mattstromawn.com

# Matt Ström-Awn

> The personal website & blog of Matt Ström-Awn.

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## Writing

- [High-agency strategy](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/high-agency-strategy/index.md): As AI thins out the management layer, strategy has to be built from the inside — salient enough to act on, memetic enough to spread.
- [Design from the inside](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/design-from-the-inside/index.md): Now that software changes faster than the tools and methods of design, what should designers do differently?
- [Expansion artifacts](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/expansion-artifacts/index.md): What should we call the tool marks that generative AI leaves behind? And what can we do with them once we've learned to recognize them?
- [Decentralizing quality](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/decentralizing-quality/index.md): Understanding quality is essential to building successful products. But who gets to decide what quality is? And how do we build systems that make quality inevitable?
- [The product design talent crisis](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/product-design-talent-crisis/index.md): The demand for product designers at the top of the talent pool is happening at the cost of junior and entry-level roles. We need to reverse this trend to ensure a healthy future of our practice.
- [The history of album art](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/album-art/index.md): How design pioneers like Alex Steinweiss, Reid Miles, and S. Neil Fujita saw an opportunity to connect music to listeners through art
- [UI Density](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/ui-density/index.md): UI density is more than just the way things look; it's about the information they convey and how much value they generate.
- [The polish paradox](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/the-polish-paradox/index.md): We like to talk about polish in design, but what does it mean? Is it just a fancy word for quality? Or is there something deeper at play?
- [How to generate color palettes for design systems](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/generating-color-palettes/index.md): Color palettes are one of the most fundamental aspects of design systems. How can we make them more flexible, scalable, and accessible?
- [Creating a positive workplace community](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/culture-policy-enforcement/index.md)
- [Design-by-wire](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/design-by-wire/index.md)
- [Platform Design: Interfaces, Incentives, Emergence & Second-Order Thinking](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/platform-design/index.md)
- [The micromanager's dilemma](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/the-micromanagers-dilemma/index.md)
- [Ballet dancers and shot putters](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/ballet-dancers-and-shot-putters/index.md)
- [Generative art Open Graph preview images](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/generative-art-og-images/index.md)
- [Beauty in the machine: Post-industrial design](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/post-industrial-design/index.md)
- [How to pick the least wrong colors](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/how-to-pick-the-least-wrong-colors/index.md)
- [Hockey sticks don't look like hockey sticks](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/hockey-sticks/index.md)
- [Functions and the future of design systems](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/functions-in-design-systems/index.md)
- [Stop brainstorming](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/stop-brainstorming/index.md)
- [The legacy of NFTs](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/nfts/index.md)
- [Beyond 10×](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/beyond-10x/index.md)
- [Pictures of websites](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/pictures-of-websites/index.md)
- [The service-based design org](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/service-based-design-org/index.md)
- [The hand and the brain](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/the-hand-and-the-brain/index.md)
- [Copying is the way design works](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/copying/)
- [The things of everyday design](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/the-things-of-everyday-design/index.md)
- [Collaborative design research](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/collaborative-design-research/index.md)
- [A design API in practice](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/design-api-in-practice/index.md)
- [Bottom Line Up Front: write to make decisions faster](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/bluf/index.md)
- [How to make big changes one step at a time](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/designing-change/index.md)
- [What is a brand?](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/what-is-a-brand/index.md)
- [A brief guide to design feedback](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/critique-vs-review/index.md)
- [Engagement is an antimetric](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/engagement/index.md)
- [Breaking looms](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/breaking-looms/index.md)
- [People alignment vs. purpose alignment](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/people-alignment-purpose-alignment/index.md)
- [The paradox at the heart of A/B testing](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/ab-testing-paradox/index.md)
- [All the books I read in 2019](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/2019-books/index.md)
- [Product thinking is a lifeline for struggling design systems](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/product-thinking-for-design-systems/index.md)
- [Design APIs: the evolution of design systems](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/design-apis/index.md)
- [Making an audio waveform visualizer with vanilla java script](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/waveform-visualizier-javascript/index.md)
- [Design and machine learning](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/design-and-ml/index.md)
- [Learning how to see](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/learning-how-to-see/index.md)
- [Intuition vs. data](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/intuition/index.md)
- [What google search shows us about the future of product design](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/google-search/index.md)
- [Using Netlify to build an email sign-up widget](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/netlify-email/index.md)
- [The management strategy that saved Apollo 11](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/distributed-decision-making/index.md)
- [The Role of Doubt in Design](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/doubt/index.md)
- [Delight comes last](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/delight-comes-last/index.md)
- [The inevitable same-ification of the internet](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/sameification/index.md)
- [Responsive roadmaps](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/responsive-roadmaps/index.md)
- [The slippery slope of in product messaging](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/wayfinding/index.md)
- [Switching to variable fonts](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/variable-fonts/index.md)
- [Compounding design, expiring design](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/compounding-design/index.md)
- [Optimize for learning](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/optimize-for-learning/index.md)
- [How to take your team's creative pulse](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/pulse-check/index.md)
- [All the books I read in 2018](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/2018-books/index.md)
- [Inclusive design on the Tokyo subway](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/inclusive-subway-design/index.md)
- [How to have more inclusive meetings](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/inclusive-meetings/index.md)
- [Who are design systems for?](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/who-are-design-systems-for/index.md)
- [The design system you already have](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/the-design-system-you-already-have/index.md)
- [We'll fix it later](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/fix-it-later/index.md)
- [Just-in-time design](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/just-in-time-design/index.md)
- [Research, empathy, simplicity, speed](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/research-simplicity-empathy-speed/index.md)
- [Designing with code](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/designing-with-code/index.md)
- [The 1-hour design principles workshop](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/design-principles-workshop/index.md)
- [My management philosophy](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/management-philosophy/index.md)
- [Agile & anxiety](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/agile-anxiety/index.md)
- [Crystal ball 1-on-1s](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/crystal-ball/index.md)
- [Really bad design exercises](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/design-exercises/index.md)
- [Flight crews don't decide where to fly](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/crews/index.md)
- [Why the web will win](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/web-platform/index.md)
- [My favorite job interview question](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/interview/index.md)
- [The Wall Street Journal's Fonts: Escrow, Exchange & Retina](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/wsjfonts/index.md)
- [What makes a good design principle?](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/principles/index.md)
- [How to get the best design feedback from your team](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/feedback-revisited/index.md)
- [Making WSJ.com more accessible](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/wsj-accessibility/index.md)
- [Design better data tables](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/tables/index.md)
- [Datum ipsum](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/datum-ipsum/index.md)
- [Tiny data visualizations](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/tiny-data-viz/index.md)
- [Mind the gap: designing graphs with missing data](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/gap/index.md)
- [Goldilocks your graphs](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/goldilocks/index.md)
- [Well-designed interfaces look boring](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/boring/index.md)
- [Towards better creative feedback](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/feedback/index.md)
- [Asymmetrical symmetry](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/go/index.md)
- [Make it 'til you make it](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/make-it/index.md)
- [Better problem solving: unask the question](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/unask/index.md)
- [Taking credit for success](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/success/index.md)
- [What happens when things go wrong](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/wrong/index.md)
- [Practice makes perfect](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/practice/index.md)
- [Be curious](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/curiosity/index.md)
- [Working to work](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/working/index.md)
- [A website to call my own](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/website/index.md)


