Applied AI for Software Developers

"Future Shock" by Toffler. It was published in 1970, but the predictions are remarkably accurate and (most of) it could easily have been written today. The core idea is about how the rate of change in industrialized societies is accelerating, plus the implications of that and strategies for dealing with it.

The First Tycoon by T.J Stiles - a great biography (easy to read) about Cornelius Vanderbilt, and you get a lot of amazing history on NYC and the rise of modern transportation and freight (steamboats to railroads). I recommend to anyone interested in NYC history and supply chains in general

Funeral Nights, an epic, narrating a journey through modern Indian jungle and history to a traditional multi-day family funeral. I am not Indian (white Irish American), previously in all honesty had zero interest in anything Indian that was not food. My publisher subscription picked it and I gave a go. Incredible piece of work.

The Dawn of Everything by Graeber and Wengrow. It retells human history from the perspective of modern archaeology and anthropology with a focus on North American natives and their influence on European philosophy or what we believe it to be.