The books that informed The Adaptability Quotient

Alden, Lyn. Broken Money: Why Our Financial System Is Failing Us and How We Can Make It Better. Timestamp Press, 2023.

Ammous, Saifedean. The Bitcoin Standard: The Decentralized Alternative to Central Banking. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley & Sons, 2018.

Armstrong, Lawrence R. Layered Leadership: Drive Double-Digit Growth and Dominate Your Competition with Creative Strategies and Execution. Dallas, TX: Matt Holt Books, 2025.

Arsiwala, Saify. Unperishable Humans: Why Humans Will Never Become Extinct. Independently Published, 2018.

Ashby, W. R. An Introduction to Cybernetics. New York: John Wiley & Sons Inc, 2015.

Baron, Jonathan. Thinking and Deciding. 5th ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023.

Baron-Cohen, Simon. The Pattern Seekers: How Autism Drives Human Invention. New York: Basic Books, 2020.

Barrow, John D., and Frank J. Tipler. The Anthropic Cosmological Principle. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1986.

Bateson, Gregory. Steps to an Ecology of Mind: Collected Essays in Anthropology, Psychiatry, Evolution, and Epistemology. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000.

Bernstein, Peter L. Against the Gods: The Remarkable Story of Risk. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1998.

Bhide, Amar. Uncertainty and Enterprise Venturing Beyond the Known. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Blashek, Jordan, and Christopher Haugh. Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2020.

Bostrom, Nick. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2014.

Bourdieu, Pierre. Outline of a Theory of Practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977.

Browder, Bill. Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015.

Budiansky, Stephen. Journey to the Edge of Reason: The Life of Kurt Gödel. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.

Burkeman, Oliver. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2021.

Burrough, Bryan, and John Helyar. Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco. New York: Harper & Row, 2009.

Carreyrou, John. Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2018.

Chen, Andrew. The Cold Start Problem: How to Start and Scale Network Effects. New York: Harper Business, 2021.

Christensen, Clayton M. The Innovator’s Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book That Will Change the Way You Do Business. New York: Harper Business, 2011.

Christensen, Clayton M., James Allworth, and Karen Dillon. How Will You Measure Your Life? New York: HarperCollins, 2012.

Christian, Brian, and Tom Griffiths. Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions. New York: Henry Holt and Co, 2016.

Clear, James. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones. New York: Avery, 2018.

Collins, James C., and Jerry I. Porras. Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies. New York: Harper Business, 1994.

Collins, Jim. Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap… and Others Don’t. New York: Harper Business, 2001.

Confucius. The Analects. Translated by D. C. Lau. London: Penguin Books, 1998.

Copeland, Rob. The Fund: Ray Dalio, Bridgewater Associates, and the Unraveling of a Wall Street Legend. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2023.

Cox, Richard T. The Algebra of Probable Inference. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1961.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly. Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience. New York: Harper Perennial, 1990.

Dalio, Ray. Principles: Life and Work. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2017.

Dalio, Ray. Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2021.

Davenport, Christian. The Space Barons: Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and the Quest to Colonize the Cosmos. New York: PublicAffairs, 2018.

Dawkins, Richard. The Selfish Gene. 40th anniversary ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006.

de Jouvenel, Bertrand. The Art of Conjecture. Translated by Nikita Lary. Abingdon, UK: Routledge, 2012. (Original work published 1967)

Dennett, Daniel C. Consciousness Explained. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 1992.

Dennett, Daniel C. Kinds of Minds: Toward an Understanding of Consciousness. New York: Basic Books, 1996.

Diamandis, Peter H., and Steven Kotler. We Are as Gods: A Survival Guide for the Age of Abundance. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2026.

Diamond, Jared. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1997.

Doerr, John. Measure What Matters: OKRs, the Simple Idea That Drives 10x Growth. New York: Portfolio, 2018.

Doyle, Arthur Conan. The Hound of the Baskervilles. CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2014.

Duckworth, Angela. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance. New York: Scribner, 2016.

Duhigg, Charles. The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business. New York: Random House, 2012.

Duke, Annie. How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices. New York: Portfolio/Penguin, 2020.

Duke, Annie. Quit: The Power of Knowing When to Walk Away. New York: Portfolio, 2022.

Duke, Annie. Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don’t Have All the Facts. New York: Portfolio, 2018.

Easter, Michael. The Comfort Crisis: Embrace Discomfort to Reclaim Your Wild, Happy, Healthy Self. New York: Rodale Books, 2021.

Edmondson, Amy C. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well. New York: Atria Books, 2023.

Epstein, David. Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. New York: Riverhead Books, 2019.

Eurich, Tasha. Insight: The Surprising Truth About How Others See Us, How We See Ourselves, and Why the Answers Matter More Than We Think. New York: Currency, 2017.

Fann, K. T. Peirce’s Theory of Abduction. Partridge Publishing, 2020.

Farahany, Nita A. The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2023.

Feynman, Richard P. The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist. Reading, MA: Helix Books, 1998.

Finkel, Eli J. The All-or-Nothing Marriage: How the Best Marriages Work. New York: Dutton, 2017.

Fisher, Max. The Chaos Machine: The Inside Story of How Social Media Rewired Our Minds and Our World. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

Frankl, Viktor E. Man’s Search for Meaning. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.

Gaddis, John Lewis. On Grand Strategy. New York: Penguin Press, 2018.

