Technology writer and author
Nicholas Carr is an American journalist and author whose work examines how technology shapes our lives and minds. His book The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains was a Pulitzer Prize finalist and a New York Times bestseller.
by Nicholas Carr
A Pulitzer Prize finalist that examines how the Internet is rewiring our neural pathways, diminishing our capacity for deep reading, sustained concentration, and contemplative thought. Carr synthesizes neuroscience research on brain plasticity with the history of intellectual technologies to argue that the medium of the Internet is fundamentally altering how we think.
The books Nicholas Carr references, cites, and recommends most frequently.
by Thomas Kuhn
Kuhn argues that science doesn't progress through steady accumulation but through paradigm shifts - revolutionary breaks where the entire framework changes. Normal science solves puzzles until anomalies trigger a crisis.
by Don Norman
Norman reveals why badly designed objects frustrate us and how good design makes correct use intuitive. The principles, affordances, feedback, constraints, apply far beyond physical products.
by Daniel Goleman
Goleman argues that EQ matters more than IQ for success. Self-awareness, empathy, and emotional regulation are skills that can be developed and that predict real-world outcomes.
by Richard Thaler
Thaler and Sunstein argue that small changes in how choices are presented, nudges, can dramatically improve decisions without restricting freedom. Choice architecture is a powerful tool for public policy and beyond.
Who Nicholas draws from, and who draws from Nicholas — aggregated across every book in this collection. Counts show the number of citation links, not the depth of each one.