Tristan Harris's Book Recommendations
Tristan Harris is a design ethicist and co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. He is known for his work on raising awareness about the negative impacts of technology on society and advocating for more ethical design practices. Based on his recommendations, he seems interested in books about technology's impact on society and persuasive communication.
📚 Books Recommended by Tristan Harris 15
Amusing Ourselves to Death
"Worth reading."
blog View source ↗"Written in 1982. It literally predicts everything that's going on now."
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The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
"Was a profound book for me."
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Winners Take All
"We keep looking for these win-win solutions but sometimes we have to lose a little bit so that everybody wins. And that’s not a good message for capitalists because that’s not how we like to roll."
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Metaphors We Live By
"Talked about the power of grounding metaphor."
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Technopoly
"I highly recommend."
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Finite and Infinite Games
"About life and how to [...] navigate in a more improvisational way."
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Brave New World
"Slightly older and less well known than 1984 but equally chilling vision."
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Words That Work
"Tristan Harris mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast."
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The Coming Wave
"A brave wake-up call... Indispensable reading."
Wherever You Go, There You Are
"The point is that you will repeat our same mental habits everywhere we go."
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The 4-Hour Workweek
"Tristan Harris mentioned this book on "The Tim Ferriss Show" podcast."
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Don't Shoot the Dog!
"Amazing book."
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1984
"[The author]'s dark vision."
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Bury the Chains
"A great book [...] about the British abolition of slavery."
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The Attention Merchants
"Must read."
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