Gigerenzer, Gerd, and Reinhard Selten, eds. Bounded Rationality: The Adaptive Toolbox. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2001.

Gilovich, Thomas, Dale Griffin, and Daniel Kahneman, eds. Heuristics and Biases: The Psychology of Intuitive Judgment. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002.

Gladwell, Malcolm. Blink: The Power of Thinking without Thinking. New York: Little, Brown and Co, 2005.

Gladwell, Malcolm. Outliers: The Story of Success. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2008.

Grant, Adam. Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World. New York: Viking, 2016.

Grant, Adam. Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know. New York: Viking, 2021.

Haidt, Jonathan. The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness. New York: Penguin Press, 2024.

Harari, Yuval Noah. Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. New York: Harper, 2017.

Harari, Yuval Noah. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. New York: Harper, 2015.

Helmer, Hamilton W. 7 Powers: The Foundations of Business Strategy. Los Altos, CA: Deep Strategy, 2016.

Hoque, Faisal. Transcend: Unlocking Humanity in the Age of AI. Post Hill Press, 2025.

Horowitz, Ben. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers. New York: Harper Business, 2014.

Hutchinson, Alex. The Explorer’s Gene: Why We Seek Big Challenges, New Flavors, and the Blank Spots on the Map. New York: Mariner Books, 2025.

Huxley, Aldous. Brave New World. Turtleback Books, 2006.

Isaacson, Walter. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003.

Isaacson, Walter. Einstein: His Life and Universe. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2007.

Isaacson, Walter. Elon Musk. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2023.

Isaacson, Walter. Steve Jobs. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2011.

Jaynes, E. T. Probability Theory: The Logic of Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003.

Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011.

Kahneman, Daniel, Olivier Sibony, and Cass R. Sunstein. Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment. New York: Little, Brown Spark, 2021.

Kissinger, Henry A., Eric Schmidt, and Daniel Huttenlocher. Genesis: Artificial Intelligence, Hope, and the Human Spirit. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2024.

Kissinger, Henry A., Eric Schmidt, Daniel P. Huttenlocher, and Schuyler Schouten. The Age of AI: And Our Human Future. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2022.

Knight, Frank H. Risk, Uncertainty, and Profit. www.bnpublishing.com, 1921.

Koch, Christof. Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It. New York: Basic Books, 2024.

Kotler, Steven. The Art of Impossible: A Peak Performance Primer. New York: Harper Wave, 2021.

Krakauer, Jon. Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster. New York: Villard, 1997.

Kuhn, Thomas S. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996.

Kurzweil, Ray. The Singularity Is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology. New York: Viking, 2005.

Kurzweil, Ray. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI. New York: Viking, 2024.

Laske, Otto E. Dialectical Thinking for Integral Leaders: A Primer. Tucson, AZ: Integral Publishers, 2015.

Lefèvre, Edwin. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator. New York: George H. Doran Company, 2006.

Levitin, Daniel J. The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload. New York: Dutton, 2014.

Levitt, Steven D., and Stephen J. Dubner. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything. New York: William Morrow, 2005.

Lewis, Michael. Liar’s Poker: Rising Through the Wreckage on Wall Street. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 1989.

Lowenstein, Roger. When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of Long-Term Capital Management. New York: Random House, 2001.

Lukianoff, Greg, and Jonathan Haidt. The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting up a Generation for Failure. New York: Penguin Press, 2018.

Mallaby, Sebastian. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite. New York: Penguin Books, 2010.

Mallaby, Sebastian. The Power Law: Venture Capital and the Making of the New Future. New York: Penguin Press, 2022.

Marks, Robert J. Non-Computable You: What You Do That Artificial Intelligence Never Will. Discovery Institute Press, 2022.

McCraw, Thomas K. Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative Destruction. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007.

McLean, Bethany, and Peter Elkind. The Smartest Guys in the Room: The Amazing Rise and Scandalous Fall of Enron. New York: Portfolio, 2004.

McLuhan, Marshall. The Gutenberg Galaxy: The Making of Typographic Man. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011.

McLuhan, Marshall, and Quentin Fiore. The Medium Is the Massage: An Inventory of Effects. Berkeley, CA: Gingko Press, 2001.

Meadows, Donella H. Thinking in Systems: A Primer. Edited by Diana Wright. White River Junction, VT: Chelsea Green Publishing, 2008.

Meadows, Richard. Optionality: How to Survive and Thrive in a Volatile World. Thales Press, 2020.

Miller, Chris. Chip War: The Fight for the World’s Most Critical Technology. New York: Scribner, 2022.

Ming, Vivienne. Robot-Proof: When Machines Have All the Answers, Build Better People. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2026.

Murphy, Mary C. Cultures of Growth: How the New Science of Mindset Can Transform Individuals, Teams, and Organizations. Simon & Schuster, 2024.

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Newport, Cal. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World. New York: Grand Central Publishing, 2016.

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Ord, Toby. The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity. London: Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020.

Pearl, Judea, and Dana Mackenzie. The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. New York: Basic Books, 2018.

Perez, Carlota. Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital: The Dynamics of Bubbles and Golden Ages. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2002.

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Silver, Nate. The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—but Some Don’t. New York: Penguin Press, 2012.

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Zalman, Elizabeth Joy, and Jerry Neumann. Founder vs Investor: The Honest Truth About Venture Capital from Startup to IPO. New York: HarperCollins Leadership, 2023.