Books Summary

(DD/MM/YY date format, most recent up)

02/10/26 7 rules to power, Jeffrey Pfeffer, 2022
10/26/22 Good to Great, Jim Collins, 2001
10/07/22 Difficult Conversations, Douglas Stone, Bruce Patton, Sheila Heen, 1999
10/05/22 Search Inside Yourself - The unexpected path to achieving success, happiness, Chade-Meng Tan, 2012
09/25/22 Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, Stephern LaBerge, Howard Rheingold, 1990
07/22/22 TV Lobotomy, Michel Desmurget, 2011
07/20/22 The Age of Low Tech., Philippe Bihouix, 2014
06/24/22 Planning and the Multi-Local Urban Experience., Kimmo Lapintie, 2021
04/15/22 Hashtag Authentic, Sara Tasker, 2019
04/14/22 Never Split the Difference, Chris Voss, 2016
04/12/22 Influencer - Building Your Own Personal Brand, Brittany Hennessy, 2018
04/10/22 Influencer Marketing for Brands, XXX,
01/01/19 Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman, 2011

On my ToRead list (out to date)

An introduction to Cybernetics, W. Ross Ashby
Freakonomics, Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
Game Mechanics: Advanced Game Design, 2012
The lessons of History
The Fifth Risk, Lewis, Michael (2018) => NA
Geographies of Food_ An Introduction (2020), Moya Kneafsey, Damian Maye, Lewis Holloway, and Michael K. Goodman
When to jump if the job you have isn’t the life you want Henry Holt and Co._Picador (2019), Lewis, Michael C._Sandberg, Sheryl
The Handbook of Collective Violence Carol A. Ireland, Michael Lewis, Anthony C. Lopez, Jane L. Ireland
The Premonition_ A Pandemic Story, Michael Lewis (2021)
The Dawn of Everything David Graeber_ David Wengrow (2021)
Zero to One Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future-Crown Business Peter Thiel, Blake Masters (2014)
Amusing Ourselves to Death

The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein: Comment les US ont détruit l’Amérique du Sud, permis l’exploitation de masse, fait des tests de drogues en toute sérénité sur des humains. Good book.
No Logo, Naomi Klein: How brands exploit the world. Good book.
Population mondiale: vers une explosion ou une implosion
Unmasking the social engineer
Algorithms to live by, Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths, 2016

21 lessons for the 21th century, Yuval Noah Harari (++).
Le Capitalisme hors la loi, Marc Roche
Everybody lies, Seth Stephens
Vous êtes fous d’avaler ça, Christophe Brusset: Les dérives du secteur agroalimentaire, les fonds de cuves dans votre assiette.
Spy the lie: how to spot deception the CIA way, Houston Philip
Brief answer to the big questions, Stephen Hawking
48 laws of power, Greene Robert
The art of thinking clearly, Rolf Dobelli
Crystallizing Public Opinion, Edward Bernays
Propaganda, Edward L. Bernays, 1928 (++)
Influence, Robert Caldini
Metaphors we live by, Johnson Mark
Predictably irrational, Dan Ariely: About cognition bias

The Search for the Manchurian Candidate: CIA and Mind Control
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos, Jordan B Peterson
Five Major Pieces to the Life Puzzle, Jim Rohn
Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming, Howard Rheingold, 1990 (++)
Schema Therapy: A Practitioner’s Guide, Jeffrey Young
Homo Deus, Yuval Noah Harari, 2015 (++)
Fractals, Chaos, Power Laws: Minutes from an Infinite Paradise, Schroeder, Manfred R.