The winter had plenty of time for reading and this time my topics were on of leadership, management, and technology. What surprises me when I read educational and autobiographical books is how big the gap is between the publicly available knowledge and the culturally common beliefs and practices. This realization was doubly profound when I started studying psychology in grad school. So many common beliefs about the mind are exact opposite of what the research shows. I’m new to the study of leadership, management, and technology so I had the same experience of learning the reality was different from my previous ideas.
My focus for summer reading is shifting towards politics and less about technology. Politics is another subject I’ve read little about but that interests me greatly. Most of my experience is from the side of news and journalism. If you have any suggestions, please let me know!
Each one of these book is highly recommend:
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Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Brain Christian and Tom Griffiths
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Becoming by Michelle Obama
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity by Kim Scott
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It’s your Ship: Management Techniques from the Best Damn Ship in the Navy by Captain D. Michael Abrashoff
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Dawn of the New Everything: Encounters with Reality and Virtual Reality by Jason Lanier
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HBR’s 10 Must Reads on Leadership by Harvard Business Review and Peter F. Drucker
