Category: Reading List
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Sapiens By Yuval Harari
This book covers big history from the big bang to today, with an emphasis on our species, and the other species of humans who we originally coexisted with. The book covers theories about what happened to our cousins, as well as what happened to every ecosystem we moved into. The book goes on to talk…
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When We Rise By Cleve Jones
I found this book inspiring for many reasons. I know many of the people and places in the story, so it has been intense to see so many of my friends’ roles in the story of gay liberation. It’s also interesting to see so many of the problems from before the movement still present today;…
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Tim Ferriss Interviews Sam Harris on How to Master Your Mind
I follow both of these people obsessively. Hearing them together is magical. They are the perfect two people to talk about this important issue. Anyone who is interested in meditation or the mind should check out this great interview!
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Elon Musk: The Recode Interview
This is a really great interview that covers a lot of the recent insanity. She is really tough on him and he does a great job of responding well to many of the recent news stories about him and his companies. Interview Transcript Kara Swisher: I’m here with Elon Musk at the headquarters of Tesla.…
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Sam Harris’ Waking Up Podcast: The Edge of Humanity with Yuval Harari
This was one of the best interviews I’ve ever heard. They cover the history and future of humanity, and the current transition between two different kinds of cultural conflict. In the past, humans fought oppressive tyrants who exploited them. In the future, humans face the new prospect of being completely irrelevant, while the tyrants saunter…
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Transgender History by Susan Stryker
I read this book as part of a LGBT studies class at Sierra College for my degree in Social Justice. It’s a great read and eponymously covers the history of an important marginalized group in America; transgender people. As always, I am happy to share the audiobook with any friends who want a copy. This…
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Rules For Radicals by Saul Alinsky
This was a great book. I think it pairs naturally with Dale Carnegie’s How To Win Friends and Influence People, Robert Greene’s The 48 Laws of Power, and his other book, The Art of Seduction. Hillary Clinton famously wrote her dissertation about the work of Saul Alinsky, inventor of community organizing. Obama famously made this his…
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Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert
This book came highly recommended by my mom. She said she has read it dozens of times. After her many suggestions, I decided to give it a go. It’s basically a rich white lady’s midlife crisis. She embarks on a journey in order to deal with her emotional issues after a divorce. Along the way,…
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Broken Angels by Richard K Morgan
Broken Angels is a worthy successor to Altered Carbon. The only common factor is the story’s subject; Takeshi Kovacs. We find him on a new world with new people around him at the center of an entirely new conflict. It does a good job of escalating the story in an artful way. If you liked…
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Altered Carbon by Richard K. Morgan
I started this series by watching the first season of the TV show on Netflix. This was a really really great show which I can’t recommend highly enough. As expected, the book is a much larger and richer story. Like many books adapted to TV shows, many characters have been combined or simplified in the…