Reading List

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Curated Lists

On uncertainty and complexity:

• How Complex Systems Fail by Richard Cook (5-page PDF)
• Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable by Richard Zeckhauser (41-page PDF)
• Incerto by Nassim Taleb (book series)¹
• Complexity: A Guided Tour by Melanie Mitchell (book)
• The Sciences of the Artificial by Herbert Simon (book)

On China:

• China’s Economy: What Everyone Needs to Know by Arthur Kroeber (book)
• The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor (book)
• 周雪光的《中国国家治理的制度逻辑：一个组织学研究》²

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High-Signal

• Money Stuff by Matt Levine (finance)
• The Diff by Byrne Hobart (finance/tech)
• Stratechery by Ben Thompson (tech)
• Benedict Evans (tech)
• Tech Buzz China by Rui Ma and Ying Ying Lu (tech)
• Two Truths and a Take by Alex Danco (tech-ish)
• Remains of the Day by Eugene Wei (tech/media)
• TheMoneyIllusion by Scott Sumner (monetary policy)
• Overcoming Bias by Robin Hanson (general)
• Slate Star Codex by Scott Alexander (general)

1. I’d recommend starting with Antifragile and avoiding the author’s Twitter account.[↩]
2. So far only available in Chinese as far as I can tell. English title: The Institutional Logic of Governance in China: An Organizational Approach by Zhou Xueguang[↩]