My book notes

Title	Author	Category	Notes
5 Levels of Leadership	John C. Maxwell	Leadership
A Fine Mess	T.R. Reid	Politics-Economics	Tax systems
A Short History of China	Gordon Kerr	History	Chinese history
American Generalship	Edgar Puryear	Leadership	Survey of leadership lessons from U.S. Military generals
An Elegant Puzzle	Will Larson	Technical Leadership
Atomic Habits	James Clear	Self Improvement	Building better habits and breaking bad ones
Bad Therapy	Abigail Shrier	Sociology	Argument against over-therapy of children
Boyd	Robert Coram	Biography-Military	Biography of John Boyd, fighter pilot
Central Banking 101	Joseph Wang	Economics	Describes central banking in the modern era
Challenger	Adam Higginbotham	History	History of the Challenger space shuttle disaster and NASA post Apollo program
Clear and Simple as the Truth	Francis-Noël Thomas, Mark Turner	Writing	The classical style of writing
Counter-Intelligence	Robert Hannigan	Business	How GCHQ cryptography units are like modern tech firms/startups
Cribsheet	Emily Oster	Parenting
Debt	David Graeber	Social Science	A history of debt
Factfulness	Hans Rosling	Economics	Global progress and economics
Financial Shenanigans	Howard Schilit, Jeremy Perler	Accounting
Fooled by Randomness	Nassim Nicholas Taleb	Knowledge and Variance
Goliath	Matt Stoller	Law-Economics	Monopolies in the United States post 1900
High Output Management	Andy Grove	Management	Management
How Big Things Get Done	Bent Flyvbjerg, Dan Gardner	Social Science	Project Management
How to Talk so Little Kids Will Listen		Parenting
How to Train a Wild Elephant	Jan Chozen Bays	Philosophy	Mindfulness
Influence	Robert B. Cialdini	Psychology
Lifespan	Dr. David Sinclair	Bioscience	Longevity and lifespan
Lying for Money	Dan Davies	Finance
Making Things Happen
Making Work Visible
Managing Humans		Management
Meditations	Marcus Aurelius	Philosophy	Stoicism
Never Split the Difference	Chris Voss	Communication	Negotiation
On the Edge	Nate Silver	Social Commentary	Risk taking, poker, crypto
People Hacker	Jenny Radcliffe	Security	Physical security and social engineering
Predictably Irrational	Dan Airely	Behavioral Economics	Decision making and behavioral economics
Prisoners of Geography	Tim Marshall	Geopolitics	How geography shapes nations and geopolitics
Remote	David Heinemeier Hanson, Jason Fried	Work	Advocacy for Remote work
Say Nothing	Patrick Radden Keefe	Irish History	Narrative History of the IRA
Showdown at Gucci Gulch	Alan Murray, Jeffery Brinbaum	Politics	Tax reform act of 1987
Slack - book	Tom DeMarco	Management	Organizational efficiency and “slack”
Some People Need Killing		History
Speed and Scale	John Doerr, Ryan Panchadsaram	Climate Change	Overview of solutions to climate change
Start with Why	Simon Sinek
Strategy - A History	Lawrence Freedman	Strategy
Stubborn Attachments	Tyler Cowen	Economics
Superforecasting	Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner	Behavioral Economics	Explores forecasting and those who are exceptional at it
Team of Rivals	Doris Kearns Godwin	Biography-Politics	Biography of Abraham Lincoln
The Carbon Age	Eric Roston	Climate Change
The Dead Hand - book	David E. Hoffman	History	Cold war bio-weapons and dead hand project
The Divide	Jason Hickel	Economics	Global Inequality
The Goal	Eliyahu M. Glodratt	Management	Novel on the goal of management and motivation
The Hundred-Year Marathon	Michael Pillsbury	Global Politics	China-hawk view on China’s international strategy
The Kill Chain	Christian Brooze	War-Military	Modern Warfare and conflict with China
The Manager’s Path	Camille Fournier	Management
The Mythical Man-Month
The Power Broker	Robert Caro	Biography-History	Biography of Robert Moses and New York history
The Provos	Peter Taylor	Irish History	History of IRA and Sinn Fein
The Science of Storytelling	Will Storr	Communication	Storytelling
The Storm Before the Storm	Mike Duncan	History	Roman history after peak of the empire but before Caesar
The Unaccountability Machine	Dan Davies	System Analysis	Explores how systems give rise to a lack accountability.
The Viral Underclass	Steven Thrasher	Social Science	Relationship between marginalization and viral outbreaks
These Truths	Jill Lepore	History	One-Volume U.S. History
Thinking in Bets	Annie Duke	Decision Making	Making decisions with imperfect information
Thinking in Systems	Donella H. Meadows	Systems	Primer on system thinking
Titan	Ron Chernow	Biography	A Biography of John D. Rockefeller Sr.
Understanding Variation		Work	Understanding variation in work processes
Viral	Matt Ridley, Alina Chan	Bioscience	Covid-19 Lab Leak Theory
Whiteshift	Eric Kaufmann	Social Science	Demographics change in America
Why We’re Polarized	Ezra Klein	Politics	Polarization in politics