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

• 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

Books that do not have an entry / summary

2020

• 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

2019

• 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

2018

• 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.

2017

• Homo Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari, 2011