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Bas van Schaik
I read about any decent non-fiction book that I can get my hands on. Here's a list of books I highly recommend. I usually check the reviews on Amazon, and then order the book on Book Depository (which is way cheaper).
Skin in the game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Thinking fast and slow - Daniel Kahneman
The world until yesterday - Jared Diamond
Business adventures - John Brooks
Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
When - Daniel Pink
Digital gold - Nathaniel Popper
How many friends does one person need? - Robin Dunbar
Diplomacy - Henry Kissinger
Where the money is - Bill Rehder
Algorithms to live by - Brian Christian
Narconomics - Tom Wainwright
Rework - David Heinemeier
Getting to yes - Roger Fisher
Grunt - Mary Roach
The effective executive - Peter F. Drucker
The intelligent investor - Benjamin Graham
Debt - David Graeber
The black swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Fooled by randomness - Nassim Nichalos Taleb
Guns, germs and steel - Jared Diamond
The checklist manifesto - Atul Gawande
Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
23 things they don't tell you about capitalism - Ha-Joon Chang
Watching the English - Kate Fox
Bad science - Ben Goldacre
The pinch - David Willets
The code book - Simon Singh
What do you care what other people think? - Richard Feynman
Surely you're joking mr. Feynman? - Richard Feynman
A mathematician reads the newspaper - John Allen Paul
Spillover - David Quammen
The selfish gene - Richard Dawkins
Liars and outliers - Bruce Schneier
59 Seconds - Richard Wiseman
In search of stupidity - Jay Chapman
The antivirus hacker's handbook - Joxean Koret
High output management - Andrew Grove
Dollars and sense - Jeff Kreisler & Dan Ariely
Anything you want - Derek Sivers
A guide to the good life - William Irvine
The strange death of Europe - Douglas Murray
Prisoners of geography - Tim Marshall
Rejection proof - Jia Jiang
I contain multitudes - Ed Yong
This is going to hurt - Adam Kay
How not to be wrong: the hidden maths of everyday life - Jordan Ellenberg
Make your bed - William H. McRaven
The great degeneration - Niall Ferguson
Designing your perfect house - William Hirsch
Win bigly - Scott Adams
The management myth - Matthew Stewart
You, your child and school - Kevin Robinson
What every BODY is saying - Joe Navarro
Factfulness - Hans Rosling
Unnatural causes - Dr. Richard Shepherd
Network attacks and exploitation - Matthew Monte
The Vory: Russia's Super maffia - Mark Galeotti
Pre-suasion - Robert Cialdini
The Circadian Code- Dr. Satchin Panda
Behave - Robert Sapolsky
Sandworm - Andy Greenberg
The Hacker and the State - Ben Buchanan
Building design for hot climates - Allan Konya
Active measures - Thomas Rid
To catch a spy - James Olson
The attention merchants - Tim Wu
Intrusion detection honeypots - Chris Sanders
True or false - Cindy Otis
Divided - Tim Marshall
Upheaval - Jared Diamond
Never split the difference - Chris Voss