Bibliography

References cited across 17 years of Ribbonfarm writing (2007–2024), supplemented by resources mentioned in the comment threads. 616 books cited in posts + 130 surfaced from comments; 56 papers and 70 essays cited in two or more posts + 36 more from comments. Books are ranked by post citations. Use the Source filter to view post-cited and comment-cited entries separately. Book links are Amazon affiliate links.

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The 10-Day MBA— Steven Silbiger

The 12-Hour MBA Program— Milo Sobel

1984— George Orwell

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The 22 Immutable Laws of Branding— Al Ries

The 4-Hour Work Week— Timothy Ferriss

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The 4-Hour Workweek— Timothy Ferriss

The 48 Laws of Power— Robert Greene

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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful lessons in personal change— Stephen R. Covey; Sean Covey

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About Face— David H. Hackworth

The Act of Creation— Arthur Koestler

The Adonis Complex: The secret crisis of male body obsession— Harrison Pope; Katharine A. Phillips; Roberto Olivardia

Adventures of Ibn Batuta— Ibn Battuta

Adversarial Reasoning: Computational approaches to reading the opponent's mind— William M. McEneaney

Against Method— Paul Feyerabend

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Against the Gods: The remarkable story of risk— Peter L. Bernstein

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Against the Grain— James Scott

The Age of Modularity— Peter Ogrady

The Age of Speed— Vince Poscente

Ageless Body, Timeless Mind: The quantum alternative to growing old— Deepak Chopra

Aiming at Amazon— Aaron Shepard

Albion's Seed: Four british folkways in america— David Hackett Fischer

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The Alchemist— Paulo Coelho

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Alone Together— Sherry Turkle

Ambient Findability— Peter Morville

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Amusing Ourselves to Death— Neil Postman

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Anathem— Neal Stephenson

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Animal Farm— George Orwell

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Anti-Oedipus— Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

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Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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The Anxiety of Influence— Harold Bloom

Aramis, or the Love of Technology— Bruno Latour

Archetypes for Writers— Jennifer Van Bergen

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The Argumentative Indian: Writings on indian history, culture and identity— Amartya Sen

Arms and Influence— Thomas C. Schelling

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The Art of Insight in Science and Engineering— Sanjoy Mahajan

The Art of Learning: A journey in the pursuit of excellence— Josh Waitzkin

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The Art of Not Being Governed Yale Agrarian Studies Paperback— James C. Scott

The Art of Political Manipulation— William H. Riker

Artificial Paradises— Charles Baudelaire

The Ascent of Money— Niall Ferguson

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Asterix and the Great Crossing— René Goscinny; Albert Uderzo

Astounding— Alec Nevala-Lee

At Home in the Universe— Stuart Kauffman

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Atlas Shrugged— Ayn Rand

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The Attention Economy: Understanding the new currency of business— Thomas H. Davenport; John C. Beck

Automate This: How algorithms came to rule our world— Christopher Steiner

Babbitt— Sinclair Lewis

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Bad Pharma: How drug companies mislead doctors and harm patients— Ben Goldacre

Bad Science: Quacks, hacks, and big pharma flacks— Ben Goldacre

Baidarka: The kayak— George Dyson

Band of Brothers— Stephen E. Ambrose

The Baroque Cycle— Neal Stephenson

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The Battery: How portable power sparked a technological revolution— Henry R. Schlesinger

Bayesian Networks: An introduction— Timo Koski

The Beginning of Infinity— David Deutsch

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Behave— Robert Sapolsky

A Behavioral Theory of the Firm— Richard Michael Cyert; James G. March; Richard Michael Cyert

Being and Nothingness: An essay in phenomenological ontology— Jean-Paul Sartre

Being and Time— Martin Heidegger

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Being There: Putting brain, body, and world together again— Andy Clark

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Beneath the Neon— Matthew O'Brien

The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why violence has declined— Steven Pinker

Beyond Good and Evil— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The Big Necessity— Rose George

The Biology of Moral Systems— Richard D. Alexander

The Birth of Korean Cool— Y. Euny Hong

The Birth of the Clinic: An archaeology of medical perception— Michel Foucault

The Birth of Tragedy— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Bitten by the Black Snake: The ancient wisdom of ashtavakra— Manuel Schoch

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Black Mass— Dick Lehr; Gerard O'Neill

The Black Swan: The impact of the highly improbable— Nassim Nicholas Taleb; David Chandler; Nassim N. Taleb

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The Blank Slate: The modern denial of human nature— Steven Pinker; Victor Bevine; Roc Filella Escolà; ʻImanuʾel Loṭem

Blindsight— Peter Watts

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Blink: The power of thinking without thinking— Malcolm Gladwell

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Bloodlands: Europe between hitler and stalin— Timothy Snyder

Bobos in Paradise— David Brooks

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The Body Keeps the Score— Bessel van der Kolk

Boiler Room— Giovanni Ribisi; Ben Younger

Bowling Alone: The collapse and revival of american community— Robert D. Putnam

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The Box— Marc Levinson

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Boyd— Robert Coram

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Boyd— Robert Coram

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Brain Rules— John Medina

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Brave New World— Aldous Huxley

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Breakdown of Will— George Ainslie

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Brief Interviews with Hideous Men— David Foster Wallace

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Bright-Sided— Barbara Ehrenreich

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The Brothers Karamazov— Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Built to Last: Successful habits of visionary companies— Collins, James C.; Jim Collins; Jerry I. Porras; James C. Collins

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Bureaucracy— James Q. Wilson

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A Burglar’s Guide to the City— Geoff Manaugh

Cambridge Handbook of Social Representations— Gordon Sammut; Eleni Andreouli; George Gaskell; Jaan Valsiner

Capital— Karl Marx

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Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy.— Joseph Alois Schumpeter; Gaël Fain; Roberto Ramos Fontecoba

Catch-22— Joseph Heller

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Catching Fire: How cooking made us human— Richard Wrangham

The Cathedral & the Bazaar— Eric S. Raymond

The Celestine Prophecy: An adventure— James Redfield

Cellular Automata and Complexity: Collected papers— Stephen Wolfram

Century of the Self— Adam Curtis

Certain to Win— Chet Richards

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Chaos— James Gleick

Characters and Viewpoint— Orson Scott Card

Cheating and Deception— J. Bowyer Bell

The Checklist Manifesto: How to get things right— Atul Gawande

Chicken Soup for the Soul (Chicken Soup for the Soul (Paperback Health Communications))— Mark Victor Hansen

The City & the City— China Miéville

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The Civilizing Process: Sociogenetic and psychogenetic investigations— Norbert Elias

The Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order— Samuel P. Huntington; Ṭalʻat Shāyib; Ṣalāḥ Qanṣūh; Samuel P. Huntington

