Bookshelf

An incomplete list of favorite works on identity, beliefs, systems, and behavior.

​Please send any recommendations that come to mind!

Harnessing Complexity by Robert Axelrod and Michael D. Cohen
The Evolution of Cooperation by Robert Axelrod
​Yes to the Mess: Surprising Leadership Lessons from Jazz by Frank Barrett
Humble Inquiry: The Gentle Art of Asking Instead of Telling by Edgar Schein
Intersectional Inequality by Charles Ragin and Peer Fiss
​A Different Mirror by Ronald Takaki​
The Origins of Political Order by Francis Fukuyama
Mind, Self, and Society by George Herbert Mead
A Dynamic Theory of Personality by Kurt Lewin
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
​Illness as Metaphor by Susan Sontag
The Body Keeps the Score by Bessel van der Kolk
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life by Sheldon Solomon
​Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Jonathan Baron​
Judgment Under Uncertainty by Daniel Kahneman
Getting To Yes by Roger Fish
Getting Past No by Willliam Ury
​Nudge by Richard H. Thaler
Influence by Robert B. Cialdini
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Better by Atul Gawande
​Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
The Ordeal of Change by Eric Hoffer
Choices by Michael D. Resnik
​Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
Enchiridion by Epictetus
The Complete Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson
An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding by David Hume
The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche
The Origins of Virtue by Matt Ridley
The Most Human Human by Brian Christian