James Clear, Atomic habits. I really enjoy it.
I read The Power of Habit by Duhigg and it was pretty good.
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#102Surely You Can't Be Serious - an oral history of how the Airplane movie got made. Got it on Audible and no idea how it might work as a regular book as the audiobook has so many different cameos and narrators. Great stuff.
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#103Fulfillment winning and losing in one click America. - investigative journalism, Uses stories of the lives of those within Amazon's ever increasing orbit to illustrate the reality of the increasing financial divides. Impressive stats reminds me of the more compelling British alternative 'hired' six months in low wage Britain- i'd recommend that.
The dispossessed - sci-fi, surprisingly nuanced conversation of roles and society.
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#104I'm learning about US history as a non-American, for no particular reason other than I found some books in a second hand store. - "1776", by David McCullough - a combination of American Revolution history with telling of leadership in times when defeat seems inevitable. - "Team of Rivals", by Doris Kearns Goodwin - just started, reading about the pre-Civil War politics.
As an American, I highly recommend "Lies My Teacher Told Me" by James Loewen.
And since you are reading 1776 then you might also like "John Adams" by David McCullough.
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#105The Programmer's Brain by Felienne Hermans
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#107A seemingly endless list of descriptions of open positions, just to be disappointed by "remote within US" buried somewhere within each and every one.
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#108Metro 2033 by Dmitry Glukhovsky. There's a series of games based on the books but I'm enjoying the storytelling in the book far more. Basic premise is after nuclear war survivors have built a new society inside of the tunnels and stations of the Moscow metro system. There's mutants and other threats, but I don't want to spoil too much.
Isn't there also a video game but the same name?
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#109Comics! I recently finished Wanted (which made for a shitty movie, but a decent comic) and Watchmen (I despair I hadn't gotten around to it sooner).
Now I'm planning to read V for Vendetta, The Killing Joke, Batman: Year One, and some more. I've finally come around to comics as an art form, and I couldn't be happier!
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#110Fermat's Last Theorem by Simon Singh.
I really like it. There are lots of popular science books out there, but very few popular math ones. I am grateful that this exists.
Read the author's Code Book before. Liked that one, too. I was also taking Cryptography and Cybersecurity as one of my Master's electives.
This book does not cover the journey of solving the Fermat's Last Theorem narrowly, but broadly covers a lot of history of mathematics in a very nice way. The writing is superb.