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Clash of Civilizations and the Remaking of World Order, The— Samuel P. Huntington; Ṭalʻat Shāyib; Ṣalāḥ Qanṣūh; Samuel P. Huntington

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Clockspeed— Charles H. Fine

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Coffee, Tea, or Me?: The uninhibited memoirs of two airline stewardesses— Trudy Baker; Donald Bain; Trudy Baker; Rachel Jones

Cognition in the Wild (Bradford Books)— Edwin Hutchins

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The Collapse of Complex Societies.— Joseph Tainter

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Collapse: How societies choose to fail or succeed— Jared Diamond

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Collected Fictions— Jorge Luis Borges

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The Coming Generational Storm— Laurence J. Kotlikoff

Complete Collection— H. P. Lovecraft

Complete Short Stories— J. G. Ballard

The Complete Yes Prime Minister: The diaries of the right hon. james hacker— Jonathan Lynn

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The Complexity of Cooperation: Agent-based models of competition and collaboration— Robert M. Axelrod

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Computers and Intractability: A guide to the theory of np-completeness— Michael R. Garey; David S. Johnson

The Connected Company— David Gray

The Conscious Mind: In search of a fundamental theory— David J. Chalmers

Consciousness Explained— Daniel Dennett

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The Consolations of Philosophy— Alain De Botton

The Conspiracy Against the Human Race: A contrivance of horror— Thomas Ligotti

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The Construction of Social Reality— John R. Searle

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The Control Revolution— James Beniger

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Convention: A philosophical study— David Lewis

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Copies in Seconds— David Owen; Owen, David

Copies in Seconds— David Owen; Owen, David

Copycats— Oded Shenkar

CORPORATION THAT CHANGED the WORLD— NICK ROBINS

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The Courtier and the Heretic— Matthew Stewart

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Covert Action: The limits of intervention in the postwar world— Gregory F. Treverton

The Craftsman— Richard Sennett

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The Creative Habit: Learn it and use it for life— Twyla Tharp

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Creativity: Flow and the psychology of discovery and invention— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

Crossing the Chasm: Marketing and selling high-tech products to mainstream customers— Geoffrey A. Moore

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Crowds and Power— Elias Canetti

Crowdsourcing— Jeff Howe

Cryptonomicon— Neal Stephenson

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Culture Is Our Business— Marshall McLuhan

Cybernetics— Norbert Wiener

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Daniel Pink, a Whole New World: Why right-brainers will rule the world— Daniel H. Pink

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Data Driven: Profiting from your most important business asset— Thomas C. Redman

De Rerum Natura— Lucretius

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Dealers of Lightning— Michael A. Hiltzik

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Dealing with Darwin— Geoffrey A. Moore

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Debt: The first 5,000 years— David Graeber

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The Decline of the West— Oswald Spengler

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Decoding the Universe— Charles Seife

Deep Survival— Laurence Gonzales

Delivering Happiness— Tony Hsieh

Delivering Happiness: A path to profits, passion, and purpose— Tony Hsieh

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The Diamond Age— Neal Stephenson

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Diary of Samuel Pepys— Samuel Pepys

The Dictator's Handbook— Bruno de Mesquita

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Difference and Repetition— Gilles Deleuze

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Diffusion of Innovations— Everett Rogers

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The Dip— Seth Godin

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Disciplined Minds— Jeff Schmidt

The Disposable American: Layoffs and their consequences— Louis Uchitelle

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A Distant Mirror— Barbara Tuchman

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Doing Capitalism in the Innovation Economy: Markets, speculation and the state— William H. Janeway

Don't Sleep, There Are Snakes: Life and language in the amazonian jungle— Daniel Leonard Everett

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Don't Think of an Elephant!— George Lakoff

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The Dorling Kindersley History of the World— Plantagenet Somerset Fry

Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain— Betty Edwards

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The Dream Manager— Matthew Kelly

Drive— Dan Pink

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Driven by Compression Progress— Juergen Schmidhuber

The Drought— J. G. Ballard

Drowned World— J. G. Ballard

Dune— Frank Herbert

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The E-Myth Revisited— Michael E. Gerber

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Eat to Live— Joel Fuhrman

Eat, Pray, Love— Elizabeth Gilbert

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Ecclesiastes— Unknown

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The Elephant in the Brain— Kevin Simler; Robin Hanson

The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden motives in everyday life— Kevin Simler; Robin Hanson

Elizabeth Peters Presents Malice Domestic: An anthology of original traditional mystery stories.— Elizabeth Peters

Embracing Our Selves: The voice dialogue manual— Hal Stone

Emotional Intelligence— Daniel Goleman

Emotional Intelligence: Why it can matter more than IQ— Daniel Goleman

The Empathic Civilization— Jeremy Rifkin

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The Empty Cradle— Rosie Goodwin

The Enchanted Wood— Enid Blyton

The Encyclopedia of the Cat (Encyclopedias of Animal Breeds)— Michael Pollard

The End of History and the Last Man— Francis Fukuyama

End of Overeating— David A. Kessler

The End of Overeating: Controlling the insatiable american appetite— David A. Kessler

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Ender's Game— Orson Scott Card

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Ending Aging— Aubrey de Grey

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Escape from Freedom— Erich Fromm

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Escaping the Self— Roy F. Baumeister

The Essential Drucker— Peter F. Drucker

Every Cradle Is a Grave— Sarah Perry

Every Cradle Is a Grave: Rethinking the ethics of birth and suicide— Sarah Perry

The Evolution of Civilizations— Carroll Quigley

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The Evolution of Cooperation— Robert M. Axelrod

Execution: The discipline of getting things done— Larry Bossidy

Executricks: Or how to retire while you're still working— Stanley Bing

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Exhalation— Ted Chiang

The Existential Pleasures of Engineering— Samuel Florman

The Extended Phenotype: The long reach of the gene— Richard Dawkins; Wolfgang Mayer

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Extrastatecraft— Keller Easterling

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False Dawn: The delusions of global capitalism— John Gray

The Feminine Mystique— Betty Friedan

The Fifth Discipline: The art & practice of the learning organization— Peter Senge; Peter M. Senge

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Filters Against Folly— Garrett Hardin

Finite and Infinite Games— James Carse

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Finite-Game— James P. Carse; James Carse

Fire Your Boss— Stephen M. Pollan; Mark Levine

The Firm, the Market, and the Law— Ronald Coase

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The First Tycoon: The epic life of cornelius vanderbilt— T. J. Stiles

The First Tycoon: The epic life of cornelius vanderbilt (vintage)— T. J. Stiles

Fish!— Stephen C. Lundin; Harry Paul; John Christensen

Five Billion Years of Solitude: The search for life among the stars— Lee Billings

Five Minds for the Future— Howard Gardner

Fixing the Game— Roger L. Martin

The Flight of the Creative Class— Richard Florida

Flow: The psychology of optimal experience— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Focusing— Eugene T. Gendlin

