Reading List for Making Relationships Better

At FullContact, our vision is to "make relationships better" and I've spent the last few months wrapping my head around what this *really* means in the context of profiles of people and linkages between their different online identities. The fundamental idea behind this vision is that more data is better for decision-making, and that customers can craft advertising. marketing, and product experiences that are deeply human when they make decisions about what to say, do, offer, etc. with the full richness of understanding a person.

This is a significant departure from my day-to-day obsession with companies, financing events, mergers and acquisitions. To help me explore this head space I've embarked on a reading syllabus that encompasses neurobiology, psychology, sexual education, parenting, and much more. Here's what I've been reading lately:

• The Science of Trust: Emotional Attunement for Couples by John M. Gottman

• Achtung Baby: An American Mom of the German Art of Raising Self-Reliant Children by Sara Zaske

• Your Brain on Love: The Neurobiology of Healthy Relationships by Stan Tatkin

• The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide by John M. Gottman

• How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

• How Dogs Love Us: A Neuroscientist and His Adopted Dog Decode the Canine Brain by Gregory Berns

• NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity by Steve Silberman

• How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber & Elaine Mazlish

• Wired for Love by Stan Tatkin

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk

• Come As You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life by Emily Nagoski

• How to Create A Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed by Ray Kurzweil

• The Neurobiology of 'We': How Relationships, the Mind, and the Brain Interact to Shape Who We Are by Daniel J. Siegel MD