Optionality Companion Reading List

1.
Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World
Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World 4.28 avg rating — 404 ratings
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Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder
Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder 4.10 avg rating — 56,004 ratings
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Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones 4.33 avg rating — 1,190,733 ratings
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How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers 4.09 avg rating — 13,088 ratings
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The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable 3.96 avg rating — 119,252 ratings
5.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,852 ratings
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So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love 4.07 avg rating — 48,922 ratings
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience 4.11 avg rating — 86,237 ratings
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing 3.88 avg rating — 386,281 ratings
10.
Letters from a Stoic
Letters from a Stoic
by: Seneca
4.33 avg rating — 52,583 ratings
11.
Man's Search for Meaning
Man's Search for Meaning 4.37 avg rating — 832,526 ratings
12.
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto, #1)
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto, #1) 4.08 avg rating — 69,685 ratings
13.
Stumbling on Happiness
Stumbling on Happiness 3.82 avg rating — 63,113 ratings
14.
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life
The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life 3.97 avg rating — 8,133 ratings
15.
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior
Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior 3.85 avg rating — 1,352 ratings
16.
The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5
The End of Jobs: Money, Meaning and Freedom Without the 9-to-5 4.01 avg rating — 1,486 ratings
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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts
Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts 3.82 avg rating — 21,784 ratings
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The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion 4.20 avg rating — 63,329 ratings
19.
Replacing Guilt: Minding Our Way
Replacing Guilt: Minding Our Way 4.43 avg rating — 262 ratings
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Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference
Doing Good Better: How Effective Altruism Can Help You Make a Difference 4.18 avg rating — 7,712 ratings
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World 4.13 avg rating — 76,410 ratings
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Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence
Early Retirement Extreme: A Philosophical and Practical Guide to Financial Independence 3.97 avg rating — 4,011 ratings
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big: Kind of the Story of My Life 4.06 avg rating — 20,257 ratings
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Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions
Risk Savvy: How to Make Good Decisions 4.02 avg rating — 1,828 ratings
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Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk
Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk 3.96 avg rating — 14,186 ratings
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The (Mis)Behavior of Markets
The (Mis)Behavior of Markets 4.09 avg rating — 6,000 ratings
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The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat
The Hungry Brain: Outsmarting the Instincts That Make Us Overeat 4.04 avg rating — 3,087 ratings
28.
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom 4.09 avg rating — 43,676 ratings
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Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion 3.91 avg rating — 49,875 ratings
30.
The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space
The Gervais Principle: The Complete Series, with a Bonus Essay on Office Space 4.19 avg rating — 827 ratings
31.
Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths
Be Slightly Evil: A Playbook for Sociopaths 3.75 avg rating — 510 ratings
32.
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future 4.15 avg rating — 381,763 ratings
33.
Principles: Life and Work
Principles: Life and Work
by: Ray Dalio
4.10 avg rating — 64,762 ratings
34.
Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending
Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending 3.69 avg rating — 3,284 ratings
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Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck
Inadequate Equilibria: Where and How Civilizations Get Stuck 4.08 avg rating — 1,395 ratings
36.
Price Theory: An Intermediate Text
Price Theory: An Intermediate Text 4.04 avg rating — 28 ratings
37.
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction 4.08 avg rating — 21,612 ratings
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Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals
Stubborn Attachments: A Vision for a Society of Free, Prosperous, and Responsible Individuals 3.75 avg rating — 1,571 ratings
39.
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy
A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy 4.19 avg rating — 26,604 ratings
40.
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics
How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics 4.27 avg rating — 82,446 ratings
41.
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality
Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality 4.39 avg rating — 18,063 ratings
42.
The Girard Reader (Crossroad Herder Book)
The Girard Reader (Crossroad Herder Book) 4.11 avg rating — 195 ratings
43.
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre 4.22 avg rating — 3,754 ratings