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It's basically a gripping thriller set in Silicon Valley. The story focuses on what went on within the company since its inception. It's completely mind boggling how and why it all happened.
This is a chef’s journey in the same general category of Anthony Bourdain’s “Kitchen Confidential” (2000) or Bill Buford’s “Heat” (2007).
Before I had my current fabulous career, I was an out of work marketing / web designer and needed to make money. The latter two books were my ‘mentors’ for dealing with working in professional kitchens without any experience.
I recommend all three for their insights into the world of professional chefs and food hospitality. And, of course, they all make you hungry. Haha
- Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | book on human rationality and irrationality
- An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield
Fiction:
- Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Petunia married a professor, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. http://www.hpmor.com/
- Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1) by Scott Meyer | Reality is defined in a text file, making the protagonist a wizard when he discovers it while hacking a company.
- The Magicians (series) by Lev Grossman
Non-Fiction: - Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | book on human rationality and irrationality - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield Fiction: - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Petunia married a professor, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. http://www.hpmor.com/ - Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1) by Scott Meyer | Reality is defined in a text file, m…
See also:
https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-...
https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
Non-Fiction: - Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman | book on human rationality and irrationality - An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth by Chris Hadfield Fiction: - Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality | Petunia married a professor, and Harry grew up reading science and science fiction. http://www.hpmor.com/ - Off to Be the Wizard (Magic 2.0 Book 1) by Scott Meyer | Reality is defined in a text file, m…
Regarding Kahneman, keep in mind that in the following years there has been a lot of doubt - including by Kahneman himself - about the scientific validity of the evidence. See also: https://replicationindex.com/2017/02/02/reconstruction-of-a-... https://retractionwatch.com/2017/02/20/placed-much-faith-und...
It's one of those lessons that you feel you know but get a much better understanding of when reading about it in-depth.
Same as "How to win friends and influence people"
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage Does anyone have other hacking related books with story telling like in this book?
Moby Dick Finally got around to reading it, I was amazed at how modern it felt for a book written in 1850.
It's one of my favourite books too. I dip into it a few times a year reading specific chapters, I find it incredibly evocative.
The Count of Monti Cristo is a really fun book. It was published as a serial and was kind of like the Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones of 1850s Paris that everyone was talking about at the time. It's fun to read for both the revenge story itself and for the implicit look into the history of the French Revolution and what the life of a (dramatized) high roller was like back then.
It introduced me to Zen meditation, which I started practicing a few days ago and find useful.