Books I've read that significantly influenced how I see the world.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read: January 15, 2020 • Rating: 8/10
Antifragility as a concept that is often misunderstood, and it's a concept that is often misused. But once understood, it can be applied to a lot of things in our lives.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read: January 15, 2015 • Rating: 8/10
Helps understand decisions in terms of risks and incentives. Who has higher risk? and who has the ultimate incentive?
Richard P. Feynman
Read: February 2, 2025 • Rating: 6/10
One of the problems with reading a book written by a genius is that you have to ask yourself whether any perceived deficiencies in the text are due to the author, or due to your own failure to comprehend his brilliance.
JD Vance
Read: February 2, 2025 • Rating: 6/10
The best depiction of the struggles of the American working class
Joshua Foer
Read: February 2, 2025 • Rating: 8/10
Mind palace is a useful technique to memorise numbers, things, names and what not. This book is a fun read on the subject.
James Clear
Read: February 2, 2025 • Rating: 9/10
An easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones.
David Deutsch
Read: February 2, 2025 • Rating: 8/10
Makes one a better epsitemologist, with a more solid repository of thinking tools to question truth, and sometimes even reality
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Read: February 2, 2025 • Rating: 8/10
Without confronting men's sense of entitlement, we cannot understand the resistance to gender equality
Oliver Sacks
Read: January 15, 2023 • Rating: 8/10
A book about the origin of consciousness in the breakdown of the bicameral mind
Frans de Waal
Read: January 15, 2023 • Rating: 8/10
In depth analysis of social signalling among humans
Tara Westover
Read: February 2, 2025 • Rating: 7/10
While it's easy to take these events and market it like a thriller novel, it's that sense of reflection and poignancy in her carefully crafted words that is the book’s strongest asset.
Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Read: January 15, 2023 • Rating: 6/10
Step by step algorithms which can be applied in our daily lives
Teressa Torres
Read: February 2, 2025 • Rating: 7/10
Best way to approach product discovery is to be continuous. This is the best argument against project-based research in product teams.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read: January 15, 2023 • Rating: 6/10
Powerful set of quotes that distill the Incerto series in an easy fashion
Malcolm Gladwell
Read: February 2, 2025 • Rating: 8/10
Prime examples of pure, original thinking
Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Read: January 15, 2015 • Rating: 10/10
Antifragility as a concept that is often misunderstood, and it's a concept that is often misused. But once understood, it can be applied to a lot of things in our lives.
Charles Montgomery
Read: January 15, 2025 • Rating: 6/10
A book about the science of happiness and the art of designing great cities.
Cixin Liu
Read: February 2, 2025 • Rating: 9/10
A very fresh to the conventional sci-fi plot, with a unique take on the genre through the lens of 'sentient photons'
Daniel Kahneman
Read: February 2, 2025 • Rating: 6/10
Changes the landscape of thinking problems. The spontaneous ones, and the well reasoned ones. Helps explain a lot on the distinction between reasoning models and intuition models in the LLM space.
Jared Diamond
Read: January 15, 2023 • Rating: 8/10
A book about the history of the world
Khalil Gibran
Read: January 15, 2025 • Rating: 9/10
One of those deeply philosophical books that are so profound, it almost touches spiritual, religious realms