20 Books I've Added to My Kindle Library

Anytime someone recommends a book that sounds interesting I download the Kindle sample immediately. From there, the algorithm shows me even more interesting books and I download the samples of those, too.

Here at some of the latest books I've added. Let me know if you've read any of these!

1. Algorithms to Live By

The Computer Science of Human Decisions

By Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths

2. This is Your Mind on Plants

By Michael Pollan

3. The Language Game

How Improvisation Created Language and Changed the World

By Morten H. Christiansen & Nick Chater

4. A Stitch of Time

The Year a Brain Injury Changed My Language and Life

By Lauren Marks

5. Personality Isn't Permanent

Break Free from Self-Limiting Beliefs and Rewrite Your Story

By Benjamin Hardy, PhD

6. The Mind is Flat

The Remarkable Shallowness of the Improvising Brain

By Nick Chater

7. The Human Condition

By Hannah Arendt

8. Humankind

A Hopeful History

By Rutger Bregman

9. On Failure

How to Succeed at Defeat

By The School of Life

10. Journey of the Mind

How Thinking Emerged from Chaos

By Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam

11. Stolen Focus

Why You Can't Pay Attention—And How to Think Deeply Again

By Johann Hari

12. 40 Alternatives to College

By @JamesAltucher

13. I Didn't Do the Thing Today

Letting Go of Productivity Guilt

By Madeleine Dore

14. The Good-Enough Life

By Avram Alpert

15. Emotional

How Feelings Shape Our Thinking

By Leonard Mlodinow

16. The Genetic Lottery

Why DNA Matters for Social Equality

By Kathryn Paige Harden

17. Why Smart People Hurt

A Guide for the Bright, the Sensitive, and the Creative

By Eric Maisel

18. The Power of Daily Practice

How Creative and Performing Artists (and Everyone Else) Can Finally Meet Their Goals

By Eric Maisel

19. 100 Ways to Improve Your Writing

Proven Professional Techniques for Writing with Style and Power

By Gary Provost

20. Mind Management Not Time Management

Productivity When Creativity Matters

By David Kadavy

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