Bookshelf
Books I've read and my thoughts on them since 2024. Tracked via Hardcover API.
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Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
Walter Isaacson
April 1865
Jay Winik
The Martian
Andy Weir
L'Etranger (Collection Folio, 2) (French Edition) Publisher: Gallimard
Albert Camus
Source Code
Bill Gates
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Michael E. Gerber
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Angela Duckworth
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
Timothy Ferriss
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit Of Less
Greg McKeown
Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know About the People We Don’t Know
Malcolm Gladwell
Effortless: Make It Easier to Do What Matters Most
Greg McKeown
The Least of Us
Sam Quinones
So Good They Can't Ignore You: Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Cal Newport
Atomic Habits: An Easy and Proven Way to Build Good Habits and Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins
How to Think Like a Roman Emperor: The Stoic Philosophy of Marcus Aurelius
Donald J. Robertson
The Unplugged Alpha: The No Bullsh*t Guide To Winning With Women & Life
Richard Cooper
How to Think Like Socrates
Donald J. Robertson
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
Battle Cry of Freedom
James M. McPherson
Did Not Finish(2)
Fidel Castro My Life by Castro Fidel & Ignacio Ramonet
Fidel Castro
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
Want to Read(51)
Shoe Dog
Phil Knight
American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer
Kai Bird
The Road Ahead
Bill Gates
Einstein: His Life and His Universe
Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson
Titan: The Life of John D. Rockefeller, Sr.
Ron Chernow
Crimea
Orlando Figes
The History of the Ancient World: From the Earliest Accounts to the Fall of Rome
Susan Wise Bauer
Winds of War
Herman Wouk
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals
Oliver Burkeman
Flow
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
All the President's Men
Carl Bernstein
Material World: The Six Raw Materials That Shape Modern Civilization
Ed Conway
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Pragmatic Programmer: Your Journey to Mastery, 20th Anniversary Edition
Andrew Hunt
The Book of Why
Judea Pearl
Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Robert C. Martin
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche
Blink
Malcolm Gladwell
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
Introduction to Algorithms
Thomas H. Cormen
The Attention Merchants: The Epic Scramble to Get Inside Our Heads
Tim Wu
The Laws of Human Nature
Robert Greene
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Justice: What's the Right Thing to Do?
Michael J. Sandel
Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity
Peter Attia
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Brian Christian
AI Doctor: The Rise of Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare - A Guide for Users, Buyers, Builders, and Investors
Ronald M. Razmi
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
Protocols: An Operating Manual for the Human Body
Andrew D. Huberman
Blood and Iron
Katja Hoyer
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome
Mary Beard
The Third Reich in Power, 1933-1939
Richard J. Evans
Empire
Niall Ferguson
The Western Front: A History of the Great War, 1914-1918
Nick Lloyd
The Last King of America
Andrew Roberts
Alexander the Great
Philip Freeman
Britain Against Napoleon: The Organization of Victory, 1793-1815
R.J.B. Knight
Napoleon: A Life
Andrew Roberts
The Wages of Destruction: The Making and Breaking of the Nazi Economy
Adam Tooze
A Mad, Bad, and Dangerous People? England 1783 - 1846
Boyd Hilton
Revolutionary Spring
Christopher Clark
The Achilles Trap: Saddam Hussein, the C.I.A., and the Origins of America's Invasion of Iraq
Steve Coll
The Coming of the Third Reich
Richard J. Evans
William Pitt the Younger
William Hague
The Fate of Rome
Kyle Harper
The Third Reich at war
Richard J. Evans
Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Adrian Goldsworthy
The Fall of the Roman Empire
Peter Heather
Autumn in the Heavenly Kingdom: China, the West, and the Epic Story of the Taiping Civil War
Stephen R. Platt
Reviews
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
This was a really good book and taught me a lot about Ben Franklin's life! Only giving 4 stars because it wasn't as interesting nearing the end. Otherwise solid biography!
April 1865
I thought this book was interesting and it convinced me of it's claim that April 1865 was a pivotal month for the United States, but I personally wasn't a fan of it's pseudo-historical narrative with fictional dialogue interwoven with facts that didn't have sources or citations. It made me not know what was the authors inserted dialogue, and what was historical fact, which threw me off personally.
Source Code
As a Computer Science student in Seattle this has got me going 🔥
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
I thought this book was really good, though some of the practical advice wasn't that useful for me. The focus on outsourcing your job to India and getting random people to write reports or do menial tasks for you didn't seem that applicable.But in the age of AI, it's a lot more practical since AI is kind of a proxy for this outsourced labor he's been talking about as you can easily get the weather reports or scheduling he was discussing done. The book is definitely in need of a major rewrite to be adaptable for AI and automation technologies, and a lot of what he was talking about can be augmented by AI.What I got the most out of was the mindset shift. His perspective on life was the most valuable thing: you only get one life and you have to live it to the fullest. Try to take as much time off as possible, explore the world, be more adventurous, and do more things that make you happy rather than being extremely career-focused. It's definitely opened up my mind to a lot more possibilities.
The Least of Us
This book was great, provided a lot of valuable insight into the opioid crisis and really highlighted the human aspect of it.