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...
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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...
Tracking every minute
The title says it all. I got the idea from a friend who’s been doing this thing for years and thought I’d try it out for a month.
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...