My Reading List

For Immediate Consumption

• Novacene
• Slouching towards Utopia
• What we owe the future
• Levers of power

And some ongoing titles I pick up as and when.

Back-burner

• Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain
• The Personal MBA
• Story by Robert McKee
• Manufacturing Consent
• Market Wizards Series
• Accidental Superpower
• Building a Second Brain
• Poetry Pharmacy
• The Road Less Stupid
• The Minimalist Entrepreneur
• Your One Wild and Precious Life

Actively Referencing

• 12 More Rules For Life
• The Investment Checklist
• Fund Managers
• Best Practices For Equity Research
• Macroeconomics for Professionals
• Simply Said
• Introduction to Geopolitics, Flint

Sources of Content

• The Economist, Bloomberg, New Yorker, NYT
• Marginal Revolution, Astral Codex Ten, Less Wrong, EA, Rationalist community
• David Perell, Palladium Magazine, YaleCourses etc

Want To Read

General

• The Last Warrior
• The Power of Regret
• Eating Chilli Crab in the Anthropocene
• The Long Game
• The Laws of Human Nature
• More Money Than God
• Discover Your Inner Economist
• The Rise and Fall of the Viennna Circle
• The Non-Designers Design Book
• Outliers
• Think Again
• Fooled By Randomness
• Good to Great
• The Anthropocene Reviewed
• Talking to Strangers
• On War - Clausewitz
• Seeing Like A State
• Dopesick
• Antifragile
• Unnatural Causes
• Chatter
• Range
• On China
• Splendid and the Vile
• An Astronaut's Guide To Life
• In the Shadow of Lightning (June 2022)
• Boomerang, Michael Lewis
• Deaths of Despair

Social Sciences, Political Economy, and Future Studies

• The Earned Life
• The Decadent Society
• Social Limits to Growth
• The Aristocracy of Talent
• What Money Can't Buy
• Trade Wars are Class Wars
• Humankind
• How the World Really Works
• The Scent of Time
• The War on the West
• Economic Statecraft
• Good Economics for Hard Times
• Dawn of Everything
• Doughnut Economics
• Who Rules the World
• Novacene
• Capitalism, Alone
• Superintelligence
• Understanding power, Chomsky
• Limits to Capital
• Post Capitalist Desire
• Artificial Intelligence, Mitchell
• This Changes Everything
• Concrete Economics
• Nine lives of neoliberalism
• Never let a serious crisis go to waste
• Prediction Machines
• AI Superpowers
• 25 ways to think of AI

Finished Reading

Non-Fiction

Week end 23rd November

• Levers of Power
• Agenda For a New Economy
• Status & Culture

Week end 16th November

• Destined For War
• The War Against Boys
• The ONE Thing
• Art of Witty Banter
• When Corporations Rule The World
• Fight: Gen Z Fear and Passion to Save America

Week end 9th November

• The Future Starts Here
• The Code of Capital
• Lee Kuan Yew

Week end 2nd November

• Feeding Frenzy, Politics of Food
• Growth Hacker Marketing

Week end 26th October

• Chip War
• The Practice

Week end 19th October

• The Scout Mindset
• A Random Walk Down Wallstreet
• How to Make Money in Stocks
• Deep Value
• The Practice

Week end 12th October

• The Grand Chessboard
• The End of the World is just the Beginning
• More From Less

Week end 5th October

• Tools of Titans (selective in wealth)
• The Withdrawal
• Inflation

Week end 24th and 30th September

• 30+ journal articles about wellbeing, burnout, and creativity (How to quantify?)
• Learnt some computer modelling

Week end 17th September

• Down To Earth
• The Production of Money
• Capitalist Realism
• Internet for the People
• The Age of AI

Week end 10th September

• The Disappearance of Rituals
• How Civil Wars Start
• How to stay sane in an age of division
• Can singapore survive?

