"In the Blink of an Eye" by Walter Murch (sound and editing on Apocalypse Now, Godfather, the Conversation, and so many more). The book is about film editing but actually about how humans absorb information.
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#22+1 on "Nonviolent Communication" - if anyone is interested I have some directive like notes from the book here https://blog.abuiles.com/reading-feed/nonviolent-communicati... -- going through the book is important for the context but this can give you a quick overview of what it is about. Other books in my list are: - Punished by rewards by Alfie Kohn - On the shortness of life by Seneca
Another +1. "Nonviolent Communication" as well as "Crucial Conversations" can be life changers if you follow even a little of their guidance. The techniques I've picked up have helped me build stronger relationships with my spouse, my children, my customers, my employees, and my peers.
There are other books on communication, but these are my top two. They're actionable, in that they provide specific techniques as well as discussing thoery. Both books lay a similar foundation that any book on communication worth its salt will likely have in common: we're all emotionally driven beings and we communicate most effectively when we're able to separate observations from judgements.
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#23oddly enough...The Phoenix Project
and
Don't Make Me Think
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#24Currently reading Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse and it already helped me form a simple model to approach many different problems in life.
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#25Was this topic submitted by an AI experiment? I've taken a quick shufti at arikr's profile and English is not a problem there.
I will submit: anything written by Sir Terry Pratchett (may he rest in piece)
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#26Chaos. Godel, Escher, Bach. Flatworld.
or GED as we know it. Auth: Hofstadter - "Godel, Escher, Bach"
Belting read.
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#27Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality is one book that changed my life a lot more than I expected when picking it up. In many ways, it left me a different person.
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#29Antifragile. Poor Charlie's Almanack.
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#30The Flight of the Garuda: The Dzogchen Tradition of Tibetan Buddhism translated by Keith Dowman.
I've read many books about meditation, but this is one of my favorites. I wish I could read the original text to get the rhyme scheme!