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* The Selfish Gene - our bodies are vessels for DNA as they travel through time. Also colony insects and birds are fascinating. * Thinking Fast and Slow - study after study shows that we exhibit so, so many cognitive biases, as our minds take shortcuts. there are some things you can do to recognize and mitigate these biases. * Imagined Communities - the notion of a "nation" is only 300 years old and has no objective…
>* Imagined Communities - the notion of a "nation" is only 300 years old and has no objective basis, only the fact that a group of people agree that it is a thing. The Penguin History of Europe series is great for this, especially The Pursuit Of Glory , which details the time when states switched from being based on their king, to states being based on a 'unified set of people', i.e., an imagined community. There's a…
2. How to stop worrying and start living by Dale Carnegie - made me to survive few odd situations
Cherokee Tragedy: The Ridge Family and the Decimation of a People by Thurman Wilkins
Also the NVC book and Walden that have been mentioned.
"Tools of Titans" - Tim Ferriss : This book can be seen a summary of 15 most popular non-fiction books. There are a lot of guests in this book with a diverse back ground. There is wide wisdom you can pick on every page of this book. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/31823677-tools-of-titans
"Basic Economics" by Thomas Sowell. Not an easy read, but it deeply changed the way I think about incentive structures and the law of unintended consequences. It's a tough pill to swallow for people (like myself) who cling to utopian ideas, but the older I get the more I realize we must live in the world as it exists, with human nature as it really is. Dreaming of a better world is counter-productive if one does not…
It's an interesting read, but be (very) skeptical. The world and economics is a bit more complex than the picture he portrays.