Books We Like

  • A Demon of Our Own Design: Markets, Hedge Funds, and the Perils of Financial Innovation (Ricard Bookstaber 2007)

  • Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Robert M. Sapolsky 2017)

  • Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility (James P. Carse 1986)

  • Grammatical Man: Information, Entropy, Language and Life (Jeremy Campbell 1982)

  • Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow  (Yuval Noah Harari 2017)

  • Life As No One Knows It: The Physics of Life’s Emergence (Sara Imari Walker 2024)

  • Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, & the Economic World (Kevin Kelly 1995)

  • Principles: Life and Work (Ray Dalio 2017)

  • Recoding America: Why Government is Failing in the Digital Age and How We Can Do Better (Jennifer Pahlka 2023)

  • Rework (Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson 2010)

  • Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari 2011)

  • Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies (Geoffrey West 2017)

  • Shoe Dog (Phil Knight 2016)

  • The Art of the Long View: Planning for the Future in an Uncertain World (Peter Schwartz 1996)

  • The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World (David Deutsch 2011)

  • The Deluge (Stephen Markley 2023)

  • The Gene: An Intimate History (Siddhartha Mukherjee  2016)

  • The Lessons of History (Will and Ariel Durant 1965)

  • The Ministry for the Future (Kim Stanley Robinson 2020)

  • The Power Broker (Robert Caro 1974)

  • Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman 2011)