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Food of the Gods— Terence McKenna

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Food Rules: An eater's manual— Michael Pollan; Laura Manero Jiménez;

Food, Inc— Karl Weber

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Food, Inc.— Peter Pringle

Fooled by Randomness— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Forces of Production: A social history of industrial automation— David F. Noble

Foucault's Pendulum— Umberto Eco

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The Four Steps to the Epiphany: Successful strategies for products that win— Steven G. Blank

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The Fourth Turning— Neil Howe and William Strauss

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Freakonomics— Steven D. Levitt; Stephen J. Dubner; Andrea Montero Cusset

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The Fred Factor— Mark Sanborn

Free Agent Nation: The future of working for yourself— Daniel H. Pink

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Freedom's Forge— Arthur Herman

Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)— Jürgen G. Backhaus; Wolfgang J. M. Drechsler

From Memex to Hypertext: Vannevar bush and the mind's machine— Paul Kahn

Fumbling the Future— Douglas K. Smith

The Future of Freedom: Illiberal democracy at home and abroad— Fareed Zakaria

The Future of Management: A new era of management— Gary Hamel; Bill Breen

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The Future of Work— Thomas W. Malone

Galapagos— Kurt Vonnegut

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Games People Play: The psychology of human relationships— Eric Berne

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A Geography of Time— Robert V. Levine

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Getting Things Done: The art of stress-free productivity— David Allen; David Allen; David Allen

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The Gift— Lewis Hyde; Lewis Hyde

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Gilded Age— Mark Twain; Charles Dudley Warner

Glass Bead Game— Hermann Hesse; Richard Winston

The Goal: A process of ongoing improvement— Eliyahu M. Goldratt; Jeff Cox

GOLEM XIV— Stanisław Lem

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Gone Tomorrow: The hidden life of garbage— Heather Rogers

Good to Great— Jim Collins

Good to Great: Why some companies make the leap--and others don't— Collins, James C.

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Gothic Hightech Stories— Bruce Sterling

Grabbing Lightning: Building a capability for breakthrough innovation— G. C. O'Connor; Gina Colarelli O'Connor

Grammatical Man— Jeremy Campbell

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Great Expectations— Charles Dickens

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The Great Gatsby— F. Scott Fitzgerald

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The Great Influenza— John M. Barry; Amelia Pérez de Villlar

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The Great Transformation— Karen Armstrong

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Groundswell: Winning in a world transformed by social technologies— Charlene Li

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Group Agency: The possibility, design, and status of corporate agents— Christian List

Growing Artificial Societies— Joshua M. Epstein

Guns, Germs, and Steel— Jared Diamond

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Gutenberg— Sherlock Holmes canon (free on

Gödel, Escher, Bach: An eternal golden braid— Douglas Hofstadter

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A Hacker Manifesto— McKenzie Wark

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Hacker, Hoaxer, Whistleblower, Spy: The many faces of anonymous— E. Gabriella Coleman

The Half-Life of Facts: Why everything we know has an expiration date— Samuel Arbesman

Happier: Finding pleasure, meaning, and life's ultimate currency— Tal Ben-Shahar

The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding modern truth in ancient wisdom— Jonathan Haidt

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The Happiness Project— Gretchen Rubin

The Hard Thing About Hard Things— Ben Horowitz

Hard Truths— Lee Kuan Yew

A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius— Dave Eggers; Dion Graham

Here Comes Everybody— Clay Shirky

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The Hero with a Thousand Faces— Joseph Campbell

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Hierarchy in the Forest: The evolution of egalitarian behavior— Christopher Boehm

High Output Management— Andrew S. Grove

High-Rise— J. G. Ballard

His Dark Materials— Philip Pullman

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His Dark Materials (trilogy)— Philip Pullman

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A History of Interest Rates

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The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire— Edward Gibbon

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A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters— Julian Barnes

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy— Douglas Adams

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Homo Ludens— Johan Huizinga

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House of Leaves— Mark Z. Danielewski

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The House of Morgan— Ron Chernow

How Buildings Learn: What happens after they're built— Stewart Brand

How Doctors Think— Jerome E. Groopman

How I Became a Famous Novelist— Steve Hely

How Life Imitates Chess— G. K. Kasparov

How Proust Can Change Your Life— Alain De Botton

How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big— Scott Adams

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How to Lie with Statistics— Darrell Huff; Irving Geis

How to Live Cheap but Good— Martin Poriss

How to Read a Book— Mortimer J. Adler

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How to Relax Without Getting the Axe: A survival guide to the new workplace— Stanley Bing

How to Solve It— George Pólya

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How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read— Pierre Bayard

Human Condition— Hannah Arendt

The Human Side of Enterprise— Douglas McGregor

Human Sigma: Managing the employee-customer encounter— John Howland Fleming

The Human Zoo: A zoologist's classic study of the urban animal— Desmond Morris

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Hyperion— Dan Simmons

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I and Thou— Martin Buber

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I'm OK - You're OK: A practical guide to transactional analysis— Thomas Anthony Harris

I'm OK -- You're Not so Hot— Dolph SHARP

I'm OK, You're OK— Thomas Anthony Harris

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Iacocca: An autobiography— Lee A. Iacocca; William Novak

Ibn Batuta— Ibn Battuta

Illusions: The adventures of a reluctant messiah— Richard Bach

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Images of Organization— Gareth Morgan

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Imagined Communities: Reflections on the origin and spread of nationalism— Benedict Anderson

The Immortalization Commission Science and the Strange Quest to Cheat Death— John Gray

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Impro: Improvisation and the theatre— Keith Johnstone

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In Defense of Food— Michael Pollan

In Search of History— Theodore H. White

In the Beginning ...was the Command Line— Neal Stephenson

Incerto— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Incomplete Nature: How mind emerged from matter— Terrence William Deacon

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Infinite Jest: A novel— David Foster Wallace

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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History— Alfred T. Mahan

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History 16601783 Volume 27— Alfred T. Mahan

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783— Alfred T. Mahan

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The Information: A history, a theory, a flood— James Gleick

The Innovator's Dilemma— Clayton M. Christensen; L J Ganser; Don Leslie

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Innovator's Guide to Growth: Putting disruptive innovation to work— Mark Johnson

Institutionalized Organizations: Formal structure as myth and ceremony— Meyer and Rowan

Institutions— Douglas North

Interaction Ritual Chains— Randall Collins

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The Invention of Russia— Arkady Ostrovsky

Invisible Giant - Second Edition: Cargill and its transnational strategies— Brewster Kneen

Ishmael— Daniel Quinn

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Istanbul: A tale of three cities— Bettany Hughes

It Didn’t Start with You— Mark Wolynn

IT Doesn't Matter— Nicholas Carr

It's Called Work for a Reason!: Your success is your own damn fault— Larry Winget