## Projects

- [Copilot Money](https://mattstromawn.com/projects/copilotmoney/): Setting the quality bar and shipping a powerful new feature
- [Stripe Merchant Dashboard](https://mattstromawn.com/projects/stripe-dashboard/): Sweating the details of Stripe's most-used product
- [Stripe Mobile App](https://mattstromawn.com/projects/stripe-mobile/): Enabling millions of merchants to run their business from their phone

## Ethics for Designers

A series on the history and application of ethical thinking, tailored to digital design.

- [The unexamined life](https://mattstromawn.com/ethics/the-unexamined-life/index.md)
- [Virtue ethics](https://mattstromawn.com/ethics/virtue-ethics/index.md)
- [Deontology](https://mattstromawn.com/ethics/deontology/index.md)
- [Consequentialism Explained: Ethics Based on Outcomes (For Designers)](https://mattstromawn.com/ethics/consequentialism/index.md)
- [What Is Care Ethics? A Designer's Guide to Relationship-Centered Morality](https://mattstromawn.com/ethics/care-ethics/index.md)
- [Know thyself](https://mattstromawn.com/ethics/know-thyself/index.md)
- [Ethics for designers in the real world: Snapchat’s Juneteenth filter](https://mattstromawn.com/writing/ethics-snapchat/index.md)

