Books Recommended by Tristan Harris
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Winners Take All
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
Anand Giridharadas
Source: "We keep looking for these win-win solutions but sometimes we have to lose a little bit so that everybody wins. And that’s not a good message for capitalists because that’s not how we like to roll." - Tristan Harris
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Source: "The point is that you will repeat our same mental habits everywhere we go." - Tristan Harris
2 recommenders
Finite and Infinite Games
James Carse
Source: "About life and how to [...] navigate in a more improvisational way." - Tristan Harris
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
Neil Postman
Source: "Written in 1982. It literally predicts everything that's going on now." - Tristan Harris
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
Source: "Slightly older and less well known [than 1984] but equally chilling vision." - Tristan Harris
The Coming Wave
Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Mustafa Suleyman
Source: "A brave wake-up call... Indispensable reading." - Tristan Harris
Bury the Chains
Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
Adam Hochschild
Source: "A great book [...] about the British abolition of slavery." - Tristan Harris
2 recommenders
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff
Source: "Talked about the power of grounding metaphor." - Tristan Harris
3 recommenders
Words That Work
It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
Frank Luntz
Source: Tristan Harris mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
2 recommenders
The 4-Hour Workweek
Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Tim Ferriss
Source: Tristan Harris mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast.
26 recommendersA.J. JacobsBlake MycoskieCaterina FakeCharles PoliquinDaniel PinkDavid Heinemeier HanssonDerek SiversEric WeinsteinEv WilliamsGary KellerJason SilvaLaura R WalkerMarc AndreessenMarc GoodmanMark BellMaurice AshleyMike Maples, Jr.Mike ShinodaRolf PottsTim DraperTristan HarrisWalter IsaacsonLewis HowesJodie CookBrian DeanMichael Hyatt
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Violate Them at Your Own Risk
Al Ries
Source: "Was a profound book for me." - Tristan Harris
4 recommenders
Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Neil Postman
Source: "I highly recommend." - Tristan Harris
1 recommender
Don't Shoot the Dog!
The New Art of Teaching and Training
Karen Pryor
Source: "Amazing book." - Tristan Harris
2 recommenders
The Attention Merchants
The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu
Source: "Must read." - Tristan Harris
3 recommenders
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