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?”

What essay/article/blogpost/book drastically changed your view of some topic you care about?

(this one is inspired by reviewing my notes for John Gall's "The Systems Bible" which I bought thinking it'd be an ode to utility of systems, but instead taught the opposite).

— Patrick OShaughnessy (@patrick_oshag) October 3, 2020

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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