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  • Manifestos

    • A

      Agile Manifesto

      Kent Beck et al.

    • T

      The 12 Principles of Agile

      Kent Beck et al.

    • T

      The Cult of Done Manifesto

      Bre Pettis

    • A

      A Brief Guide to World Domination

      Chris Guillebeau

    • T

      The Tyranny of Structurelessness

      Jo Freeman

    • T

      The Twelve-Factor App

      Adam Wiggins

    • T

      The Best Way to Count

      Jan Misali

  • Books

    • Politics & Philosophy

      • What's Our Problem?

        What's Our Problem?

        Tim Urban

        The Psychology Behind the Politics

        Why is America (and the world) so divided? Why are republicans burning anything the left touches? Why is the left cancelling everything? What are the Implications? Read how we got here, building up the psychology from first principles.
      • High Conflict

        High Conflict

        Amanda Ripley

        How to see & stop High Conflict

        Many conflicts are a trap, however much you fight and struggle, the conflict deepens. This book talks about why that happens, how to see it for what it is, and what you can do to get out of it and to build cultures resilient to it.
      • Debt: The First 5000 Years

        Debt: The First 5000 Years

        David Graeber

        Debt & Money came before Barter

        A deep-dive into the history of debt, credit, money, and the "economy" for all of recorded human history. Shatters all of the commonly held beliefs you thought you knew about money. Focus on how money came about, the morality aspect, and all the entanglements with politics.
      • The Shock Doctrine

        The Shock Doctrine

        Naomi Klein

        "Free Market" Capitalism Relies on Violence

        THIS BOOK WILL MAKE YOU MAD. Milton Friedman & Gang proposed an economic theory that if you get a country to a clean slate & put a free market on it, it will succeed. This book exposes just how badly that theory has gone for so many countries around the world since ~1960.
      • The Jakarta Method

        The Jakarta Method

        Vincent Bevins

        American Anti-Communist Mass-Murder Program

        A historical geopolitical look into the post-WWII 3rd world, and the West's involvement. Focuses on Indonesia's role as an emergent 3rd world leader, advocating for anti-imperialism and self-determination, and how America's anti-communist effort led to genocide and a brutal dictatorship. And how that method was then exported elsewhere to the world.
      • Factfulness

        Factfulness

        Hans Rosling

        The world is actually getting better

        Explains 10 tendencies that we have to see the world as worse than it actually is. Explains that we all have misconceptions about the world that the facts don't bear out. Particular things may be bad, but generally are getting better, and almost everything is better than it has ever been.
      • Bullshit Jobs

        Bullshit Jobs

        David Graeber

        Most jobs today are worthless

        50% of jobs today have no purpose, they're there just to make superiors feel important, duct tape problems that should be fixed permanently, tick boxes just to say we did, or creating extra work just because, or a supporting job for these jobs. This is different from shit jobs, which just suck, but are useful.
      • Of Boys and Men

        Of Boys and Men

        Richard Reeves

        The issues facing men right now, and what to do about it

        Looks at many of the most pressing issues facing men in the modern day. Proposes some solutions of what we can do to solve those issues.
      • Originals

        Originals

        Adam Grant

        How to be a creative person

        Originals are people willing to take risks and who are open to alternatives, often challenging the status quo. This book shows examples of other people who are originals. It gives a guide about how to nurture that in yourself, and strategies about how to navigate original ideas in the world.
      • 12 Rules for Life

        12 Rules for Life

        Jordan Peterson

        Rules to live your life by

        A set of 12 rules that the author claims will bring order and prosperity to your life if you follow them. Informed by the author's work in clinical psychology. Dives into questions of morality, analyzed through a lens of western culture.
      • Homo Deus

        Homo Deus

        Yuval Harari

        Questions about the future of humanity

        Investigates all the ways that humans have come to be, and what questions we'll have to grapple with in the future, both far and near. Specifically talks about what makes us human, what makes society, and how it will change with coming technologies and cultural forces.
      • Freakonomics

        Freakonomics

        Steven Levitt & Stephen Dubner

        Counterintuitive Economics

        Takes a look at many examples of people doing things that you wouldn't expect, and shows how the various incentives play a role. Not a book on morality, just on what is.
      • Good to Great

        Good to Great

        Jim Collins

        How to take a Company from Good to Great

        Learn the lessons from the few companies that were able to take regular good company performance and turned it into great performance for more than 15 years.
      • Mindset

        Mindset

        Carol Dweck

        Have a Growth Mindset, not a Fixed Mindset

        Outlines the difference and impact between having a Growth Mindset, one focused on learning from mistakes, versus having a fixed mindset, where you think you can't change. Paired with many, many examples.
      • Caste

        Caste

        Isabel Wilkerson

        What pillars keep caste systems

        Breaks down the fundamental pillars of caste systems. Focuses on America, Nazi Germany, and India. Answers what are the origins, and what forces keep caste systems in place.
      • Invisible Rulers

        Invisible Rulers

        Renée DiResta

        Social Media & Bespoke Realities

        Dives into the online world of social media since about 2010 and the effect it's had on society, and what we can do about it. In particular how it has created fake realities that feel real to its inhabitants.
      • 7 Rules of Power

        7 Rules of Power

        Jeffrey Pfeffer

        Rules to Power

        Identifies 7 rules to having and maintaining power, motivated by evidence. These are not "nice", but the raw way power works.
      • The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

        The Hundred Years' War on Palestine

        Rashid Khalidi

        Israel-Palestine Modern History

        Historically covers the events in the land of Israel-Palestine from 1917 to 2017, and understands them as a war of colonialism by the Zionists towards the existing Arab population.
      • The Body Keeps the Score

        The Body Keeps the Score

        Bessel Van Der Kolk

        How trauma works

        A lifelong journey of trying to heal trauma, meanwhile discovering its true causes and effective ways of curing it.
      • The Gutenberg Parenthesis

        The Gutenberg Parenthesis

        Jeff Jarvis

        Effects of the transition to and from the era of print

        Covers what happened at the dawn of print and throughout the centuries. Puts in perspective the kinds of change that we can come to expect from this new transition away from print being the dominant force in information.
      • How Minds Change

        How Minds Change

        David McRaney

        How to actually change minds

        What are the techniques that actually work to change someone's mind. You won't get people to concede on facts alone.
      • Thinking in Bets

        Thinking in Bets

        Annie Duke

        Think of every decision as a bet

        Understanding of human psychology and how we usually make decisions. Techniques for how to see the world through the lens of bets, practicing this with people and thus making better decisions. Using the world of poker as a key example of all of this.
      • The Art of War

        The Art of War

        Sun Tzu

        War principles

        The specific nuggets of wisdom generated from medieval warfare in China. A lot of it gives broad insights into the patterns of thinking in this part of the world.
      • The Righteous Mind

        The Righteous Mind

        Jonathan Haidt

        How morality works

        A deep dive into the psychological and biological underpinnings of morality. With a focus on how it has affected American politics. Takes a research-based approach.
    • Entrepreneurship & Leadership

      • The Millionaire Fastlane

        The Millionaire Fastlane

        M.J. DeMarco

        3 roads to life, take the fastlane

        Proposes that there are 3 roads to life, the sidewalk, the slowlane, and the fastlane. They each have their formulas for relating to money and strategies for getting wealthy. This book tells you about the author's path to wealth and implores you to take a bet on the fastlane. It gives direct advice on what to do and what mindsets to shift.
      • Dream Year

        Dream Year

        Ben Arment

        Instructions on how to start

        Why did you put your dreams to the side? Take a risk. This book explains what to expect, and how to get through it.
      • Profit First

        Profit First

        Mike Michalowicz

        Take your profit first

        Espouses the idea that businesses should be profitable from the start and how to do that is to build profit into your money flow from the beginning. Everything else is paid for with the remaining money. Noting that if you can't do that, your business is doomed.
      • The Pumpkin Plan

