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Finished reading The Three-Body Problem (Book 1) and it's such a fascinating read! https://www.amazon.com/Three-Body-Problem-Remembrance-Earths...
I would still recommend it to sci-fi fans, just don't expect a literary masterpiece.
Never Split The Difference by Chris Voss, on negotiation tactics. Much better than "Getting to Yes". The Genius of The Few by Christian and Barbara Joy O'Brien, an alternative take for garden of eden and Anunnaki compared to Sitchin Built To Sell by John Warrillow, on how to build a business you can exit with a profit. I read 30+ books in the last and this year so there are others but three is enough for this list.
Related, I got a lot out of "Blue Ocean Strategy", though that was more than a decade ago.
The Goal. It's a book from the 1980's about operational management. In particular, it focuses on physical manufacturing. It's in the form of a fictitious personal tale. A plant manager struggles to save his plant from closure, and his marriage from falling apart. The lesson is about lean management. My main takeaway is the realization that when we try to optimize something, we focus on how to do something more effici…
"Goldratt's Rules of Flow" https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0B9VH7TTZ
by Richard H. Thaler
It’s been probably a year since I read The WEIRDest People in the World by Joseph Henrich, but the ideas in there have really stuck in my head. The WEIRD acronym stands for Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. The thesis is that the Christian Church inadvertently created modern society by prohibiting polygamy and cousin marriage. The topic of polygamy is what’s really stuck in my head. Polygamy is…
Ya right. Like any one in their right mind wants to have 10 wives to deal with. Dont get confuse hooking up with marriage. I think Esther Perel has written the best stuff on modern relationships. Read her.
Just finished The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin, a tremendously accomplished music producer. It's a beautifully written guide to artistic work, but also a manual for a mindful life. Savor every page packed with insight, subtlety and poetic aphorisms. Also recommend The Dawn of Everything by Graeber & Wengrow, previously cited on this page. Next will be The Matter with Things by Iain McGilchrist. The two…
I got turned off by this book the moment the author talked about the rebuttal of a diagnosis by their doctor, which could be lethal if ignored. At this point the book was good for the dollar bin. I really don't understand how someone can trust their gut more than a clear diagnoses and use that as an example in a book.
The Design Thinking Playbook - by Lerwick et al. Global Strategy - by Peng
I think they're both highly relevant to some of the fast pace changes happening in the world, especially in tech. Even though they're not about tech stuff specifically, they're full of good ideas and also have great frameworks for either design AND strategy and some interesting case studies are in Global Business too.
Apart from that, lately, I've been swamped with psych textbooks and journals, so not really had time for a book per se, however I have been reading about offender profiling (of sex offenders) and doing so in conjunction with a case study on Ted Bundy, and I find that really interesting.
I'm halfway into this book. It talks about how technology is increasingly fragmenting our attention.