24 Books for Your 2024 Reading List 📚

1. Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet

by cdixon

If you want to understand the most powerful technology in the world and learn how use it to succeed in the future.

2. Our Next Reality: How the AI-powered Metaverse Will Reshape the World

by Alvin Wang Graylin, Louis Rosenberg, Neal Stephenson (Foreword)

Why immersive eyewear and interactive AI agents could make our world a magical place or deeply compromise our humanity.

3. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma

by Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar

Why AI will create immense prosperity but bring unprecedented risks and how we might contain them while we have the chance.

4. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

by Ethan Mollick

What it means to think and work together with smart machines, and why it's imperative that we master that skill.

5. Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence

by Kate Crawford

What it takes to make AI, how it centralizes power, & what is at stake as massive tech companies reshape the world.

6. Unmasking AI: My Mission to Protect What Is Human in a World of Machines

by Joy Buolamwini

Why AI should be for the people and by the people, not just the privileged few.

7. Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI

by Yuval Noah Harari

The complex relationship between information and truth, bureaucracy and mythology, wisdom and power from the Stone Age to AI.

8. Virtual Society: The Metaverse and the New Frontiers of Human Experience

by Herman Narula

Learn why the metaverse offers a new universe of ideas that offers users unprecedented opportunities to create, explore and find meaning.

9. The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

by Ben Horowitz

Mandatory reading for every leader.

10. Without Their Permission: The Story of Reddit and a Blueprint for How to Change the World

by Alexis Ohanian Sr. 🏛️7️⃣7️⃣6️⃣

A must-read if you want to build something new or change the world.

11. Smart Rivals: How Innovative Companies Play Games That Tech Giants Can't Win

by Feng Zhu, Bonnie Yining Cao

How to create new competitive advantages by offering product features and benefits that tech giants and other competitors cannot match.

12. How Infrastructure Works: Inside the Systems That Shape Our World

by Deb Chachra

A path for transforming and rebuilding our shared infrastructure to be not just functional but also equitable, resilient, and sustainable.

13. The Everything Token: How NFTs and Web3 Will Transform the Way We Buy, Sell, and Create

by Steve Kaczynski, Scott Duke Kominers

Learn how NFTs can be used to build highly engaged and intensely loyal communities around products and brands.

14. God, Human, Animal, Machine: Technology, Metaphor, and the Search for Meaning

by Meghan O'Gieblyn

What it might mean to be authentically human in the age of artificial intelligence.

15. The Neuroscience of You: How Every Brain Is Different and How to Understand Yours

by Chantel Prat

Learn why no two brains are alike, who individual differences in brain functioning are pervasive and are fundamental to defining what is “normal.”

16. The Learning Game: Teaching Kids to Think for Themselves, Embrace Challenge, and Love Learning

by Ana Lorena Fábrega

Practical tools to design a new approach to learning―leave behind the game of school and prepare your kids for the game of life.

17. Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture

by Kyle Chayka

A timely history and investigation of a world ruled by algorithms, which determine the shape of culture itself.

18. The Battle for Your Brain: Defending the Right to Think Freely in the Age of Neurotechnology

by Nita Farahany

Learn how neurotechnology is forcing us to rapidly take control of our cognitive freedom and right to self-determination.

19. 8 Billion and Counting: How Sex, Death, and Migration Shape Our World

by Jennifer D. Sciubba

Required reading for business leaders, investors, and anyone who wants to understand what our future looks like.

20. The First Generation: The Past, Present and Future of Humanity’s Relationship with the Environment

by Hannah Ritchie

Rethink almost everything you know and learn what we must focus on so we can leave a sustainable planet for future generations.

21. The Future of Geography: How the Competition in Space Will Change Our World (Politics of Place)

by Tim Marshall

An essential read about global power, politics, and the future of humanity.

22. A City on Mars: Can we settle space, should we settle space, and have we really thought this through?

by Kelly Weinersmith, Zach Weinersmith

Answers to every question about space you’ve ever wondered about, and many you’ve never considered.

23. 50 Quantum Physics Ideas You Really Need to Know

by Joanne Baker

From Schrodinger's cat to Einstein's theory of relativity, energy conservation to speed of light—a complete introduction to the most important quantum physics concepts in history.

24. To Infinity and Beyond: A Journey of Cosmic Discovery

by Neil deGrasse Tyson , Lindsey Nyx Walker

For science junkies and fans of astrophysics, an enlightening adventure into the farthest reaches of the cosmos.