Reads

Below is a non-exhaustive list of texts I’ve read, but some of the key texts that have especially shaped my thinking. I’m always looking for new things to read — get in touch with a recommendation!

Books

• Why We Die by Venki Ramakrishnan
• Contagious by Jonah Berger
• Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman
• Of Boys and Men by Richard V. Reeves
• The Moustache by Emmanuel Carrère
• The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
• The Great Transformation by Karl Polanyi
• Girl Unmasked by Emily Katy
• Autonomous Technology by Langdon Winner
• Determined by Robert Sapolsky
• Path to Nigerian Freedom by Obafemi Awolowo
• Same as Ever by Morgan Housel
• Thoughts and Sentiments on the Evil of Slavery by Ottobah Cugoano
• The Tenant by Roland Topor
• Against Decolonisation: Taking African Agency Seriously by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò
• Speeches and Statements Made at the First Organisation of African Unity (OAU) Summit, 1963
• Empire of AI by Karen Hao

Papers

• How to Procrastinate and Still Get Things Done by John Perry
• A Socio-Historical Perspective on Ponzi Schemes and Development in Nigeria: The Role of the Christian Church by Oluwasegun Peter Aluko
• Towards post-romantic love in digital societies by Carolina Bandinelli
• Image, word, action: Interpersonal dynamics in a photo-sharing community by John Suler
• One Ring to Rule Them All by Hao Zhou et.al
• Get Me Off Your Mailing List by David Mazieres & Eddie Kohler
• Decentralized Blockchain Technology and the Rise of Lex Cryptographia by Aaron Wright & Primavera De Filippi
• AGI and the Mind-Body Problem by Caleb Parks
• Ten Principles of AI Agent Economics by Ke Yang
• A conceptual model of risk and protective factors for autistic burnout by Jane Mantzalas
• The Digital Dialectic by Peter Lunenfeld
• Digital Colonialism: US Empire and the New Imperialism in the Global South by Michael Kwet
• On Good and Evil, the Mistaken Idea That Technology Is Ever Neutral, and the Importance of the Double-Charge Thesis by Luciano Floridi
• Digital Democracy by Sebastian Berg & Jeanette Hofmann
• Dream Engineering: Simulating worlds through sensory stimulation by Michelle Carr
• The Digital & The Postcolonial by Sangeet Kumar
• Liquid Democracy: Potentials, Problems, and Perspectives by Christian Blum & Christina Isabel Zuber
• Utopia and the critique of Political Economy by David F. Ruccio
• Better Than Money by David Chaum
• The Role of Social and Intergenerational Equity in Making Changes in Human Well-Being Sustainable by J.K. Summers and L.M. Smith
• The Politics of Technology by Joseph Costello
• Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder: A Neglected Issue in the Developing World by Josephat Chinawa

Articles & Essays

• The Disconnectionists by Nathan Jurgenson
• Write Like You Talk by Paul Graham
• Digital dualism and experiential monism by Alan Jacobs
• Notes on Grief by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
• There is no online authenticity by Adam Aleksic
• On Contrarianism by Ben Connelly
• A New Political Compass by Dan Zimmer
• How to be a Good Billionaire by Rohit Krishnan
• How can Europe built its first $1T start-up? by Ian Hogarth
• The Psychology of Human/AI Relations by Aaron Balick
• Do Artifacts Have Politics? by Langdon Winner
• A New Image of Africa's Future by Charles Ebikeme
• What Should You Do with Your Life? by Alexey Guzey
• The False Promise of Universal Basic Income by Alyssa Battistoni
• The Politics of Free Time & De-commodification of labour by Tedd Siegel
• Cities and Ambition by Paul Graham
• Tomorrow’s Democracy is Open Source by Nils Gilman and Ben Cerveny
• Africa and the AI Race by Daniel Ekonde
• Power to the People by Andrej Karpathy
• Economic Possibilities for our Grandchildren by John Maynard Keynes
• We Need a New Science of Progress by Patrick Collison and Tyler Cowen
• Email from the Future by Dr. Nkosazana Dlaminin Zuma
• Against Content by Adam Aleksic