The Brink of Chaos

181 books overall; 72 books read in the last year; 5 books read in the last month. That's an average of 3 books each month.

Planned books (7):

• Politics: A Treatise on Government by Aristotle Aristotle
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• Endgame: The End of the Debt Supercycle and How It Changes Everything by John Mauldin, Jonathan Tepper
• Uncertainty: Turning Fear and Doubt into Fuel for Brilliance by Jonathan Fields
• Escape Velocity: Free Your Company’s Future from the Pull of the Past by Geoffrey A. Moore
• Getting to Yes: Negotiating Agreement Without Giving In by Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton
• The Trial and Death of Socrates by Plato

Current books (5):

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  Gamestorming: A Playbook for Innovators, Rulebreakers, and Changemakers by Dave Gray, Sunni Brown, James Macanufo

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  Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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  You Are Not So Smart: Why You Have Too Many Friends on Facebook, Why Your Memory Is Mostly Fiction, by David McRaney

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  Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis

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  The Lean Startup: How Today’s Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful by Eric Ries

Recent books (163):

• Stuart Little by E. B. White
• Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist by Brad Feld, Jason Mendelson
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (Expanded and Updated) by Timothy Ferriss
• The Thank You Economy by Gary Vaynerchuk
• A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens
• Stuff: Compulsive Hoarding and the Meaning of Things by Prof. Gail Steketee Ph.D., Prof. Randy Frost Ph.D.
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character) by Richard P. Feynman, Ralph Leighton
• The SPEED of Trust by Stephen M.R. Covey
• Interface by Neal Stephenson, J. Frederick George
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S. Thompson
• Great by Choice: Uncertainty, Chaos, and Luck–Why Some Thrive Despite Them All by Jim Collins, Morten T. Hansen
• We Are All Weird: The Myth of Mass and The End of Compliance by Seth Godin
• The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home by Dan Ariely
• In The Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives by Steven Levy
• Boomerang: Travels in the New Third World by Michael Lewis
• The Elements of Style (4th Edition) by William Strunk, E. B. White
• On the Road: 50th Anniversary Edition by Jack Kerouac
• Read This Before Our Next Meeting by Al Pittampalli
• 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
• Influencer: The Power to Change Anything by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, David Maxfield, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler
• Tortilla Curtain by T Coraghessan Boyle
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• Catch Me If You Can: The True Story of a Real Fake by Stan Redding, Frank W. Abagnale
• The Facebook Effect: The Inside Story of the Company That Is Connecting the World by David Kirkpatrick
• A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
• Aftershock: The Next Economy and America’s Future by Robert B. Reich
• The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Penguin Classics) by Mark Twain
• Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
• Odyssey by Homer, Stanley Lombardo, Stanley Lombardo
• Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick
• Patton: Great General Series (Great General Series) [UNABRIDGED] by Alan Alexrod
• Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust by Chris Brogan, Julien Smith
• Catch-22: 50th Anniversary Edition by Joseph Heller
• Slaughterhouse-Five: A Novel by Kurt Vonnegut
• JavaScript: The Good Parts by Douglas Crockford
• Letters to a Young Contrarian (Art of Mentoring) by Christopher Hitchens
• Making It All Work: Winning at the Game of Work and Business of Life by David Allen
• Tribal Leadership: Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization by Dave Logan, John King, Halee Fischer-Wright
• Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity by Hugh MacLeod
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable (J-B Lencioni Series) by Patrick Lencioni
• Delivering Happiness Unabridged edition by Tony Hsieh
• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt by Edmund Morris
