Reading (last update: 5/7/24)
The Aleph and Other Stories — Jorge Luis Borges
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Dune Messiah — Frank Herbert
- “The convoluted wording of legalisms grew up around the necessity to hide from ourselves the violence we intend toward each other. Between depriving a man of one hour from his life and depriving him of his life there exists only a difference of degree. You have done violence to him, consumed his energy… the ultimate assumption remains: ‘I feed on your energy.’”
Dune — Frank Herbert
The Book of Joy — Dalai Lama, Desmond Tutu, Douglas Abrams
The Great Alone — Kristin Hannah
Same as Ever — Morgan Housel
How to Create a Mind — Ray Kurzweil
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind — Yuval Noah Harari
The Anomaly — Hervé Le Tellier
Deep Learning for Coders with fastai and PyTorch — Jeremy Howard and Sylvain Gugger
12 Rules for Life — Jordan Peterson
For Small Creatures Such as We — Sasha Sagan
Carbon Capture — Howard J. Herzog
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life’s Greatest Lesson — Mitch Albom
The Martian — Andy Weir
Verity — Colleen Hoover
Deep Learning — Andrew Glassner
A Billion Wicked Thoughts — Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam
Amp It Up — Frank Slootman
Genius Makers — Cade Metz
Linguistics: A Very Short Introduction — Peter Matthews
Programmers at Work — Susan Lammers
Shape — Jordan Ellenburg
The Death of Ivan Ilych — Leo Tolstoy
Family Happiness — Leo Tolstoy
- “All at once I felt clearly and calmly that the feeling of that time had gone never to return, like the time itself, and that to bring it back now would be not only impossible, but painful and forced. And indeed was that time so good which seemed to be so happy?”
The Botany of Desire — Michael Pollan
Food Rules: An Eater’s Manual — Michael Pollan
A Mind for Numbers — Barbara Oakley
The Aleph and Other Stories — Jorge Luis Borges
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress — Robert Heinlein
Elon Musk — Walter Isaacson
Benjamin Franklin — Walter Isaacson
The Code Breaker — Walter Isaacson
The Innovators — Walter Isaacson
Leonardo Da Vinci — Walter Isaacson
Steve Jobs — Walter Isaacson
All the Light We Cannot See — Anthony Doerr
A Common Sense Guide to Data Structures & Algorithms — Jay Wengrow
Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
- Yes, humans are messy and complicated, but that’s what makes us awesome?
Elusive: How Peter Higgs Solved the Mystery of Mass — Frank Close
Learn to Code by Solving Problems — Dan Zingaro
Name of the Wind — Patrick Rothfuss
We Were Liars — E. Lockhart
East of Eden — John Steinbeck
- We are always capable of change, no matter our past
Cloud Atlas — David Mitchell
The Undoing Project — Michael Lewis
The New New Thing — Michael Lewis
Next — Michael Lewis
Boomerang — Michael Lewis
Flash Boys — Michael Lewis
Liar’s Poker — Michael Lewis
The Fifth Risk — Michael Lewis
A Clockwork Orange — Anthony Burgess
A Wanting Seed — Anthony Burgess
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control — Stuart Russell
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance — Robert Pirsig
Mindfulness for Beginners — Jon Kabat-Zinn
The Obstacle is the Way — Ryan Holiday
1Q84 — Haruki Murakami
- “Everyone, deep in their hearts, is waiting for the end of the world to come.”
Dance Dance Dance — Haruki Murakami
A Wild Sheep Chase — Haruki Murakami
Norwegian Wood — Haruki Murakami
Men Without Women — Haruki Murakami
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle — Haruki Murakami
Kafka on the Shore — Haruki Murakami
- Magical book. Kicked off my Murakami addiction. Shout out to Nicole Park
Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism — Chogyam Trungpa
The Overstory — Richard Powers
Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind — Shunryū Suzuki
- “In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few.”
The Tao of Physics — Fritjof Capra
How I Built This — Guy Raz
The Deficit Myth: Modern Monetary Theory and the Birth of the People’s Economy — Stephanie Kelton
A Walk in the Woods — Bill Bryson
A Brief History of Nearly Everything — Bill Bryson
Snow Crash — Neal Stephenson
- “Babel is a gateway in our minds, a gateway that was opened by the nam-shub of Enki that broke us free from the metavirus and gave us the ability to think — moved us from a materialistic world to a dualistic world — a binary world — with both a physical and a spiritual component.”
