In my free time I love to read, cook, dance, do yoga, and be outdoors, hiking, biking, snowshoeing, or cross-country skiing. I also love traveling and road trips. This is a non-exhaustive list of things I liked and enjoyed over time or found useful.
2024
The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together. Heather McGhee
Speaking of Crime: The Language of Criminal Justice. Lawrence Solan and Peter Meijes Tiersma
Breaking the Social Media Prism: How to Make Our Platforms Less Polarizing. Chris Bail
The Art of Gathering: How We Meet and Why It Matters. Priya Parker
2023
Pragmatics. Stephen Levinson
Atlas of the Heart: Mapping Meaningful Connection and the Language of Human Experience. Brene Brown
So You Want to Talk About Race. Ijeoma Oluo
Understanding Computers and Cognition: A New Foundation for Design. Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores
Nudge. Richard H. Thaler, Cass R. Sunstein
Designing Your Life. Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
The Third Reconstruction: America’s Struggle for Racial Justice in the Twenty-First Century. Peniel E. Joseph
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions. Thomas Kuhn
2022
Philosophy: The Classics. Nigel Warburton
The Effect: An Introduction to Research Design and Causality. Nick Huntington-Klein
Food and Feasting in Art. Silvia Malaguzzi
Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer’s Guide. Cecily Wong and Dylan Thuras
Who We Are and How We Got Here. David Reich
How to Change: The Science of Getting from Where You Are to Where You Want to Be. Katy Milkman
Artificial Intelligence: A Guide for Thinking Humans. Melanie Mitchell
Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist’s Companion. Joshua Angrist and Jörn-Steffen Pischke
Biased: Uncovering the Hidden Prejudice That Shapes What We See, Think, and Do. Jennifer L. Eberhardt
2021
How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Bill Gates
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World. David Epstein
Apollo’s Arrow: The Profound and Enduring Impact of Coronavirus on the Way We Live. Nicholas Christakis
Everything Is Obvious: Once You Know the Answer. Duncan J. Watts
Counterfactuals and Causal Inference: Methods and Principles for Social Research. Stephen L. Morgan and Christopher Winship
The Language of Food: A Linguist Reads the Menu. Dan Jurafsky
Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries. Safi Bahcall
Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are. Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
2020
Field Experiments: Design, Analysis, and Interpretation. Alan S. Gerber, Donald P. Green
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind. Yuval Noah Harari
21 Lessons for the 21st Century. Yuval Noah Harari
Data Feminism. Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein.
2019
Crowdsourced Health: How What You Do on the Internet Will Improve Medicine. Elad Yom-Tov
Observation and Experiment. Paul R. Rosenbaum
Predictably Irrational. Dan Ariely
Give and Take: Why Helping Others Drives Our Success. Adam Grant
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow. Yuval Noah Harari
2018
The Book of Why: The New Science of Cause and Effect. Dana Mackenzie and Judea Pearl
Thinking, Fast and Slow. Daniel Kahneman
Twitter: A Digital Socioscope. Yelena Mejova, Ingmar Weber, Michael W. Macy
The Secret Life of Pronouns: What Our Words Say About Us. James W. Pennebaker
Bit by Bit: Social Research in the Digital Age. Matthew J. Salganik