Matt Mullenweg

A novel of a clerk who rewrites history under a totalitarian state that watches all.

A novel of a future world where people are bred in hatcheries into contented castes.

Nine science-fiction stories, each working through one idea with care.

A novel: a mathematician foresees an empire's fall and plans to shorten the dark age.

A novel in which a scientist answers an alien warning and invites first contact.

Incerto volume 4

Metaphor as a basic mechanism of thought that shapes how people understand the world.

A grieving man walks the Camino de Santiago after scattering his father's ashes.

Incerto volume 5

Aphorisms stating Taleb's ideas on randomness, knowledge and modern life.

Operating manual for scaling a company from fifty to thousands

Innovation as a learnable discipline, with seven sources of opportunity to search.

Subtitled 'Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers'

Why startups should build something new and own a small market before growing.

Twenty-one essays on today's challenges, from technology and politics to truth.

How television turned public discourse from argument into entertainment.

Wealth, land and conservation in the American West.

Decision rules from building Bridgewater: radical truth and radical transparency.

Effectiveness is learned practice: manage time, pick priorities, decide well.

How judging firms by their results corrupts most business research and advice.

Research on shame and vulnerability, and why vulnerability comes before connection.

How trauma reshapes the body and brain, and the treatments that help survivors.

A jazz pianist's memoir of Tourette's, a music career and surviving a rare cancer.

A neurosurgeon diagnosed with lung cancer at 36 asks what makes life worth living.

Why people mistake luck for skill, above all in markets.

Rare, unforeseen, high-impact events drive history, explained only after the fact.

Harari's concern — that humans may cede decision-making to opaque systems through preference rather than coercion — reframes the alignment problem as a cultural and political challenge, not only a technical one. Less rigorous than Bostrom or Russell, but more widely read, making it a useful lens for understanding public discourse.

How shared fictions such as money, nations and gods let humans cooperate at scale.

A contemporary's account of the long war between Athens and Sparta.

A method for finding the few activities that matter and dropping the rest.

Short pieces of advice on living, goals, generosity, careers, family and money.

Writing advice focused on the fears and habits that stop people writing.

A manual for non-fiction: clear writing comes from clear thinking.

The telecom capex bubble, with Ebbers and WorldCom at its centre.

Amazon's first two decades, from an online bookshop to selling nearly everything.

Culture is how people behave when the leader is absent, and must be designed.

Four steps to speak without blame: observations, feelings, needs and requests.

Why some words persuade and others fail, from a political pollster.

How Netflix built talent density and candour so it could remove controls.

Second-level thinking, risk and market cycles, drawn from Oaktree's client memos.

How Bill Campbell coached the leaders of Google, Apple and Intuit.

Speeches making the case for a latticework of mental models from many fields.

A physicist's stories, from fixing radios as a boy to Los Alamos and beyond.