Recommended Reads, 53rd in a Quarterly Series

 

Books I've read lately that I would recommend:

Palaces for the People: How Social Infrastructure Can Help Fight Inequality, Polarization, and the Decline of Civic Life (Klinenberg). I learned a lot from this framing, about the importance of social infrastructure and the approach we should take in protecting it.

Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers (Ferriss). A sprawling compendium of powerful self-help tips.

The Phenomenon: Pressure, the Yips, and the Pitch that Changed My Life (Ankiel). "Choking" happens in so many settings, thankful for this honest and insightful exploration of why and how it happens.

Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything (Foer). Cool to test the upper bounds of our memory ability, and learn more about how to get better at it.

Water Dancer (Coates). Good fiction is beautifully written and takes us into magical places, which this did for me.

Pachinko (Lee). I absolutely loved this multi-generation drama, such that I didn't want it to end even several hundred pages later.