Dear Future self,
Hope your hoverboard skills are impeccable by now and you haven’t yet plugged yourself into the matrix. This is a post to summarise and review a few of the non-fiction reading you used to do before you installed that immersive book reader in your brain. Here you go:
The Language Instinct - Steven Pinker
The Selfish Gene - Richard Dawkins
The Meme Machine - Susan Blackmore
Guns, Germs and Steel - Jared Diamond
The Tipping Point - Malcolm Gladwell
Freakonomics
Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
Trick or Treatment - Simon Singh
Manufacturing Consent - E.Herman and N.Chomsky
Sapiens - Y.N. Harari
The Dictator's Handbook - B. de Masquita and Alistair Smith
Free Will - Sam Harris
Waking Up - Sam Harris
Conscious - Annaka Harris
The Man Who Mistook His Wife For A Hat, Awakenings - Oliver Sacks
The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
God Is Not Great - Christopher Hitchens
How To Change Your Mind - Michael Pollan
So You Have Been Publicly Shamed - Jon Ronson
Dongri To Dubai, Black Friday, Byculla To Bangkok - S. Husain Zaidi
Narconomics
The Checklist Manifesto - Atul Gawande
Getting Things Done - David Allen