        The Pumpkin Plan

        Mike Michalowicz

        Focus on one, cull the rest

        Draws an analogy between business ideas and prize-winning pumpkin farmers. The strategy being to focus on the best-performing ideas and ignore all the rest ruthlessly in order to grow the biggest and fastest you can.
      • The Mom Test

        The Mom Test

        Rob Fitzpatrick

        How to ask good questions

        Handbook for asking good questions in order to get actually useful feedback from people, especially people who are very much inclined to lie to you, in order to make you go away or not hurt your feelings, like your mom.
      • Zero to One

        Zero to One

        Peter Thiel & Blake Masters

        Philosophy of a startup

        Find a truth that very few people agree with you on. Learn from the past. All happy companies are different, but all failures are the same. Discusses monopolies vs perfect competition and shows you need a bit of both in your business. Discusses the role of luck. Explores how tight-knit groups help. Sales strategies. Discusses technology's impact on jobs. What a founder's role in the company is.
      • Never Split the Difference

        Never Split the Difference

        Chris Voss & Tahl Raz

        How to negotiate

        Overview of the lessons learned as a hostage negotiator, and how the same strategies can help you in your life.
      • Range

        Range

        David Epstein

        Benefits of being a generalist

        Shows how being a generalist helps with the kind of problems you usually encounter in the world. Contrasts it to early specialization and when that strategy is most useful. Talks about the kinds of learning environments that exist and the psychology of how we interact with them and how different strategies play out.
      • The E Myth Revisited

        The E Myth Revisited

        Michael E. Gerber

        Work on your business, not in it

        Proposes a model of there being 3 people in an entrepreneur, The Entrepreneur, The Manager, and The Technician. Explains what role each plays, and the pitfalls of becoming too much of each one. Talks a lot about Franchises and how the product of the business is the business itself. How to create business systems that stand the test of time.
      • The $100 Startup

        The $100 Startup

        Chris Guillebeau

        You don't need much to start a business

        How others have started a business on little and specific steps and instructions for how you can do the same.
      • The Infinite Game

        The Infinite Game

        Simon Sinek

        Play to continue, not to win

        Establishes a dichotomy between finite games with set rules and a finite period with winners and losers, and infinite games, like life, politics, and business. Shows that the best strategy is advancing a just cause, building trusting teams, studying your worthy rival, existential flexibility, and having the courage to lead.
      • Leaders Eat Last

        Leaders Eat Last

        Simon Sinek

        Build a Circle of Safety

        As a leader, you have to make sure that your people are taken care of first. Protect your organization, establish trust.
      • Start with Why

        Start with Why

        Simon Sinek

        Why → How → What

        Why is the reason for being, from which flows how you make it happen, finally, what you specifically do or have is derived from that. This ordering is crucial for making systems that work. Based in biology. Places importance on how this is communicated.
      • Turn the Ship Around!

        Turn the Ship Around!

        David Marquet

        Control, Competence, Clarity

        Establishes a leadership model rejecting hierarchical non-thinking obedience-only methods, instead showing how to make an organization full of leaders all the way through. Focuses on Control, Competence, and Clarity as the ways of achieving that and gives specific instructions on how to make it happen in a real organization.
      • The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

        The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing

        Al Ries & Jack Trout

        Marketing Philosophy

        Establishes the laws of psychology that anyone in marketing must heed or else they will fail. Outlines how they interact and when they take effect.
      • Shape Up

        Shape Up

        Ryan Singer

        How to organize project work

        They came up with a unique and effective way to organize project work. New feature development specifically. Plus techniques to organize the process.
    • Lifestyle

      • King Warrior Magician Lover

        King Warrior Magician Lover

        Robert Moore & Douglas Gillette

        The 4 Archetypes of a Man

        What is manhood? especially today? Uses archetypes to help understand the different aspects of what makes great men, and what aspects can make bad men. How boys become men.
      • Building a Second Brain

