Google Deems Books Inefficient, yet Scans Them Anyway
"When I was writing my book about Google, Sergey Brin began one interview with a lecture about how books were an inefficient way to explain things. (That didn’t stop Google from scanning millions of books for its search business.)" 👏 @StevenLevy https://t.co/KXdNOT9XlV
AI's Impact Depends on Pedagogy, Not Just Technology
When AI is used without a strong pedagogical framework, it can reinforce one-size-fits-all learning. When it's used well, it transforms how teachers design for every student in the room. This book is the difference between those two outcomes. Order your copy: https://t.co/ELBWaSZ4oH #edtech...
Deadlines Spark Breakthroughs: Constraints Fuel Innovation
Check the link in my bio for more info and pre-order links for my new book, Inside the Box, in which I share science and stories that show how constraints can make you more creative, productive, and satisfied. The story...
Lean Principles From Ohno's TPS Transform Any Production
📘 Refuel your knowledge: My favorite leadership read this week. 📚 Add this to your list: Toyota Production System (1988) by Taiichi Ohno 💡 Ohno's book explains how Lean principles can improve any production endeavor. Helpful resource: 🔗 https://t.co/uVgxW4LNd1 https://t.co/CbkuapaexX
Zhao Memoir Reveals Crypto’s Future Blueprint
New York Post's review of my book. 🙏 » Changpeng Zhao’s memoir is key to understanding the future of crypto https://t.co/XXGKn4yg6l
Launching Inclusive Book Club Around Emma Grede’s ‘Start with Yourself’
@sheila_pande and I are co-hosting the inaugural @theannaio book club on Emma Grede’s new book: Start with Yourself. While the internet is shitting on Emma for speaking her truth, we’re celebrating and learning from it. 💜 To keep it intentional there’s...
Compassion for Rachel Goldberg-Polin Amid Harsh Review
Even the pain of reading the book review is unbearable. All love and compassion to the brave Rachel Goldberg-Polin.
Unlock Untaught Principles for Strategic Execution Success
What are we reading? Title: “The Zen of Strategic Execution - The Principles of Execution you Were Never Taught” Author: Tim Ohai @tim_ohai #Books #Leadership #Sales #Marketing #SocialSelling https://t.co/lfsTfH6D8m https://t.co/IvfEP5qaL7
Sci‑Fi Books Thrive More at Comic‑Con Than BookCon
I mean it's true that if something is called BookCon I'd imagine it would have many genres (I've not attended ever just by the sound of it), but at the same time if you're big on science fiction this has...
Master Plotting Basics: Part Two of Fiction Guide
Have you lost the plot? Part 2 on a series of plotting and fiction https://countercraft.substack.com/p/the-principles-of-plotting-part-two
AI's 15‑Year Journey and Future Unveiled
If you're interested in how AI grew up over the past 15 years, and where it's headed, this new book tells the story in a riveting, page-turner way. In the new Ground Truths with @scmallaby https://t.co/B7ElqyDBPM
Two Decades Later, We Still Explore Meditations Together
My wife samagerie bought this copy of Meditations back in 2007 just a month or so after we met. I wrote this on a page when we were reading it together. Almost 20 years later, we’re still reading it, but...
Wallace Explains Why Reading Feels Impossible Today
David Foster Wallace on why people struggle to read books: (this was filmed in 2003 but is even more true today) https://t.co/PorIzDMb0t
Storytelling Gives Words to Understand and Redeem Ourselves
"One of the functions of art is to give people the words to know their own experience... Storytelling is a tool for knowing who we are and what we want." Ursula K. Le Guin on storytelling and the power of language...
Neuroscience Reveals Optimal Brain Training Methods
One of the most interesting neuroscience reads I have ever consumed. How you should train your brain.
Black Lesbian Representation Empowers Identity and Love
At the LA Festival of Books today I had such a lovely moment. During the panel Q&A, a young person asked me about World of Wakanda and shared that when they read the book, they were struggling with identity and...
