Reading

A curated selection of books and texts that inform strategic thinking across leadership, human behavior, geopolitics, and long-term change.

Prisoners of Geography

Prisoners of Geography

Shows how geography shapes national power, strategic options, and conflict more consistently than ideology or leadership.

Tim Marshall

Book cover titled 'The End of the World is Just the Beginning' by Peter Zeihan, featuring a torn map.

The End of the World Is Just the Beginning

Explores how demographics and supply chains are reshaping global power, economic stability, and institutional resilience.

Peter Zeihan

The book cover titled 'MISBELEIF: What Makes Rational People Believe Irrational Things' by Dan Ariely, with a dark blue background and a head illustration filled with red and white arrows.

Misbelief

Explains why intelligent people adopt false beliefs and why evidence alone rarely changes deeply held views.

Dan Ariely

Book cover of 'How Minds Change' by David McRaney featuring overlapping colorful profile silhouettes of human heads on a blue background.

How Minds Change

Examines how beliefs actually change through trust, identity, and social influence rather than argument or force.

David McRaney

The cover of the book titled "The Dictator's Handbook" features a black hand manipulating a white ball labeled "New & Updated Edition." The background is red, with the subtitle "Why Bad Behavior Is Almost Always Good Politics" and authors Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith mentioned at the bottom.

The Dictator's Handbook

Demonstrates how incentives drive political behavior across regimes, organizations, and leadership systems.

Bruce Bueno de Mesquita & Alastair Smith

Cover of the book titled "The Fourth Turning is Here" by Neil Howe, with a red background and a circular symbol with lines.

The Fourth Turning Is Here

Interprets current instability through recurring generational cycles that shape crisis, renewal, and institutional transformation.

Neil Howe