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BRAIN FITNESS BLUEPRINT de Patrick K. Porter & Ruchika Sikri

A 30-day action plan to supercharge your brain and achieve peak performance using a proven combination of holistic ancient wisdom and modern BrainTap technology.

BRAIN FITNESS BLUEPRINT:
Integrating Ancient Wisdom and Modern Technologies for Peak Performance
by Patrick K. Porter & Ruchika Sikri
Hay House, October 2025
(via The Gernert Company)

Your brain wasn’t built for the world we live in. Poor sleep, excessive screen time, and modern stressors have disrupted brain function, leading to mental fatigue, decreased focus, and emotional imbalance. So how are we going to thrive?

Dr. Patrick Porter, founder of BrainTap, and Ruchika Sikri, founding partner of Wisdom Ventures and former Head of Well-being Learning at Google, will help you restore your cognitive clarity, find emotional balance, and achieve lasting vitality with an integrative framework that harnesses the tools of holistic spiritual practices alongside the insights of cutting-edge research.

Their groundbreaking blueprint will reveal:

Why modern life is hijacking your brain—and how to reclaim control
How meditation, breathwork, and nature-based rituals reset your nervous system
How emerging technologies can enhance focus, sleep, and emotional regulation
Daily habits to support mental sharpness, resilience, and purpose
A 30-day action plan to rewire your brain for energy, clarity, and joy

Starting today, you can embark on the transformative path toward the vibrant, focused, and flourishing mind you were meant to have.

Patrick K. Porter, Ph.D., is an award-winning author, educator, researcher, and speaker. During a career spanning more than three decades, Dr. Porter has been on the cutting edge of brainwave entrainment technology. His newest brain-training platform, BrainTap, is distinctively designed to activate the brain’s neuroplasticity to achieve brain fitness, overcome stress, accelerate learning, enjoy superb sleep, and other lifestyle improvements.

Ruchika Sikri is a visionary investor and entrepreneur. She founded Wisdom Ventures Fund, Mandala Ventures, and Ready Platform to support human flourishing through innovation and purpose-driven communities. With over 25 years of leadership experience at Microsoft, Cisco, and Google, she now follows her life’s mission to help build a more connected and compassionate world through globally accessible well-being solutions.

DARK FACTOR de Benjamin E. Hilbig, Morten Moshagen & Ingo Zettler

Gripping insights into the dark side of human nature.

DARK FACTOR
by Benjamin E. Hilbig, Morten Moshagen & Ingo Zettler
Artiston/PRH Germany, October 2025

What do people with a tendency to steal, incite hatred, bully and lie have in common? Studies conducted over the past 10 years by international teams of researchers suggests that what they all share is a quality called ‘the dark factor’. It exists in each of us to a greater or lesser degree, and can actually be measured. For the first time ever, DARK FACTOR provides comprehensive answers to some key questions, based on data obtained from more than 2 million people.

What makes us do bad things? What do our negative personality traits – such as narcissism, psychopathy and sadism – have in common? How do gender, age and level of education affect the dark factor, and how does it, in turn, shape our relationships, career choices and political views? Does it lead to success and happiness, or is it more likely to make you lonely, or even ill? And can its levels change, or is it a case of ‘once bad, always bad’?

The D-Factor: The general tendency to maximize one’s individual utility – disregarding, accepting, or malevolently provoking disutility for others –, accompanied by beliefs that serve as justifications

An analysis of the nine classic personality traits: egoism, malice, Machiavellianism, moral disengagement, narcissism, psychopathy, sadism, self-centeredness and excessive entitlement.

Prof. Benjamin E. Hilbig, PhD, has a degree in psychology and obtained his PhD in 2009. He then joined the Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods before moving to an assistant professor role at the University of Mannheim, where he specialised in judgement and decision-making. In 2014, he joined the University of Kaiserslautern-Landau, where he heads up the experimental psychology and personality research group. He specialises in ethical and social decision-making, personality traits and research methods.

Prof. Dr. Morten Moshagen has a PhD in psychology. Following a postdoc at the University of Mannheim, he became professor of psychology at the University of Kassel in 2014, specialising in research methods. After a spell at the University of Copenhagen as visiting researcher, he joined the University of Ulm in 2016. He now heads up Ulm’s Department of Research Methods in Psychology, specialising in mathematical modelling and socially problematic personality traits.

Prof. Dr. Ingo Zettler is professor of personality and behaviour at the University of Copenhagen’s Institute of Psychology and Center for Social Data Science (SODAS). Before moving to Denmark, he did a degree in psychology, and after graduating worked at the RWTH in Aachen (obtaining his PhD there) and at the University of Tübingen. He is part of a research team specialising in personality traits and their significance in different contexts, including anti-social, pro-social, workplace and environment-related behaviour.

THE INFORMATION STATE de Jacob Siegel

We’re constantly told that disinformation is everywhere and that it’s ruining our democracy. But what if the war on disinformation itself is really just a weapon to squash any and all legitimate dissent?

