Trying to be helpful by listing and linking peoples essays/articles/blog posts/books that drastically changed their view of a topic they care about?.
Inspired by Patrick OShaughnessy’s tweet, “What essay/article/blogpost/book drastically changed your view of some topic you care about?”
Behavioural, Self Improvement, Leadership
- Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed
- Depression in Context: Strategies for Guided Action by Michael Addis, Neil S. Jacobson & Christopher Martell
- Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalhi
- How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan
- How Will You Measure Your Life?
- Reality Is Broken by Jane McGonigal
- The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
- The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker
- The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win by Jeff Haden
- The ONE Thing by Gary Keller
- The Radical Leap by Steve Farber
- The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
- Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright
- Uncommon Sense: How to Turn Distinctive Beliefs Into Action
Philosophy
- Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
- The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin
- The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker
Science, Tech & History
- A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram
- Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence – Wait But Why
- The Accelerating TechnOnomic Medium (ATOM)
- The Dentist Office Software Story
- The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant
- The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics by Bertrand Russell
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
- Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Business, Marketing, Economics etc
- 1,000 True Fans
- 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer
- Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice by Clayton M. Christensen
- Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter
- Connor Leonard’s writings on moats [1] [2] [3] [His podcast with Patrick OShaughnessy]
- Hidden Champions of the 21st Century by Herman Simon
- Hierarchy of Engagement, Expanded
- Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy by W. Brian Arthur
- Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable by Richard Zeckhauser
- Jared Diamond’s “Dam Fools”
- Measuring the Moat by Michael J. Mauboussin, Dan Callahan & Darius Majd
- Pulling the Goalie: Hockey and Investment Implications by Clifford Asness and Aaron Brown
- SoftBank, hard gambles: The melody and madness of Masayoshi Son
- The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
- The Dragon Portfolio: How to Preserve and Grow Your Wealth for the Next Century
- The Myth of the Rational Market by Justin Fox
- The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg
- Watch a VC use my name to sell a con.
Video
- Crowd funding – economics for the greater good: Simon Dixon at TEDxMiltonKeynes
- DevOps is hard: Chop Wood, Carry Water by Andrew Clay Shafer
- Endings: The Good, the Bad, and the Insanely Great
- Every Frame a Painting (YouTube Channel)
- Jeremy Grantham – What investors need to know about technology & climate change
- What if God got bored – Alan Watts
Government, Politics & Nations
- American Colonies by Alan Taylor & American Revolutions by Alan Taylor
- Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan
- Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom
- The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan
- The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith
- The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets by Jason Hickel
- The People’s History by Howard Zinn
Misc
- Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy
- Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves
- Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
- Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
- The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- The Sound Of Many One Hands Clapping
- Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas
- Your Blog Is Not a Publication
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