Book and Podcast recommendations

Well, some of them on my list for the first two months are:

1. Never split the difference
2. Poor economics
3. Predictably Irrational (re-reading)
4. Influence by Cialdini (re-reading)
5. 49 short stories by Hemingway

They've all been on my list for some time, determined not to get distracted by new books.

Behavioural Science

• Deceit and Self-Deception by Trivers - a book about how we deceive ourselves and why it's important that we do

Creative
Book on the creative process, to be read together

• The war of art
• Seth Godin's "the practice"
• Steal like an artist by Austin Kleon

Economics and Economic History

• Extreme economies, great pod from the author here
• Manics, pancis, crashes

Science-"ish"

• Dataclysm - "how the vast trove of aggregated online data about individuals helps explain everything from political beliefs to speech patterns"
• Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh
• Signal and boundaries by John Hollan - on complex adaptive systems
• Chaos and Fractals An Elementary Introduction
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - "It's a book about thinking; more specifically, a style of thinking by which great ideas are conceived."
• The Dream Machine - "Waldrop tells the story of the man who not only instigated the work that led to the internet, but also shifted our understanding of what computers were and could"

Media

• Amusing Ourselves to Death - "Postman distinguishes the Orwellian vision of the future, in which totalitarian governments seize individual rights, from that offered by Aldous Huxley in Brave New World, where people medicate themselves into bliss, thereby voluntarily sacrificing their rights."

Sci fi

• The culture series by Iain Bank

Misc

• Anti-fragile by Taleb - all about asymmetry
• Good strategy, Bad Strategy - often cited as the best book on business strategy