Kaiser: The Engineer Who Shaped Modern American West
next read, “henry j. kaiser: builder in the modern american west” by mark s. foster https://t.co/7MwSNGPGMo
From Prompts to Profits: Inside My New Book
Stop Writing Prompts, Start Winning Business: A Peek Inside My New Book by @Timothy_Hughes https://t.co/aRvIFwO3qi @DLAIgnite #SocialSelling #DigitalSelling #Sales #SalesTips #SalesLeader #Salesforce #Marketing #Leadership #MarketingStrategy #MarketingSuccess https://t.co/tKgMgxUtRJ
How a Weekend Sparked a 72‑Hour Book
The backstory of what inspired me to write my last book in 72 hours. Drop a 💜 if it made you think of what you would spend a weekend doing.
One $29 Book Could Transform Your Life
With the right inspiration, change can happen in an instant. In my life, I have found the best reward to risk bets I've made are in books written by those who have succeeded. Is it worth $29 to possibly change...
Romantasy Dominates BookCon; Non‑romance Titles Become Rarity
Someone was saying that BookCon is 90 percent romantasy and I'm not surprised. Last year I looked at numbers at my imprint and I was one of the top 10 sellers of the year but also one of the only...
Manhood Is Taught, Not Innate
"I read “Manhood in the Making,” a 1991 book by the anthropologist David Gilmore. It changed my mind. Gilmore argues masculinity isn’t something that just happens to boys as they grow up. Cultures had to create manhood — had to...
Whitman's Leaves of Grass Guides Authentic Self‑Discovery
Walt Whitman's field guide to being yourself – the trial and triumph of "Leaves of Grass" https://t.co/onkPp36yE5 #longreads #traversal
French Publishers Alarmed as Sansal Sparks Author Exodus
The Sansal virus is out of the bag. Even the French are finally waking up to his extremist agenda. Crise chez Grasset en France : après l'arrivée de Boualem Sansal, hémorragie d'écrivains https://t.co/WinzX1FoTC
Cross‑Disciplinary Maintenance Insights Boost Cybersecurity Programs
The Maintenance of Everything Studying how other fields think about maintenance and sustainment is extremely useful. These areas are rich in lessons to apply to cybersecurity. Stewart Brand’s Maintenance of Everything is a brilliant overview of many of these fields. It’s...
Heated Rivalry Series Ranked: My Quick Reviews
Ranking every book in the Heated Rivalry series, from Game Changers to The Long Game, in honour of the biggest book to screen adaptation of last year. I read all 6 books in the series, and here’s all my quick...
Earn From Books with Just $1 Daily Meta Ads
I’m gonna say this with my whole chest… YOU DO NOT HAVE TO Spend $5+ a day on a meta ad. Especially if you’ve never done them before. Especially if you don’t have the funds. I spend $7k a month on...
Marilyn Monroe's Unpublished Poems Reveal Her Private Complexity
"Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others." Marilyn Monroe's unpublished poems – a glimpse of the complex private person behind the public persona https://t.co/25Zu28knpd
Fast-Track Wealth: Risk, Automation, Leverage From Top Books
I’m on track to become a millionaire this year at 26. I’ve read ~40 finance books. Most are designed to make you wealthy slowly over decades. Getting rich is easy. Getting rich fast is harder. These 3 actually fast-tracked my wealth: • The Millionaire...
Liz Pelly’s Spotify Book Unpacks New Media & AI
Highly recommend Liz Pelly’s new book on Spotify, many insights for anyone interested in new media, generative AI, even vibe coding as a modern form of creation. https://t.co/LVArLxahL7
Public Science Under Siege: From Frontier to Target
"From Endless Frontier to Enemy of the People: The Assault on Public Science" | A very nice, thoughtful review of #ScienceUnderSiege (by @PeterHotez & yours truly) by Wendy Wagner for @Lawfare Media: https://t.co/2QcaDNC3df
First Author Invitation Sparks Excitement, Bringing Queen Kenz
I have bookcon fomo butttttt I did just get accepted to another book convention as an attending author for the very first time (in 2027) and I’m in my feels. (And yes ofc I’m bringing queen Kenz)
Ask “Tell Me More” To Deepen Relationships
70% of people don’t feel loved as much or as often as they’d like, this new book by @slyubomirsky & Harry Reis explains who to build stronger relationships The three words that everyone loves to hear? They’re not “I love...