THE INFORMATION STATE:
Politics in the Age of Total Control
by Jacob Siegel
Henry Holt, March 2026
(via Javelin)

THE INFORMATION STATE is an incisive examination of how we reached the point where anything that contradicts the dominant narrative can be labeled dangerous disinformation. Tablet writer Jacob Siegel charts how a technological infrastructure built to make society more rational and progressive has steadily replaced democratic freedoms with systems of digital control. Instead of competing for voters’ support, the Information State uses censorship, mass surveillance, and algorithmic manipulation to shape public perceptions as it tries to engineer reality.

An alliance between government and tech companies formed to wage the war on terror has evolved into an unholy new kind of technocratic state and turned against America’s own citizens. In short, the information war came home and completely overtook American politics during the hyperpolarization of the Trump era and the isolation of the Covid pandemic. THE INFORMATION STATE is an urgent, necessary book that sounds the alarm on where society is headed in the age of AI if we don’t relearn how to think for ourselves and ask searching questions about whether information can ever be a substitute for truth.

Jacob Siegel is a contributing editor at Tablet. He is a US Army veteran who served in Iraq and Afghanistan. He edited and contributed to Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War, the first anthology of fiction by veterans of the global war on terror. Since 2013, he has worked as a journalist and essayist covering war, digital technology, and the convulsions in the American scene.

THE INVISIBLE LIST de Ravi Gupta

A manifesto in defense of turning your hobbies into passions and becoming a lifelong learner along the way.

THE INVISIBLE LIST
by Ravi Gupta
Harmony/PRH, publication date TBD
(via Javelin)

Ravi offers readers a battle-tested formula for how to reclaim your time, follow your dreams, and remake yourself as a lifelong learner by pursuing a different goal from your bucket list of deferred passions each and every year.

Packed with concrete, actionable advice for how you can master one passion a year, from whittling down your choices, to the habits necessary for success, to dealing with the constraints that life throws your way, to crossing the finish line, THE INVISIBLE LIST is a winning formula that teaches you how to master new skills and reshape your own sense of what you can achieve. It’s Oliver Burkeman’s 4,000 Weeks, meets Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project, with a dash of Atomic Habits thrown in.

Ravi Gupta is a serial social entrepreneur dedicated to reforming civic institutions. He is the cofounder and CEO of The Branch, a media company committed to combating online polarization. In addition, Ravi serves as the CEO and founder of Squadra Health, a company focused on longevity and wellness. Before these ventures, he cofounded Arena, where he led efforts that helped elect dozens of candidates and launched one of the largest campaign-staffer training academies in political history. Earlier in his career, Ravi founded and served as CEO of RePublic Schools, a network of charter schools in the South, and established Reimagine Prep, Mississippi’s first charter school. He also played key roles in Obama’s first campaign and first term, serving as an assistant to Chief Strategist David Axelrod and Ambassador Susan Rice. A native of Staten Island, Ravi graduated from Yale Law School and Binghamton University. He’s won numerous awards, including the Truman Scholarship, the Webby Award, and Binghamton’s University Medal, along with recognition in Forbes’s “30 Under 30” and Crain’s “NYC 40 Under 40.”

GROW de Justina & Ronnie Blakeney

Designed to encourage and activate personal growth, this imaginative deck and guide combines the wisdom of a self-help book with the magic of oracle cards to help readers find purpose and focus on personal transformation.

GROW:
Pathways to Passion, Purpose & Peace Guidebook & Card Set
by Justina Blakeney & Dr. Ronnie Blakeney
Abrams, January 2026

GROW is a cosmic companion to help you navigate life’s in-between moments—when you’re craving change, clarity, connection, or a way back to yourself.

Created by Justina Blakeney and her mother, developmental psychologist Dr. Ronnie Blakeney, Grow helps you find insight and a soulful path forward.

Each oracle card, along with the companion 228-page guidebook, offers guidance and nourishing daily practices to ground you and to uplift your spirit. Readers can start anywhere and return again and again to what feels healing and helpful.

Pull a card to awaken the magic within. Share with loved ones to grow together in wisdom and wonder.

Includes: Guidebook and 50 oracle cards with hand-painted artwork by Justina.

Justina Blakeney is a visionary artist, designer, and New York Times bestselling author. As the founder and creative force behind Jungalow®, she’s celebrated for her bold use of color, pattern, and plants to inspire soulful, joy-filled living. Her work—spanning art, writing, and interior design—celebrates the wild beauty of nature and the transformative power of creativity.
Dr. Ronnie Blakeney is a Harvard-trained developmental psychologist, mother, grandmother, and lifelong guide for growth and healing. From consulting at the White House to founding a therapeutic school for adolescent girls, her work bridges deep emotional wisdom with practical tools for change. She’s helped thousands navigate life’s challenges with more courage, clarity, and heart.

GROW is their first creative collaboration—a soul-nourishing project decades in the making. Blending art and science, intuition and insight, it’s a heartfelt invitation to awaken the wisdom within and live more meaningfully, boldly, and beautifully.