Books: networks

• The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why it Matters by Priya Parker
• Billy No-Mates: How I Realised Men Have a Friendship Problem by Max Dickins
• Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
• The Business of Belonging by David Spinks
• Connected: The Surprising Power of Our Social Networks and How They Shape Our Lives by Nicholas Christakis
• Connecting in College: How Friendship Networks Matter for Academic and Social Success by Janice McCabe
• The Formula: The Universal Laws of Success by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
• Friends: Understanding the Power of our Most Important Relationships by Robin Dunbar
• How Behavior Spreads: The Science of Complex Contagions by Damon Centola
• Linked: How Everything is Connected to Everything Else and What it Means for Business, Science, and Everyday Life by Albert-Laszlo Barabasi
• Scale: The Universal Laws of Growth, Innovation, Sustainability, and the Pace of Life in Organisms, Cities, Economies, and Companies by Geoffrey West
• The Social Animal: The Hidden Sources of Love, Character, and Achievement by David Brooks
• Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation by Steven Johnson

Books: design

• Buying In by Rob Walker
• The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• Interviewing Users: How to Uncover Compelling Insights by Steve Portigal
• The Media Equation by Clifford Nass and Byron Reeves
• Nudge by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein
• Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (and Envisioning Information and Visual Explanations) by Edward Tufte

Books: China

• The Concrete Dragon by Thomas Campanella
• Dreaming in Chinese by Deborah Fallows
• Factory Girls by Leslie Chang
• Life and Death in Shanghai by Nien Cheng
• Mr. China by Tim Clissold
• Red Star Over China by Edgar Snow
• Shark’s Fin And Sichuan Pepper by Fuchsia Dunlop
• Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang

Books: non-fiction

• 15 Commitments of Conscious Leadership by Jim Dethmer, Diana Chapman and Kaley Klemp
• Antifragile: Things that gain from disorder by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Changing on the Job: Developing Leaders for a Complex World by Jennifer Garvey Berger
• The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande
• The Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge
• The Five Dysfunctions of a Team by Patrick Lencioni
• Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston
• The Geography of Thought by Richard Nisbett
• Leadership and the New Science by Margaret Wheatley
• The Omnivore’s Dilemma by Michael Pollan
• Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
• Reinventing Organizations by Frederic Laloux
• Speed of Trust by Stephen M. R. Covey
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman