"Fluke" by Brian Klaas

"Fluke" is about how chaos theory, emergence, the nondeterministic nature of the world, luck, interconnectedness, and uncertainty shape our world. In short, we're underestimating the role of luck in our achievements and everyday events, and the author explains this with various examples.

Whatever you're doing now results from an unimaginable number of random events. Whatever you're doing will result in an unimaginable number of seemingly random events. Everything matters simply because so many things matter.

Add the world of nondeterministic quantum theory to this, and you might end up with something like free will. Not entirely free, but powerful nevertheless.

I liked reading "Fluke" even though it didn't teach me anything; it reiterated existing knowledge in a new way. It is short, concise, and descriptive enough to improve one's life.