Deep Medicine — Eric Topol
The Patient Will See You Now — Eric Topol
Why We Sleep — Matthew Walker
Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine — Gail Honeymoon
Maybe You Should Talk to Someone — Lori Gottlieb
The Woman in the Dunes — Kobo Abe
The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements — Eric Hoffer
- “people with a sense of fulfillment think it is a good world and would like to conserve it as it is, while the frustrated favor radical change.”
Brotopia — Emily Chang
Illusions — Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull — Richard Bach
Can’t Hurt Me — David Goggins
- One week after reading…did a 28 mile day hike with minimal food and water….two weeks later….pulled hamstring
Industrial Society and Its Future — Theodore John Kaczynski
Blitzscaling — Reid Hoffman, Chris Yeh
Cybersecurity — HBR
Artificial Intelligence — HBR
The Alchemist — Paulo Cohelo
Factfulness — Hans Rosling
Idea Man — Paul Allen
Hard Drive: Bill Gates and the Making of the Microsoft Empire — James Wallace, Jim Erickson
The Basic Kafka — Franz Kafka
The Trial — Franz Kafka
- I learned more about working efficiently from this book than probably anything else. Fuck senseless complexity
Bedlam — Kenneth Paul Rosenberg
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry — Neil deGrasse Tyson
Quantum Theory: A Crash Course — Brian Clegg
The Quantum World — Quantum Physics for Everyone — Kenneth W. Ford
Physics: A Crash Course — Brian Clegg
A Brief History of Time — Stephen Hawking
Six Easy Pieces: Essentials of Physics Explained by Its Most Brilliant Teacher — Richard Feynman
The Essential Gandhi — Mahatma Gandhi
Give and Take — Adam Grant
Bhagavad Gita — Vyasa
Turtles All the Way Down — John Green
- Shout out Unmasked book club
The Truth of Suffering and the Path of Liberation — Chögyam Trungpa
Freakonomics — Stephen J. Dubner, Steven Levitt
Hillbilly Elegy — J.D. Vance
The Coddling of the American Mind — Greg Lukianoff, Jonathan Haidt
The Universe in a Single Atom: The Convergence of Science and Spirituality — Dalai Lama
Zero to One — Peter Thiel
- “What important truth do very few people agree with you on?”
The Unicorn Project — Gene Kim
The Phoenix Project — Gene Kim
Longitude — Dava Sobel
The Remains of the Day — Kazuo Ishiguro
I Capture the Castle — Dodie Smith
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking — Susan Cain
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil — John Berendt
The Freedom Writer’s Diary — Erin Gruwell, Freedom Writers
Dharma Bums — Jack Kerouac
Exit West — Mohsin Hamid
The Problem with Software: Why Smart Engineers Write Bad Code — Adam Barr
Renewable Energy — Bruce Usher
Thinking Fast and Slow — Daniel Kahneman
Educated — Tara Westover
- Incredible story about the transformative power of education
Red Notice: A True Story of High Finance, Murder, and One Man’s Fight for Justice — Bill Browder
David and Goliath — Malcolm Gladwell
- “… they were not really afraid. They were just afraid of being afraid.”
Talking to Strangers — Malcolm Gladwell
Blink — Malcolm Gladwell
The Tipping Point — Malcolm Gladwell
What the Dog Saw: And Other Adventures — Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers — Malcolm Gladwell
The Smartest Kids in the World — Amanda Ripley
I am Pilgrim — Terry Hayes
Fight Club — Chuck Palahniuk
- “It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.”
Principles — Ray Dalio
Big Debt Crises — Ray Dalio
We Should All Be Feminists — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
The Female Brain — Louann Brizendine
The Perks of Being a Wallflower — Stephen Chbosky
Harry Potter Series — J.K. Rowling
To Kill A Mockingbird — Harper Lee
Catcher in the Rye — J.D. Salinger
Lord of the Flies — John Ronald Reuel Tolkien
