Reading

A very short list of very good readings

not in any particular order

Life:

• The Most Good You Can Do
• Animal Liberation
• How Are We To Live
• The Life You Can Save
• World Poverty and Human Rights
• The Expanding Circle
• Ethics for the New Millennium
• Living High and Letting Die
• The Elements of Moral Philosophy
• Problems from Philosophy
• Why Buddhism is True
• Change of Heart Nick Cooney
• Poor Economics
• Happy Money
• Algorithms to Live By
• Strangers Drowning
• Sum: Forty Tales from the Afterlives
• Lying Sam Harris

Personal:

• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• Difficult Conversations
• The How of Happiness
• Rapt
• The Charisma Myth
• Give and Take

Productivity:

• Getting Things Done
• Eat That Frog!

General:

• Mindware: Tools for Smart Thinking
• Everything is Obvious
• The Righteous Mind
• A People’s History of the United States
• Better Angels of our Nature
• Guns, Germs, and Steel
• A Short History of Nearly Everything
• The Selfish Gene
• A History of Western Philosophy
• The Spirit Level
• The Information
• Freakonomics
• Outliers
• Blink
• The Tipping Point
• Home: A Short History of Private Life
• Moral Tribes
• The Precipice

Psychology:

• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Strangers to Ourselves
• Stumbling on Happiness
• The Paradox of Choice
• The Luck Factor
• The Power of Habit
• Making Habits, Breaking Habits
• Predictably Irrational
• Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat
• Kluge
• Nudge
• Switch
• The Open-Focus Brain
• Positivity
• The Happiness Hypothesis
• Culture of Honor
• The Brighter Side of Human Nature
• The Person and the Situation
• Redirect

Math:

• Flatland
• How to Lie with Statistics
• How Not To Be Wrong
• The Men of Mathematics
• How to Solve It
• Gödel, Escher, Bach

School:

• The Homework Myth
• No Contest
• Punished by Rewards
• Mindset
• Intelligence and How to Get It
• What Intelligence Tests Miss
• Why Don’t Students Like School

Science Fiction:

• Accelerando
• Manna: Two Visions of Humanity’s Future
• Daemon & Freedom^TM

Fiction:

• The Rosie Project
• One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
• Memoirs of a Geisha
• 1984
• Animal Farm
• Walden Two
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Catch-22

Wikipedia:

• Positive Psychology
• Utilitarianism
• Hedonic Treadmill
• List of Cognitive Biases

Blogs:

• 80,000 Hours
• GiveWell
• Study Hacks

Articles:

• The Singer Solution to World Poverty
• Famine, Affluence, and Morality
• Against the Common-Sense View of Ethical Careers
• If money doesn’t make you happy, then you probably aren’t spending it right

TED.com:

• Dan Gilbert on our mistaken expectations
• Mike Dickson – What is enough?
• Dan Gilbert asks, Why are we happy?
• Hans Rosling shows the best stats you’ve ever seen
• Richard Wilkinson: How economic inequality harms societies
• Barry Schwartz on the paradox of choice
• Srikumar Rao: Plug into your hard-wired happiness
• Dan Ariely asks, Are we in control of our own decisions?
• Dan Pink on the surprising science of motivation
• Steven Pinker on the myth of violence
• Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
• Dan Dennett: Cute, sexy, sweet, funny
• Susan Cain: The power of introverts
• Dan Dennett on dangerous memes

Other:

• RadioLab podcasts
• Free online college courses 1
• Free online college courses 2
• Philosophy Bites
• RSA Animate – The Empathic Civilisation
• How rich you are