J.R.R. Tolkien Boxed Set (The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings)— J.R.R. Tolkien

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Jane Austen— Tony Tanner

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The Jewish Century— Yuri Slezkine

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The Journal of Best Practices— David Finch

Kill All Normies— Angela Nagle

Knots— R. D. Laing

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Land of Promise: An economic history of the united states— Michael Lind

The Last Seance— Agatha Christie

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The Lean Startup— Eric Ries

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Learning from Las Vegas: The forgotten symbolism of architectural form— Robert Venturi; Denise Scott Brown; Steven Izenour

Learning to Think Strategically— Julia Sloan

The Lever of Riches: Technological creativity and economic progress— Joel Mokyr

Liars and Outliers: Enabling the trust that society needs to function— Bruce Schneier

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Life Is a Game, Play to Win!— Louis Goldblatt

Life of Petrarch— Ernest Hatch Wilkins

Life, Inc.— Douglas Rushkoff

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Lila— Robert Pirsig

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Lillith's Brood— Octavia Butler

Liminal Thinking— Dave Gray

Limits to Growth— Meadows et al.

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Linchpin: Are you indispensible?— Seth Godin

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Linked— Albert-Laszló Barabási

Liquid Modernity— Zygmunt Bauman

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Listening to the Future: Are you ready for what's next?— Daniel W. Rasmus

A Little Book on the Human Shadow— Robert Bly

The Little Prince— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Living Systems— James G. Miller

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The Long Tail— Chris Anderson

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The Longing for Less— Kyle Chayka

Lord of the Flies— William Golding

The Lords of Strategy— Walter Kiechel

Low— Hugo Wilcken

Made to Stick: Why some ideas survive and others die— Chip Heath; Dan Heath

Magic and Mayhem— Derek Leebaert

Making It All Work— David Allen

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Making It All Work— David Allen

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Making Jack Falcone— Joaquin Garcia

The Making of the Fittest— Sean B. Carroll

The Man Who Loved Only Numbers— Paul Hoffman

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The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat— Oliver Sacks

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Man's Search for Meaning— Viktor E. Frankl

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Man, Play, and Games— Roger Caillois

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Managing with Power: Politics and influence in organizations— Jeffrey Pfeffer

The MANIAC— Benjamin Labatut

Manipulation: Theory and practice— Christian Coons; Weber, Michael

Manufacturing Consent— Noam Chomsky / Edward Herman

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Maps of Meaning— Jordan Peterson

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Margin of Safety: Risk-averse value investing strategies for the thoughtful investor— Seth A. Klarman

Masks: Bowie and artists of artifice— James Curcio

Mass Flourishing— Edmund S. Phelps

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The Master and His Emissary— Iain McGilchrist

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Mastering the Hype Cycle— Jackie Fenn

The Mathematical Theory of Communication— Claude Elwood Shannon; Warren Weaver - undifferentiated

The Mating Mind— Geoffrey Miller

Maus Box Set— Art Spiegelman

Meanings of Life— Roy F. Baumeister

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Meat Market: Animals, ethics, and money— Erik Marcus

Mechanics of Robotic Manipulation (Intelligent Robotics and Autonomous Agents)— Matthew T. Mason

Meeting the Shadow— Connie Zweig; Jeremiah Abrams

Meta Math!: The quest for omega— Gregory Chaitin

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Meta Math!: The quest for omega (peter N. nevraumont books)— Gregory Chaitin

Metamagical Themas— Douglas Hofstadter

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The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect— Roger Williams

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Metaphors We Live By— Lakoff and Johnson

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Micromotives and Macrobehaviour.— Thomas C. Schelling

The Middle Mind: Why americans don't think for themselves— Curtis White

The Millionaire Next Door: The surprising secrets of america's wealthy— Thomas J. Stanley; William D. Danko

Mind Wide Open: Your brain and the neuroscience of everyday life— Steven Johnson

The Mind's I: Fantasies and reflections on self & soul— Douglas R. Hofstadter; Daniel C. Dennett

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Mindfucking— Colin McGinn

Mindless Eating: Why we eat more than we think— Brian Wansink

Mintzberg on Management: Inside our strange world of organizations— Henry Mintzberg

Mirror Worlds— David Gelernter

Moby Dick— Herman Melville

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Moby Duck— Donovan Hahn

Monsoon— Robert D. Kaplan

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Mooncop— Tom Gauld

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Moral Origins— Christopher Boehm

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Moral Politics: How liberals and conservatives think— George Lakoff

The Moviegoer— Walker Percy

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Multiple Intelligences: New horizons— Howard Gardner

Murphy's Law— Arthur Bloch

The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays— Albert Camus

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The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on software engineering— Frederick P. Brooks

The Naked Ape: A zoologist's study of the human animal— Desmond Morris

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Naked Conversations— Robert Scoble

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Naming and Necessity— Saul A. Kripke

Narrative Machines: Modern myth, revolution, & propaganda— James Curcio

A Nation of Steel— Thomas J. Misa

Natural-Born Cyborgs: Minds, technologies, and the future of human intelligence— Andy Clark

The Nature and Growth of Modern Mathematics— Edna Kramer

The Nature of Order— Christopher Alexander

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The Nature of Technology— Bryan Arthur

Nausea— Jean-Paul Sartre

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Neuromancer— William Gibson

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A New Kind of Science— Stephen Wolfram

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The New Science of Strong Materials— J. E. Gordon

Nickel and Dimed— Barbara Ehrenreich

Nicomachean Ethics— Aristotle

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Nixonland— Rick Perlstein

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No More Mondays— Dan Miller

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No Time to Spare— Ursula K. Le Guin

Nostalgia for the Absolute— George Steiner

Not Even Wrong— Peter Woit

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Notes on the Synthesis of Form— Christopher Alexander

2 posts + 5 in comments

Now, Discover Your Strengths— Marcus Buckingham; Donald O. Clifton

2 posts + 4 in comments

Obliquity— John Kay

1 post + 1 in comments

Oh, the Places You Will Go— James Chang

Oh, the Places You'll Go!— Dr. Seuss

Oil Beach— Christina Dunbar-Hester

On Bullshit— Harry G. Frankfurt

5 posts + 3 in comments

On Caring— Milton Mayeroff

On Competition— Michael E. Porter

On Late Style: Music and literature against the grain— Edward W. Said

On Liturgical Theology (Hale Memorial Lectures of Seabury-Western Theological Seminary, 1981)— Aidan Kavanagh

On the Experience of Time— Robert Ornstein

On the Genealogy of Morality— Friedrich Nietzsche

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On War— Carl von Clausewitz

1 post + 4 in comments

The Once and Future King— T.H. White

One Person/multiple Careers: A new model for work/life success— Marci Alboher

2 posts + 1 in comments

The One Thing You Need to Know— Marcus Buckingham

Open Innovation: Researching a new paradigm— Henry Chesbrough; Wim Vanhaverbeke; Joel West

