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Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization I guessed about four but i was completely blown away by some of the details. Absolutely fascinating.
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Yes. Cue the “I only read 453 books this year, but here’s my top 50” comments
I am a terrible reader and I'm really ashamed of it. I don't know how people can read that many books, I think in my lifetime I've finished at most 4 books? and two of them were technical books. I think I suffer from aphantasia which may be related to the impossibility of getting hook to anything by reading. I've tried mangas as well and it's a bit easier, but still find hard to really enjoy. Of course, most of the b…
Need time to read? I find the best ones are while waiting to board your flight, Uber, and other transport.
The Simple Path to Wealth by JL Collins (the guy that started the FIRE movement.) Great read, and not dry like many finance/investing books can be. Worth a read if you want to retire early, or even just retire normally. If you happen to live in NZ, then Rich Enough by Mary Holm is a great read. (again about best way to manage your money, but focused on NZ)
For everyone reading this, pursuing FIRE will impact your life more than any other book. Set the ball in motion and wait. Soon you’ll have time to enjoy all these other great books.
On the Edge: The Art of Risking Everything by Nate Silver
The End of Reality: How Four Billionaires Are Selling a Fantasy Future of the Metaverse, Mars, and Crypto by Jonathan Taplin
The Value of Others by Orion Taraban
Rinsed: From Cartels to Crypto: How the Tech Industry Washes Money for the World's Deadliest Crooks by Geoff White
Why We Die: The New Science of Aging and the Quest for Immortality by Venki Ramakrishnan
Extremely Hardcore: Inside Elon Musk's Twitter by Zoe Schiffer
Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
Hijacking Bitcoin: The Hidden History of BTC by Roger Ver
Go Woke, Go Broke: The Inside Story of the Radicalization of Corporate America by Charles Gasparino
The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets by Thomas R Cech
and my book of the year
Good Energy: The Surprising Connection Between Metabolism and Limitless Health by Casey Means M D
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Yes. Cue the “I only read 453 books this year, but here’s my top 50” comments
I am a terrible reader and I'm really ashamed of it. I don't know how people can read that many books, I think in my lifetime I've finished at most 4 books? and two of them were technical books. I think I suffer from aphantasia which may be related to the impossibility of getting hook to anything by reading. I've tried mangas as well and it's a bit easier, but still find hard to really enjoy. Of course, most of the b…
While the core message isn't revolutionary (focus on what truly matters), it provided a useful framework for re-examining my priorities and look and my current state of things from different perspective. Sometimes the obvious needs to be stated well to sink in.
I really enjoyed reading "The Blue Machine: How The Ocean Works". It turns out the Ocean is fascinating, and I learned something crazy: "Between 1950 and 1973, world fish harvest trippled, but the amount of fish directly consumed by humans stayed the same. The rest went into fishmeal, as a supplemental food for livestock, and this became an essential ingredient for modern industrial farming". I didn't realize that fi…
"Turtles cry because they’re eating.
No, really! The example that Czerski uses is a turtle eating jellyfish. Less than one percent of jellyfish is organic material and a turtle (the author uses a leatherback as an example) must eat 80% of her body weight.
Jellyfish have the same salinity as the ocean itself, so as you can imagine, this results in a TON of salt being ingested by turtles.
It’s not just jellyfish, either. Other marine substances and creatures have the same salinity as the sea. For example, algae.
To avoid ingesting all of this salt (which would kill the turtles), they expel it back out in the form of tears."
https://kookaunty.com/kook-aunty-blog/3vnblbkjnil2txo7jevy1u...
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/316669935_Crying_a_...
That was such an obscure fact that I had to look it up. Wow wild. Thanks for sharing.