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Patrick Collison's bookshelf, the ones marked green
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- 01A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction - Christopher Alexander
- 02Age of Ambition - Evan Osnos
- 03Anthropic Bias - Nick Bostrom
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📚Mark Zuckerberg's 2015 book club, 18 of the 23
His own 'A Year of Books' project on Facebook, back in 2015. I dropped five I couldn't verify beyond a fan blog reposting them.
01
Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull
pixar's own co-founder. he has said this twice in interviews since, not just here.
02
Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
03
The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley
second ridley pick on this list. he likes an optimist.
04
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn
05
Why Nations Fail by Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson
06
The End of Power by Moises Naim
07
The New Jim Crow by Michelle Alexander
heaviest book on the list. worth sitting with, not skimming.
08
Genome by Matt Ridley
09
Portfolios of the Poor by Daryl Collins, Jonathan Morduch, Stuart Rutherford and Orlanda Ruthven
the one nobody expects here. four researchers tracking how poor households manage cash day to day (sourced, it's really on the FB list).
10
The Better Angels of Our Nature by Steven Pinker
the pinker book he'd bring up unprompted for years.
11
The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin
12
Gang Leader for a Day by Sudhir Venkatesh
a sociology grad student embeds with a chicago gang for years. wild that this made a ceo book club.
13
The Muqaddimah by Ibn Khaldun
14
The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
15
On Immunity by Eula Biss
biss writing about vaccines as essays, not a lecture. still gets recommended for the wrong reasons.
16
The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
17
World Order by Henry Kissinger
18
The Idea Factory by Jon Gertner
closes the list with bell labs history. a company that built the future for real, not a metaphor.
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