Amusing Ourselves to Death.
Rating: 7/10The most prescient book I have read. And also the best title on any book I have read.
Notes, and reviews of the books I read.
Chaos.
Rating: 9/10Universality, mathematics and chaos. This book changed the way I view the world. Everything is a non linear dynamic system.
How to Take Smart Notes.
Rating: 8/10This book has the potential to change my life. Its all in the execution now.
Built To Sell.
Rating: 8/10An insightful parable on the process of making a business that can live without you, and what it means for it to be sell-able.
Volume Control.
Rating: 6/10A guide to the science of hearing (with lesser science than I’d like)
Antifragile.
Rating: 10/10Taleb is crass, pretentious, and cantankerously contrarian. But you can’t deny he has a point.
Peak.
Rating: 8/10I too was hoodwinked by the 10,000 hour rule.
On Writing Well.
Rating: 8/10I am nervous writing this review.
Pragmatic Thinking and Learning.
Rating: 7/10A “best of” compilation of thinking and learning models - good if you haven’t read a lot of books on thinking and learning techniques.
Sum, Forty Tales from the Afterlives.
Rating: 8/10Sum, a set excellent thought experiments.
The Millionaire Fastlane.
Rating: 7/10The name is crap, but the content is not that bad.
A Brief History of Time.
Rating: 4/10This ain’t it chief.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant.
Rating: 8/10Thoughts and musings of silicon valley’s favourite internet philosopher.
The Psychology of Money.
Rating: 9/10A didactic book on our indelible relationship with money.
Good Economics for Hard Times.
Rating: 7/10A well researched and genuine work, accounting for those the markets have left behind.
Heidi's Guide to Four Letter Words.
Rating: 6/10Feel good, almost to a fault.
Livewired.
Rating: 8/10Every human is born as many and dies as one.
Bad Blood.
Rating: 8/10True crime meets TechCrunch meets Investigative journalism.
Sapiens.
Rating: 9/10Entertaining, and thought provoking - in that order.
Why we sleep?
Rating: 8/10Now, I don’t want to “sleep, when I die”.
The Hating Game.
Rating: 6/10By the numbers.
Thinking, fast and slow.
Rating: 8/10An excellent book on how, and why we make the decisions we make
The Hard Thing about hard things.
Rating: 8/10An excellent book, primarily about the hard things about running a business.
Stillness is the key.
Rating: 6/10This is third book in the Ryan Holiday’s stoicism (inspired?) trilogy of books.
Deep Work.
Rating: 9/10I had randomly ended up buying this book off flipkart, because I got a very good deal if I bought this book, along with Atomic Habits. Atomic Habits was the book that I originally wanted to buy, but I am super glad I did indeed end up buying this one too.
Atomic Habits.
Rating: 9/10I bought this book because I was greatly taken by the promises made by it, and the internet swearing by it. I got lucky, because I really liked this book, the main reason being its a very effective, and practical guide to building and enforcing habits. I’d highly recommend this to anyone who wants to form new habits, or try to get rid of bad ones.