
- Micromotives and Macrobehavior — Thomas Schelling on the Locks and Meshes of Economics
- Great Books on Chance, Randomness, and Uncertainty for General Readers
- The Hidden Half — Michael Blastland on the Unexpected Anomalies of Life
- At the Center of All Beauty — Fenton Johnson on the Solitary and Creative Life
- Arguing with Zombies — Paul Krugman on Bad Models and False Idols
- Bridges to Infinity — Michael Guillen on the Boundlessness of Life and Discovery
- Status Anxiety — Alain de Botton on Ego and Our Place in Society
- Raghuram Rajan on Financial Development and the Making of a Riskier World
- The Winner’s Curse — Richard Thaler on the Anomalies of Auctions
- Artificial Intelligence — Melanie Mitchell on Thinking Machines and Flexible Humans
- The Market for Lemons — George Akerlof on Asymmetry, Uncertainty and Information
- Reflexivity and Resonance — Beunza & Stark on Quantitative Models and Systemic Risk
- Fallibility and Organization — J. Stiglitz and R. Sah on Hierarchies and Polyarchies
- Ways of Being — James Bridle on Looking Beyond Human Intelligence
- Quick is Beautiful — Freeman Dyson on Technology Lock-in and Reversal
- The Art of Statistics — David Spiegelhalter on Reasoning with Data and Models
- Predicting the Unpredictable — W J Firth on Chaos and Coexistence
- Power Laws — Mark Newman on Solar Flares, Gambling Ruins and Forest Fires
- Chess Vision and Decision-Making — Lessons from Jonathan Rowson
- Order Out of Chaos — Prigogine and Stenger on Our Dialogue With Complexity
- The Drunkard’s Walk — Leonard Mlodinow on Randomness and Reasoning
- The Anatomy of Power — John Kenneth Galbraith on Conditioning and Organization
- Heresies of Finance — Benoit Mandelbrot on Volatile Volatility and Valueless Value
- How Brains Think — William Calvin on Intelligence and Darwinian Machines
- The Arrow Impossibility Theorem — Eric Maskin on Voting Design and Paradox
- How Pixar Nurtures Creativity — Ed Catmull on Honesty’s Baggage and Beautiful Accidents
- The Lives of a Cell — Lewis Thomas on Embedded Nature
- The Self-Organizing Economy — Paul Krugman on Emergence and Instability
- The Seven Deadly Sins in Chess — Jonathan Rowson on Thinking Failures
- Zero Prices and Fuzzy Transactions — Dan Ariely on Irrationality
- Infinite in All Directions — Freeman Dyson on Maximum Diversity
- Politics and the English Language — George Orwell on Writing
- Almost Everyone’s Guide to Economics with John Kenneth Galbraith
- Financial Instability Hypothesis — Hyman Minsky on Ponzi Finance and Speculative Regimes
- Constructing a Market — MacKenzie and Millo on Performativity and Legitimacy in Economics
- The Matthew Effect — Daniel Rigney Explains How Advantage Begets Advantage
- Writing to Deadline — Donald Murray on the Inner Journalist
- Creativity, Inc. — Ed Catmull on Fragile Originality and Childlike Experiments
- The Wrong Track — Benoit Mandelbrot on the Future of Finance
- Predictably Irrational — Dan Ariely on Habitual Comparisons and Arbitrary Coherence
- Strategies for Scale — John List on Final Dollars, Bureaucracy, and Culture
- The Voltage Effect — John List on the Five Vital Signs of Scale
- The Anatomy of a Price Bubble — Notes from Andrei Shleifer
- The Misbehaviour of Markets — Benoit Mandelbrot on Fractals in Nature and Finance
- The Mind’s Sky — Tim Ferris on SETI, Human Intelligence, and Hourglass Trees
- Butterfly Effects, Texan Tornados, and Chaotic Systems — Notes on Weather and Economics
- A World Beyond Physics — Stuart Kauffman on Life, Complexity, and Order
- Do Dice Play God? Ian Stewart on Fortune Telling and Bayesian Brains
- The Lean Startup — Eric Ries on Validated Learning and Entrepreneurship
- Prospect Theory — Daniel Kahneman and Amos Tversky on Decision-Making Under Risk
- The Mindful Athlete — George Mumford on the Secret to Pure Performance
- Sam Walton on the Double Edges of Competition, Culture, and Constant Change
- Models of Humans and Models for Humans — Irony and Loops in Economics
- Siddhatta Gotama — Karen Armstrong on Ego, Envy, and Enlightenment
- On Creativity and New Ideas — Notes from Isaac Asimov, Richard Feynman, and Claude Shannon
- Richer, Wiser, Happier — William Green on Avoiding Stupidity
- Aesop’s Dog, Irrational Birthdays and Other Structural Defects
- Doughnut Economics — Kate Raworth on Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st Century Economist
- Ben Graham on Intellectual Honesty, Financial Landmines and Tottering Giants
- Made in America — Sam Walton on Thinking Small and the Rules for Business
- Inefficient Markets — Andrei Shleifer on Behavioral Finance and Investor Sentiment
- How Nature Works — Per Bak on Sandpiles and Self-Organized Criticality
- Skin in the Game — Nassim Taleb on Asymmetry and the Minority Rule
- Surviving Low Growth — Toyota’s Taiichi Ohno on Just-In-Time and Autonomation
- Looking Through Fogs — Ben Graham on Defensive, Enterprising, and Bargain-Bin Investing
- Complexity and the Economy — W. Brian Arthur on Perpetual Formation and Combinatorial Evolution
- Nassim Taleb on Intellectual Idiots, the Lindy effect, and Ensemble Probabilities
- Impermanence, Shelf-life, and Scale Economies Shared — Notes from Howard Marks, Nick Sleep, and Others
- The Architecture of Complexity — Herbert Simon on Watchmaking, Hierarchies, and Decomposable Systems
- Small-World and Scale-Free — Melanie Mitchell on Network Thinking and Complexity
- Mr Market — Benjamin Graham on Price Prediction and Market Madness
- Growth, Innovation, Scaling, and the Pace of Life in Cities — West, Kühnert, Helbing, Lobo, & Bettencourt
- Adaptive Markets Hypothesis — Andrew Lo on Efficiency and Evolution in Finance
- The Wisdom of Crowds — James Surowiecki on Ant Mills and Financial Spirals
- Sensitivity, Uncertainty, and Incompleteness — Brief notes on Clockworks, Chaos, and Computation
- A Crude Look at the Whole — John Miller on the Complex Systems of Life, Business, and Society
- Arms and Influence — Thomas Schelling on Nuclear Taboos, Salami Tactics, and Mutual Alarm
- The Intelligent Investor — Benjamin Graham on Fallibility, Competition, and the Margin of Safety
- Population Growth and Technological Change — One Million B.C. to 1990 — Michael Kremer
- Uncertainty, Evolution, and Economic Theory — Armen Alchian on Foresight, Maximums, and Grasshoppers
- Principle of Reflexivity — George Soros on Fallibility, Feedback, and Super Bubbles
- How Far Do You See? Garry Kasparov on Search, Calculation, and Memory
- Bounded Rationality — Herbert Simon on Decision-Making under Uncertainty and Complexity
- On Being The Right Size — J.B.S Haldane on Size, Structure, Nature and Institutions
- On the Impossibility of Informationally Efficient Markets — Sanford Grossman and Joseph Stiglitz