Márquez on Writing: Only Greatness Prevents Starvation
“If you’re going to be a writer you have to be one of the great ones… After all, there are better ways to starve to death.” Gabriel García Márquez, who returned his borrowed stardust 12 years ago today, on his improbable...
Essential Reads on Power: My Recommendations
Someone asked me to recommend books about power, so here’a few. Let me know what other books you want to see.
Dark Romance as Cathartic Revenge Against Real-Life Men
Bink, why do you write graphic, dark romances where men get viciously murdered? Uh. Because I can’t do it for real, Jackie… Or I’d go to Prison. This is my cathartic outlet where I get to be a judge, jury,...
Best‑selling Book Praised by Steve Kerr, Now 23% Off
Over 25,000 readers in less than three months. Steve Kerr called it “an absolutely beautiful book.” Hundreds of five star reviews. And currently 23% off for a start of Spring promotion. If you’ve been on the edge, today is a...
First Responder Memoir: From Badge to Vineyard
memoir of a first responder FROM THE BADGE TO THE VINE free download through Bicycle Day (Sunday) https://t.co/rm2cTA5MRz
Maria Semple Discusses Writing Success in New Interview
Great interview with Maria Semple, bestselling author of "Where'd You Go, Bernadette," up on my YouTube page https://t.co/T0SitBBlRv
7 Proven Strategies to Boost Memory and Learning
This is the #1 bestselling book on memory. It's helped 1.5M+ people learn better, remember more, and study more effectively. Here are 7 key lessons from "Make It Stick": https://t.co/LGJM6EutQQ
C.S. Lewis Reveals Our Deepest Existential Desire
The Thing Itself – C.S. Lewis on what we long for in our existential longing https://t.co/JjBeAFJJek
Witherspoon's AI Push Undermines Her Feminist Book Club
When you're a celebrity whose book club has championed and profited from the voices of women authors for years, touting the usage of generative AI does not come off as a feminist act. https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2026-04-16/reese-witherspoon-authors-book-club-learn-ai-chatgpt
Top 12 Books
12 books to master 3 skills: If you're into books about quant finance, algorithmic trading, and market data analysis, here are 46 of the best:
Writing a Book Means Exposing Your Emotional Self
Can we normalize talking about how emotionally vulnerable writing a book is? It's something I've been thinking about a ton as I count down the months until my book comes out. I can't wait for people to finally read it, but...the...
Orcas Reveal Love, Loss, and Consciousness Lessons
Orcas and the price of consciousness – lessons in love and loss from Earth's most successful and creative predator https://t.co/XAAZ3Fe3iK
Stewart Brand's New Book Questions Maintenance Priorities, Offers No Answers
A new book by Stewart Brand, an architect of modern tech culture, asks: How do we prioritize maintenance? And why? But it doesn’t quite have the answers.
Discipline Unlocks Creative Freedom: 10 Essential Writing Tips
“Turn up for work. Discipline allows creative freedom. No discipline equals no freedom.” 10 tips on writing (which apply to most of life) from one of our civilization's greatest living writers https://t.co/3jrGv2wAs4
Exploring Economic Forces in Planet Money’s New Book
NEW ODD LOTS - THE PLANET MONEY/ODD LOTS CROSSOVER EPISODE @TheStalwart & I speak with @planetmoney's @mdc and contributor Alex Mayassi about their new book "Planet Money: A Guide to the Economic Forces That Shape Your Life" https://t.co/no4aqQgefa
Gabriel García Márquez's 24 Books That Shaped His Vision
“Life is not what one lived, but what one remembers and how one remembers it in order to recount it.” Remembering Gabriel García Márquez, who left us 12 years ago today, with the formative reading list of 24 books that shaped...
Celebrating Science: Discussing #ScienceUnderSiege with Neil Tyson
After so many dark months of countering RFK Jr and the ACIP/HHS/Children’s Health Offense pseudoscience disinformation campaign it was a real joy to spend an evening with @neiltyson discuss our book #ScienceUnderSiege @MichaelEMann @PeterHotez https://t.co/49e3hC7bSz