What's it about? Masters of Uncertainty (2025) provides a method for training individuals and teams to perform at their peak, no matter the circumstances. It shows you how to turn uncertainty and chaos into opportunities, stay calm under pressure, and leverage innate human capabilities to excel in challenging situations. By mastering this approach, you can improve your performance, whether you work alone or as part of a team. Uncertainty is the one thing we can count on in life. Whether it’s a high-stakes business deal, a personal crisis, or a sudden emergency, we’re constantly thrown into situations that are unpredictable and beyond our control. The US Navy SEALs understand this better than most. In 2011, they faced one of the most uncertain missions in modern history: capturing or killing Osama bin Laden. Despite meticulous planning and preparation, unexpected events – starting with a helicopter crash – forced them to adapt on the fly, demonstrating their unparalleled ability to...

What's it about? How the World Eats (2024) examines how different societies approach food production and consumption, from traditional hunter-gatherers to industrial farming operations. It explores the complex global food web while investigating cutting-edge technologies, processed foods, and commodification. Through this worldwide culinary journey, it distills essential principles for a more sustainable, ethical, and equitable food future. How we eat shapes who we are and defines our relationship with the world around us. Yet despite its fundamental importance, most of us know surprisingly little about how our food reaches our plates. Consider your breakfast cereal – behind those simple flakes lies a global web involving patented seeds, industrial farming, international shipping, and complex supply chains. The system that delivers this seemingly mundane meal connects continents, economies, and ecosystems in ways that remain largely invisible to us. Today, this intricate food w...

What's it about? Shift (2025) is a comprehensive science-based guide to managing – and maybe even mastering – your emotional life. It outlines what emotions are, why they matter, and how they can be tangibly harnessed to help, not hinder, you in pursuit of a life well lived. Have you ever experienced having your emotions soar to euphoric heights one day and then nose-dive the next, leaving you feeling like you’re strapped into a rollercoaster you never signed up to ride? Emotions are complex things. Sometimes, they’re loud and insistent, demanding immediate attention and action; other times, they bubble away beneath the surface, subtly shaping and steering your choices. In either case, your emotional life colors how you view the world; emotions influence your decisions, large and small, and shape your relationships – often without your full recognition or permission. Yet most of us never learn how to guide these powerful inner forces with intention. The good news is calibrati...

What's it about? Existentialism is a Humanism (1946) is one of Jean-Paul Sartre’s most accessible explanations of his philosophy. Rooted in a matter-of-fact atheism, it contends with humanity’s search for meaning in an absurd and indifferent universe. Rejecting everything-goes nihilism, it argues that we must take responsibility for creating our own meaning. Existentialism is a modern philosophy. Its often harrowing insights are situated against the backdrop of what Nietzsche called the ‘death of God,’ as well as the all-too-human horrors of the Holocaust. But what existentialism says philosophy is for is similar to the ancient Greeks, who saw it as a way of life. For Sartre as much as Socrates, the focus is on how to live well. Based on a lecture given in Paris in 1945, Existentialism is a Humanism is perhaps the most concise explanation Sartre ever gave of his philosophy. As we’ll see, it grasps truths not in scientific, but moral terms. What’s the difference? Well, consider...

The Epic of Gilgamesh, (2100 BCE), is the world's oldest surviving literary work. It tells the story of a tyrannical king's journey toward wisdom through friendship, loss, and the search for immortality. Imagine holding a broken piece of clay, no bigger than a deck of cards. Now picture thousands of these fragments – each etched with lines of a story older than the pyramids. This is how the Epic of Gilgamesh was rediscovered: humanity’s oldest written tale, pieced back together from the dust of ancient ruins. The world it describes feels almost unrecognizable, filled with magical gardens, haunted mountains, and gods who walk among men. Yet somehow, across thousands of years, it still speaks to the same hopes, fears, and questions we wrestle with today. Gilgamesh, a young king blessed with superhuman strength and beauty, begins his story not as a classical hero, but as a feared tyrant. His journey – from power and pride to loss and hard-won wisdom – marks a turning point in ...

Life in Three Dimensions What's it about? Psychology Mindfulness & Happiness Personal Development Life in Three Dimensions (2025) expands the field of happiness research by introducing the concept of ‘psychological richness’ as a key element of a fulfilling life. The book explores the foundations of psychological richness – curiosity, variety, and exploration – and offers practical strategies for weaving these experiences into everyday life. What are the elements that make up a good life? For a long time, happiness psychologists thought that finding the balance between two key components – happiness and meaning – was the secret. Feel good, find purpose, and you’re set. But now, some of the world’s leading experts say there’s actually a third, often overlooked element: psychological richness. These are the experiences that move life beyond comfort or purpose. It’s the color and texture that come from curiosity, exploration, and the kind of experiences that surprise yo...