• Safe Area Gorazde: The War in Eastern Bosnia 1992-1995 by Joe Sacco, Christopher Hitchens
• Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink
• Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life by Anne Lamott
• The Influencing Machine: Brooke Gladstone on the Media by Brooke Gladstone, Josh Neufeld
• The Master Switch: The Rise and Fall of Information Empires (Borzoi Books) by Tim Wu
• The Adventures of Johnny Bunko: The Last Career Guide You’ll Ever Need by Daniel H. Pink
• We the Living by Ayn Rand
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
• Wall and Piece by Banksy
• 21: Bringing Down the House – Movie Tie-In: The Inside Story of Six M.I.T. Students Who Took Vegas f by Ben Mezrich
• The Art of Non-Conformity: Set Your Own Rules, Live the Life You Want, and Change the World by Chris Guillebeau
• Reinventing Comics: How Imagination and Technology Are Revolutionizing an Art Form by Scott Mccloud
• The Google Story by David A. Vise, Mark Malseed
• The Canterbury Tales (Oxford World’s Classics) by Geoffrey Chaucer
• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
• Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell
• Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game by Michael Lewis
• Strategic Intuition: The Creative Spark in Human Achievement by William Duggan
• Liar’s Poker [Abridged, Audiobook] Publisher: Random House Audio; Abridged edition by Michael Lewis
• On Bullshit by Harry G. Frankfurt
• Free to Choose: A Personal Statement by Milton Friedman, Rose Friedman
• Poke the Box by Seth Godin
• The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom by Jonathan Haidt
• Business Model Generation: A Handbook for Visionaries, Game Changers, and Challengers by Alexander Osterwalder, Yves Pigneur
• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
• Consider the Lobster and Other Essays by David Foster Wallace
• The Knack: How Street-Smart Entrepreneurs Learn to Handle Whatever Comes Up by Norm Brodsky, Bo Burlingham
• The Lost Art of Reading: Why Books Matter in a Distracted Time by David L. Ulin
• Sh*t My Dad Says by Justin Halpern
• The Art of Fiction: A Guide for Writers and Readers by Ayn Rand
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success by Carol Dweck
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin by Benjamin Franklin
• Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained by John Milton
• The Road to Serfdom: Fiftieth Anniversary Edition by F. A. Hayek
• The Innovator’s Solution: Creating and Sustaining Successful Growth by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor
• The Tragical Comedy or Comical Tragedy of Mr. Punch by Neil Gaiman
• End The Fed by Ron Paul
• Revising Prose (4th Edition) by Richard Lanham
• What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures by Malcolm Gladwell
• Pride And Prejudice by Jane Austen
• Pride and Prejudice and Zombies: The Classic Regency Romance – Now with Ultraviolent Zombie Mayhem! by Jane Austen, Seth Grahame-Smith
• Resonate: Present Visual Stories that Transform Audiences by Nancy Duarte
• Tribes: We Need You to Lead Us by Seth Godin
• The Three Musketeers – Original Unabridged Version by Alexandre Dumas
• Ayn Rand and the World She Made by Anne Conover Heller
• Sleepwalk: and Other Stories by Adrian Tomine
• The Science of Fear: How the Culture of Fear Manipulates Your Brain by Daniel Gardner
• The Talent Code: Greatness Isn’t Born. It’s Grown. Here’s How. by Daniel Coyle
• Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology by Neil Postman
• Eating the Dinosaur by Chuck Klosterman
• And Then the Roof Caved In: How Wall Street’s Greed and Stupidity Brought Capitalism to Its Knees by David Faber
• Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott Mccloud
• Resonant Leadership: Renewing Yourself and Connecting with Others Through Mindfulness, Hope, and Com by Richard E. Boyatzis, Annie McKee
• Bad Money: Reckless Finance, Failed Politics, and the Global Crisis of American Capitalism by Kevin Phillips
• A Whole New Mind: Why Right-Brainers Will Rule the Future by Daniel H. Pink
• Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
• Cognitive Surplus: Creativity and Generosity in a Connected Age by Clay Shirky
• The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis
• When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management by Roger Lowenstein
• The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, Lang Davison
• On Desire: Why We Want What We Want by William B. Irvine