## Reading

- [Termination Shock](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/termination-shock/index.md) — Neal Stephenson
- [Deception Point](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/deception-point/index.md) — Dan Brown
- [Good Strategy, Bad Strategy](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/good-strategy-bad-strategy/index.md) — Richard Rumelt
- [Dreams of a Final Theory](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/dreams-of-a-final-theory/index.md) — Steven Weinberg
- [Patriot Games](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/patriot-games/index.md) — Tom Clancy
- [The Hunt for Red October](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-hunt-for-red-october/index.md) — Tom Clancy
- [Kill Chain](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/kill-chain/index.md) — Andrew Cockburn
- [Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/tinker-tailor-soldier-spy/index.md) — John le Carré
- [The Maltese Falcon](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-maltese-falcon/index.md) — Dashiell Hammett
- [Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/tomorrow-and-tomorrow-and-tomorrow/index.md) — Gabrielle Zevin
- [The Idea Factory](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-idea-factory/index.md) — Jon Gertner
- [And Then There Were None](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/and-then-there-were-none/index.md) — Agatha Christie
- [Thinking in Systems](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/thinking-in-systems/index.md) — Donella H. Meadows
- [Blue Mars](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/blue-mars/index.md) — Kim Stanley Robinson
- [The Making of a Manager](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-making-of-a-manager/index.md) — Julie Zhuo
- [Noise](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/noise/index.md)
- [The Hard Thing About Hard Things](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-hard-thing-about-hard-things/index.md) — Ben Horowitz
- [Green Mars](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/green-mars/index.md) — Kim Stanley Robinson
- [Red Mars](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/red-mars/index.md) — Kim Stanley Robinson
- [The Mirror & the Light](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-mirror-and-the-light/index.md) — Hilary Mantel
- [Bringing Up the Bodies](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/bringing-up-the-bodies/index.md) — Hilary Mantel
- [Wolf Hall](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/wolf-hall/index.md) — Hilary Mantel
- [The Price of Peace](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-price-of-peace/index.md) — Zachary D. Carter
- [The Machine That Changed the World](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-machine-that-changed-the-world/index.md) — James P. Womack, Daniel T. Jones, and Daniel Roos
- [Murder on the Orient Express](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/murder-on-the-orient-express/index.md) — Agatha Christie
- [How the World Really Works](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/how-the-world-really-works/index.md) — Vaclav Smil
- [Red Notice](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/red-notice/index.md) — Bill Browder
- [Helgoland](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/helgoland/index.md) — Carlo Rovelli
- [The Code Breaker](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-code-breaker/index.md) — Walter Isaacson
- [The Selfish Gene](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-selfish-gene/index.md) — Richard Dawkins
- [The Grid](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-grid/index.md) — Gretchen Bakke
- [The Phoenix Project](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-phoenix-project/index.md) — George Spafford, Gene Kim, Kevin Behr
- [To Start a War](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/to-start-a-war/index.md) — Robert Draper
- [Energy](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/energy/index.md) — Richard Rhodes
- [Permutation City](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/permutation-city/index.md) — Greg Egan
- [The Freeze-Frame Revolution](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-freeze-frame-revolution/index.md) — Peter Watts
- [The Bomber Mafia](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-bomber-mafia/index.md) — Malcolm Gladwell
- [11/22/63](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/11-22-63/index.md) — Stephen King
- [The Evolution of Cooperation](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-evolution-of-cooperation/index.md) — Robert Axelrod
- [A Memory Called Empire](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/a-memory-called-empire/index.md) — Arkady Martine
- [Journey to the Edge of Reason](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/journey-to-the-edge-of-reason/index.md) — Stephen Budiansky
- [Project Hail Mary](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/project-hail-mary/index.md) — Andy Weir
- [Guns, Germs, and Steel](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/guns-germs-and-steel/index.md) — Jared Diamond
