Book Reviews & Recommendations
Former Secret Service agent Evy Poumpouras turns a career of high stakes protection into a clear, practical handbook for everyday courage. Becoming Bulletproof blends memoir, behavioral psychology, and field-tested tactics to show how ordinary people can prepare for stress, read others more […]
In The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma, Mustafa Suleyman, cofounder of DeepMind and current CEO of Inflection AI, presents a sweeping exploration of the technologies poised to redefine our civilization. Joined by writer Michael Bhaskar, Suleyman invites […]
Chris Miller’s Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology is the rare business and geopolitics book that reads like a techno-thriller. It explains how tiny slices of silicon came to power everything from smartphones and dishwashers to guided missiles […]
In Moral Ambition: Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference, Rutger Bregman, the bestselling author of Humankind and Utopia for Realists, challenges readers to redefine what it means to live a successful life. Rather than chasing personal gain or status, […]
A Smart, Engaging Look at What Makes Conversations Truly Work Charles Duhigg, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better, returns with Supercommunicators, a thoughtful exploration of how people can build better connections through conversation. At its […]
Patrick Radden Keefe’s Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty is one of the most devastating and important works of investigative nonfiction in recent memory. Winner of the Goodreads Choice Award for Best History & Biography, this book exposes […]
In Dopamine Detox: A Short Guide to Remove Distractions and Train Your Brain to Do Hard Things, Thibaut Meurisse promises readers a straightforward solution to one of today’s most common struggles: overstimulation. With more than 23,000 ratings on Goodreads, this short self-help […]
Bill Perkins’ Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life is a thought-provoking and, at times, polarizing guide that challenges one of modern society’s most deeply ingrained beliefs: that the ultimate goal of financial success is to […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger has lived a life that sounds like a Hollywood script: a poor Austrian boy becomes the world’s greatest bodybuilder, then a blockbuster movie star, and later, the governor of California. In Be Useful: Seven Tools for Life, he distills the […]
What if everything you’ve been told about time management is wrong? That’s the provocative question at the heart of Oliver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, a book that doesn’t teach you how to squeeze more into your schedule, but […]