What’s On My
Summer Reading List (and
should be on yours too!)
ByDr Chris Stout
I know, I know… what may be one person’s favorite may be another person’s yawn. Some of my picks will be no surprise, but
couple of others may open a new door.
Regardless, I hope you enjoy them as much as I
have…!
Business – Classic (gotta read!)
The Black Swan – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely
Freakonomics – Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner
Business – NewCrazy is a Compliment: The
Power of Zigging When Everyone Else Zags – Linda Rottenberg
Zero to One – Peter Thiel
Thinking, Fast and Slow – Daniel Kahneman
Team Genius—Rich Karlgaard and Michael
S. Malone
Humanitarian InterventionOn Immunity: An Inoculation – Eula Bliss
Digital Humanitarians: How Big Data is
Changing the Face of Humanitarian Response – Patrick Meier
Health
Finding Ultra: Rejecting Middle Age, Becoming
One of the World’s Fittest Men, and Discovering
Myself – Rich Roll
4 Hour Body – Timothy Ferriss
Productivity
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
(Expanded and Updated) – Timothy Ferriss
Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons accelerate Success – Shane Snow
Getting Things Done – David Allen
CreativityCatching the Big Fish – David Lynch
A Curious Mind – Brian Grazer
Inside the Box – Drew Boyd and Jacob Goldenberg
MoneyThe Little Books that Still Beat
the Market - Joel Greenblatt
Physics of Wall Street – James Owen Weatherall
Irrational Exuberance, 3rd edition – Robert J. Shiller
FunCool Tools – Kevin Kelly
The Magic of Reality – Richard Dawkins
On the Shortness of Life (Penguin Great Ideas) – Seneca
Self Reliance – Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Happiness of Pursuit – Chris Guillebeau
Let’s be Less Stupid – Patricia Marx
How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking – Jordan Ellenberg
Just PowerfulBeing Mortal: Medicine and What Matters in the End – Atul Gawande
Photography credits
Jeff Sheldon*Aleks Dorohovich*
Alejandro Escamilla*Glen Noble*
Cliff Johnson**Creative Commons Zero License
Chris StoutSpecial Thanks: Joshua Cadavez