Steven Johnson

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  • Trust Exercise Loved

    But what really makes it brilliant is a kind of meta-fictional twist that happens in the middle of the book

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  • The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity Mixed on

    I wouldn’t say that this is the most compelling book I’ve ever read in terms of the prose style or storytelling, but it does provide a very helpful, almost quantitative overview of all the potential threats looming out there

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  • The Bomber Mafia Liked

    It’s one of the first truly audio-first books that I’ve encountered, both in the prose style which has clearly been written from the ground up to be heard, not read

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  • The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values Loved

    I just finished this book a few weeks ago and it is still reverberating in my mind

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  • Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive Liked

    That led me to pick up this new book from one of the great science writers of our time, Carl Zimmer, and it did not disappoint.

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  • Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States Loved

    reading some of the early reviews suggested to me that it has a lot of overlap with this astonishing book by James Scott

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  • Enemy Of All Mankind Recommends

    The other book of mine that makes a thoughtful gift for the history buff in your extended clan is my 2020 book, Enemy of All Mankind

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  • Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer Recommends

    If you’re looking for gifts to buy your history-minded friend or family member, I’d recommend my last two books. First, there’s Extra Life , which tells the heroic story of how we doubled life expectancy over the past hundred years.

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  • The Architecture Of Ideas 3 Feb

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  • The Wetlands Interregnum 26 Jan
  • The Agrarian Fall 13 Jan
  • Introducing Planet Of The Barbarians 5 Jan
  • What Is The Right Atomic Unit For Knowledge? 26 Nov 2025
  • The Blank Page Revolution 20 Sept 2025
  • Magic Cards and Knowledge Bottles 24 Jul 2025
  • Machine Readable 25 Jun 2025
  • City Of Bombs 9 May 2025
  • Condensing The Iceberg 19 Feb 2025
  • Extra Life: A Short History of Living Longer 23 Nov 2021 Recommendstheir own
  • Enemy Of All Mankind 23 Nov 2021 Recommendstheir own
  • Against the Grain: A Deep History of the Earliest States 23 Nov 2021 Loved
  • Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive 23 Nov 2021 Liked
  • The Alignment Problem: Machine Learning and Human Values 23 Nov 2021 Loved
  • The Bomber Mafia 23 Nov 2021 Liked
  • The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity 23 Nov 2021 Mixed on
  • Trust Exercise 23 Nov 2021 Loved