1 post + 1 in comments

The Open Society and Its Enemies— Karl Popper

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Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth— Buckminster Fuller

The Organization Man— William Whyte

9 posts + 9 in comments

The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind— Julian Jaynes

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Origins of Genius: Darwinian perspectives on creativity— Dean Keith Simonton

Origins of Human Communication (2008)— Michael Tomasello

The Origins of Political Order: From prehuman times to the french revolution— Francis Fukuyama

★ 7 posts + 4 in comments

Others in Mind: Social origins of self-consciousness— Philippe Rochat

1 post + 1 in comments

Out of Control— Kevin Kelly

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The Outlaw Sea— William Langewiesche

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Outliers: Why some people succeed and some don't— Malcolm Gladwell; Malcolm Gladwell

1 post + 3 in comments

Outside Innovation— Patricia B. Seybold

The Outsider— Colin Wilson

2 posts + 1 in comments

Overachievement— John Eliot

Overachievement: The new model for exceptional performance— John Eliot

Pale Rider— Laura Spinney

A Pattern Language: Towns, buildings, construction— Christopher Alexander; Sara Ishikawa; Murray Silverstein; Max Jacobson; Ingrid Fiksdahl-King; Shlomo Angel; Nax Jacobsohn

1 post + 2 in comments

The Pentagon Labyrinth— Winslow T. Wheeler

The Periodic Table— Primo Levi

Permission Marketing: Turning strangers into friends and friends into customers— Seth Godin

Permutation City— Greg Egan

Perspectives on Strategy: From the boston consulting group— Carl W. Stern; George Stalk

Petrarch and His World— Morris Bishop

Phenomenology of Spirit— G.W.F. Hegel

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The Philosophical Baby— Alison Gopnik

Philosophical Investigations— Ludwig Wittgenstein

3 in comments

Philosophy in the Flesh— George Lakoff

Philosophy in the Flesh / Metaphors We Live By— Lakoff and Johnson

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Philosophy in the Flesh / Women, Fire, and Dangerous Things— George Lakoff

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The Philosophy of Money— Georg Simmel

Physics Can Be Fun— Yakov Perelman

A Pictorial Guide to the Birds of the Indian Subcontinent— Sálim Ali

Planning in the Public Domain: From knowledge to action— John Friedmann

Pleasure Activism— adrienne maree brown

The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work— Alain De Botton

2 posts + 2 in comments

Political Order and Political Decay— Francis Fukuyama

Portfolios of the Poor— Daryl Collins

2 posts + 7 in comments

Positioning: The battle for your mind— Al Ries; Jack Trout

2 posts + 1 in comments

The Post-American World— Fareed Zakaria

The Post-American World: Release 2.0— Fareed Zakaria

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism— Fredric Jameson

Power and Plenty— Ronald Findlay; Kevin H. O'Rourke

The Power Broker: Robert moses and the fall of new york— Robert A. Caro

The Power of Full Engagement— Tony Schwartz

The Power of Positive Thinking— Norman Vincent Peale

1 post + 1 in comments

The Power of Pull— John Hagel III; John Seely Brown; Lang Davison; John Hagel

2 posts + 1 in comments

Powershift— Alvin Toffler

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Present Shock: When everything happens now— Douglas Rushkoff

The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life— Erving Goffman

The Prince— Niccolò Machiavelli

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The Principles of Scientific Management— Frederick Winslow Taylor

Prisoners of Geography— Tim Marshall

Programming the Universe: From the big bang to quantum computers— Seth Lloyd

Prometheus Rising— Robert Anton Wilson

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Propaganda— Edward L. Bernays

1 post + 1 in comments

The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism— Max Weber

1 post + 4 in comments

Prozac Nation: Young and depressed in america— Elizabeth Wurtzel

Psychological Types— Carl Gustav Jung

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Quantum Field Theory in a Nutshell— A. Zee

The Quest— Daniel Yergin

Quicksilver: Volume one of the baroque cycle— Neal Stephenson

1 post + 1 in comments

Race Against the Machine— Erik Brynjolfsson

Radical Acceptance— Tara Brach; Cassandra Campbell; Alejandro Pareja Rodríguez

Radical Candor: Be a kick-ass boss without losing your humanity— Kim Malone Scott

Rainbows End— Vernor Vinge

A Random Walk Down Wall Street: The time-tested strategy for successful investing— Burton G. Malkiel

Randomized Algorithms— Rajeev Motwani

Rare Earth: Why complex life is uncommon in the universe— Peter Douglas Ward

The Rational Optimist: How prosperity evolves— Matt Ridley

1 post + 1 in comments

Read, Write, Own— Chris Dixon

Reading Like a Writer— Francine Prose

Reading Like a Writer— Francine Prose

Ready for Anything— David Allen

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Ready, Fire, Aim— Michael Masterson

Reality Hunger— David Shields

Reboot 11 Talk (transcript)— Bruce Sterling

Red Plenty— Francis Spufford

1 post + 1 in comments

The Red Queen— Matt Ridley

The Red Queen: Sex and the evolution of human nature— Matt Ridley

3 posts + 3 in comments

Redemptive Self— Dan P. McAdams

The Redemptive Self: Stories americans live by— Dan P. McAdams

6 posts + 2 in comments

Reflections on the Revolution in France— Edmund Burke

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The Relentless Revolution— Joyce Oldham Appleby, PhD

Religion Explained: The evolutionary origins of religious thought— Pascal Boyer

The Religious Case Against Belief— James Carse

Remarkable Service— Culinary Institute of America.

The Revolt of the Masses— José Ortega y Gasset

Revolution in Time— David S. Landes

1 post + 1 in comments

Rework— Jason Fried; David Heinemeier Hansson

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Rich Dad Poor Dad— Robert Kiyosaki

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The Righteous Mind— Jonathan Haidt; Antonio Kuntz

3 posts + 1 in comments

The Rise of the Creative Class— Richard Florida

Ritual and Its Consequences: An essay on the limits of sincerity— Adam B. Seligman; Robert P. Weller; Michael J. Puett; Bennett Simon

Ritual, Experience, and Ambiguity: Rethinking pluralism— Adam B. Seligman

The Road to Reality— Roger Penrose

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Robot Dreams— Isaac Asimov

Robot Visions— Isaac Asmiov

Roughing It— Mark Twain

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Rubbish!: The archaeology of garbage— William L. Rathje; Cullen Murphy

2 posts + 1 in comments

Rules for Renegades— Christine Comaford-Lynch

The Runaway Bunny— Margaret Wise Brown

Sapiens a Brief Story of Human Kind— Yuval Noah Harari

Satisfaction— Gregory Berns

Save the Cat— Blake Snyder

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Scale— Geoffrey West

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Scale and Scope— Alfred Chandler

