Steven Kotler
Abundance
Abundance asks whether technology can turn contextual scarcity into broadly shared conditions for possibility, not universal luxury. It traces a chain from exponential tools and cooperation to water, food, energy, learning, health, freedom, and innovation, while testing the access, governance, and safety conditions that determine whether technical promise becomes lived progress.
12 chapters
Bold
Bold examines how exponential technologies and internet-enabled crowds change who can build, fund, and solve problems at global scale. It asks which habits make ambitious action credible, then maps platforms, communities, crowdfunding, and incentive prizes as ways to distribute expertise and risk—while stressing that abundance depends on deliberate, ethical choices.
9 chapters
The Rise of Superman
Steven Kotler examines how action and adventure athletes use flow to learn, improvise, and perform under pressure. The book asks what enables this state, how its triggers can be cultivated in everyday and group settings, and how its benefits coexist with danger and unsettled science.
12 chapters