I maintain a list of the content that I engage with or have enjoyed/been fascinated by at some point. Have a recommendation? Send me an email.

Books

Non-Fiction

  • Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem
  • Walter Isaacson, The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
  • Jenny Odell, How to do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy
  • Brad Stone, The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
  • Thomas King, The Inconvenient Indian: A Curious Account of Native People in North America
  • Tim Wu, The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
  • Tim Wu, The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age
  • William Langewiesche, Sahara Unveiled: A Journey Across the Desert
  • Austin Kleon, Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
  • Christopher Hitchens, Letters to a Young Contrarian
  • Michael Lewis, The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
  • Andy Greenberg, Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers
  • John Carreyrou, Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
  • Steve Coll, Private Empire: ExxonMobil and American Power
  • William Langewiesche, The Atomic Bazaar: Dispatches from the Underground World of Nuclear Trafficking
  • Anthony Bourdain, Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
  • Dan Davies, Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of the World

Fiction

  • Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed
  • Albert Camus, The Stranger
  • Emily St. John Mandel, Station Eleven
  • Emily St. John Mandel, Sea of Tranquility
  • Emily St. John Mandel, The Glass Hotel
  • David Szalay, Turbulence
  • Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
  • Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake: A Novel
  • Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies
  • John le Carré, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
  • Ted Chiang, Exhalation
  • Ted Chiang, Stories of Your Life and Others

People

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