Christopher Mims 🤌 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Christopher Mims is a tech columnist at The Wall Street Journal. WSJ tech reporter currently worried about my colleague Evan Gershkovich, who was kidnapped and is being held by the Russian government
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart (Caldecott Honor Book)
Zetta ElliottChristopher Mims 🤌School administrators, afraid of attracting controversy, are quietly removing books from libraries before they can be challenged, including: “In My Mosque,” about Islam “A Place Inside of Me,” about a Black student’s reckoning with a police shooting https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/22/school-librarian-book-bans-challenges/
Hardcover, 2020
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The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains
Nicholas CarrChristopher Mims 🤌over 4th of July weekend I talked to a neighbor who read The Shallows by Nicholas Carr and credited the book with convincing him never to buy an iPhone The Shallows came out in 2010... just imagine being that far ahead of the curve
Paperback, 2020
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The Wal-Mart Effect: How the World's Most Powerful Company Really Works--And Howit's Transforming the American Economy
Charles FishmanChristopher Mims 🤌Interesting and important thread from author of "The Wal-Mart Effect" (essential reading even today) about the changing influence of Amazon on wages + labor markets all across the USA https://twitter.com/cfishman/status/1468565537441595402
Paperback, 2007
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In My Mosque
M. O. YukselChristopher Mims 🤌School administrators, afraid of attracting controversy, are quietly removing books from libraries before they can be challenged, including: “In My Mosque,” about Islam “A Place Inside of Me,” about a Black student’s reckoning with a police shooting https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/03/22/school-librarian-book-bans-challenges/
Hardcover, 2021
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The Ministry for the Future
Kim Stanley RobinsonChristopher Mims 🤌“I’m a utopian science fiction writer. At this moment in history, that means imagining a 21st century that isn’t a mass extinction event.” —Kim Stanley Robinson in conversation with Bill McKibben, on his novel The Ministry for the Future https://t.co/3BrdaKMRq8
Paperback, 2021
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After Steve: How Apple Became a Trillion-Dollar Company and Lost Its Soul
Tripp MickleChristopher Mims 🤌I'm reading the new book on Apple to date and it is VERY well written on top of being well-reported. It's been a while since a book made me feel jealous but Tripp did it. An enjoyable and compelling read for anyone interested Apple.
Paperback, 2023
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal NewportChristopher Mims 🤌This was inspired by Cal Newport's "Deep Work" which I can't recommend highly enough. Our devices were designed from the ground up to induce addiction and compulsive use; for many they create a constant state of anxiety we don't even recognize wasn't always the case. fin/
Hardcover, 2016
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Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World
Cal NewportChristopher Mims 🤌the core insight of both Cal Newport's "Digital Minimalism" and @the_jennitaur's excellent book is that it's possible to use tools rather than be used by them (but first, you have to detox so you can do it with a clear head)
Hardcover, 2019
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The Cult of We: Wework, Adam Neumann, and the Great Startup Delusion
Eliot BrownChristopher Mims 🤌Probably the most fun I’ve ever had reading a business book Also at least twice as insane as even the best documentary on the subject
Paperback, 2022
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The Exponential Age: How Accelerating Technology Is Transforming Business, Politics and Society
Azeem AzharChristopher Mims 🤌Having just started The Exponential Age, can say that these two books are like peanut butter and jelly, if you read them simultaneously, you’ll instantly be the smartest (but probably not the most popular…) person in the room 😆 https://t.co/GCpRMIJyen
Hardcover, 2021
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book