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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