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Leadership
The Infinite Game by Simon Sinek Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action by Simon Sinek Leaders Eat Last: Why Some Teams Pull Together and Others Don’t by Simon Sinek Thoughts of a Philosophical Fighter Pilot
Influence
Information Operations
Putin’s Trolls: On the Frontlines of Russia’s Information War Against the World by Jessikka Aro (LEO) Disinformation: Former Spy Chief Reveals Secret Strategies for Undermining Freedom, Attacking Religion, and Promoting Terrorism by Gen Ion Mihai Pacepa, Prof Ronald J Rychlak (LEO)
Social Engineering
Social Engineering: The Science of Human Hacking by Christopher J. Hadnagy Click: The Forces Behind How We Fully Engage with People, Work, and Everything We Do by Ori Brafman The Starfish and the Spider: The Unstoppable Power of Leaderless Organizations by Ori Brafman (Author), Rod ## Marketing The Power of Persuasion: How We’re Bought and Sold by Robert Levine
Society
Propaganda by Edward Bernays Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media by Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky ## Mental Fallacies Mistakes Were Made (but Not By Me) Third Edition: Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts) by Carol Tavris
Modeling
Applied Predictive Modeling
Applied Predictive Modeling by Max Kuhn, Kjell Johnson || pdf link Applied Predictive Modeling covers the overall predictive modeling process, beginning with the crucial steps of data preprocessing, data splitting, and foundations of model tuning. The text then provides intuitive explanations of numerous common and modern regression and classification techniques, always emphasizing illustrating and solving real data problems.
Psychology
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert Cialdini Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman ### Open Source Warfare Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization by John Robb LikeWar: The Weaponization of Social Media by P.W. Singer The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age by James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
Crowd Psychology
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements by Eric Hoffer The Crowd: A Study of the Popular Mind by Gustave Le Bon Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions by Charles Mackay PUBLIC OPINION by Walter Lippmann
Foreign perspectives of America:
Understanding Anti-Americamsim by Paul Hollander Land without ghosts by David Arkush Hating America by Barry Rubin Ugly American by William J Lederer
War
Triple Cross: How bin Laden’s Master Spy Penetrated the CIA, the Green Berets, and the FBI by Peter Lance Ghost Wars: The Secret History of the CIA, Afghanistan, and Bin Laden, from the Soviet Invasion to September 10, 2001 by Steve Coll War Is a Racket: The Antiwar Classic by America’s Most Decorated Soldier by Smedley D. Butler The Art of War by Sun Tzu The Face of Battle: A Study of Agincourt, Waterloo, and the Somme by John Keegan The Guns of August by Barbara W. Tuchman The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Intelligence, Research, and Analysis
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Research Shorts and Notes ### Intelligence Gathering and Analysis - Psychology of Intelligence Analysis
The Art of Intelligence: Lessons from a Life in the CIA’s Clandestine Service by Henry A. Crumpton The Craft of Intelligence: America’s Legendary Spy Master on the Fundamentals of Intelligence Gathering for a Free World by Allen W. Dulles The Secret World: A History of Intelligence by Christopher Andrew
Research and Analysis
The Analysis and Use of Financial Statements by Gerald I. White and Ashwinpaul C. Sondhi The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction, Second Edition by Trevor Hastie, Robert Tibshirani, and Jerome Friedman The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail — but Some Don’t by Nate Silver Knowing What We Know
Technology
Genius Makers by Cade Metz, John Lee, et al.: The Information by James Gleick, Rob Shapiro, et al. Ghost in the Wires: My Adventures as the World’s Most Wanted Hacker by Kevin Mitnick ## Cybersecurity The Cuckoo’s Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage by Cliff Stoll Appelbaumhf.pdf Communication in a world of pervasive surveillance: Counter-strategies against pervasive surveillance architecture Cyber Spies by Gordon Corera Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers by Andy Greenberg
NFTs
On Constellation: - https://medium.com/@lee.papa/the-unique-value-proposition-and-bull-case-for-constellation-network-1c260dc03f23 - https://medium.com/@lee.papa/a-brief-history-of-the-hypergraph-1d8f79fd72e5 On Void - https://enterthevoidnft.medium.com/ ## Philosophy - Meditations by Marcus Aurelius - Enchiridion: Epictetus, Robert M. Baird et al