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Thread of books I'm reading in 2018. Deciding that I'm going to focus on optimizing for "books started" (which is fun and interesting) rather than "books finished" (which for me has a sort of masochistic, completionist connotation I'd like to be free of).
1. The Inner Game Of Work (technically started in Dec 2017 but whatever) https://t.co/xzkYQJzAdb
2. The Power of Moments https://t.co/Re1J3r0nOh
3. An Unexpected Journey (SR Nathan's autobiography) https://t.co/YPDhyeYF5P
4. Singapore Is Not An Island, Bilahari Kausikan https://t.co/9lDriheJnx
5. Leading, Alex Ferguson https://t.co/Fb6MQ73iwb
Picking up where I left off on Leading, by/with Alex Ferguson. I'm not a football fan, nor a Man Utd fan, but I can respect how impressive Man Utd was under Fergie's leadership. The team performed worse both before he joined and after he left, so he clearly knows his shit https://t.co/854SP2JCFY
6. Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, Robin Dunbar https://t.co/FSo5XriSFn
7. The Freud Wars https://t.co/IpQOTMz0rd
8. Gang Leader For A Day, Sudhir Venkatesh. I finished this in a day. Very poignant, troubling true story. I was moved and felt changed when I put it down. Confidently waltzes onto my recommend list https://t.co/W4947XsR5x
9. Ex Libris, Anne Fadiman https://t.co/UNTgnomS9n
10. The Now Habit, Neil Fiore https://t.co/fUOXJgaggY
11. I'm OK, you're OK - Thomas Harris (this is something I suspect I'm going to revisit a lot in the future) https://t.co/hJn7TluF3J
12. The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande. Very humbling to be reminded in detail how there are people who go to work every day and make decisions that literally affect whether people live or die... and how simple checklists make a significant difference https://t.co/6wzCkUQo2y
13. 50 inventions that shaped the modern economy, Tim Harford. I'm a fan of several of @TimHarford's books, and his God Complex talk. I also think individual objects are a great way to contextualize a history, so I'm excited for this https://t.co/zKgtLe4ZOW
14. The Body Keeps The Score. I'd seen it recommended in several different circles and contexts. I don't think I'm going to finish it soon but I've already gotten a lot of mileage out of it https://t.co/YEkzQTUI8A
15. The Communist Manifesto. Read last month when someone said something like "you don't really understand communism". It's actually quite a short and entertaining read https://t.co/UqlBbZdIu1
16. Learned Optimism. I think I watched Seligman's TED Talk once and really liked it. Been moving pretty quickly through this one https://t.co/rLGJA5b1mB
17. Emotional Intelligence https://t.co/n7L6Yu3mbT
18. Isaacson's bio of Da Vinci https://t.co/O7c32GXSAS
19. Sebastian Junger's Tribe https://t.co/ZAvjmOpG0A
20. Your money or your life https://t.co/37ZsE180ly
21. Zero to One, Peter Thiel https://t.co/GvczsrEAK6
@visakanv I wrote an article on this philosophy! (Including a spreadsheet for incentivizing it) https://t.co/RWP80TaTyG