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Bullshit Jobs
David Graeber investigates why paid work can feel socially unnecessary, and what that feeling reveals about bureaucracy, status, and power.
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Antifragile
Nassim Nicholas Taleb distinguishes systems that break under stress from those that withstand it—and those that can benefit from variation and stress.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari’s brisk, ambitious history connects evolution, culture, power, and technology—and gives readers large questions to carry into more particular books.