Books I’m reading

Current

• The Future Loves You: How and Why We Should Abolish Death (Ariel Zeleznikow-Johnston)
• The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect (Judea Pearl)
• Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming into Existence (David Benatar)

2025

1. Neural Darwinism: The Theory Of Neuronal Group Selection (Gerald Edelman)
2. Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It (Christof Koch)

2024

3. The Embodied Mind: Cognitive Science and Human Experience (Francisco J. Varela, Evan T. Thompson, and Eleanor Rosch)
4. When Brains Dream: Exploring the Science and Mystery of Sleep (Antonio Zadra and Robert Stickgold)
5. Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World (Michael Pollan)
6. An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us (Ed Yong)
7. How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen (David Brooks)
8. Theory and Reality: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Science (Science and Its Conceptual Foundations series) (Peter Godfrey-Smith)
9. Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas R. Hofstadter)
10. The World Behind the World: Consciousness, Free Will, and the Limits of Science (Erik Hoel)
11. Putting Ourselves Back in the Equation: Why Physicists Are Studying Human Consciousness and AI to Unravel the Mysteries of the Universe (George Musser)
12. Spooky Action at a Distance: The Phenomenon That Reimagines Space and Time—and What It Means for Black Holes, the Big Bang, and Theories of Everything (George Musser)

2023

13. Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged from Matter (Terrence W. Deacon)
14. Why Materialism Is Baloney: How True Skeptics Know There is no Death and Fathom Answers to Life, the Universe and Everything (Bernardo Kastrup)
15. Dopamine Nation: Finding Balance in the Age of Indulgence (Anna Lembke)
16. Bitch: On the Female of the Species (Lucy Cooke)
17. When Animals Dream: The Hidden World of Animal Consciousness (David M. Peña‑Guzmán)
18. Reality Is Not What It Seems: The Journey to Quantum Gravity (Carlo Rovelli)
19. Why We Run: A Natural History (Bernd Heinrich)
20. First Steps: How Upright Walking Made Us Human (Jeremy DeSilva)
21. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas S. Kuhn)
22. Clean: The New Science of Skin (James Hamblin)
23. Why Buddhism Is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment (Robert Wright)

2022

24. Deep: Freediving, Renegade Science, and What the Ocean Tells Us about Ourselves (James Nestor)
25. Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind (Peter Godfrey‑Smith)
26. Vagina: A New Biography (Naomi Wolf)
27. Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds & Shape Our Futures (Merlin Sheldrake)
28. The Hidden Spring: A Journey to the Source of Consciousness (Mark Solms)
29. The Case Against Reality: Why Evolution Hid the Truth from Our Eyes (Donald D. Hoffman)
30. Galileo’s Error: Foundations for a New Science of Consciousness (Philip Goff)
31. Phi: A Voyage from the Brain to the Soul (Giulio Tononi)
32. Sizing Up Consciousness: Towards an Objective Measure of the Capacity for Experience (Marcello Massimini)
33. Consciousness and the Brain: Deciphering How the Brain Codes Our Thoughts (Stanislas Dehaene)
34. How Emotions Are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Lisa Feldman Barrett)
35. Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Matthew Walker)

2021

36. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death (Jean‑Dominique Bauby)
37. Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness (Peter Godfrey‑Smith)
38. Who You Are: The Science of Connectedness (Michael J. Spivey)
39. Men Explain Things to Me (Rebecca Solnit)
40. Being You: A New Science of Consciousness (Anil Seth)
41. The Molecule of More: How a Single Chemical in Your Brain Drives Love, Sex, and Creativity—and Will Determine the Fate of the Human Race (Daniel Z. Lieberman)
42. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine... for Now (Stanislas Dehaene)
43. The Spike: An Epic Journey Through the Brain in 2.1 Seconds (Mark Humphries)
44. A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence (Jeff Hawkins)
45. The Doors of Perception (Aldous Huxley)
46. Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain (David Eagleman)
47. The Feeling of Life Itself: Why Consciousness Is Widespread but Can't Be Computed (Christof Koch)
48. Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don't Have To (David Sinclair)

2020

49. Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (James Nestor)
50. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don’t (Nate Silver)
51. The Fourth Revolution: How the Infosphere is Reshaping Human Reality (Luciano Floridi)
52. Delete: The Virtue of Forgetting in the Digital Age (Viktor Mayer‑Schönberger)
53. Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction (Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner)
54. Measure What Matters (John Doerr)
55. The Art of Innovation (Tom Kelley)
56. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything (Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner)
57. Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It (Charlamagne Tha God)
58. Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard (Chip Heath and Dan Heath)
59. Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking (Malcolm Gladwell)
60. Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World (Christopher Steiner)
61. The Filter Bubble: What the Internet Is Hiding from You (Eli Pariser)
62. Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead (Sheryl Sandberg)
63. The End of Policing (Alex S. Vitale)
64. Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind (Annaka Harris)
65. The Way We Eat: Why Our Food Choices Matter (Peter Singer and Jim Mason)
66. Free Will (Sam Harris)
67. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure (Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt)

2019

68. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (Nick Bostrom)
69. How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed (Ray Kurzweil)
70. The Distracted Mind: Ancient Brains in a High‑Tech World (Adam Gazzaley and Larry D. Rosen)

2018

71. How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics (Michael Pollan)
72. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions (Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths)
73. Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness (Scott Jurek)
74. Weapons of Math Destruction: How Big Data Increases Inequality and Threatens Democracy (Cathy O'Neil)
75. When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing (Daniel H. Pink)
76. Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman)

2017

77. How to Win Friends & Influence People (Dale Carnegie)
78. The One World Schoolhouse: Education Reimagined (Salman Khan)
79. Outliers: The Story of Success (Malcolm Gladwell)
80. Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Neil deGrasse Tyson)
81. Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow (Yuval Noah Harari)
82. Born to Run: A Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest Race the World Has Never Seen (Christopher McDougall)
83. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari)

2013

84. Zero to Maker: Learn (Just Enough) to Make (Just About) Anything (David Lang)

2012

85. The Lean Startup (Eric Ries)

2011

86. Steve Jobs (Walter Isaacson)

2010

87. The Design of Everyday Things (Donald A. Norman)

2008

88. Inside Steve's Brain (Leander Kahney)
89. The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Michael Pollan)

2007

90. Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice (Shunryu Suzuki)
91. Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things (William McDonough)

2005

92. Conversations with God: An Uncommon Dialogue, Book 1 (Neale Donald Walsch)