What are you reading, Greg Hart?

We love books, and we know you do too! Books can take us to faraway places, expose us to different people, countries and cultures. They can help us learn, dream, imagine and even escape our day-to-day lives. We decided to ask our team about their favorite books. It was a hard task - many of them had a tough time narrowing down their choices.

First up, we sat down with our co-founder Greg Hart to see what's on his reading list as of late.

IU: What are you currently reading?

• GH: The Dawn of Everything by David Graeber and David Wengrow (may turn out to be one of the most important books I've ever read)

IU: What's your favorite business book?

• GH: Fifth Discipline by Peter Senge - it is the most complete source of insight into how the world actually works and how any serious enterprise might respond to that insight.

IU: What's your favorite technical book?

• GH: Designing Regenerative Cultures - Daniel Christian Wahl (it is a one-stop, accessible, question-driven guide to working in design at a new level with stepping off points into rabbit holes of brilliant work of other contributors to design)

IU: What's your favorite self-help book?

• GH: Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - Stephen Covey. I'm not even sure it qualifies as a self-help book, really, but it definitely contains enduring truths that translate across all lives. It had a big influence on my growth as a person by giving me a new perspective and forever rooting the idea of principles in my mind.

IU: Favorite book as a kid?

• GH: Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C. Clarke or The Wars by Timothy Findley. The first one because of the profound imagination and mystery tied to scientific plausibility (something the author is justifiably celebrated for in general) with a nagging wonder of why does this exist and why is it here? The latter book for its gritty portrayal of the way many boys came of age in the 20th century - by killing each other in huge violent conflict - and its reflections on so many issues including Canada.

IU: Three all-time favorites?

• GH: Human Dignity - George Kateb (profound exploration of a central concept in life), Braiding Sweetgrass - Robin Wall Kimmerer (the meeting of science and First Nations ways of knowing written in glorious and moving prose), Demon Haunted World - Carl Sagan (a book of moving prophecy and useful approaches in the face of creeping irrationality)

IU: Do you read more than one book at at a time?

• GH: Yes!

IU: Do you read a book more than once?

• GH: Several; War of the Worlds, A Scientific Romance, 1984, Fifth Discipline, Why We Believe, several Shakespeare plays

IU: How do you make time for reading?

• GH: Every night before sleeping is my time to read fiction. Any long drive or bike ride is a chance to listen to an audiobook that I will often return to as an actual book to pick up details later. Carve out close to an hour each day for reading non-fiction where I transfer things I learn or am provoked by into notes relevant to the various projects I am working on.

Thanks, Greg, for taking the time to tell us about your favorite books. What a great list - we're heading to the book store now!