How do I do the brave thing when I’m afraid?

Brown draws on Jim Collins's Good to Great for insights on cultivating courageous leadership cultures. She calls out the book's core argument about disciplined people and action as foundational to the work of brave leadership.

Dare to Lead→ cites →Good to Great

Skin in the Game extends Taleb's Incerto series. Where Antifragile asked how systems gain from disorder, Skin in the Game argues that having personal risk in the game is essential for ethical decision-making.

Skin in the Game→ cites →Antifragile

Thiel references lean startup methodology, critiquing iterating without bold vision.

Zero to One→ cites →The Lean Startup

Brown cites Dweck's growth mindset for courageous leadership.

Dare to Lead→ cites →Mindset

Housel references Taleb's tail risk and randomness concepts.

The Psychology of Money→ cites →Antifragile

References Duhigg's Power of Habit research on cue-routine-reward loops when diagnosing why violated expectations persist even after confrontation

Crucial Accountability→ cites →The Power of Habit

Pinker engages Bostrom's Superintelligence in his existential-risk chapter, rejecting what he calls the most extreme AI doom scenarios while acknowledging Bostrom's concerns merit serious analysis.

Enlightenment Now→ cites →Superintelligence

Ord draws on Bostrom's Superintelligence throughout the AI-risk chapter, adopting Bostrom's definitions of existential catastrophe and his framework for misaligned optimization, and names Bostrom as a key colleague at Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute.

The Precipice→ cites →Superintelligence

Lewis draws directly on Taleb's Black Swan framework of fat-tailed risk and financial blindness to frame why the crisis was missed by mainstream Wall Street

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine→ cites →The Black Swan

Lewis builds on Taleb's Fooled by Randomness argument that traders confuse luck with skill, showing how mortgage desks mistook systemic risk for clever innovation

The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine→ cites →Fooled by Randomness

Richtel draws on Sapolsky's work on stress biology to explain how chronic cortisol elevation suppresses T-cell function and raises infection risk

An Elegant Defense: The Extraordinary New Science of the Immune System→ cites →Behave

Marks repeatedly invokes Taleb's Black Swan concept of rare, high-impact events when explaining why manageing risk (not chasing return) is the investor's essential task

The Most Important Thing: Uncommon Sense for the Thoughtful Investor→ cites →The Black Swan

Marks builds on Taleb's Black Swan framework to argue that cycle extremes are driven by underestimated tail risks that the consensus refuses to price in

Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side→ cites →The Black Swan

Marks leans on Kahneman's work on System 1 emotional reasoning to explain why investors oscillate between greed and fear at precisely the wrong moments in the cycle

Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side→ cites →Thinking, Fast and Slow

Marks repeatedly invokes Buffett and Munger's counter-cyclical maxims from Poor Charlie's Almanack, especially 'be fearful when others are greedy'

Mastering the Market Cycle: Getting the Odds on Your Side→ cites →Poor Charlie's Almanack