A summer pile of books and podcasts.

#ensakidag 502: Summer suggestions, five books and five podcasts (with a bonus) Five minutes a day won’t be enough this summer. So here’s the list I actually use to prepare my clients: a collection of books and podcasts.

The books take a journey from systems to society to the human: Kevin Kelly’s “What Technology Wants” (he gave me the best advice I’ve ever received: “make one new mistake every week”), Mattias Sundin’s “Den femte accelerationen”, Fei-Fei Li’s “The Worlds I See”, Ethan Mollick’s “Co-Intelligence” (where my four principles come from), and Kazuo Ishiguro’s “Klara and the Sun”, which you should read looking for the beauty, not the dystopia. (And “Framtidig” by Judith Wolst as a bonus, though I haven’t had time to read it myself yet...)

The podcasts range from the daily pulse to deep reflection: AI Daily Brief, Hard Fork, Possible, Dwarkesh Podcast (save it for a long flight), Ezra Klein and No Priors, plus a bonus I’ve been going on about for years: Acquired.

I’m also sharing a PDF with all the recommendations and five things you can actually do with AI this summer, from planning the trip to rescuing a rainy day when the family gets restless.

What’s in your summer pile? Drop your best reading, listening and doing suggestions in the comments, and we’ll keep the pot simmering together.

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