Recommended Reading

• Imagining the Internet studies, Elon University / Pew Research (2004 - present)

• Navigating the Commodification Conundrum, Aaron Shapiro, 2023

• What I Wish Someone Had Told Me, Sam Altman, 2023

• How to Do Great Work, Paul Graham, 2023

• Not Born Yesterday, Hugo Mercier, 2022

• The Dawn of Everything, David Graeber and David Wengrow, 2021

• Consolations, David Whyte, 2021

• Five Decembers, James Kestrel, 2021

• Everything is PR, Faris Yakob, 2021

• The Michael Scott Theory of Social Class, Alex Danco, 2021

• 1177 BC: The Year Civilization Collapsed, Eric Cline, 2021

• The Business of Aspiration, Ana Andjelic, 2020

• A World Without Work, Daniel Susskind, 2020

• It’s Time to Build, Marc Andreessen, 2020

• The Outlaw Ocean, Ian Urbina, 2020

• The Strength of Being Misunderstood, Sam Altman, 2020

• Notes on Technology in the 2020s, Eli Dourado, 2020

• The Expanse Series, James SA Corey, 2020

• Status as a Service, Eugene Wei, 2021

• Dignity, Chris Arnade, 2019

• What You Do is Who You Are, Ben Horowitz, 2019

• Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari, 2017

• Superintelligence, Nick Bostrom, 2016

• The Magicians, Lev Grossman, 2015

• Nothing is True and Everything is Possible, Peter Pomerantsev, 2015

• Culture series, Iain M Banks, 1987-2012

• Why Action is More Valuable Than Ever, Dan Hou, 2012

• Ghost on the Throne, James Romm, 2012

• Remembrance of Earth’s Past, Liu Cixin, 2006-2010

• Obsolete the Dilemma, Ben Goertzel, 2010

• Solitude and Leadership, William Deresiewicz, 2010

• Four Futures, Peter Frase, 2010

• Regaining Strategic Competence, Barry Watts, Andrew F. Krepinevich, 2009

• Paradoxes, RM Sainsbury, 2009

• Twins in the World, A Piontelli, 2008

• Master of the Senate, Robert Caro, 2003

• The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind, Julian Jaynes, 2000

• The Social Superorganism and its Global Brain, Francis Heyligen, 2000

• Destruction and Creation, John Boyd, 1976

• The Inner Ring, CS Lewis, 1944