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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?

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
The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
The Motivation Myth: How High Achievers Really Set Themselves Up to Win by Jeff Haden
The Score Takes Care of Itself: My Philosophy of Leadership by Bill Walsh
Tribal Leadership by Dave Logan, John King and Halee Fischer-Wright
Philosophy
Science, Tech & History
The AI Revolution: The Road to Superintelligence – Wait But Why
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History by Elizabeth Kolbert
Business, Marketing, Economics etc
7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy by Hamilton Helmer
Competing Against Luck: The Story of Innovation and Customer Choice by Clayton M. Christensen
Connor Leonard’s writings on moats [1] [2] [3] [His podcast with Patrick OShaughnessy]
Increasing Returns and Path Dependence in the Economy by W. Brian Arthur
Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable by Richard Zeckhauser
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 Dragon Portfolio: How to Preserve and Grow Your Wealth for the Next Century
The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson & Lord William Rees-Mogg
Video
Crowd funding – economics for the greater good: Simon Dixon at TEDxMiltonKeynes
DevOps is hard: Chop Wood, Carry Water by Andrew Clay Shafer
Every Frame a Painting (YouTube Channel)
Jeremy Grantham – What investors need to know about technology & climate change
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
The Dictator’s Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith
The Divide: Global Inequality from Conquest to Free Markets by Jason Hickel
Misc
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander
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