Slater Financial Group

Mark Slater

From Strength to Strength

By Dr. Arthur C. Brooks

Arthur C. Brooks is a bestselling author, Harvard professor, and the Atlantic's happiness columnist.

Drawing on multiple avenues in academia, Brooks thesis is about refocusing yourself on certain priorities and habits that will set ourselves up for increased happiness.

The Psychology of Money

By Morgan Housel

Morgan Housel is a partner at The Collaborative Fund and was an award-winning columnist at The Wall Street Journal and The Motley Fool.

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know, it's about how you behave. Morgan shares 19 stories exploring how personal biases and emotional factor play an important role in financial decisions. This book helps make better sense of one of life's most important topics.

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Jeannie Tse

The Chaos Machine

By Max Fisher

Max Fisher is an international reporter for the New York Times, author of a column called "The Interpreter," which explains global trends and major world events.

Fisher tells the inside story of how algorithms built at social media companies are carefully constructed to prey on psychological frailties and has the power to sway mass opinion and beliefs.

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Hamed Amri

Predictably Irrational

By Dan Ariely

Dan Ariely is a Professor of Behavioral Economics at Duke University and holds an appointment at the MIT Media Lab where he is the head of the eRationality research group. He was formerly the Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Behavioral Economics at MIT Sloan School of Management.

Ariely refutes the common assumption that we behave in fundamentally rational ways. Blending everyday experience with groundbreaking research, Ariely explains how expectations, emotions, social norms, and other invisible, seemingly illogical forces skew our reasoning abilities.

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Sandy Wan

The Essays of Warren Buffett

By Lawrence Cunningham

Warren Buffett is an American investor, industrialist and philanthropist. He is widely regarded as one of the most successful investors in the world.

Cunningham pieces together a collection of Buffett's letters to the shareholders of Berkshire Hathaway written over the past few decades that together furnish an enormously valuable informal education. The letters distill in plain words all the basic principles of sound business practices.

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Ryan Tam

Three Body Problem

By Liu Cixin

The Three-Body Problem is the first book in a science fiction trilogy that offers a refreshing, but terrifying perspective on the nature of extraterrestrial life in the universe. The unique ideas found in the book resulted in Liu Cixin, a computer engineer prior to becoming a writer, being awarded both the Hugo Award and Chinese Nebula Award for best science fiction novel in 2015.

The core plot conflict of the story is generic, with Earth facing the prospect of an alien invasion, but the novel and series as a whole are a stark contrast to most science fiction novels. Liu Cixin's unique writing style focuses on scientific ideas and the moral dilemmas faced by humanity crafting a narrative driven by big ideas instead of multidimensional characters. The author drives the narrative of the story using audacious extrapolations of known science layered with a unique commentary on the interplay between science and politics. If you need one more reason to read the book, there is a Netflix adaptation scheduled to come out later this year.

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Jeff Clarke

Sapiens

By Yuval Noah Harari

Yuval Noah Harari is a best-selling author and lecturer at the Department of History, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where he specializes in World History, medieval history and military history.

To have any idea of where we are going, it is important to have an idea of where we all came from. Harari traces the origins, mechanisms, and effects of when our species was once small bands of hunter-gatherers 100,000 years ago to the present-day global network, and explains how it all came to be.

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