Scarcity: Why having too little means so much— Sendhil Mullainathan

Schismatrix— Bruce Sterling

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Schismatrix Plus— Bruce Sterling

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Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the professoriate— Ernest L. Boyer

The Science of Harry Potter— Roger Highfield

Science, Strategy, and War— Frans P. B. Osinga

The Sciences of the Artificial— Herbert Alexander Simon

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The Secret— Rhonda Byrne

1 post + 1 in comments

Seeing Like a State— James Scott

3 posts + 14 in comments

Selected Poems (Tagore, Rabindranath) (Penguin Classics)— Rabindranath Tagore

Self Illusion: How the social brain creates identity— Bruce Hood

Self-Determination Theory— Deci and Ryan

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The Selfish Gene— Richard Dawkins

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A Sense of Urgency— John P. Kotter

Sensemaking in Organizations— Karl E. Weick

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Sexual Personae: Art and decadence from nefertiti to emily dickinson— Camille Paglia

Shiva and the Primordial Tradition: From the tantras to the science of dreams— Alain Daniélou; Alain Daniélou; Jean-Louis Gabin

The Shockwave Rider— John Brunner

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Shop Class as Soulcraft: An inquiry into the value of work— Matthew B. Crawford; Matthew B Crawford

2 posts + 1 in comments

The Sickness Unto Death— Søren Kierkegaard

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A Sideways Look at Time— Jay W. Griffiths

1 post + 2 in comments

The Signal and the Noise— Nate Silver

2 posts + 2 in comments

Silent Spring— Rachel Carson

Simulacra and Simulation— Jean Baudrillard

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Skin in the Game— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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Slouching Towards Utopia— Brad DeLong

Snow Crash— Neal Stephenson

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The Social Construction of Reality— Berger and Luckmann

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The Social History of the Machine Gun— John Ellis; John Ellis

The Society of Mind— Marvin Minsky

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Soledad Brother— George L. Jackson; Paula Monteiro

Son of the Morning Star: Custer and the little bighorn— Evan S. Connell

The Songlines— Bruce Chatwin

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Sources of Power: How people make decisions— Gary Klein

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The Sovereign Individual— James Dale Davidson

1 post + 1 in comments

Soviet Strategic Deception— Conference on Soviet Strategic Deception (1985 Naval Postgraduate School)

Spanning Silos: The new CMO imperative— David A. Aaker

Spark Joy— Marie Kondo

The Spell of the Sensuous: Perception and language in a more-than-human world— David Abram

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Squirrel Inc.: A fable of leadership through storytelling— Stephen Denning

Stand on Zanzibar— John Brunner

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The Starship and the Canoe— Kenneth Brower

State of Fear— Michael Crichton

Statistical Physics of Fields— Kardar

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Storm of Steel— Mary R. Habeck

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Story— Robert McKee

1 post + 1 in comments

Storyworthy— Matthew Dicks

2 posts + 1 in comments

Stratagem: Deception and surprise in war— Barton Whaley

Strategic Intuition— James Wanless

1 post + 2 in comments

Straw Dogs: Thoughts on humans and other animals— John Gray

1 post + 1 in comments

Strengths Finder 2.0— Tom Rath

1 post + 6 in comments

The Structure of Scientific Revolutions— Thomas Kuhn

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A Study of History— Arnold Toynbee

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Stumbling on Happiness— Daniel Todd Gilbert

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Succession: Are you ready?— Marshall Goldsmith

Sulekha Select: The indian experience in a connected world— Pritish Nandy

Sunlight and Shadows— M.Y. Ghorpade

SuperCooperators— Martin A. Nowak; Roger Highfield

Superforecasting: The art and science of prediction— Philip E. Tetlock; Dan Gardner; Santiago Foz (argentino)

Sylvie and Bruno— Lewis Carroll

Symmetry: A journey into the patterns of nature— Marcus du Sautoy

Systemantics— John Gall

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Systems of Survival— Jane Jacobs

1 post + 1 in comments

The Talent Code— Daniel Coyle

The Tao of Philosophy— Alan Watts

Tao Te Ching— J.J.L. Duyvendak (trans.)

4 in comments

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital— Carlotta Perez

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TED Talk on "daemons" and Genius— Elizabeth Gilbert

Tell Me a Story— Roger Schank

Termination Shock— Neal Stephenson

That's Interesting— David Murray

Theory and Practice of Classic Detective Fiction— Jerome Delamater; Ruth Prigozy

Theory of Games and Economic Behavior— John Von Neumann; Oskar Morgenstern

A Theory of Justice— John Rawls

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The Theory of the Leisure Class— Thorstein Veblen

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THEORY of the LEISURE CLASS; ED. by MARTHA BANTA.— Thorstein Veblen

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There Is No Antimemetics Division— qntm

Thing Knowledge— Duncan Pritchard

The Things They Carried: A work of fiction— Tim O'Brien

Thinkertoys: A handbook of creative-thinking techniques— Michael Michalko

Thinking Strategically— Avinash K. Dixit; Barry J. Nalebuff

Thinking, Fast and Slow— Daniel Kahneman; Daniel Kahneman

1 post + 1 in comments

The Thirty Years War— Peter H. Wilson

The Thirty Years War: Europe's tragedy— Peter H. Wilson

A Thousand Plateaus— Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari

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Three Uses of a Knife— David Mamet

Thus Spake Zarathustra— Friedrich Nietzsche

Thus Spoke Zarathustra— Friedrich Nietzsche

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Time Enough for Love— Robert A. Heinlein

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Time Travel: A history— James Gleick

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Time Wars: The primary conflict in human history— Jeremy Rifkin

3 posts + 1 in comments

The Tipping Point: How little things can make a big difference— Malcolm Gladwell

1 post + 3 in comments

Titan: The life of john D. rockefeller, sr.— Ron Chernow

To Engineer Is Human— Henry Petroski

Too Like the Lightning— Ada Palmer

Topgrading— Bradford D. Smart

Towards a Philosophy of History— José Ortega y Gasset

Toyota Kata— Mike Rother

Tracking Classical Monsters in Popular Culture— Liz Gloyn

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Trading Up— Michael Silverstein; Neil Fiske

2 posts + 1 in comments

Traffic— Tom Vanderbilt

Tribal Leadership: Leveraging natural groups to build a thriving organization— David Logan; Dave Logan; John King; Halee Fischer-Wright

Tribes: We need you to lead us— Seth Godin

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The Trouble with Physics— Lee Smolin

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The True Believer— Eric Hoffer

3 posts + 1 in comments

TRUST and RULE.— Charles Tilly; Charles Tilly

Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a media manipulator— Ryan Holiday

