I struggle to find good book recommendations, there is no single source of book recommendations on the internet that appeals to my specific taste, it also doesn’t help that my taste keeps changing with the wind. I use this ‘books’ category to organise the thoughts and the library, like stamps in a passport.
A very insightful view of the near and far few of longevity. Sergey is very experienced in the field and I’ve followed his presentations on several formats. He has gathered knowledge of healthy ageing from across the world for this book and summarised it really well. Whether you agree or not with some of the …
The Science and Technology of Growing Young. By Sergey Young Read More »
Extracted from Amazon – You can use this book to design a house for yourself with your family; you can use it to work with your neighbours to improve your town and neighbourhood; you can use it to design an office, or a workshop, or a public building. And you can use it to guide …
A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction. By Christopher Alexander Read More »
How boomers made the worlds biggest casino for millennials. The book is about the changing world of personal finance, the access to zero fee commission trading and the implications this has had on the Millennial generation. I have a personal interest in this space as those products are pitched directly at me and in my …
This book needed to be written, there was most certainly a story here detailing the history of the founding of Ethereum. This books takes the human story of the very dry computer code and paints a very clear picture beyond the scope of the unicorn and cat memes and chronicles the how its nomadic founder …
Story telling at its finest, what a fantastic book. I was inspired to read this one from watching the show called “inside Bills Brain” on Netflix. Walter tells some fascinating stories of the personal computer revolution and really how innovation works. Some great concepts that I have taken and use regularly. What talents allowed certain …
This book was bought for me for Chirstmas from Rachel. Based on one of the conversations one has when they are driving in late november when one partner says what do you want for Chirstmas and the answer then stored in the memory bank. This was one of those. The book is heavy on real …
This book collects and curates Naval’s wisdom from Twitter, Podcasts, and Essays over the past decade and I loved it. Super distilled into 140 characters at a time this is like 100 proof alcohol with a wonderful hangover of ideas to fill the quiet mind. The wisdom of Naval Ravikant, created and edited by Eric …
Its an unusual book – not the standard Autobiography as each chapter has one or more notes taken from his diaries, real raw unfiltered ideas from his mind onto the page. There is an overarching narrative of the timeline of his life to now. Would recommend for a fun read. “From the Academy Award®-winning actor, …
A Man Misunderstood A brilliant teacher recommended I explore the book called ‘The Prince’ by Machiavelli in 2001/2. This was in a debate about whether Tupac (yes, the rapper) was the best writer of modern prose. Having read the Prince and loved Machiavelli’s ideas I wanted to explore more. Michaels book gives one an understanding …
Anecdotes, there are some lines in this book that do land like a grenade but I couldn’t get into the books stride, the stories too short, too disparate – pick this one up if you are looking to be surprised by the prose but don’t expect to be transported to some far away land and …
Let’s Explore Diabetes With Owls – David Sedaris Read More »