- [Creative Selection](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/creative-selection/index.md) — Ken Kocienda
- [Stories of Your Life and Others](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/stories-of-your-life-and-others/index.md) — Ted Chiang
- [The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-ten-most-beautiful-experiments/index.md) — George Johnson
- [The Ministry for the Future](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-ministry-for-the-future/index.md) — Kim Stanley Robinson
- [Leaders Eat Last](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/leaders-eat-last/index.md) — Simon Sinek
- [1776](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/1776/index.md) — David McCullough
- [On Writing](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/on-writing/index.md) — Stephen King
- [A Wizard of Earthsea](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/a-wizard-of-earthsea/index.md) — Ursula K. Le Guin
- [The Beginning of Infinity](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-beginning-of-infinity/index.md) — David Deutsch
- [Piranesi](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/piranesi/index.md) — Susanna Clarke
- [Going to Pieces Without Falling Apart](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/going-to-pieces-without-falling-apart/index.md) — Mark Epstein
- [The Quiet Americans](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-quiet-americans/index.md) — Scott Anderson
- [Masters of Doom](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/masters-of-doom/index.md) — David Kushner
- [Altered Carbon](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/altered-carbon/index.md) — Richard K. Morgan
- [Slaughterhouse-Five](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/slaughterhouse-five/index.md) — Kurt Vonnegut
- [Benjamin Franklin](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/benjamin-franklin/index.md) — Walter Isaacson
- [The Guns of August](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-guns-of-august/index.md) — Barbara W. Tuchman
- [American Colossus](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/america-colossus/index.md) — H.W. Brands
- [Bird by Bird](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/bird-by-bird/index.md) — Anne Lamott
- [The Design of Everyday Things](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-design-of-everyday-things/index.md) — Don Norman
- [Design Unbound](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/design-unbound/index.md) — Ann M. Pendleton-Jullian and John Seely Brown
- [Twenty Bits I Learned About Design, Business & Community](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/twenty-bits/index.md) — Dan Cederholm
- [The Innovator's Dilemma](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-innovators-dilemma/index.md) — Clayton M. Christensen
- [Rescuing Prometheus](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/rescuing-prometheus/index.md) — Thomas P. Hughes
- [Thinking in Services](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/thinking-in-services/index.md) — Majid Iqbal
- [The Clockwork Universe](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-clockwork-universe/index.md) — Edward Dolnick
- [The Splendid and the Vile](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-splended-and-the-vile/index.md) — Erik Larson
- [The Way of Zen](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-way-of-zen/index.md) — Alan Watts
- [Good Services](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/good-services/index.md) — Lou Downe
- [Instantiation](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/instantiation/index.md) — Greg Egan
- [Borne](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/borne/index.md) — Jeff VanderMeer
- [Dark Matter](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/dark-matter/index.md) — Blake Crouch
- [Recursion](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/recursion/index.md) — Blake Crouch
- [Hooked](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/hooked/index.md) — Nir Eyal
- [Atomic Habits](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/atomic-habits/index.md) — James Clear
- [Do I Make Myself Clear?](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/do-i-make-myself-clear/index.md) — Harold Evans
- [Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/genghis-khan/index.md) — Jack Weatherford
- [The Obstacle is the Way](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-obstacle-is-the-way/index.md) — Ryan Holiday
- [The Mythical Man-Month](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-mythical-man-month/index.md) — Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
- [The Mastermind](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-mastermind/index.md) — Evan Ratliff
- [Dare to Lead](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/dare-to-lead/index.md) — Brené Brown
- [The Square and the Tower](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-square-and-the-tower/index.md) — Niall Ferguson
- [Several Short Sentences About Writing](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/several-short-sentences-about-writing/index.md) — Verlyn Klinkenborg
- [High Output Management](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/high-output-management/index.md) — Andrew S. Grove