1 post + 1 in comments

Tuned In— Craig Stull

Turing's Cathedral— George Dyson

★ 3 posts + 1 in comments

Turn That Ship Around— David Marquette

Twilight of the Elites: America after meritocracy— Christopher L. Hayes

The Two Cultures— C. P. Snow

2 posts + 3 in comments

The Tycoons— Charles Morris

Under the Spell of Landau: When theoretical physics was shaping destinies— Assa Auerbach

Understanding Comics: The invisible art— Scott McCloud

2 posts + 1 in comments

Understanding Media: The extensions of man— Marshall McLuhan

4 posts + 4 in comments

The Untethered Soul: The journey beyond yourself— Michael A. Singer

Up in the Air (Movie Tie-In Edition) (Random House Movie Tie-In Books)— Walter Kirn

Use of Weapons— Iain Banks

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Ux for Lean Startups Faster Smarter User Experience Research and Design— Laura Klein

The Varieties of Religious Experience: A study in human nature— William James; Dr. William James; WILLIAM JAMES; James, William; William James; CrossReach Publications

The Varieties of Scientific Experience: A personal view of the search for god— Carl Sagan

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The Varities of Religious Experience: A study in human nature— WILLIAM JAMES

Vibrant Matter: A political ecology of things— Jane Bennett

The Visible Hand— Alfred Chandler

The Visual Display of Quantitative Information— Edward R. Tufte

1 post + 1 in comments

The War of Art— Steven Pressfield

1 post + 4 in comments

Ways of Seeing— John Berger

We the Navigators— David Lewis

We, the Navigators: The ancient art of landfinding in the pacific— David Lewis; Derek Oulton

What Every BODY Is Saying: An ex-fbi agent's guide to speed reading people— Joe Navarro; Joe Navarro; Marvin Karlins; Joe Navarro with Marvin Karlins; Marvin Karlins Joe Navarro; Navarro, Joe, Karlins, Marvin

What Theory Is Not, Theorizing Is— Karl Weick

Wheels— Arthur Hailey

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When We Cease to Understand the World— Benjamin Labatut

Where Mathematics Comes From: How the embodied mind brings mathematics into being— George Lakoff

Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness meditation in everyday life— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Who Am I? the 16 Basic Desires That Motivate Our Actions and Define Our Personalities— Steven Reiss

Who Moved My Cheese?— Spencer Johnson

Who Owns the Future?— Jaron Lanier

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Who Really Matters— Art Kleiner

Who's Your City?— Richard Florida

Who: The a method for hiring— Geoff Smart

1 post + 1 in comments

Why Beauty Is Truth: The history of symmetry— Ian Stewart

Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The myth of the objective— Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman

Why Nations Fail: The origins of power, prosperity, and poverty— Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson

★ 2 posts + 1 in comments

Why Things Bite Back: Technology and the revenge of unintended consequences (vintage)— Edward Tenner

Why We Buy— Paco Underhill

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WHY WE TALK— JEAN-LOUIS DESSALLES

Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers / Robert M. Sapolsky.— Robert M. Sapolsky

Why Zebras Don’t Have Ulcers— Robert M. Sapolsky

Wikinomics— Don Tapscott; Anthony D. Williams

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Wilderness of Mirrors— David C. Martin

The Willpower Instinct— Kelly McGonigal

The Wind in the Willows— Kenneth Grahame

Wisconsin Death Trip— Michael Lesy

The Wisdom of Crowds— James Surowiecki

The Wisdom of Teams: Creating the high-performance organization— Jon R. Katzenbach

The Wishing Chair Collections— Enid Blyton

Wonder Boys— Michael Chabon

Work Ethic in Industrial America, 1850-1920— Daniel T. Rodgers

World 3.0: Global prosperity and how to achieve it— Pankaj Ghemawat

★ 5 posts + 2 in comments

The World as Will and Representation— Arthur Schopenhauer

2 in comments

The World Is Curved: Hidden dangers to the global economy— David M. Smick

The World Is Flat: A brief history of the twenty-first century— Thomas L. Friedman

4 posts + 2 in comments

The World Without Us— Alan Weisman

Writer's Journey— Christopher Vogler

You Are Not a Gadget— Jaron Lanier

3 in comments

You, Inc.: The art of selling yourself— Harry Beckwith; Christine Clifford Beckwith

Your Erroneous Zones— Wayne W. Dyer

1 post + 3 in comments

Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An inquiry into values— Robert M. Pirsig

1 post + 2 in comments

Zen Buddhism— William Barrett

Zero to One— Peter A. Thiel; Blake Masters

2 posts + 2 in comments

Zhuangzi— Zhuangzi

2 in comments

Zorba the Greek— Nikos Kazantzakis

“Others in Mind”— Philippe Rochat

Papers (68)

Actor-Network Theory

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Adversarial Examples That Fool Both Computer Vision and Time-Limited Humans (arxiv.org)

Age Differences in Risky Choice: A meta-analysis (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

The Avatars in the Machine: Dreaming as a Simulation of Social Reality

2 in comments

Bad is Stronger than Good (assets.csom.umn.edu)

Breaking Up is Hard to Do, Unless Everyone Else is Doing It Too (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Coincidences and the Encounter Problem: A formal account (arxiv.org)

Conjectures and Refutations

2 in comments

Control of Linear Systems Using Generalized Sampled-data Hold Functions (ieeexplore.ieee.org)

Cooperation and Commune Longevity: A Test of the Costly Signaling Theory of Religion (cognitionandculture.net)

Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight

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Destruction and Creation Boyd (semanticscholar.org)

Discovery and Characterization of the 1918 Pandemic Influenza Virus in Historical Context (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Does Changing Behavioral Intentions Engender Behavior Change? A meta-analysis of the experimental evidence (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Driven by Compression Progress (arxiv.org)

Episodic Simulation of Future Events - Concepts Data and Applications (researchgate.net)

Evolution Beyond Neo-Darwinism: A new conceptual framework (dx.doi.org)

The Evolution of Altruism (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

The Food Industry and Self-regulation (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

FOREIGN BODIES IN THE INTESTINE (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

How to Measure Group Selection in Real-world Populations (arxiv.org)

How We Conceptualise Time: Language, Meaning and Temporal Structure (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)

Human Time Perception and Its Illusions (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

The Influence of a Sense of Time on Human Development (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Institutionalized Organizations: Formal Structure as Myth and Ceremony (jstor.org)

Kashmiri Shaivism

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The Last Messiah

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The Logic of Strategic Ignorance (researchgate.net)

Managing Legitimacy Strategic and Institutional Approaches: Academy of Management Review 20 571-611 (researchgate.net)

Memory Mystery and Coherence Does the Presence of 23 Counterintuitive Concepts Predict Cultural Success of a Narrative (researchgate.net)

Mental Pain and Suicide: A Systematic Review of the Literature (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Mind-Wandering: Phenomenology and Function (pdfs.semanticscholar.org)

The Mundanity of Excellence (jstor.org)

