I write book reviews to better remember and make connections between what I read. Enjoy.
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“In the long run the secret of study resides in our ability to bathe our thought, our task, our lesson in the stream of interest.”
Francis Lockwood from The Freshman and His College (1913)
Here’s my list
Find what to read next with my highly prestigious book awards!
🥇 5/5 Show your Work!: 10 Ways to Share your Creativity and Get Discovered
Nov 2020
🥇 5/5 The Examined Life: How We Lose and Find Ourselves
“Psychoanalysis for those too afraid to do it in person”
Nov 2020
🥇 4.5/5 Superintelligence by Nick Bostrom
“The original bible of AI” and recommended reading for haughty techno-intellectuals. Points deducted for overconfidence.
Oct 2020
🥇 5/5 The Practicing Mind: Bringing Discipline and Focus Into Your Life
Sep 2020
🥈 4/5 The Great Mental Models: Vol 1 & 2
Sep 2020
🥇 5/5 Make it Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Aug 2020
🥉 3/5 Stoner – the novel by John Williams
Jul 2020
🥉 3/5 Life Is What You Make It
Jun 2020
🥉 3/5 Comedy, Sex, God
May 2020
May 2020
Apr 2020
🥇 5/5 Energy: A Human History
Apr 2020
🥈 4/5 The Dip: A Little Book That Teaches You When to Quit (and When to Stick)
Apr 2020
🥉 3/5 Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood
Mar 2020
🤦♂️ 2/5 Stoicism: A Very Short Introduction
Feb 2020
🥈 4/5 Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don’t Know
Jan 2020
🥇 5/5 Blowout: Corrupted Democracy, Rogue State Russia, and the Richest, Most Destructive Industry on Earth
Nov 2019
🥉 3/5 Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in 40 Questions
Nov 2019
🥉 3/5 Migration: A Very Short Introduction
Oct 2019
🥇 5/5 Consciousness: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind
Sept 2019
🥇 5/5 The New Jim Crow
Aug 2019
🥈 4/5 Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
Jan 2019
🥇 5/5 Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World–and Why Things Are Better Than You Think
Jan 2019
