After Michael Saylor
A Civilizational Curriculum for Leaders
Thirty-eight works for better decisions in business, politics, finance and technology
Human prosperity is not produced by good intentions alone. It emerges when scientific understanding, engineering, energy, capital, markets, property rights and effective institutions work together. This is a foundation, not a complete canon.
38
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953
hours
8
themes
Bar length shows each part's share of the total reading time.
0/ 953 hours read · 0/38 works
ICivilizational Memory
12worksEleven volumes and a synthesis. Civilization as a system that compounds — and forgets.IIGeography, Ecology, and Uneven Development
1worksWhy capability arrived unevenly — and why leaders overrate intention.IIIWar, Strategy, and Republican Power
5works + 1The machine that consumes lives, capital, legitimacy and time — and Rome as its laboratory.IVUncertainty, Fragility, and Responsibility
5worksExposure matters more than confidence. Design for being wrong.VHuman Action, Liberty, and Power
9works + 2The theoretical spine: how markets coordinate, and how political power expands.VICapital, Enterprise, and Institutional Power
2worksIndustrial capital and financial capital, with the people and moral ambiguity restored.VIIEnergy, Knowledge, and Technological Transformation
3worksEnergy sets what can be done. Knowledge sets what can be imagined.VIIISound Money and Bitcoin
1works + 3Corrupt the money and every price, contract and long-term calculation is affected.
Will and Ariel Durant
359h12worksEleven volumes and a synthesis. Civilization as a system that compounds — and forgets.IIGeography, Ecology, and Uneven Development
Jared Diamond
24h1worksWhy capability arrived unevenly — and why leaders overrate intention.IIIWar, Strategy, and Republican Power
John Keegan · Livy
117h5works + 1The machine that consumes lives, capital, legitimacy and time — and Rome as its laboratory.IVUncertainty, Fragility, and Responsibility
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
69h5worksExposure matters more than confidence. Design for being wrong.VHuman Action, Liberty, and Power
Murray Rothbard
239h9works + 2The theoretical spine: how markets coordinate, and how political power expands.VICapital, Enterprise, and Institutional Power
Ron Chernow
62h2worksIndustrial capital and financial capital, with the people and moral ambiguity restored.VIIEnergy, Knowledge, and Technological Transformation
Daniel Yergin · David Deutsch · Michael Saylor
70h3worksEnergy sets what can be done. Knowledge sets what can be imagined.VIIISound Money and Bitcoin
Saifedean Ammous
13h1works + 3Corrupt the money and every price, contract and long-term calculation is affected.
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Estimates assume attentive reading without extensive annotation. Narrative history moves faster than dense economics. Editions and translations vary.