The Big Short by Michael Lewis - A 15-minute Instaread Summery: Inside the Doomsday Machine

Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel

Flash Boys by Michael Lewis - A 30 Minute Summary: A Wall Street Revolt

Operation Paperclip: The Secret Intelligence Program that Brought Nazi Scientists to America

Business Adventures by John Brooks - A 30-Minute Instaread Summary: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street

Every Tool's a Hammer: Life Is What You Make It

The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz - A 30-minute Summary & Analysis: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers

How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World

No Place to Hide: A 30-minute Summary of Glenn Greenwald's book: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State

Soonish: Ten Emerging Technologies That'll Improve and/or Ruin Everything

Zero to One by Peter Thiel - A 20-minute Instaread Summary: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future

Connections

Creativity, Inc. by Ed Catmull: A 30-minute Summary

The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation

The Innovators by Walter Isaacson - A 30-minute Summary: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution

How Things Work: The Inner Life of Everyday Machines

The Beak of the Finch: A Story of Evolution in Our Time (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Where Good Ideas Come From

52 Random Weekend Projects: For Budding Inventors and Backyard Builders

Makers: The New Industrial Revolution