What resource changed your view of a topic you care about?

Compiling Patrick OShaughnessy's tweet replies

Trying to be helpful by listing and linking peoples essays/articles/blog posts/books that drastically changed their view of a topic they care about?

Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag

What essay/article/blogpost/book drastically changed your view of some topic you care about? (this one is inspired by reviewing my notes for John Gall's "The Systems Bible" which I bought thinking it'd be an ode to utility of systems, but instead taught the opposite).

Inspired by Patrick OShaughnessy’s tweet, “What essay/article/blogpost/book drastically changed your view of some topic you care about?”

Behavioural, Self Improvement, Leadership

• Black Box Thinking by Matthew Syed

• Depression in Context: Strategies for Guided Action by Michael Addis, Neil S. Jacobson & Christopher Martell

• Finding Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalhi

• How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan

• How Will You Measure Your Life?

• Reality Is Broken by Jane McGonigal

• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle

• The Effective Executive by Peter F. Drucker

• The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win by Jeff Haden

• The ONE Thing by Gary Keller

• The Radical Leap by Steve Farber

• The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh

• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

• Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright

• Uncommon Sense: How to Turn Distinctive Beliefs Into Action

Philosophy

• Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse

• The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination by Daniel J. Boorstin

• The Denial of Death by Ernest Becker

Science, Tech & History

• A New Kind of Science by Stephen Wolfram

• Fingerprints of the Gods by Graham Hancock

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

• The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence – Wait But Why

• The Accelerating TechnOnomic Medium (ATOM)

• The Dentist Office Software Story

• The Lessons of History by Will & Ariel Durant

• The Relation of Sense-Data to Physics by Bertrand Russell

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert

• Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

Business, Marketing, Economics etc

• 1,000 True Fans

• 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer

• Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice by Clayton M. Christensen

• Competitive Strategy by Michael E. Porter

• Connor Leonard’s writings on moats [1] [2] [3] [His podcast with Patrick OShaughnessy]

• Hidden Champions of the 21st Century by Herman Simon

• Hierarchy of Engagement, Expanded

• Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy by W. Brian Arthur

• Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable by Richard Zeckhauser

• Jared Diamond’s “Dam Fools”

• Measuring the Moat by Michael J. Mauboussin, Dan Callahan & Darius Majd

• Pulling the Goalie: Hockey and Investment Implications by Clifford Asness and Aaron Brown

• SoftBank, hard gambles: The melody and madness of Masayoshi Son

• The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton

• The Dragon Portfolio: How to Preserve and Grow Your Wealth for the Next Century

• The Myth of the Rational Market by Justin Fox

• The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg

• Watch a VC use my name to sell a con.

Video

• Crowd funding – economics for the greater good: Simon Dixon at TEDxMiltonKeynes

• DevOps is hard: Chop Wood, Carry Water by Andrew Clay Shafer

• Endings: The Good, the Bad, and the Insanely Great

• Every Frame a Painting (YouTube Channel)

• Jeremy Grantham – What investors need to know about technology & climate change

• What if God got bored – Alan Watts

Government, Politics & Nations

• American Colonies by Alan Taylor & American Revolutions by Alan Taylor

• Disunited Nations: The Scramble for Power in an Ungoverned World by Peter Zeihan

• Governing the Commons by Elinor Ostrom

• The Accidental Superpower by Peter Zeihan

• The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith

• The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets by Jason Hickel

• The People’s History by Howard Zinn

Misc

• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• How Much Land Does A Man Need by Leo Tolstoy

• Delighting in the Trinity by Michael Reeves

• Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

• The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E. B. White

• The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander

• The Sound Of Many One Hands Clapping

• Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas

• Your Blog Is Not a Publication

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