Anna Karenina by Lev Tolstoy. Absolutely amazing, I highly recommend it.
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#142"Longitude" by Dava Sobel.
Sailors knew for a while how to get your latitude (by using the position of the north star) but didn't have a way of getting their longitude pre-18th century. This was a serious problem in navigation and this is the story of how a solution came about.
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#143Wool - Hugh Howey
Post-apocalyptic dystopian sci-fi at it's best.
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#144Regenesis by George Church It's an interesting primer on the potential benefits of synthetic biology to society at large from one of the field's luminaries. He covers everything from engineering "mirror humans" (with inverted biochemical chirality) to reviving extinct species. http://www.regenesisthebook.com/
On a somewhat similar topic, I also enjoyed "The Machinery of Life" by David Goodsell. Worth it for the diagrams alone.
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#145Quiet by Susan Cain, great book about introversion and why we have the "Extrovert Ideal".
It's really fascinating to see how introverts have their qualities and how
Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - Robert Pirsig: Fantastic book that talks about philosophy in a new way and goes deeper into discovering what's "Quality" and what are the main 2 ways of interacting/reading the world around us.
Adam Smith, theory of moral sentiments: Just began the book under ryan holiday advice, but can't really say more about it.
Game of thrones, 1st volume, I suppose this book doesn't need any explanation :)
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#146Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The $100 Startup
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#147I am currently reading Skiena, Algorithm Design Manual and Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War.
Next up is Cipolla, Clocks and Culture and Chiusano and Bjarnason, Functional Programming in Scala.
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#148Dataclysm: Who We Are (When We Think No One's Looking) by Christian Rudder. An interesting peek into some of the data gathered by OkCupid, as well as an overall assessment of the power of data held by tech companies today.
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#149"Quantum Computing since Democritus" by Scott Aaronson. This book makes me wish I was cool enough to understand everything in it. But still, it does a very good job at connecting the high level bits, and letting you skip over proof sketches if necessary.
He is connecting quantum computing, computability, computational complexity, foundations of mathematics, probability, crypto, philosophy, and a bunch of other things I haven't gotten to yet. All the deep stuff -- but it's not pretentious or tedious at all.
Scott Aaronson is a great writer and lucid thinker. I got hooked from the preface alone.
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#150Quiet by Susan Cain, great book about introversion and why we have the "Extrovert Ideal". It's really fascinating to see how introverts have their qualities and how Zen and the art of motorcycle maintenance - Robert Pirsig: Fantastic book that talks about philosophy in a new way and goes deeper into discovering what's "Quality" and what are the main 2 ways of interacting/reading the world around us. Adam Smith, theor…
Can you help me understand why Quiet is a good read? It's been recommended to me before but it just keeps on getting bumped on the backlog.