7 Best personal development books like Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense by Saul Perlmutter

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Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

By: Saul Perlmutter

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decis…

If you liked the personal development plot in Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense by Saul Perlmutter , here is a list of 7 books like this:

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1. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains

By: Max Solomon Bennett

4.46

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

Equal parts Sapiens , Behave, and Superintelligence , but wholly original in scope, A Brief History… read more

Similar categories in Max Solomon Bennett's A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • technology
Cover of Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters by Brian Klaas

2. Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters

By: Brian Klaas

4.13

Format: 335 pages, Kindle Edition

Want to know what chaos theory can teach us about human events? In the perspective-altering traditi… read more

Similar categories in Brian Klaas's Fluke: Chance, Chaos, and Why Everything We Do Matters book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • self help
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection by Charles Duhigg

3. Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

By: Charles Duhigg

4.05

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780593243916. Who and what are supercommunicators? They're the … read more

Similar categories in Charles Duhigg's Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Strong leaders didn't help people align. In fact, groups with a dominant leader had the least amount of neural synchrony."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

"To communicate with someone, we must connect with them. When we absorb what someone is saying and they comprehend what we say, it's because our brains have, to some degree, aligned."

-Charles Duhigg, Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection

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4. Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters

By: Charan Ranganath

3.95

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, on… read more

Similar categories in Charan Ranganath's Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory's Power to Hold on to What Matters book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
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5. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

By: Cal Newport

3.73

Format: 244 pages, Hardcover

Do fewer things. Work at a natural pace. Obsess over quality. From the New York Times bestsellin… read more

Similar categories in Cal Newport's Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
"What are we really doing here?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"Wouldn’t it be nice to have a job like that where you didn’t have to worry about being productive?"

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The world of cognitive work lacks coherent ideas about how our efforts should be organized and measured."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

"The pandemic didn’t introduce this trend so much as push its worst excesses beyond the threshold of tolerability."

-Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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6. The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth

By: Zoë Schlanger

4.37

Format: 304 pages, Hardcover

Award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger delivers a groundbreaking work of popu… read more

Similar categories in Zoë Schlanger's The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • nonfiction
  • science
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7. Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

By: Salman Khan

3.74

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

From the founder of Khan Academy, the first book written for general audiences on the AI revolution… read more

Similar categories in Salman Khan's Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing) book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
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8. Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well

By: Amy C. Edmondson

3.95

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A revolutionary guide that will transform your relationship with failure, from the pioneering resea… read more

Similar categories in Amy C. Edmondson's Right Kind of Wrong: The Science of Failing Well book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • self help
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • nonfiction
  • science
Cover of The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder by Robert I. Sutton

9. The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder

By: Robert I. Sutton

3.85

Format: 293 pages, Hardcover

Every organization is plagued by destructive friction—the forces that make it harder, more complica… read more

Similar categories in Robert I. Sutton's The Friction Project: How Smart Leaders Make the Right Things Easier and the Wrong Things Harder book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • nonfiction
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • self help
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10. In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

By: Sebastian Junger

3.92

Format: 176 pages, Hardcover

A near-fatal health emergency leads to this powerful reflection on death—and what might follow—by t… read more

Similar categories in Sebastian Junger's In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • science
"Everyone has a relationship with death whether they want one or not; refusing to think about death is its own kind of relationship. When we hear about another person's death, we are hearing a version…"

-Sebastian Junger, In My Time of Dying: How I Came Face to Face with the Idea of an Afterlife

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11. Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI

By: Ethan Mollick

4.13

Format: 243 pages, Kindle Edition

**A New York Times Bestseller**'Co-Intelligence is the very best book I know about the ins, outs, a… read more

Similar categories in Ethan Mollick's Co-Intelligence: Living and Working with AI book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
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12. The Experience Machine

By: Andy Clark

3.93

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A grand new vision of cognitive science that explains how our minds build our worldsFor as long as … read more

Similar categories in Andy Clark's The Experience Machine book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • psychology
  • science
Cover of Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World by Ryan Holiday

13. Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World

By: Ryan Holiday

4.21

Format: 365 pages, Kindle Edition

In his New York Times bestselling book, Discipline Is Destiny, Ryan Holiday made the Stoic case for… read more

Similar categories in Ryan Holiday's Right Thing, Right Now: Justice in an Unjust World book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • self help
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14. Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By: Madhumita Murgia

4.10

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

A riveting story of what it means to be human in a world changed by artificial intelligence, reveal… read more

Similar categories in Madhumita Murgia's Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI by Ray Kurzweil

15. The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI

By: Ray Kurzweil

3.93

Format: 432 pages, Hardcover

The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explor… read more

Similar categories in Ray Kurzweil's The Singularity Is Nearer: When We Merge with AI book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • philosophy
  • science
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens by Rajiv Shah

16. Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens

By: Rajiv Shah

3.79

Format: 320 pages, ebook

Rajiv J. Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and former administrator of President Barack… read more

Similar categories in Rajiv Shah's Big Bets: How Large-Scale Change Really Happens book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • nonfiction
  • self help
Cover of Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense by Saul Perlmutter

17. Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

By: Saul Perlmutter

3.63

Format: 320 pages, Hardcover

Based on a wildly popular UC Berkeley course, a primer on how to think critically, make sound decis… read more

Similar categories in Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • self help
  • science
  • personal development
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • popular science
  • technology
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18. Autocracy, Inc.

By: Anne Applebaum

4.28

Format: 224 pages, Hardcover

All of us have in our minds a cartoon image of what an autocratic state looks like, with a bad man … read more

Similar categories in Anne Applebaum's Autocracy, Inc. book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • nonfiction
"Americans who rarely think about Russia would be stunned to learn how much time Russian state television devotes to America’s culture wars, especially arguments over gender. Putin himself has display…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"Isolationism is an instinctive and even understandable reaction to the ugliness of the modern interconnected world. For some politicians in democracies, it will continue to offer a successful path to…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

"The temptation of what is sometimes called realism—the belief that nations are solely motivated by a struggle for power, that they have eternal interests and permanent geopolitical orientations—is as…"

-Anne Applebaum, Autocracy, Inc.

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19. On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything

By: Nate Silver

3.84

Format: 576 pages, Hardcover

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Signal and the Noise, the definitive guide to our… read more

Similar categories in Nate Silver's On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • self help
  • science
  • psychology
  • philosophy
  • nonfiction
  • technology
Cover of Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive by James Parker

20. Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive

By: James Parker

3.54

Format: 240 pages, Hardcover

From the vertiginously talented Atlantic staff writer James Parker, a collection of uproarious pros… read more

Similar categories in James Parker's Get Me Through the Next Five Minutes: Odes to Being Alive book and Saul Perlmutter's Third Millennium Thinking: Creating Sense in a World of Nonsense

  • nonfiction
  • self help

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Brian Klaas

4.13

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Cal Newport

3.73

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Brave New Words: How AI Will Revolutionize Education (and Why That's a Good Thing)

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3.74

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Sebastian Junger

3.92

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Kara Swisher

3.99

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How to Know a Person: The Art of Seeing Others Deeply and Being Deeply Seen

David Brooks

4.14

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Charles Duhigg

4.05

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3.73

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