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
7
phases
Bar length shows each part's share of the total reading time.
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1Orientation81h
5worksThese works establish the central questions.2Foundations131h
4worksA theory of human action, a moral framework for liberty, an operational approach to uncertainty, and a doctrine of aligned incentives.3The Ancient World and War252h
9worksThe Durants provide scope.4Ideas and Liberty139h
7worksThis phase connects economic ideas to political institutions and examines the continuing tension among liberty, order, federalism, democracy, local autonomy and centralised power.5Capital, Energy, and Modernity317h
10worksHow commerce, banking, state finance, energy, information, industrial organisation and political power combined to create the modern world.6Digital Transformation and Sound Money25h
2works + 2From the digitisation of information, products, services and institutions to the digitisation of property and money.7Coda8h
1worksTaleb's aphorisms carry more meaning after centuries of institutional error, overconfidence, fragility and unintended consequence.
5worksThese works establish the central questions.2Foundations131h
4worksA theory of human action, a moral framework for liberty, an operational approach to uncertainty, and a doctrine of aligned incentives.3The Ancient World and War252h
9worksThe Durants provide scope.4Ideas and Liberty139h
7worksThis phase connects economic ideas to political institutions and examines the continuing tension among liberty, order, federalism, democracy, local autonomy and centralised power.5Capital, Energy, and Modernity317h
10worksHow commerce, banking, state finance, energy, information, industrial organisation and political power combined to create the modern world.6Digital Transformation and Sound Money25h
2works + 2From the digitisation of information, products, services and institutions to the digitisation of property and money.7Coda8h
1worksTaleb's aphorisms carry more meaning after centuries of institutional error, overconfidence, fragility and unintended consequence.
1 hour a day
31 months
90 minutes a day
21 months
2 hours a day
16 months
Estimates assume attentive reading without extensive annotation. Narrative history moves faster than dense economics. Editions and translations vary.