- [Radical Candor](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/radical-candor/index.md) — Kim Malone Scott
- [The Art of Taking Action](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-art-of-taking-action/index.md) — Gregg Krech
- [The Goal](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-goal/index.md) — Eliyahu M. Goldratt and Jeff Cox
- [Shanzhai](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/shanzhai/index.md) — Byung-Chul Han and Philippa Hurd
- [Rocket Men](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/rocket-men/index.md) — Robert Kurson
- [Competing Against Luck](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/competing-against-luck/index.md) — Clayton M. Christensen, Karen Dillon, Taddy Hall and David S. Duncan
- [Children of Time](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/children-of-time/index.md) — Adrian Tchaikovksy
- [Articulating Design Decisions](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/articulating-design-decisions/index.md) — Tom Greever
- [Org Design for Design Orgs](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/org-design-for-design-orgs/index.md) — Peter Merholz and Kristin Skinner
- [Pandemic](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/pandemic/index.md) — A. G. Riddle
- [How to Do Nothing](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/how-to-do-nothing/index.md) — Jenny Odell
- [Thinking, Fast and Slow](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/thinking-fast-and-slow/index.md) — Daniel Kahneman
- [The Black Swan](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-black-swan/index.md) — Nassim Taleb
- [Einstein](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/einstein/index.md) — Walter Isaacson
- [Midnight in Chernobyl](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/midnight-in-chernobyl/index.md) — Adam Higginbotham
- [Trillion Dollar Coach](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/trillion-dollar-coach/index.md) — Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan Eagle
- [Exhalation](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/exhalation/index.md) — Ted Chiang
- [Brave New Work](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/brave-new-work/index.md) — Aaron Dignan
- [Endurance](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/endurance/index.md) — Alfred Lansing
- [Leviathan Wakes](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/leviathan-wakes/index.md) — James S. A. Corey
- [21 Lessons for the 21st Century](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/21-lessons-for-the-21st-century/index.md) — Yuval Noah Harari
- [Discussing Design](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/discussing-design/index.md) — Adam Connor and Aaron Irizarry
- [The Fifth Season](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-fifth-season/index.md) — N.K. Jemisin
- [Predictably Irrational](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/predictably-irrational/index.md) — Dan Ariely
- [Ball Lightning](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/ball-lightning/index.md) — Cixin Liu
- [A People's History of the United States](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/a-peoples-history-of-the-united-states/index.md) — Howard Zinn
- [How To Cook Your Life](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/how-to-cook-your-life/index.md) — Dōgen Zenji and Kōshō Uchiyama
- [Thinking in Bets](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/thinking-in-bets/index.md) — Annie Duke
- [The Wizard and the Prophet](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-wizard-and-the-prophet/index.md) — Charles C. Mann
- [The 2020 Commission Report on the North Korean Nuclear Attacks Against the United States](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/2020-commission-report/index.md) — Jeffrey Lewis
- [Why We Sleep](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/why-we-sleep/index.md) — Matthew Walker
- [SPQR](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/spqr/index.md) — Mary Beard
- [Good to Great](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/good-to-great/index.md) — James C. Collins
- [The Culture Code](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-culture-code/index.md) — Daniel Coyle
- [On Grand Strategy](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/on-grand-strategy/index.md) — John Lewis Gaddis
- [Bad Blood](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/bad-blood/index.md) — John Carreyrou
- [1491](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/1491/index.md) — Charles Mann
- [Enlightenment Now](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/enlightenment-now/index.md) — Steven Pinker
- [The Foundation Trilogy](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/the-foundation-trilogy/index.md) — Isaac Asimov
- [Why Buddhism is True](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/why-buddhism-is-true/index.md) — Robert Wright
- [I Am A Strange Loop](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/i-am-a-strange-loop/index.md) — Douglas R. Hofstadter
- [Dreaming the Beatles](https://mattstromawn.com/reading/dreaming-the-beatles/index.md) — Rob Sheffield