Book Summaries (alphabetical by author’s surname)
- Abdaal, Ali – Feel-Good Productivity
- Adler and Van Doren – How to Read a Book
- Ahrens, Sonke – How to Take Smart Notes
- Allison, Graham – Destined for War: Can America and China Escape Thucydides’ Trap?
- Bergstrom and West – Calling Bullshit
- Blattman, Chris – Why We Fight
- Burkeman, Oliver – Four Thousand Weeks
- Chang, Ha-Joon – Economics: The User’s Guide
- Chua, Amy – Political Tribes
- Clear, James – Atomic Habits
- Christian, Brian – The Most Human Human
- Christian and Griffiths – Algorithms to Live By
- Desmond, Matthew – Evicted
- Diamond, Jared – Guns, Germs and Steel
- Dicks, Matthew – Storyworthy
- Duke, Annie – How to Decide
- Duke, Annie – Thinking In Bets
- Durant and Durant – The Lessons of History
- Epstein, David – Range
- Flyvbjerg and Gardner – How Big Things Get Done
- Fogg, BJ – Tiny Habits
- Franco, Marisa – Platonic
- Gawande, Atul – The Checklist Manifesto
- Gilbert, Daniel – Stumbling on Happiness
- Gladwell, Malcolm – Talking to Strangers
- Godin, Seth – The Practice
- Gottlieb, Lori – Maybe You Should Talk to Someone
- Graeber, David – Bullshit Jobs: A Theory
- Greene, Robert – The 48 Laws of Power
- Harari, Yuval Noah – Sapiens
- Junger, Sebastian – Tribe
- Kahneman, Siboney and Sunstein – Noise
- Kleon, Austin – Show Your Work
- Kleon, Austin – Steal Like An Artist
- Knapp and Zeratsky – Make Time
- Koga and Kishimi – The Courage to be Disliked
- Lencioni, Patrick – Death by Meeting
- Lewis, Michael – The Big Short
- Levitsky and Ziblatt – How Democracies Die
- Loehr and Schwartz – The Power of Full Engagement
- MacAskill, William – Doing Good Better
- Machiavelli, Niccolo – The Prince
- Manson, Mark – The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
- Meadows, Donella – Thinking in Systems
- Newport, Cal – Deep Work
- Newport, Cal – So Good They Can’t Ignore You
- Oakley, Barbara – A Mind for Numbers
- Pfeffer, Jeffrey – Power
- Purser, Ronald – McMindfulness
- Ritchie, Hannah – Not the End of the World
- Schwartz, Barry – The Paradox of Choice
- Spoonley, Paul – The New New Zealand
- Stone, Patton and Heen – Difficult Conversations
- Voss, Chris – Never Split the Difference
Podcast Summaries (alphabetical, grouped by podcast)
80,000 Hours
- Hilary Greaves on Pascal’s mugging, strong longtermism and whether existing can be good for us
- Will MacAskill on what we owe the future