Reading List

May

• Sapiens
• poor Charlie’s Almanack
• Siddhartha (Herman Hesse)

April

• Neuromancer
• Thinking fast and slow ✅ 2024-04-29
• The coming wave
• Thinking in Bets
• Nudge: The Final edition
• The Road #audible-free
• The energy bus

March 2024

• The Great Gatsby
• Six types (6hr)
• Band of brothers (Spotify) Band of Brothers
• Beyond band of Brothers. Beyond Band of Brothers: The War Memoirs of Major Dick Winters
• It doesn’t have to be crazy at work (Spotify)
• Mere Christianity
• Neuromancer
• Musk
• Brave new World

February 2024

• The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle
• Coddling
• influence
• How to Win Friends and Influence People
• How to Decide: Simple Tools for Making Better Choices
• The Wager
• The Old Man and the Sea
• Building a Story Brand
• The Sun Also Rises
• Overcoming the Five Dysfunctions of a Team

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Backlog

Business books/Self Help

• How to win friends and influence people #spotify #libby
  
• This is Marketing #audible-credit
• Ten Day MBA #audible-credit
• Team of Teams #spotify 12hr.
• Wealth of Nations #youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PH4B-SGf6-A #librivox #audible-credit 36hrs
• Competing Against Luck #spotify #audible-credit 7.25hr. $13
• Antifragile
• The black swan
• Thinking in Bets, Annie Duke (coddling) #libby 7hr
• Thinking fast and Slow

Fiction

• The Great Gatsby #libby
• #libby Brave New World
• Count of Monte Cristo #libby
• Neuromancer #libby
• Animal farm #libby
• Les Mis #libby
• To Kill a Mockingbird #libby
• Foundation #libby
• Wool #libby
• The Sun Also Rises #spotify-included 7hr
• A farewell to arms #spotify-included 8h
• The old man and the Sea #libby
• Of Mice and Men #libby
• Kite Runner
• A Gentleman in Moscow

To finish

• 1984 #youtube

Biography/History/Anthropology

• Sapiens #libby
• Guns germs and steel #libby
• Man’s search for meaning
• Elon Musk #libby
• The Oxford Inklings #spotify The Oxford Inklings: Lewis, Tolkien and Their Circle
• The coddling of the American Mind #libby
• The Tyrrany of Experts #libby
• the boys in the boat #libby
• Against the Gods
• The Bomber Mafia
• Band of Brothers (February rec)
• The lessons of history (February Rec)
• Valley of Genius: The Uncensored History of Silicon Valey

Religion and Philosophy

• Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained #libby
• Mere Christianity #libby
• The Place of the Lion #audible-credit #spotify 7.5
• The quest for Cosmic Justice - Sowll #audible-free The Quest for Cosmic Justice
• On Liberty, John Stuart Mills #spotify-included #libby (coddling)
• Feeling Good #spotify-included 13.5

Economics - [ ] Predictably Irrational #libby - [ ] the Paradox of choice

Tech and Profesh development

• Accelerate: the science of lean software and devops. #audible-credit
• Superforecasting #audible-credit
• Stanford LLM course on YouTube
• Fast.ai
• Andrew Ng course
• https://martin.zinkevich.org/rules_of_ml/rules_of_ml.pdf
• Machine learning systems design
• Designing ML Systems → Chip Huyen

Papers

• [1811.12808] Model Evaluation, Model Selection, and Algorithm Selection in Machine Learning

Random

• General patten

• Angels book (historical fiction)

• Liftoff: SpaceX #libby

• American Prometheus: Oppenheimer #libby

• the worry cure: 3.5hrs #spotify-included

• Freeing your Child from Anxiety: 8hrs #spotify-included

• killers-of-the-flower-moonyfg if

• how-to-decide-simple-tools-for-making-better-choices

• Dale Carnegie Lincoln the Unknown #audible-credit 9.5hr

Libby:

• Dune

• The Quest for …

Literature

• One hundred years of solitude
• Anna Karenina
• War and peace
• Don Quixote
• In Search of lost time
• Beloved - Toni Morrison
• Catcher in the Rye
• Of mice and men
• Grapes of Wrath

Psychology - [ ] Heal your Nervous System #libby - [ ] The Vagus Nerve Reset #audible-credit

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