AUTOTELICMar 122 min read
25 books recommended by Mark Zuckerberg
- The End of Power: From Boardrooms to Battlefields and Churches to States, Why Being In Charge Isn’t What It Used to Be by Moises Naim
- The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined by Steven Pinker
- Gang Leader for a Day: A Rogue Sociologist Takes to the Streets by Sudhir Venkatesh
- On Immunity: An Inoculation by Eula Bliss
- Creativity Inc: Overcoming The Unseen Forces That Stand In The Way Of True Inspiration by Ed Catmull
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
- Rational Ritual: Culture, Coordination, and Common Knowledge by Michael Suk-Young Chwe
- Dealing With China: An Insider Unmasks The New Economic Superpower by Henry Paulson
- Orwell’s Revenge: The 1984 Palimpsest by Peter Huber
- The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
- Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
- The Player of Games by Iain Banks
- Energy: A Beginner’s Guide by Vaclav Smil
- Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters by Matt Ridley
- The Varieties of Religious Experience: A Study in Human Nature by William James
- Portfolios of the Poor: How the World’s Poor Live on $2 a Day by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch and Stuart Rutherford
- Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty by Daron Acemoglu
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves by Matt Ridley
- The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner
- World Order by Henry Kissinger
- The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations that Transform the World by David Deutsch
- The Aeneid by Virgil
- Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card
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