Sahil Lavingia

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.

A novel of a feudal space empire fighting over a desert planet and its spice.

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

A journalist learns memory techniques and wins the US Memory Championship.

Kahneman's synthesis of behavioral economics is the cognitive science underpinning every negotiation tactic. Anchoring, loss aversion, framing effects, and the planning fallacy — understanding why these biases operate, not just that they exist, makes you harder to exploit and more honest about your own irrationality.

A comedian's eighteen years building a stand-up act, and why he quit it.

Management as production: a manager's output is the output of the team they lead.

Five disciplines, led by systems thinking, that let an organisation learn.

Techniques for handling people, being liked and winning others to your view.

Incerto volume 4

Incerto volume 5

Insider account by an early PayPal marketing hire; partisan but first-hand.

Lessons from building CD Baby from a side project to an $85 million business.

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

How to rate an organisation's tribal culture on five stages and raise it.

How a mind could arise from parts, traced through Godel, Escher and Bach.

The politics, financing and delivery of Singapore's healthcare over five decades.

1997 forecast of digital money weakening the nation state

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

What trails, from ant paths to continental hiking routes, show about the world.

Six traits of memorable ideas, from simple and unexpected to emotional stories.