The Handover: How We Gave Control of Our Lives to Corporations, States, and AIs by David Runciman

Sam Bankman-Fried infamously preferred blogs to books. Why spend 100,000 words making an argument that could be made in 2,000—or, even better, in a skimmable X thread? With this inability to consider single issues at depth and length, it’s hardly surprising he was incapable of managing a complex crypto-currency exchange.

And yet, when it comes to the “thesis book” nonfiction genre—where the author introduces a broad, novel, timely theory, and then explains all its historical context, current relevance, and future importance—I can’t help but agree.