        Building a Second Brain

        Tiago Forte

        Structured Note Taking & Mindset

        Your brain is good at ideas, but bad at remembering and keeping track of things. Here is a framework that you can follow that will work to be that part, which frees up your brain to do what it's good at. It points to a new way of thinking about your knowledge.
      • Deep Work

        Deep Work

        Cal Newport

        How to focus

        Instructions on how to not be distracted and cultivate deep work, focused on what you want to be doing. And why it's especially valuable today.
      • 7 Habits of Highly Effective People & The 8th Habit

        7 Habits of Highly Effective People & The 8th Habit

        Stephen Covey

        Principled Living

        How do you handle all of the most difficult things in life? You have to have a properly ordered mental framework. These 7 habits are what you do to improve in every aspect of life. They are built up from first principles. The 8th habit extends this to the information age.
      • Love Does

        Love Does

        Bob Goff

        Love through action

        Many autobiographical narratives all combining to give Bob's insightful view on love, how it is expressed by actions, and how this relates to a kind of faith that is not commonly expressed. Gives a sense of ease about the world where it's clear the kind of life that is most fulfilling.
  • Games

    • 4D Golf

      4D Golf

    • Fez

      Fez

    • Antichamber

      Antichamber

    • Captain Sonar

      Captain Sonar

    • Hyperbolica

      Hyperbolica

    • Superliminal

      Superliminal

    • 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel

      5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel

    • Outer Wilds

      Outer Wilds

    • Daybreak

      Daybreak

  • Organizations

    • G

      GapMinder

    • T

      The School of Life

  • Creators

    • Math & Science

      • Nicky Case

        Nicky Case

      • 3Blue1Brown

        3Blue1Brown

      • AlphaPhoenix

        AlphaPhoenix

      • BrainCraft

        BrainCraft

      • CGPGrey

        CGPGrey

      • Geography Now

        Geography Now

      • Jay Foreman

        Jay Foreman

      • Journey to the Microcosmos

        Journey to the Microcosmos

      • Kurzgesagt

        Kurzgesagt

      • Looking Glass Universe

        Looking Glass Universe

      • Mark Rober

        Mark Rober

      • Minute Earth

        Minute Earth

      • Minute Physics

        Minute Physics

      • PBS Infinite Series

        PBS Infinite Series

      • PBS Idea Channel

        PBS Idea Channel

      • PBS SpaceTime

        PBS SpaceTime

      • Practical Engineering

        Practical Engineering

      • Primer

        Primer

      • Real Engineering

        Real Engineering

      • Reducible

        Reducible

      • Scott Manley

        Scott Manley

      • SciShow Space

        SciShow Space

      • Smarter Every Day

        Smarter Every Day

      • Stand-Up Maths

        Stand-Up Maths

      • Steve Mould

        Steve Mould

      • The Backyard Scientist

        The Backyard Scientist

      • This Place

        This Place

      • Tier Zoo

        Tier Zoo

      • Veritasium

        Veritasium

      • Vihart

        Vihart

      • Zach Star

        Zach Star

      • ZoggFromBetelgeuse

        ZoggFromBetelgeuse

    • Design & Music

      • Alto Clef

        Alto Clef

      • Razbuten

        Razbuten

      • Extra Credits

        Extra Credits

      • Sideways

        Sideways

      • Tantacrul

        Tantacrul

      • Twoset Violin

        Twoset Violin

    • Lifestyle & Philanthropy

      • Answer in Progress

        Answer in Progress

      • PhilosophyTube

        PhilosophyTube

      • Tom Scott

        Tom Scott

      • Vlogbrothers

        Vlogbrothers

      • Vsauce

        Vsauce

      • Wheezy Waiter

        Wheezy Waiter

    • History, Politics, & Language

      • ClimateTown

        ClimateTown

      • Extra History

        Extra History

      • Kraut

        Kraut

      • Not Just Bikes

        Not Just Bikes

      • Rare Earth

        Rare Earth

      • Rational Animations

        Rational Animations

      • NativLang

        NativLang

      • Xidnaf

        Xidnaf