Nassim Nicholas Thaleb – Antifragile
It is better to play the system than to play within the system.
Entertaining rant on shortsightedness in many guises, backed-up by a statistical world-view.
Paul Carroll and Chunka Mui – Billion dollar lessons
Read it for the style more than the depth of insight: too few business books quote Shakespeare and Lord Tennyson.
Joshua Greene – Moral tribes
Ethics can be studied as an Empirical science and the evidence supports Utilitarianism.
Inventive and entertaining variations on the Trolley problem are used to identify what drives decision making on ethical dilemmas.
Marc Goodman – Future Crimes
Nice anecdotes, but a bit too much like…
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Michael Pollan – The omnivore’s dilemma
The industrial food chain is not sustainable, nor are any of the available alternatives – at scale.
Highly likable narrative. Actionable outcome limited (apart from baking more sourdough).
What is this?
Great books should have one single compelling idea.
I put my reading list to the test.