The LindyFact Library

A curriculum for separating signal from noise. These thinkers—spanning statistics, media criticism, cognitive science, and philosophy—have all grappled with the same question: How do we separate signal from noise?

The Core Canon

14 Years

Antifragile

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

2012

41 Years

Amusing Ourselves to Death

Neil Postman

1985

2 Years

Nexus

Yuval Noah Harari

2024

94 Years

Brave New World

Aldous Huxley

1932

How We Think

15 Years

Thinking, Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

2011

16 Years

The Shallows

Nicholas Carr

2010

10 Years

Deep Work

Cal Newport

2016

31 Years

The Demon-Haunted World

Carl Sagan

1995

How Media Works

6 Years

Stop Reading the News

Rolf Dobelli

2020

10 Years

The Attention Merchants

Tim Wu

2016

14 Years

Trust Me, I'm Lying

Ryan Holiday

2012

15 Years

The Filter Bubble

Eli Pariser

2011

Signal, Noise, and Prediction

14 Years

The Signal and the Noise

Nate Silver

2012

8 Years

Factfulness

Hans Rosling

2018

History and Philosophy

62 Years

Understanding Media

Marshall McLuhan

1964

38 Years

Manufacturing Consent

Noam Chomsky & Edward Herman

1988

15 Years

The Information

James Gleick

2011

104 Years

Public Opinion

Walter Lippmann

1922

Optimism About Progress

8 Years

Enlightenment Now

Steven Pinker

2018

16 Years

The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley

2010

Practical Guides

7 Years

How to Do Nothing

Jenny Odell

2019

4 Years

Stolen Focus

Johann Hari

2022

8 Years

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now

Jaron Lanier

2018

10 Years

The Daily Stoic

Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman

2016