Reading

Below are the books I have been reading. If you use Goodreads, follow me there.

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work

by Matthew B. Crawford

December 2020

The Infinite Game

The Infinite Game

by Simon Sinek

★★★★☆

April 2020

Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

Loserthink: How Untrained Brains Are Ruining America

by Scott Adams

★★★★☆

December 2019

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

by Susan Cain

★★★★★

December 2019

War and Peace in the Global Village

War and Peace in the Global Village

by Marshall McLuhan

★★★☆☆

December 2019

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology

by Neil Postman

★★★★☆

December 2019

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

★★★★☆

December 2019

Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility

Buckminster Fuller: Designing for Mobility

by Michael John Gorman

★★★★☆

November 2019

A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

A Dream About Lightning Bugs: A Life of Music and Cheap Lessons

by Ben Folds

★★★★☆

October 2019

Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius

Wizard: The Life and Times of Nikola Tesla: Biography of a Genius

by Marc J. Seifer

★★★☆☆

September 2019

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder

by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

★★★★☆

August 2019

Levels of the Game

Levels of the Game

by John McPhee

★★★★☆

August 2019

Grunch of Giants

Grunch of Giants

by R. Buckminster Fuller

★★★★☆

July 2019

You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future

You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future

by Jonathan Keats

★★★★☆

July 2019

Building A Story Brand

Building A Story Brand

by Donald Miller

★★★☆☆

July 2019

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World

by David Epstein

★★★★★

July 2019

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test

by Tom Wolfe

★★★★☆

June 2019

The Power of Positive Thinking

The Power of Positive Thinking

by Norman Vincent Peale

★★★★☆

April 2019

Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

Dune Messiah (Dune, #2)

by Frank Herbert

★★★★☆

March 2019

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

by Greg McKeown

★★★★☆

March 2019

Dune (Dune, #1)

Dune (Dune, #1)

by Frank Herbert

★★★★★

January 2019

The Stand

The Stand

by Stephen King

★★★☆☆

December 2018

Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)

by Ernest Cline

★★★☆☆

November 2018

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

by Jordan B. Peterson

★★★★★

October 2018

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

Endure: Mind, Body, and the Curiously Elastic Limits of Human Performance

by Alex Hutchinson

★★★★☆

September 2018

Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness

by Scott Jurek

★★★★☆

September 2018

Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions

Impossible to Ignore: Creating Memorable Content to Influence Decisions

by Carmen Simon

★★★★☆

September 2018

Tao Te Ching

Tao Te Ching

by Lao Tzu

July 2018

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

Hooked: How to Build Habit-Forming Products

by Nir Eyal

★★★☆☆

June 2018

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Thinking, Fast and Slow

by Daniel Kahneman

★★★★☆

January 2017

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade

by Robert B. Cialdini

★★★★★

October 2016

Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality

Dr. Deming: The American Who Taught the Japanese About Quality

by Rafael Aguayo

★★★☆☆

October 2015

Foundation (Foundation, #1)

Foundation (Foundation, #1)

by Isaac Asimov

★★★☆☆

May 2015

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)

Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)

by China Miéville

★★★☆☆

May 2015

The Martian

The Martian

by Andy Weir

★★★★★

February 2015

The Design of Everyday Things

The Design of Everyday Things

by Donald A. Norman

★★★★★

A Clockwork Orange

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

★★★★★

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion

by Robert B. Cialdini

★★★★★

The Elements of Style [Illustrated]

The Elements of Style [Illustrated]

by William Strunk Jr.

★★★★☆

Fight Club

Fight Club

by Chuck Palahniuk

★★★★★

Universal Principles of Design

Universal Principles of Design

by William Lidwell

★★★★★

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft

by Stephen King

★★★★☆

1984

1984

by George Orwell

★★★★★

Critical Path

Critical Path

by R. Buckminster Fuller

★★★☆☆

The Laws of Simplicity

The Laws of Simplicity

by John Maeda

★★★★★

The Great Gatsby

The Great Gatsby

by F. Scott Fitzgerald

★★★☆☆

Designing With Web Standards

Designing With Web Standards

by Jeffrey Zeldman

Fingerprint: The Art of Using Hand-Made Elements in Graphic Design

Fingerprint: The Art of Using Hand-Made Elements in Graphic Design

by Chen Design Associates

★★★★★

Make It Bigger

Make It Bigger

by Paula Scher

The War of Art

The War of Art

by Steven Pressfield

★★★★★

Catch-22

Catch-22

by Joseph Heller

★★★★☆

Atlas Shrugged

Atlas Shrugged

by Ayn Rand

★★★★★

Bird by Bird

Bird by Bird

by Anne Lamott

★★★★☆

Modern Art & Death of a Culture

Modern Art & Death of a Culture

by Hans R. Rookmaaker

★★★★☆

The Medium is the Massage

The Medium is the Massage

by Marshall McLuhan

★★★★★

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking

by Malcolm Gladwell

★★★★★

Fahrenheit 451

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

★★★★★

Making Movies

Making Movies

by Sidney Lumet

★★★★☆

Slaughterhouse-Five

Slaughterhouse-Five

by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.

★★★★★

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth

by R. Buckminster Fuller

★★★★★

Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far

Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far

by Stefan Sagmeister

★★★★☆

American Gods (American Gods, #1)

American Gods (American Gods, #1)

by Neil Gaiman

★★★☆☆

God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

God's Debris: A Thought Experiment

by Scott Adams

★★★★☆

Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

Ender’s Game (Ender's Saga, #1)

by Orson Scott Card

★★★★★

The Screwtape Letters

The Screwtape Letters

by C.S. Lewis

★★★★★

The Catcher in the Rye

The Catcher in the Rye

by J.D. Salinger

★★★★☆

The Wisdom of Crowds

The Wisdom of Crowds

by James Surowiecki

★★★★☆

The Fountainhead

The Fountainhead

by Ayn Rand

★★★★★

The Road

The Road

by Cormac McCarthy