Book recommendations

Books I've read:
Title Author Summary Video Flash cards Note
Misbehaving Richard Thaler - - - -/10
Man's Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl sivers.org youtube - 8/10
Antifragile Nassim Taleb sivers.org youtube - 9/10
Flourish Martin Seligman - youtube - 7/10
Models Mark Manson nateliason.com youtube - 6/10
Happiness Matthieu Ricard - TED - 9/10
The Influential Mind Tali Sharot - youtube - 5/10
The Moral Case for Fossil Fuels Alex Epstein - youtube - 4/10
This is an Uprising Mark and Paul Engler official guide - - 7/10
Sapiens uval Noah Harari nateliason.com TED - 9/10
Scale Geoffrey West - TED - 6/10
The Tibetan Book of the Living and Dying Sogyal Rinpoche wiki - - 6/10
Waking Up Sam Harris nateliason.com youtube.com - 8/10
The Defining Decade Meg Jay nateliason.com TED - 8/10
The Time Paradox Philipp Zimbardo sivers.org TED - 9/10
Stumbling on Happiness Daniel Gilbert sivers.org TED - 8/10
F*** it John C. Parkin - youtube - 6/10
The Ascent of Money Niall Ferguson - youtube - 8/10
The Ideas Industry Daniel Drezner - youtube - 7/10
The Shock Doctrine Naomi Klein - youtube - 10/10
Islam and the future of tolerance Sam Harris and - youtube - 8/10
Postcapitalism Paul Mason - youtube - 6/10
Thinking, Fast and Slow Daniel Kahneman sivers.org youtube - 10/10
Capital in the I Century Thomas Piketty - TED - 9/10
Spent Geoffrey Miller - youtube - 8/10
The Well-Tempered City Jonathan Rose - youtube - 7/10
Poor Economics Ahbijit Banerjee - TED - 8/10
Emotional First Aid Guy Winch - TED - 6/10
The Truth Neil Strauss nateliason.com youtube - 8/10
M Life as an Experiment A.J. Jacobs - youtube - 7/10
Catching the Big Fish David Lynch - youtube - 6/10

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