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
Organizational Culture and Leadership by Edgar Schein
The Culture Map by Erin Meyer
Intersectional Inequality by Charles Ragin and Peer Fiss
Political Order and Political Decay by Francis Fukuyana
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
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
The Worm at the Core: On the Role of Death in Life by Sheldon Solomon
​Being Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End by Atul Gawande
Complications by Atul Gawande
Better by Atul Gawande
​Awakenings by Oliver Sacks
​The Book of Why by Judea Pearl
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
The Upside of Irrationality by Dan Ariely
​Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
The Willpower Instinct by Kelly McGonigal
The True Believer by Eric Hoffer
The Ordeal of Change by Eric Hoffer
​Escape from Freedom by Erich Fromm
Choices by Michael D. Resnik
​Ethics by Baruch Spinoza
Enchiridion by Epictetus
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:  What Talking with Computers Teaches Us About What It Means to Be Alive by Brian Christian