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Every book Tristan Harris recommended on podcasts
Key facts
- Tristan Harris has recommended or discussed 14 books on podcasts, as of October 12, 2026.
- Tristan Harris has talked about books on 6 podcasts, as of October 12, 2026.
- Those books came up in 8 episodes, as of October 12, 2026.
- The 3 books Tristan Harris has mentioned in the most episodes, as of October 12, 2026: The Anxious Generation, Amusing Ourselves to Death and Brave New World.
- The latest episode with a book mention from Tristan Harris aired on October 12, 2026.
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Across 6 podcasts. Every show Tristan Harris appears on, in one place — not just one.
Tristan Harris’s most recommended books
- The Anxious Generation by Jonathan Haidt
- Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
- Bury the Chains by Adam Hochschild
Tristan Harris is an American technology ethicist. He is the co-founder of the Center for Humane Technology. Throughout various podcast appearances on platforms such as Modern Wisdom, The Megyn Kelly Show, The Joe Rogan Experience, and The Tucker Carlson Show, Harris recommended and discussed several impactful books. He strongly recommended Jonathan Haidt's book The Anxious Generation, citing it to illustrate how modern technology business models maximize attention and engagement, thereby fueling a loneliness crisis and producing the most anxious, depressed generation in history. Harris also highlighted Haidt's website as a valuable resource for parents. Drawing historical parallels about collective movements and society stepping away from harmful economic models, Harris recommended Adam Hochschild's book Bury the Chains, which details the British abolition of slavery. Furthermore, he brought up Neil Postman's Amusing Ourselves to Death to read passages predicting modern technological distractions and information overload. Discussing the design of technology and historical power dynamics, Harris referenced Jef Raskin's book The Humane Interface to demonstrate how technology should respect human frailties, and he cited Yuval Noah Harari's book Sapiens to explain historical metaphors regarding artificial intelligence and societal structures.
Books Tristan Harris recommended or discussed
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The Anxious Generation
Discussed“As you said, we have the most anxious and depressed generation of our lifetimes. Jonathan Height's book, The Anxious Generation.”
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Amusing Ourselves to Death
Recommended“it's from the book have you read amusing ourselves death by neil postman”
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Brave New World
Discussed“but we had forgotten that alongside orwell's dark vision there was another slightly older slightly less well-known equally chilling vision of aldous huxley's brave new world contrary to common belief even among the educated huxley and orwell did not prophecy the same thing orwell warns that we will become overwhelmed overcome by an externally imposed oppression”
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The Humane Interface
Discussed“And his his dad wrote a book called The Humane Interface where the whole point was about making tech. If you remember before the Macintosh, you had um you know these kind of green screen command line computers that were like hard to use.”
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Bury the Chains
Recommended“there's a great book by um adam hokeshield called bury the chains which is about the british abolition of slavery in which he talks about how for the british empire”
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Alone Together
Discussed“and cheri turkel um you know who's been working at mit wrote the book reclaiming conversation and alone together”
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Bowling Alone
Discussed“the trend towards loneliness and isolated atomized individuality, you know, per the book Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam and these trends, you know, the elimination of shared spaces and public space”
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Brave New World Revisited
Discussed“as huxley remarked in brave new world revisited the civil libertarians and rationalists who are ever on the alert to oppose tyranny failed to take into account man's almost infinite appetite for distractions”
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Cultural Materialism
Discussed“there's a thinker named um Marvin Harris wrote a book called Cultural Materialism.”
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Don't Shoot the Dog
Discussed“when i was at that lab i mentioned at stanford called the persuasive technology lab um we read a book one of the books we read we read lots of books on psychology and persuasion and cults and all these things one of the books we read was from dog trainers the book was called don't shoot the dog”
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Reclaiming Conversation
Discussed“and cheri turkel um you know who's been working at mit wrote the book reclaiming conversation and alone together”
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Sapiens
Discussed“It's like what Yuval Harari, the author of Sapiens, who wrote that book Sapiens. He has this great metaphor of how I guess in the post-Roman period...”
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Superintelligence
Discussed“I mean, Bostrom wrote about this early early days. And what people are most worried about in AI is you take the same system”
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Discussed“i talked to daniel kahneman who wrote the he's like the founder of behavioral economics he wrote the book thinking fast and slow if you know that one”
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Tristan Harris talked about Superintelligence, one of the books trending on podcasts right now.
Appearances
Other mentions (4: passing, ad reads, own books)
“Yuval Harare the author of sapiens is a friend of mine he's gay and he jokes that you know his partner”
“and i think some people hear that and they think that sounds like a conspiracy theory like technology knows us better than we know ourselves but um yuval harari the author of sapiens is a friend of mine”
“as i understand it from natasha um i think her book is called addiction by design uh is when you start losing like if you start losing money”
“there are several who actually said that it convinced them not to commit suicide to have this relationship with this chatbot so it's her it's her it's the movie exactly”