My Favorite Books in 2023

I have a tradition to share my favorite books of the year with you, and if you want to look at this year’s books, I have prepared the list… When you feel alone, you will have a friend…

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Here are my favorites for 2023!

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1. Power and Progress: Our Thousand-Year Struggle Over Technology and Prosperity (by Daron Acemo?lu, Simon Johnson)

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Technology is a concept as old as humanity; therefore, politics, social life, governments, power and progress are influenced by it… While observing the general benefit of society should be the main principle, the attitudes of some power holders on this issue have been open to criticism.

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Now, with some monopolization, we can say that the power of technology is in the hands of “a group of people”, and we try to identify the positions of technology power in the fields of new social science diagnoses to make policies and to develop some philosophical ideas…

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Daron Acemoglu and Simon Johnson, in their book "Power and Progress", address exactly this issue from a historical point of view and evaluate technology within the framework of democratization...

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1. The Coming Wave: Technology, Power and the Twenty-First Century's Greatest Dilemma (by Mustafa Suleyman, Michael Bhaskar)

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Praised by big names, such as Harari or Bill Gates, the book was written by Suleyman, who is co-founder of a pioneering AI company, DeepMind. The book aims to evaluate the dilemmas and problems the world is being transformed by the technology revolution, the responsibility of control over technology and powerful technologies.

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1. Never Eat Alone: And Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time (by Keith Ferrazzi, Tahl Raz)

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Some of you may have heard of “Keith Farrazzi” name, and as you know he is the CEO of a very famous consulting company. In his book “Never Eat Alone”, which I like to give as a gift to my colleagues (I recommend this book to you too), he tells different memories and stories about himself and his life. He is chatting with us actually…

We can say that he shares with the business world especially the social networking phenomenon through his own experiences…

There are traces of all of us in his life story based on his own experiences...

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1. Elon Musk (by Walter Isaacson)

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Some of you like him and some of you do not… Still, Elon Musk is a very huge and popular name that I want to read about his life because I wonder… The author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies Walter Isaacson has written Musk’s biography at this time, and I think this is an ideal biographical novel for those who want to get to know Elon Musk from different perspectives from his early teenage years to creating his brands…

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1. The 48 Laws of Power (by Robert Greene)

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The subject of "power", which is especially examined by public administration graduates and those who are involved because of the rapidly changing agenda of technology, is extremely important to go to the root of “the power struggle”... Topics, such as reaching power, keeping power in the hands, changing hands of power, power holders, ambitions and so on can help us learn lessons from our mistakes…

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For the brainstorming, The 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene may be the address you are looking for...

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6.Chip War: The Fight for the Worlds Most Critical Technology (by Chris Miller)

Chip war(s) can be seen as a new topic, but I guess the future’s main chaos might be related to it directly because gigantic powers, such us the US and China try to be number one in the technology world in the near future…

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In this book, Miller describes the microchip technology crisis between the US and China and the developing conflicts therefore... Obviously, two powers (the US and China) are starting a new era of war over technology... It is important to understand the root of the event, as any crisis that will arise from here will affect politics, digital economy, (international) trade, etc. Hence, we need to understand the root of the matter...