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• projects
• things that provoke thought
• about

Newsletters and publications I follow:

• CityLab (now part of Bloomberg)
• Canary Media
• Volts by David Roberts
• Axios Energy
• UtilityDive
• Energy Storage News
• MIT Energy Initiative
• Intercalation Station
• EV Universe
• Benchmark Mineral Intelligence
• Mineral Blend Tea
• Atlas Obscura
• First 1000

Great books I’ve read:

Philosophy / Psychology

• Collected Maxims and Other Reflections – La Rochefoucauld
• Stumbling on Happiness – Dan Gilbert
• Grit – Angela Duckworth
• The Happiness Advantage – Shawn Achor
• Mindset – Carol Dweck
• Outliers – Malcolm Gladwell
• Blink – Malcolm Gladwell
• David and Goliath – Malcolm Gladwell
• The Black Swan – Nassim Taleb
• Tools of Titans – Tim Ferriss

Business / Economics

• Business Adventures – John Brooks
• Freakonomics – Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
• SuperFreakonomics – Stephen J. Dubner and Steven Levitt
• The Upstarts – Brad Stone
• To Sell is Human – Daniel H. Pink
• Delivering Happiness – Tony Hsieh

Biographies and Autobiographies, and the like

• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! – Richard Feynman
• My Life – Bill Clinton
• Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built – Duncan Clark
• Innovators – Walter Isaacson
• Steve Jobs – Walter Isaacson

Technical Science

• Sustainable Energy without the Hot Air – David J Mackay
• Energy Myths and Realities – Vaclav Smil
• The Lean PhD – Julian Kirchherr

Popular Science, Arts, and Misc.

• Moonwalking With Einstein – Joshua Foer
• Steal Like an Artist – Austin Kleon
• Creativity, Inc. – Ed Catmull
• The Magic of Reality – Richard Dawkins
• Epic Measures – Jeremy Smith
• The 4-Hour Workweek – Tim Ferrisss
• The 4-Hour Chef – Tim Ferriss
• The War of Art – Steven Pressfield
• The Game – Neil Strauss

Videos, Articles, and Other Thought-Provoking things:

• Mental Models 101 – Modern Wisdom
• Sleep is Just Death Being Shy – exurb1a
• Upsilon Dies Backwards – exurb1a
• and then we’ll be okay – exurb1a
• And Nothing Can Ever Ruin This – exurb1a
• In the Dust of This Planet – RadioLab
• Are You Ready to Switch to the Happiness Lane? – GaryVee
• Clarifying My Thoughts on Hard Work, Hustle, and Happiness – GaryVee
• Eight Marvelous & Melancholy Things I’ve Learned About Creativity – The Oatmeal
• The Happy Secret to Better Work – Shawn Achor, TED
• How to Start a Movement – Derek Sivers, TED
• The Big Disruption – Jessica Powell
• 1,000 True Fans – Kevin Kelly
• Bouncing Back from Rejection – Adam Grant
• Softbank, the ultimate modern Venture Capital firm – NYT
• Why Bad Things Happen to Clean-Energy Startups – James Temple, MIT Technology Review
• Clean energy technologies threaten to overwhelm the grid. Here’s how it can adapt. – David Roberts, Vox Energy
• Here’s How America Uses Its Land – Dave Merrill and Lauren Leatherby, Bloomberg
• Making Sense of Complexity – Sarah Firth
• Procrastination Sucks — So Here’s The “Eat That Frog” Way to Powerful Productivity – Bar Franek, FreeCodeCamp
• YouTube’s Copyright System Isn’t Broken. The World’s Is. – Tom Scott
• This Video Will Make You Angry – CGP Grey
• The Rules for Rulers – CGP Grey
• Your Theme – CGP Grey
• Running from a Ghost – Keyon Dooling, Player’s Tribune
• Strangers, again – Wong Fu
• AI is ruining the internet - Drew Gooden
• Charles Duhigg X Rich Roll Podcast, on Communication ("This SKILL Is Our #1 Human Superpower")