Books I read in 2019

This Year’s Favorites

Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages, by Carlota Perez

Dark Age (The Red Rising Series, Book 5), by Pierce Brown

Architects of Intelligence: The truth about AI from the people building it, by Martin Ford

Tiamat’s Wrath (The Expanse Series, Book 8), by James S. A. Corey

Hayek’s Challenge: An Intellectual Biography of F.A. Hayek, by Bruce Caldwell

Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, by Jon Meacham

The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations, by Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom

The Rest

The Blockchain and the New Architecture of Trust, by Kevin Werbach

Myers Briggs Typology vs. Jungian Individuation, by Steve Myers

Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing our Digital Future, by Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson

Systems Thinking for Social Change: A Practical Guide to Solving Complex Problems, Avoiding Unintended Consequences, and Achieving Lasting Results, by David Peter Stroh

Team Human, by Douglass Rushkoff

Unblocked: How Blockchains Will Change Your Business (and What to Do about It), by Alison McCauley

The Three-Body Problem, by Cixin Liu

Stand on Zanzibar, by Josh Brunner

Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking, by Susan Cain

Pathfinding our Destiny: Preventing the Final Fall of Our Democratic Republic, by Charles Hugh Smith

Zero to One: Notes on Startups or how to Build the Future, by Peter Thiel

Propaganda, by Edward Bernays

The Open-Source Everything Manifesto: Transparency, Truth, and Trust, by Robert David Steele

Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals, by Tyler Cowen

Isaac Asimov: The Complete Stories, Vol. 1, by Isaac Asimov

Narrative Economics: How Stories Go Viral and Drive Major Economic Events, by Robert J. Shiller

The Constitution of the United States and the Declaration of Independence, by Delegates of the Constitutional Convention