Books

Below is a list of some of the books that have had a large impact on my life/thinking (mostly in recent years) in no particular order:

• The Big Change: America Transforms Itself, 1900-50, by Frederick Lewis Allen
• No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention, by Reed Hastings and Erin Meyer 
• In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto, by Michael Pollan
• Capitalism and Freedom, by Milton Friedman
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion, by Sam Harris
• Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals, by Tyler Cowen
• The Most Good You Can Do: How Effective Altruism Is Changing Ideas About Living Ethically, by Peter Singer
• Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer
• Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions, by Brian Christian & Tom Griffiths
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street, by Burton G. Malkiel