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Regrets of the Dying
A short, sobering reflection on what people most often regret at the end of life. It cuts through noise and ambition to remind us that authenticity, relationships, and the courage to choose happiness matter more than anything else.
A Guide to the Good Life
A remarkably clear and practical guide to Stoicism as a way of living — not abstract theory. Irvine shows how disciplined judgment, attention, and restraint can help us live a calmer, more intentional life.
Meditations
A private notebook turned timeless guide to self-leadership under pressure. Meditations offers clear, grounded reminders for acting with calm, integrity, and perspective — especially when the world doesn’t cooperate.
The Fearless Organization
A classic, research-based guide to creating psychological safety at work so people can speak up, learn, and innovate without fear.
Creative Confidence
A practical guide to reclaiming creativity by overcoming fear and building confidence through action, experimentation, and empathy.
The Achievement Habit
A practical, design-inspired guide to turning intention into action through small experiments, responsibility, and behavioral change.
Testing with Humans
A practical guide to testing assumptions through small, real-world experiments, helping teams reduce uncertainty and make better decisions early.
Talking to Humans
A practical guide to customer discovery that emphasizes learning through real conversations rather than assumptions. Giff Constable shows how talking to humans early can prevent costly mistakes later.
The Fifth Discipline
A foundational work on systems thinking and organizational learning, this book shows how deep-seated structures and mental models shape behavior and outcomes over time.
Reinventing Organizations
A landmark book exploring how organizations can evolve toward greater autonomy, purpose, and human-centered ways of working.
Emotional Awareness
A thoughtful dialogue between the Dalai Lama and world-renowned psychologist Paul Ekman on emotional awareness, balance, and the cultivation of compassion.
Hyper Island Toolbox
An experiential learning and facilitation toolkit from Hyper Island, focused on collaboration, reflection, and learning through action.
Liberating Structures
A facilitation toolkit offering simple interaction patterns that help groups work more inclusively, effectively, and intelligently together.
IDEO.org Design Kit
A human-centered design toolkit from the legendary design firm focused on applying design thinking to social, public, and community-based challenges.
Gamestorming
A facilitation toolkit based on structured games that help teams think visually, collaborate more effectively, and tackle complex challenges together.
Google Ventures Design Sprint Kit
A structured innovation toolkit from Google Ventures designed to help teams solve big problems and test ideas quickly through time-boxed sprints and rapid user testing.
Stanford d.school Bootleg
A foundational design thinking toolkit bringing together practical tools for human-centered innovation. Widely used across universities, startups, and organizations to navigate ambiguity through empathy, experimentation, and iteration.
Google’s Aristotle Project
Google’s research revealed that great teams aren’t built on talent alone, but on psychological safety — the shared belief that it’s safe to speak, risk, and be human at work.
Formula 1 Pitstop & Leadership
When teams fail under pressure, the problem is often not skill or effort, but design. This story shows how looking sideways — to Formula 1 pit crews — helped a hospital radically reduce errors and rethink how high-stakes teamwork really works.
Seeing with The Heart’s Eye
How we see is never neutral. This text explores why truly meeting another person requires a form of attention grounded in care, vulnerability, and ethical responsibility.

