Readings

I collect here various sources that I have found useful as a teacher, researcher, administrator, human … I do not endorse 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 — American Mathematical Society Notes
• 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, 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 Chemerinsky and Howard Gillman — Goodreads
• Difficult Decisions: How Leaders Make the Right Call with Insight, Integrity, and Empathy, Eric Pliner — Goodreads
• Start with Why, Simon Sinek — Goodreads
• The Balancing Acts of Academic Leadership, Jeanne A. K. Hey — 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 et al. — 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
• Letters to a Young Mathematician: Art of Mentoring, Ian Stewart — Goodreads
• How to write mathematics, Norman Earl Steenrod, Paul R. Halmos, Menahem M. Schiffer, 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, Steven G. Krantz — Goodreads
• I Want to be a Mathematician: An Automathography, Paul R. Halmos — Goodreads

Other

• The Impossible Will Take a Little While, Paul Rogat Loeb — Goodreads
• Moth GrandSLAM winning story – Theme: Big Breaks, Moran Cerf — YouTube
• HumanProgress.org (curated data showing dramatic improvements in human well‑being throughout much of the world) — HumanProgress
• How to win friends and influence people, Dale Carnegie — 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