Week end 3rd September

• The Future of Humanity

Week end 27th August

• The Most Important Century blog series
• Post Growth
• Moral Progress, applied divinity studies
• Platform Capitalism
• Automation and the Future of Work

Week end 20th August

• Inventing the Future
• How the World became Rich
• Airconditioned Nation Revisited
• Stubborn Attachments
• The World in 2050
• Dealing With An Ambiguous World
• Insight's on Singapore's Politics and Governance
• The Power of Geography
• Culture Map
• Prisoners of Geography
• Capitalism and the Death Drive

Week end 13th August

• Cogs and Monsters
• The Growth Delusion
• Creating a Learning Society
• How to end Rentier Capitalism

Week end 6th August

• Beyond Self-Interest, Pelc
  • Great book on disinterest and leisure for the knowledge worker but also justice instead of being blind slave wages - realistic too in appealing to economic returns for leisure
• The Tyranny of Merit
  • A good explanation of populism and leads to breaking from blind worship of monetary status - prompted me to look for wellbeing+justice in political economy

Up to July 2022 since about 2020

• The Pathless Path
  • I would give this to 17 year old me - to break out of default life goals
• Best Practices For Equity Research
  • This is great, will come back to this frequently for reference
• Why We Sleep
  • So good for breaking out of the no-sleep dogma
• Turning Pro
  • Good reflections for honing a craft
• The War of Art
• The Boy Crisis
• Digital Minimalism
• Deep Work
• Exiting Modernity
• Easypeasy method
• Four Thousand Weeks
  • Helps slow the heck down and accept your limitations. Some reference to living in the present.
• The Great Delusion
  • Useful models on international relations from the great realist Mearsheimer
• Psychology of Money
• Has China Won?
• Millionaire Fastlane
• How To Not Die Alone
  • Useful to treat your approach to relationships seriously
• Mindset
  • Best thing for kickstarting cycle of growth - young people need this
• the life-changing magic of tidying up
  • Validated throwing away useless things
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving A F*ck
  • Helpful to find courage to focus on things you care about
• Pitch the Perfect Investment
  • Schema on presentation and pitching to people over dullness
• Capital in the 21st Century
  • The great book on inequality and wealth
• Atomic Habits
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
• Anything You Want
  • Primer on making sure you're chasing what you want
• Show Your Work
  • Primer on getting out of your head
• Shoe Dog
  • Fun piece on Nike
• Being Mortal
  • Puts your goals in perspective - and lends empathy for how we treat the old
• Checklist Manifesto
• When Breath Becomes Air
  • Moving and sad
• Why The West Rules For Now
  • A bit better than Guns Germs and Steel
• Zero to One

Fiction

• The Hands of The Emperor
• Kiss & Tell
• Boyfriend Material
• Thrawn Ascendancy Series
• Way of Kings, Words of Radiance, Oathbringer, Rhythm of War (Stormlight Archive - waiting on sequel)
• Mistborn Series
• Skyward Series
• A Memory Called Empire, A Desolation Called Peace
• Empire of Silence, Howling Dark, Demon in White (Sun Eater Series - waiting on Kingdoms of Death, Ashes of Man)
• Murderbot Diaries
• Grace of Kings (Dandelion Dynasty)
• Aftershocks, Ballistic, Citadel (Palladium Wars Series - waiting on sequel)
• The Last Watch
• Sixteen Ways to Defend a Walled City, How to Rule an Empire
• The Lost Fleet Series
• Dune
• The Tyrant, The Monster Baru Cormorant
• A Shadow in Summer
• The Emperor's Blades
• The Poppy War Series
• Gideon and Harrow the Ninth
• Foundryside, Shorefall (Founders Trilogy Series - waiting on Locklands)
• City of Miracles
• The Last Emperox
• The Trouble With Peace
• The Last Sun, The Hanged Man (Tarot Sequence - waiting on Hourglass Throne)
• A lot of fanfiction on AO3