Tristan Harris Book Recommendations
Tristan Harris is the director and a co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology.
(Read more on Wikipedia)15 Books Recommended
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Technopoly
The Surrender of Culture to Technology
by Neil Postman
"I highly recommend." - Tristan Harris (Source)
Words That Work
It's Not What You Say, It's What People Hear
by Frank Luntz
Tristan Harris mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast. (Source)
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business
by Neil Postman
"Written in 1982. It literally predicts everything that's going on now." - Tristan Harris (Source)
Also recommended by:
Keith Rabois, Patrick Collison, Matt Mullenweg, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Michael Batnick
Wherever You Go, There You Are
Mindfulness Meditation In Everyday Life
by Jon Kabat-Zinn
"The point is that you will repeat our same mental habits everywhere we go." - Tristan Harris (Source)
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The 4-Hour Workweek
Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
by Tim Ferriss
Tristan Harris mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast. (Source)
Also recommended by:
Eric Weinstein, Charles Poliquin, Walter Isaacson, Daniel Pink, Marc Andreessen, David Heinemeier Hansson, Blake Mycoskie, Jason Silva, Mike Shinoda, Mark Bell, Maurice Ashley, Tim Draper, Rolf Potts, Derek Sivers, Laura R Walker, Gary Keller, Ev Williams, Caterina Fake, Jodie Cook, A.J. Jacobs, Michael Hyatt, Brian Dean, Marc Goodman, Lewis Howes, Mike Maples, Jr.
Finite and Infinite Games
by James Carse
"About life and how to [...] navigate in a more improvisational way." - Tristan Harris (Source)
Also recommended by:
Kevin Kelly, Stewart Brand, Simon Sinek, Jane McGonigal, Graham Duncan, Tobi Lütke, Daniel Gross, Patrick O'Shaughnessy, Ryan Shea
Don't Shoot the Dog!
The New Art of Teaching and Training
by Karen Pryor
"Amazing book." - Tristan Harris (Source)
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1984
by George Orwell
"[The author]'s dark vision." - Tristan Harris (Source)
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, J. Cole, Emma Watson, Richard Branson, Noam Chomsky, Matt Mullenweg, Christopher Hitchens, Sahil Lavingia, Jenn Im, Winston Churchill, Diane Rehm, Anna Akana, Brad Delong
Metaphors We Live By
by George Lakoff
"Talked about the power of grounding metaphor." - Tristan Harris (Source)
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
Violate Them at Your Own Risk
by Al Ries
"Was a profound book for me." - Tristan Harris (Source)
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Winners Take All
The Elite Charade of Changing the World
by Anand Giridharadas
"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 (Source)
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Brave New World
by Aldous Huxley
"Slightly older and less well known [than 1984] but equally chilling vision." - Tristan Harris (Source)
Also recommended by:
Jordan Peterson, Yuval Noah Harari, Matt Mullenweg, Stewart Brand, Sam Altman, Winston Churchill, Christopher Hitchens, Sahil Lavingia, PewDiePie
Bury the Chains
Prophets and Rebels in the Fight to Free an Empire's Slaves
by Adam Hochschild
"A great book [...] about the British abolition of slavery." - Tristan Harris (Source)
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The Attention Merchants
The Epic Struggle to Get Inside Our Heads
by Tim Wu
"Must read." - Tristan Harris (Source)
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The Coming Wave
Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
by Mustafa Suleyman
"A brave wake-up call... Indispensable reading." - Tristan Harris (Source)
Also recommended by:
Alain de Botton, Al Gore, Bill Gates, Eric Schmidt, Stephen Fry, Yuval Noah Harari, Daniel Kahneman
