Readings
I collect here various sources that I have found useful as a mathematician, researcher, administrator, human ... I do not endore or comment on them, and the categories are not meant to be precise. The only criteria to be here is that I found them thought provoking at the time I dealt with them.
Administration and Higher Education
Beware the Busy Manager, Heike Bruch and Sumantra Ghoshal. Harvard Business Review
Leading the Mathematical Sciences Department: A Resource for Chairs, Jon W. Scott, Tina H. Straley Goodreads
Working with Problem Faculty: A Six-Step Guide for Department Chairs, R. Kent Crookston Goodreads
Positive Academic Leadership: How to Stop Putting Out Fires and Start Making a Difference, Jeffrey L. Buller Goodreads
The Coddling of the American Mind: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure, Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt. Goodreads
Understanding Academic Freedom, Henry Reichman Goodreads
Servant Leadership for Higher Education, Daniel W. Wheeler Goodreads
Free Speech on Campus, Erwin Chermerinsky and Howard Gillman Goodreads
Diversity, Equity and Inclusion
You Want to Be My Ally. Spoken word piece by Domonic Rollins, YouTube
LGBT+ Inclusivity in Physics and Astronomy: A Best Practices Guide, Nicole Ackerman, Timothy Atherton, Adrian Ray Avalani, Christine A. Berven, Tanmoy Laskar, Ansel Neunzert, Diana S. Parno, Michael Ramsey-Musolf Arxiv
The Department Chair as Transformative Diversity Leader, Edna Chun, Alvin Evans, Walter H. Gmelch Goodreads
Living Proof: Stories of Resilience Along the Mathematical Journey, Allison K. Henrich, Emille D. Lawrence,Matthew A. Pons, David G. Taylor Goodreads
x+y: A Mathematician’s Manifesto for Rethinking Gender, Eugenia Cheng Goodreads
Mathematics
A Conversation on Professional Norms in Mathematics, Mathilde Gerbelli-Gauthier, Pamela E. Harris, Michael A. Hill, Emily Riehl. Goodreads
Mathematics, Morally, Eugenia Cheng link
Letters to a Young Mathematician: Art of Mentoring, Ian Stewart Goodreads
How to write mathematics, Norman Earl Steenrod, Paul R. Halmo,Menahem M. Schiffe,Jean Alexandre Dieudonné Goodreads
How to write mathematics badly, Jean Pierre Serre YouTube
How to Teach Mathematics, Steven G. Krantz Goodreads
A Primer of Mathematical Writing: Being a Disquisition on Having Your Ideas Recorded, Typeset, Published, Read & Appreciated, Steven G. Krantz Goodreads
I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography, Paul R. Halmos Goodreads
Other
The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear, Paul Rogat Loeb Goodreads
Moth GrandSLAM winning story - Theme: Big Breaks, Moran Cerf YouTube (inspirational and funny, watch until the end of his story)
HumanProgress.org (curated data showing dramatic improvements in human well-being throughout much of the world). Website
How to win friends and influence people, Dale Carneige Goodreads
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think Hans Rosling ,Ola Rosling,Anna Rosling Rönnlund Goodreads