Programmer; builds Mac and iOS apps, wrote WatermelonDB, and writes about tools, focus and software craft.

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  Age of Ambition

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  If you don’t really understand or know a lot about China today, this is one perspective. Good book.

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Co-founder of Netscape and of the venture firm Andreessen Horowitz. Argues at length for building things, mostly in short form.

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  Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination

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  So the author, Neal Gabler, who has written the best biography on Walt Disney. And it’s a phenomenal book.

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Cook and food writer specialising in Chinese cuisine; the first Westerner to train at the Sichuan Institute of Higher Cuisine, and author of Shark's Fin and Sichuan Pepper and Invitation to a Banquet.

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  Food in Chinese Culture

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  It was probably the first book in English to bring serious academic scrutiny to Chinese food culture, and to use the scholarly techniques applied to other subjects to food, offering the views of different experts on different periods of Chinese history.

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  Classic Food of China

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  Classic Food of China was really her great work, though. I think it was the last book she produced before she died, some years ago. It's one of the few really well-researched historical and cultural Chinese cookery books.

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  China to Chinatown

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  He has drawn together all kinds of different sources that would be a lot of work to find on your own.

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Clinical psychologist and clinical professor of psychiatry at UCSF. His 2010 meta-analysis established psychodynamic therapy as an evidence-based treatment; he has argued ever since that "evidence-based therapy" is used as a marketing term.

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  The APA's trauma treatment guidelines should be ignored, because they rest only on trials of therapies too brief to have worked.

  AmericaPsychotherapyTrauma

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  The American Psychological Association (APA) just issued guidelines for treating trauma. Patients and therapists would be wise to ignore them.

  Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victimspsychologytoday.com

British historian, Professor of Global History at the University of Oxford; author of The Silk Roads and The Earth Transformed.

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  The Alexiad

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  There are several jewels of medieval Greek literature but Anna Komnene's is probably the brightest. She was the daughter of one of the emperors—she was porphyrogenita—and it is the first narrative history written by a woman in any European language. It's a text that is incredibly florid, very beautiful, and extremely interesting.

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  The Cherry Orchard

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  So, as a kind of period piece that captures Russia in the late 19th, early 20th century, it's the most poignant text I've ever read.

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Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.

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  Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and Health

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  Facing Addiction in America is also the first governmental attempt to ground policy not in prejudice but in research, not in conjecture but in science. It collates an impressive body of evidence to illuminate the pathological processes and impacts of substance addiction in the human brain and body, and suggests evidence-based practices for treatment and prevention.

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Civil engineer and land use planner, founder and president of Strong Towns, author of Escaping the Housing Trap. Argues that the American pattern of development since the Second World War does not generate enough wealth to maintain the infrastructure it obliges cities to keep.

From one piece The Real Reason Your City Has No Money 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Nearly every American city is functionally insolvent, because replacing the infrastructure it has built would cost more than its entire private tax base is worth.

  America

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  It's a predicament that nearly every American city, with very few exceptions, finds itself in.

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  American cities built roughly two dollars of public infrastructure for every dollar of private investment, and that ratio is what bankrupts them.

  America

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  This thinking is how you end up with two dollars of public infrastructure for every one dollar of private investment.

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  America's accumulated road, pipe and pavement is a bad investment, and no federal spending programme can make it a good one.

  America

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  All this infrastructure is a bad investment. America needs a different model of growth and development.

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Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  The Myth of the Strong Leader

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  But to read Archie Brown’s fascinating book, The Myth of the Strong Leader, is to see an illustration that leaders like Suárez, who served as prime minister of Spain from 1976 to 1981, possess leadership styles and capacities that are incredibly effective, and depressingly rare.

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