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TSC Reading List :

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Kurt Andersen
Evil Geniuses

Fantasyland

Ryan Avent

The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, And Status In The 21st Century

Lisa Feldman Barrett
7 ½ Lessons About the Brain

Jonah Berger
The Catalyst: How To Change Anyone’s Mind

Elise Bohan
Future Superhuman

Stewart Brand
Salt Summaries: ​Condensed Ideas About Long-Term Thinking

Kevin Cary
The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and The University of Everywhere

Nicholas Christakis
Blueprint

Apollos Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live

Paul Collier
The Future of Capitalism

Blake Crouch
Upgrade

Peter Diamandis and Steven Kotler
The Future is Faster Than You Think: How Converging Technologies Are Transforming Business

Carol Dweck
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success

Educating for Democracy

Angus Fletcher
Creative Thinking: A Field Guide to Building Your Strategic Core

Thomas Friedman
Thankyou for Being Late: An Optimists Guide to Thriving in the Age of Accelerations

Francis Fukuyama, Barack Richman, Ashish Goel
How to Save Democracy from Technology

Howard Gardner
~Five Minds For The Future

The App Generation: How Today’s Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy, and Imagination In A Digital World

Howard Gardner and Wendy Fischman
The Real World of College

Daniel Goleman
The Brain and Emotional Intelligence: New Insights

​Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence

​Leadership: The Power of Emotional Intelligence

David Graeber/David Wengrow
The Dawn Of Everything – A New History of Humanity

Valerie Hannon, Amelia Peterson
Thrive: The Purpose of Schools in a Changing World

Yuval Harari
21 Lessons for the 21st Century

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow

John Haskell and Stain Westlake
Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of The Intangible Economy

Michael Horn, Bob Modesta
Choosing College: How to Make Better Learning Decisions…

Amir Hussein
The Sentient Machine: The Coming Age of Artificial Intelligence

Kevin Kelly
The Inevitable: Understanding The 12 Technological Forces That Will Shape Our Future

Belle Laing And Timothy Klein
How To Navigate Life

Jaron Lanier
The Dawn of The New Everything: Encounters With Reality And Virtual Reality

Jonah Lehrer
​Imagine: How Creativity Works

Daniel Levitin
The Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age

William MacAskill
What We Owe The Future

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McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson ​​​​​​​
Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future

Jon Meacham
The Soul of America: The Battle for Our Better Angels

Jal Mehta and Sarah Fine
In Search of Deeper Learning: The Quest to Remake the American High School

​Jamie Merisotis
Human Work in the Age of of Smart Machines

Mark O’Connell
To Be a Machine

Toby Ord
The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity

George Packer
The Unwinding

Steven Pinker
The Better Angels of Our Nature

Enlightenment Now: The Case For Reason, Science, Humanism And Progress

Robert Putnam
The Upswing: How America Caine Together a Century Ago and How We Can Do It Again

R. Reich, M. Sahami, et.al
System Error: Where Big Tech Went Wrong and How to Reboot

David Remnick and Henry Finder
The Fragile Earth: Writing from the New Yorker on Climate Change

Ron Ritchart
Creating Cultures of Thinking: Eight Forces We Must Master to Truly Transform Our Schools

Alec Ross
The Industries of the Future

Michael Sandel
What Money Can't Buy: The Moral Limits of Markets

The Tyranny of Merit:What Becomes of the Common Good

Robert Sapolsky
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst

Peter Singer
One World Now: The Ethics of Globalization

S. Southwick, D. Charney
Resilience: the Science of Mastering Life’s Biggest Challenges

Lawrence Steinberg
Age of Opportunity: Lessons from The New Signs of Adolescence

David Stroh
Systems Thinking for Social Change

Lisa Sweetingham
The Power of Ethics: How to Make Good Choices in a Complicated World

Max Tegmark
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Benjamin Todd
80,000 Hours: Find a Fulfilling Career that Does Good

John Della Volpe
Fight: How Gen Z is Channeling Their Fear and Passion to Save America

Mike Walsh
The Algorithmic Leader: How To Be Smart When Machines Are Smarter

Barbara F. Walter
How Civil Wars Start and How to Stop Them

Amy Webb
The Signals Are Talking: Why Today's Fringe Is Tomorrow's Mainstream

Michelle Weiss
Life Long Learning: Preparing for Jobs That Don’t Even Exist Yet

Edward O. Wilson
Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge

The Origins of Creativity

Fared Zaharia
Ten Lessons For a Post-Pandemic World

Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism


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  • Welcome
  • About
  • Mentoring
  • The Gap Year
  • Blog + Reading list
  • The Gen-Z World
  • Possible Future Careers
  • Recommendations & References
  • Jake's Vitae
  • Featured
  • Articles
  • Contact
  • GPS For Tomorrow