The Mythos of Model Interpretability (arxiv.org)

The Nature of the Firm

5 in comments

Neural Correlates of Lyrical Improvisation: An FMRI study of freestyle rap (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Neuropsychology of Motivation for Group Aggression and Tribal Behavior (jordanbpeterson.com)

On the Phenomenon of Bullshit Jobs

2 in comments

One Pixel Attack for Fooling Deep Neural Networks (arxiv.org)

2 in comments

The Overfitted Brain: Dreams evolved to assist generalization (arxiv.org)

Peer Pressure and Risk-taking Behaviors in Children (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

The Pleasure and Displeasure People Feel When They Exercise at Different Intensities (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Pointing as Situated Practice (researchgate.net)

Precise Minds in Uncertain Worlds: Predictive coding in autism (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

The Proverbs of Administration (jstor.org)

Précis of Breakdown of Will (picoeconomics.org)

The Question Concerning Technology

2 in comments

Rhythmic Cognition in Humans and Animals: Distinguishing meter and pulse perception (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

The Role of Deliberate Practice in the Acquisition of Expert Performance (psy.fsu.edu)

The Role of Positive Emotions in Positive Psychology: The broaden-and-build theory of positive emotions (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Schizophrenia: The illness that made us human (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

The Science of "Muddling Through" (jstor.org)

The Seductive Allure of Neuroscience Explanations (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Smoking Habits and Associated Factors Among Greek Physicians (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Social Contagion Theory: Examining dynamic social networks and human behavior (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Statistical Inference for Individual Organism Research: Mixed blessing or curse? (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Temporal Motivation Theory

2 in comments

Temporality and Psychopathology (researchgate.net)

A Theory of Vibe

2 in comments

There Are No Particles, There Are Only Fields (arxiv.org)

The Ultra-social Animal (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Variability Selection in Hominid Evolution (onlinelibrary.wiley.com)

What Theory is Not, Theorizing Is (jstor.org)

Why Copy Others? (ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)

Why Monsters Are Dangerous (researchgate.net)

Work Leisure and Well-Being (researchgate.net)

The Writer's Audience is Always a Fiction (jstor.org)

Essays & Philosophy (94)

1,000 True Fans (kk.org)

Accelerate: Manifesto for an Accelerationist Politics (criticallegalthinking.com)

The Age of the Essay

2 in comments

As We May Think (theatlantic.com)

August: Let's Get Rid of It (slate.com)

The Axiom of Choice (plato.stanford.edu)

Beauty is Fit (carcinisation.com)

Being John Malkovich

2 in comments

Bridging STEM Fluidity (metarationality.com)

Bureaucratic Heroism (nplusonemag.com)

Catch Me If You Can

2 in comments

The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet (ystrickler.medium.com)

A Declaration of the Independence of Cyberspace (eff.org)

2 in comments

Eliminative Materialism (plato.stanford.edu)

Epistemological Problems of Testimony (plato.stanford.edu)

Eternalism and Nihilism (meaningness.com)

Ethereum, Slayer of Moloch

2 in comments

The Evolutionary Argument Against Reality (quantamagazine.org)

The False Allure of Group Selection (edge.org)

The Free Rider Problem (plato.stanford.edu)

Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business (wired.com)

The Gollum Effect

2 in comments

The Guerrilla Guide to Interviewing (joelonsoftware.com)

How 'The Karate Kid' Ruined the Modern World (cracked.com)

How Economics Shaped Human Nature (scribd.com)

The Idea Maze (cdixon.org)

2 in comments

In Praise of Idleness

2 in comments

Integrity (plato.stanford.edu)

Is Google Making Us Stupid? (theatlantic.com)

2 in comments

Keep Your Identity Small (paulgraham.com)

The Last of the Monsters with Iron Teeth (carcinisation.com)

Learning Curves and the Dual Mind (onthespiral.com) (dead link)

Libertarian Police Department (newyorker.com)

Live Versus Dead Players (medium.com)

The Machine Stops

2 in comments

The Magical Number Seven, Plus or Minus Two (psychclassics.yorku.ca)

Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule (paulgraham.com)

Mapmaker, Mapmaker, Make Me a Map (slatestarcodex.com)

2 in comments

A Measure of Sacrifice (nakamotoinstitute.org)

Meditations on Moloch (slatestarcodex.com)

2 in comments

The Metaphysics of Causation (plato.stanford.edu)

Modern Rituals of Solidarity (meltingasphalt.com)

Music in Human Evolution (meltingasphalt.com)

Musical Beauty and Information Compression: Complex to the Ear but Simple to the Mind? (biomedcentral.com)

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator

3 in comments

Nakatomi Space (bldgblog.com)

Neurons Gone Wild (meltingasphalt.com)

Notes on Camp (faculty.georgetown.edu)

On Cooling the Mark Out (tau.ac.il)

On Smarm (gawker.com)

Other Minds (plato.stanford.edu)

A Pattern Language (iwritewordsgood.com)

Patterns of Conflict

2 in comments

Personhood: A Game for Two or More Players (meltingasphalt.com)

Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote

2 in comments

Powers of Swarms

2 in comments

Preconquest Consciousness (rewild.com)

Principle of Sufficient Reason (plato.stanford.edu)

The Problem of Induction (plato.stanford.edu)

Reality has a surprising amount of detail (johnsalvatier.org)

Refragmentation (paulgraham.com)

Religion, Politics, and Self (meltingasphalt.com)

Robert's Rules of Order

2 in comments

Scott Aaronson on Philosophical Progress (intelligence.org)

Sex and Cash Theory

2 in comments

Shelling Out: The Origins of Money (nakamotoinstitute.org)

Sleight of Mouth

2 in comments

2 in comments

Social Status: Down the Rabbit Hole (meltingasphalt.com)

Spiral Dynamics

3 in comments

Supervenience (plato.stanford.edu)

Tears (meltingasphalt.com)

A Theory for the Formation of Large Agrarian Empires (thesciencenetwork.org)

Things You Should Never Do, Part I (joelonsoftware.com)

2 in comments

Transcript of Reboot 11 Speech by Bruce Sterling (wired.com)

Two Patterns (carcinisation.com)

The Tyranny of Structurelessness (jofreeman.com)

Unifying the Value Universe (onthespiral.com) (dead link)

Walt Disney's Frontierland as an Allegorical Map of the American Experience (sonoma.edu)

Where to Start Your Story (open.substack.com)

Why Can't Anyone Tell I Am Wearing This Suit Ironically? (theonion.com)

Why Cultural Evolution Is Real (And What It Is) (carcinisation.com)

Why Solving Climate Change Will Be Like Mobilizing for World War II (theatlantic.com)

2 in comments

William James (plato.stanford.edu)

3 in comments

You and Your Research (cs.virginia.edu)

Youth Mode (khole.net)