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
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
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
Metaphors We Live By
George Lakoff
Source: "Talked about the power of grounding metaphor." - Tristan Harris
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.
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.
The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Violate Them at Your Own Risk
Al Ries
Source: "Was a profound book for me." - Tristan Harris
Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
Neil Postman
Source: "I highly recommend." - Tristan Harris
Don't Shoot the Dog!
The New Art of Teaching and Training
Karen Pryor
Source: "Amazing book." - Tristan Harris
The Attention Merchants
The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu
Source: "Must read." - Tristan Harris
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