• The Art of the Start: The Time-Tested, Battle-Hardened Guide for Anyone Starting Anything by Guy Kawasaki
• The Brain That Changes Itself: Stories of Personal Triumph from the Frontiers of Brain Science (Jame by Norman Doidge
• Getting Naked: A Business Fable About Shedding The Three Fears That Sabotage Client Loyalty by Patrick Lencioni
• Bad Samaritans: The Myth of Free Trade and the Secret History of Capitalism by Ha-Joon Chang
• Rework by Jason Fried, David Heinemeier Hansson
• The Ten Faces of Innovation: IDEO’s Strategies for Defeating the Devil’s Advocate and Driving Creati by Thomas Kelley, Jonathan Littman
• Linchpin: Are You Indispensable? by Seth Godin
• QUIEN SE HA LLEVADO MI QUESO? (Spanish Edition) by JOHNSON SPENCER
• Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness by Richard H. Thaler, Prof. Cass R. Sunstein
• Wired to Care: How Companies Prosper When They Create Widespread Empathy by Dev Patnaik
• Getting Real: The smarter, faster, easier way to build a successful web application by Jason Fried, Heinemeier David Hansson, Matthew Linderman
• The Forgotten Man Low Price CD: A New History of the Great Depression by Amity Shlaes
• Squirrel Inc.: A Fable of Leadership through Storytelling by Denning
• The Power of Nice: How to Conquer the Business World With Kindness by Linda Kaplan Thaler, Robin Koval
• Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World (Hardcover) by Liaquat Ahamed (Author)
• El Caballero De La Armadura Oxidada / the Knight in Rusty Armor (Spanish Edition) by Robert Fisher, Veronica D’ornellas Radziwill
• How We Decide by Jonah Lehrer
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Earth Abides by George R. Stewart
• Designing Interfaces: Patterns for Effective Interaction Design by Jenifer Tidwell
• House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street by William D. Cohan
• Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial Sys by Andrew Ross Sorkin
• Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business by Neil Postman
• Information Dashboard Design: The Effective Visual Communication of Data by Stephen Few
• SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life In by Steven D. Levitt, Stephen J. Dubner
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information, 2nd edition by Edward R. Tufte
• Free: The Future of a Radical Price by Chris Anderson
• Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
• Three Cups of Tea: One Man’s Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Time by Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
• Philosophy: Who Needs It (The Ayn Rand Library Vol. 1) by Ayn Rand
• The Inmates Are Running the Asylum:Why High Tech Products Drive Us Crazy & How to Restore the Sanity by Alan Cooper
• The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism by Naomi Klein
• Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life by Winifred Gallagher
• Meatball Sundae: Is Your Marketing out of Sync? by Seth Godin
• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell
• What Would Google Do? by Jeff Jarvis
• The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World by Niall Ferguson
• The Crash of 2008 and What it Means: The New Paradigm for Financial Markets by George Soros
• FOUNTAINHEAD by AYN RAND
• Charlatan: America’s Most Dangerous Huckster, the Man Who Pursued Him, and the Age of Flimflam by Pope Brock
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals by Michael Pollan
• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
• Mind Hacks: Tips & Tricks For Using Your Brain by Tom Stafford, Matt Webb
• Brain Rules: 12 Principles for Surviving and Thriving at Work, Home, and School by John Medina
• Confessions of an Economic HitMan by John Perkins
• Predictably Irrational, Revised and Expanded Edition: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
• The Drunkard’s Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives (Vintage) by Leonard Mlodinow
• Then We Came to the End: A Novel by Joshua Ferris
• Made To Stick by Chip/ Heath, Dan/ Kahlenberg, Charles (NRT) Heath
• Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
• The Go-Giver: A Little Story About a Powerful Business Idea by Bob Burg, John David Mann
• The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick) by Seth Godin
• Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done by Larry Bossidy, Ram Charan, Charles Burck
• Free Prize Inside: How to Make a Purple Cow by Seth Godin
• Fooled by Randomness by Taleb Nassim Nicholas
• Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable–Includes new bonus chapter by Seth Godin