On my mind

Currently on my mind

• Genome: The Autobiography Of A Species In 23 Chapters - Matt Ridley
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones - James Clear
• Thinking in Systems: A Primer - Donella H. Meadows

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Shorter reads that I really enjoyed

• Recursive language and modern imagination were acquired simultaneously 70,000 years ago
• The Anthropocene Is a Joke On geological timescales, human civilization is an event, not an epoch.

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Books I've read and can recommend

• Rational Optimist: How prosperity evolves - Matt Ridley
• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Thinking, Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman
• Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions - Dan Ariely
• The Long Tail: Why the Future of Business is Selling Less of More - Chris Anderson
• The Paradox of Choice: Why More Is Less - Barry Schwartz
• Groupthink: Psychological Studies of Policy Decisions and Fiascoes - Irving L. Janis
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• How to Change Your Mind. What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence - Michael Pollan
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
• Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: Why That Is And What You Can Do About It - Steven Pressfield
• The Miracle of Mindfulness: An Introduction to the Practice of Meditation - Thich Nhat Hanh
• The Stranger - Albert Camus
• Studies in Pessimism - Arthur Schopenhauer
• The World as Will and Representation - Arthur Schopenhauer

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Podcast episodes

• Joscha Bach: Artificial Consciousness and the Nature of Reality - AI Podcast #101 with Lex Fridman
• Manolis Kellis: Origin of Life, Humans, Ideas, Suffering, and Happiness - AI Podcast #123 with Lex Fridman
• Bjorn Lomborg on the Costs and Benefits of Attacking Climate Change - EconTalk with Russ Roberts