This is a subjective Ranked version of Intriguing Connections: War for Your Attention
Advertising
- Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini
- The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads by Tim Wu
- Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There by Nadav Zeimer
History
- The Evolution of God by Robert Wright
- Paekche's Principle: The Great Secret Of Asia by Bayemy Biyik
Media
- Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman, Noam Chomsky
- Trust Me, I'm Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
- Tibet on Fire: Self-Immolations Against Chinese Rule by Tsering Woeser
Mental Bandwidth
- Scarcity: Why Having Too Little Means So Much by Sendhil Mullainathan, Eldar Shafir
- How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine ... for Now by Stanislas Dehaene
Various
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It by Chris Voss
- Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
- Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World by Bruce Schneier
- How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
