Dictators Handbook was interesting for me too, showing politics as a game of patronage. Once you look at the world through these eyes, a lot more makes sense.

Dictators Handbook was interesting for me too, showing politics as a game of patronage. Once you look at the world through these eyes, a lot more makes sense. N.N. Taleb's "Fooled by Randomness" fundamentally changed the way I look at the world in seeing so much of what people ascribe to skill or errors, just to randomness or bad luck.