An ever growing list of what I’m reading, what I’ve read, what I’m re-reading, what I want to read, what’s been recommended to me. I’m a huge believer in life long learning, and love to have a breadth of knowledge to draw on. My reading list includes some great business books, but also more generalist reading. Anything that helps stuff my conscious!
My latest kick is to try and live by Faris’ Media Diet. Like any good diet, it is designed to guide you to consume a balanced diet (of media types), to help your thinking grow up big and strong (I also highly recommend following Faris and checking out his blog).
Talks, articles, episodes
Here is a list of one offs to sink your teeth into. Some are marketing or business focused, some are about life, some are science. It’s a real mixed bag down there! They are either recommended by me, or have been recommended to me. Either way, they’re probably going to be awesome.
Strategy, business & marketing
- Faris’ Media Diet (obvs)
- Alex Morris’ Strategy Scrapbook
- How intelligence leads to stereotyping
- New York is too safe to produce great art
- Simon Sinek’s Start with Why
- Inside Amazon: wrestling big ideas in a bruising workplace
- Eat Your Greens: APG London book launch, Gareth Price
- BBH on going viral: Brands not hot
- Tech C.E.O.s Are in Love With Their Principal Doomsayer
- To Seem and To Be Seen, Faris
- Emotional persuasion, Robert Heath
- So here’s the thing, interview with Will Humphries
- Brand rot
- NY Times Essay on The Body’s Pattern Recognition Machine
- Dave Trott’s blog
Art, culture, philosophy, silliness and more
- Theodore Zeldin @ 5×15 – The Art of Conversation
- The power of vulnerability by Brene Brown
- The power of introverts
- The subtle art of not giving a f*ck
- World Economic Forum: The link between your belief in free will, and your happiness
- Malcolm Gladwell Revisionist History: Big man can’t shoot
- The structure of a comedy sketch
- How London became the centre of the world – National Geographic
- Crazy Bout Crisps – the greatest crisp blog you’ll never need
Websites for general consumption
To keep a broad selection of news consumption, here are websites that I like to flick through. I’ve added these, and a bunch more, to a Twitter list. It’s a useful was of flicking through the latest content, in a slightly random, yet easy way.
- New Scientist
- Brain Pickings
- The Atlantic
- TIME
- Design Council
- Dazed & Confused
- We Heart
- NYTimes
- National Geographic
- Them
- BBC Future
- Highbrow
- Wired
- NYMag Strategist
- Flux
- Curious
- Nautilus
- Pudding
Behaviour & psychology
Strategy and business books
Some I have read, some are on my hit list. Some I have listened to and/or slept through.
- The Personal MBA
- How brands grow
- Rory Sutherland: Hacking the unconscious
- Steal like an artist journal
- Multihyphen method
- All of the DO books
- Thinking fast and slow
- Eat your greens
- How not to plan
- Misbehaving: the making of behavioural economics
- My Amazon Wishlist has most of these on
- 10 books Bill Gates says will make you smarter (1/10 😭)
Podcasts
- Guardian Today in Focus
- Creative Review
- TED-Ed: Lessons Worth sharing
- The Long and the Short of it
- APG Podcast
- Mark Pollard’s Sweathead
- Malcolm Gladwell’s Revisionist History
- Curious Minds
- The Strategy Hour
- The Turing
Comment below if you have anything to add. Websites, books, magazines, blogs, podcasts, Twitter feeds. Bring it on!
Be brave. Feel stupid.
i'm a wannabe strategist 