My Reading List
Currently reading, want to read, and finished books. Quick descriptions of notable pieces and an outline of my taste.

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.
Substacks and Blogs to go through
- https://boharvey.substack.com/?utm_source=homepage_recommendations&utm_campaign=192845
- https://hannahritchie.substack.com/?utm_source=homepage_recommendations&utm_campaign=192845
- https://interconnect.substack.com/?utm_source=homepage_recommendations&utm_campaign=192845
- https://interconnected.blog/tag/top-articles/
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 2th Jan
- The 100-yr life
- From Stength to Strength
- The Case Against The Sexual Revolution
Week end 21st Jan
- Singapore in 2065
Week end 14th Jan
- Defending the Lion City
- Singapore Is Not An Island
Week end 7th Jan 2023
- Rise of the Robots
- Little Book of Hedge Funds
- Anthropocene Reviewed
Weeks of December 2022: Holiday Break
Week end 7th December
- The Sum of Small Things
- The Hard Things about Hard Things
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
- Slough House Series (on Spook Street as of 1/2/23)
- 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