The Maverick And His Machine
Lessons learned
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Code
The never-say-die spirit once again, this time embodied in the form of Dan Colussy. It’s just amazing how you can — with considerable effort — bring together...
Eccentric Orbits
The never-say-die spirit once again, this time embodied in the form of Dan Colussy. It’s just amazing how you can — with considerable effort — bring together...
A Triumph Of Genius
Lessons learned
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
This book had made the rounds recently and I decided to give it a go. I’d previously read a book by the same author that I didn’t like at all, but I was will...
Are Your Lights On
I can’t remember who recommended this book to me — I had the impression I’d first read about it on Paul Graham’s site but when I searched through I couldn’t ...
How To Fail At Almost Everything And Still Win Big
Lessons learned
I invented the modern age: The rise of Henry Ford
I’d read about Edison and Nikola Tesla, so the only really prominent person left during that time that I’d not read was Henry Ford. Edison and Ford were clos...
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice
Came across this book from Brad Feld’s post and I decided to give it a read. What a story! You’d think it’s fiction, but the whole thing appears to be 100% l...
Thomas Edison: The wizard of Menlo Park
Wow — never has a book changed my opinion of a person as drastically as this one did! I had always known Edison as the man that invented the light bulb, but ...
Nikola Tesla: The man who invented the 20th century
I’d just finished reading the Edison book and thought it fitting to now read the Nikola Tesla one. The book provided a good overview, though some inconsisten...
Dyson: Against the Odds
I liked this book alot. James Dyson is a household name and the story of how he went through life in the unfavorable entrepreneurial conditions of the UK is ...
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a f*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life
True to its title, this book is a collection of outrageous ideas — many of which are paradoxical in nature. It’s only upon looking closer at these ideas that...
Debt - Updated and Expanded: The First 5,000 Years
This was not a bad book — in fact, i thoroughly enjoyed many parts of it. However, the reason for the (relatively) low rating is because it’s so immensely lo...
The Dream Machine: J. C. R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal
Ever since the Phil Knight memoir, I’ve grown more open to reading biographies. This book talks about J.C.R. Licklider’s life, which itself is inextricably t...
Swarm Troopers: How small drones will conquer the world
I don’t typically read military books (fiction or otherwise), but I picked this one up just for the drone-bits. I’d heard a bit about the history of drones i...
1984
The last George Orwell book I read was Animal Farm, a book I thoroughly enjoyed. Animal farm was not very distant from this one in concept — though I definit...
Be so good they can’t ignore you
What lured me in to reading this book was the title: Be so good they can’t ignore you. Yup, definitely fits my work-your-ass-off mindset .. I was game.
A guide to the good life
This is a book I got off Derek Sivers reading list. Had plenty of rave reviews, so I thought I’d give it a shot. It’s the first real philosophical book I’ve ...
Do the Work
Important not to overthink things – research to a certain point, but beyond that just take the plunge on faith.
Chaos Monkeys: Obscene fortune and random failure in silicon valley
This read more like a novel than anything else – it covers a few years in the life of Antonio Garcia Martinez (AGM) .. how he went from a Quant at Goldman Sa...
Shoe Dog - A memoir by the creator of Nike
His philosophy, one he repeats throughout the book, is one I tend to agree with:
Benjamin Franklin Autobiography (Annotated)
This was a weird addition.
Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age
This is actually the first book I’ve read about early computing history, and I feel incredibly ignorant for not having read up on it sooner! Xerox PARC is an...
High Output Management
There is no book ever that I have highlighted as much as this one! It’s so full of great advice in all sorts of different situations that I’m having a very d...