Category: Reading List
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Ernest Hemingway – The Sun Also Rises
In July of last year, I listened to Brett McKay’s Art of Manliness podcast Episode #219: The Real Life Story of Hemingway and The Sun Also Rises. McKay likes interviewing biographers who are writing about figures who are the actual subject of his interviews. In this episode, he talks with author Lesley Blume about her new book…
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Stephen King – On Writing
This book is required reading for a class I am taking at Sierra College, but I also feel that it may improve my blogging and writing in general. It is a short biopic piece by Stephen King about his journey learning to write. I think King’s advice would be to just start writing and…
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Zero to One by Peter Thiel
After the Gawker case, earlier this year, I decided to start following Thiel’s career. He is a fascinating figure with his hands in lots of different businesses, many of which figure heavily into the larger theme of futurism that has become so important to me. I have since watched dozens of his interviews on YouTube…
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Expanse 6 – Babylon’s Ashes
I read this book in just a few days. As soon as it came out, it was impossible to put down. This book could almost be the second-half of the book before it. The story begins with a mess and ends with another, but ends in a place where you can see the silver lining…
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❤️ Dale Carnegie – How To Win Friends and Influence People
2016-12-1 Started I first read this book in elementary school, but I wanted to refresh my memory as many of my coworkers have been recently reading it. 2017-04-23 Completed Well it took five months of picking up and setting down to finish this book. It is a bit dry, but there is a huge amount of…
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Expanse 5 – Nemesis Games
This book sets the stage for its successor, Babylon’s Ashes. The two books could almost be one. The story focuses a lot more on Amos and Earth, and we see the return of Clarissa. Be ready to start on Babylon’s ashes when you finish this, because it picks up right at the end and finishes the…
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Expanse 4 – Cibola Burn
They used a different audiobook narrator for book four from the rest of the series, and I have to say Erik Davies is the absolute worst narrator I have ever heard read any book. He makes no attempt to understand the story or inflect words, emotions or sentence structure with any kind of accuracy, and…
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How Google Works by Eric Schmidt
This great book came recommended by Upendra Kulkarni who I talked with at some length about my interest in business applications for machine learning. This is one of those books that I immediately know I will be thinking of for years to come. I found it very enlightening; from a leadership perspective as well as an employee…
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Ready Player One
It took me a few tries to really dive into this book, but once I did, it was an instant favorite. As far as sci-fi goes, it’s fairly light. There is not a lot of technical detail; it’s more about the abstract side of an adventure undertaken by a group of very independent people in…
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Expanse 3 – Abaddon’s Gate
Abaddon’s Gate followed suit with the first two books in the series by expanding the scope of the story and the universe by an order of magnitude. One interesting moment in the story finds a character momentarily imbued with the memories and experiences of a member of an alien race which had ascended to a galactic scope of…