2026-05-05
Reading list on persuasion for anti-ASI movement
Disclaimer
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- I am no longer working full-time on trying to persuade people. But I read some books and learned some useful stuff
- Recommended resources in order of priority:
- Read wikipedia pages on various mass movements and regime changes.
- Books I most liked
- Srdja Popovick - Blueprint for revolution
- Conflict of visions - Thomas Sowell
- Making of the atomic bomb - Richard Rhodes
- Do a youtube scriptwriting course. Youtube is the meta for long-format content to reach mass audiences quickly.
- Longer list of resources you may be interested in (I can't guarantee they are all good)
- Full spectrum resistance - Aric McBay
- Lifelong activist - Hillary Rettig
- Twitter and tear gas - Zeynep Tufekci
- Rules for radicals - Saul Alinsky
- Algo speak - Adam Aleksic
- From dictatorship to democracy - Gene Sharp
- Story - Robert McKee
- Devil's chessboard - David Talbot
- Destined for war - Graham Allison
- Dominic Cummings notes on Otto Van Bismarck
- Bismarck Analysis briefs - Samo Burja, Ben Landau Taylor, Wolf Tivy
- From third world to first world - Lee Kuan Yew
- Power broker - Robert Caro
- Change of heart - Nick Cooney
- Laws of media - Eric McLuhan
- Dictator's handbook - Bruce Bueno de Mesquita
- Second Treatise of government - John Locke
- Federalist papers (I have hosted an AI-simplified version)
- Young India - Lala Lajpat Rai
- My experiments with truth - MK Gandhi
- India after Gandhi - Ramachadra Guha
- Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- Bismarck and the development of Germany - Otto Pflanze
- Life and times of George Fernadez - Rahul Ramagundam
- The prince - Machievelli
- 48 laws of power - Robert Greene
- Culture map - Erin Meyer
- Permanent record - Edward Snowden
- Moral landscape - Sam Harris
- Democracy in America - Alexis de Tocqueville
- Freedom's forge - Arthur Herman
- Inside the aquarium - Viktor Suvorov
- How not to be a politician - Rory Stewart
- Look at advice given by various youtubers who became famous, like MrBeast.
- Don't blindly follow all their advice, given that your message and target audience are different from theirs.
- But some basics still apply. (For example, all youtubers aimed at mass audience agree you should use 5th grader-level english. Imagine the dumbest person you know in real life, and then target someone dumber than that.)
(Sorry I don't have time to organise these lists better. Ask gpt-5 and goodreads for summaries and reviews)
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