The Age of Magical Overthinking by Amanda Montell
We’re living in what they call the ‘information age,’ but life only seems to be making less sense. We’re isolated, listless, burnt out on screens, cutting loved ones out like tumors in the spirit of “boundaries,” failing to understand other people’s choices or even our own.
Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly
A “no-nonsense” woman is “cold,” “bitchy,” and disliked. If she expresses frustration or anger at being treated unfairly, or even asks for help, she is considered less competent and less deserving of pay or reward.
The Comfort of Crows by Margaret Renkl
I always find more answers in a forest than in my own hot attic of a mind.
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown
If you don’t prioritize your life, someone else will.
The Happiness Advantage by Shawn Achor
Perhaps the most accurate term for happiness, then, is the one Aristotle used: eudaimonia, which translates not directly to “happiness” but to “human flourishing.”
Supercommunicators by Charles Duhigg
They subtly reflected shifts in other people’s moods and attitudes.
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
Gatherings crackle and flourish when real thought goes into them, when (often invisible) structure is baked into them, and when a host has the curiosity, willingness, and generosity of spirit to try.
The Cult of We: WeWork, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion by Eliot Brown and Maureen Farrell
It’s a story about the toxic brew of confirmation bias, fuzzy math, and hubris. It’s a story about what people will do when they are allowed to spend other people’s money with minimal oversight.
The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
The magic is not in the analyzing or the understanding. The magic lives in the wonder of what we do not know.
Cultish: The Language of Fanaticism by Amanda Montell
Whether wicked or well-intentioned, language is a way to get members of a community on the same ideological page. To help them feel like they belong to something big
Wintering: The Power of Rest and Retreat in Difficult Times by Katherine May
We must learn to invite the winter in. We may never choose to winter, but we can choose how.
Social: Why Our Brains Are Wired to Connect by Matthew D. Lieberman
As we have said from the beginning, we think people are built to maximize their own pleasure and minimize their own pain. In reality, we are actually built to overcome our own pleasure and increase our own pain in the service of following society’s norms.
Legacy: What the All-Blacks Can Teach Us About the Business of Life by James Kerr
‘The paradox,’ he says, ‘is that, though every organization thinks they have unique problems, many change issues are centred on one thing. The ability – or inability – to convert vision into action.’
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz
“The late Native historian Jack Forbes always stressed that while living persons are not responsible for what their ancestors did, they are responsible for the society they live in.”
Scarcity Brain: Fix Your Craving Mindset and Rewire Your Habits to Thrive with Enough by Michael Easter
Because here’s the thing: it doesn’t matter how much gas we give good new habits; if we don’t resolve our bad ones, we still have our foot on the brake.
Brotopia: Breaking Up the Boys' Club of Silicon Valley by Emily Chang
Privilege accumulates as you advance in life.
Gonzo Capitalism: How to Make Money in An Economy That Hates You by Chris Guillebeau
At some point in recent history, the global economy stopped making sense.
Shakespeare Was a Woman and Other Heresies by Elizabeth Winkler
“Don’t underestimate the psychological value of that feeling of direct connection with the author as a compensation for what might seem like worldly sacrifice required by heresy.”