Connor Hibble

Capital in the Twenty-First Century

Thomas Piketty

Work in progress.

★

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2025-01

Why We Sleep

Matthew Walker

Just get 8hrs. Dreaming is a bi-product.

★

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2024-11

Einstein

Isaacson Walterson

A good story of how he got to where he was.

★

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2024-10

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Super insightful. A great motivator. A very american lense.

★

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2024-07

Elon Musk

Isaacson Walterson

The good and the bad. Only a tad of hagiography.

★

☆

2024-06

Tuesdays with Morrie

Mitch Albom

I cried. A good reminder to be grateful for the people in your life.

★

☆

2024-06

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

The best intro to the universe.

★

2024-05

Machine Learning for Finance

Jannes Klaas

Halfway decided these are not the problems I want to solve.

★

☆

2024-05

The Quantum Universe

Bryon Cox

A good high level intro. One of the great science communicators.

★

☆

2024-04

In Patagonia

Bruce Chatwin

Wasn't for me. Story really felt incomplete.

★

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2024-03

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

The audio book with Steven Fry is awesome.

★

2023-11

No Country for Old Men

Cormac McCarthy

Different, but great fun.

★

☆

2023-10

Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe

A great messed up story.

★

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2023-04

Man's Search for Meaning

Viktor E. Frankl

A lot of truth found in suffering.

★

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2023-02

Ignition!

John Dury Clarke

Quirky. Nothing's perfect, lots of compromises.

★

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2022-10

How Innovation Works

Matt Ridley

A great history. Strips the lone genius to a more humanity story.

★

2022-05

Thinking Fast and Slow

Daniel Kahneman

We're not as rational as we think.

★

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2022-05

Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

Leonard Susskind

Dirac brackets are nifty.

★

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2021-10

Relativity, The Special and General Theory

Albert Einstein

Still blows my mind.

★

2021-06

The Body

Bill Bryson

A lot of crazy facts. Only 43% of your cells are human.

★

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2021-05

Superpower Australia's Low-Carbon Opportunity

Ross Garnaut

Scrapping the carbon tax was questionable. Not a fan of macro.

★

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2021-01

Dune

Frank Herbert

Start was a grind, but the end was unreal! The movie will be difficult.

★

2020-11

How the Mind Works

Steven Pinker

A lot of how, but wanted more why. Avoids hard problem.

★

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2020-05

The Hundred Page Machine Learning

Andriy Burkov

A concise intro to some fundamentals.

★

2020-03

Visual Display of Quantitative Information

Edward Tufte

Absolute art. Made me rethink the power of visuals.

★

2020-01

The Innovators Dilemma

Clayton M. Christensen

Timing disruption is key.

★

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2020-01

Brave New World

Alexander Huxley

I'm a huxley fan.

★

2019-10

The Better Angles of Our Nature

Steven Pinker

A positive lense on humanity progression. Dense, didn't finish.

★

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2019-06

Treasure island

Edward Thorpe

A nostalgic favourite.

★

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2019-05

I am Pilgram

Terry Hayes

Crazy engaging. Character development was unreal.

★

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2019-04

Spying on Whales

Nick Pyenson

Whales are pretty nuts. A tad dry didn't finish.

★

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2019-03

The People Vs Tech

Jamie Bartlett

I reckon his solutions are good in theory, but hard in practice.

★

☆

2019-03

Brain Rules

John Medina

Intutively you already know, but it's a good reminder.

★

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2019-02

Homo Deus

Yuval Noah Harari

Felt Sapiens was more evidence based. This was more speculative.

★

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2019-01

The Doubters Companion

John Ralston Saul

More of a dictionary. Witty and fun.

★

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2018-12

Guns, Germs and Steel

Jared Diamond

A lot of parallels to Sapiens, but written 15 years earlier

★

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2018-10

The Foundations of Mindfullness

Eric Harrison

Had me thinking very introspectively about my own perception.

★

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2018-09

1984

George Orwell's

A classic.

★

2018-08

Elon Musk

Ashlee Vance

What would the world be like if the third rocket wasn't successful?

★

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2018-07

The Human Network

Matthew O. Jackson

Figure 7.4, a powerful visual of bipartisinship collapse.

★

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2018-06

We Contain Multitudes

Ed Yong

Turns out we have a lot of microbes. Worth a read.

★

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2018-05

Jobs

Isaacson Walterson

The LSD was unexpected...but then again maybe not.

★

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2018-02

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

The book I've re-read the most.

★

2018-01

A Brief History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

When you look chronologically, humans are crazy.

★

2017-12

My Side of the Mountain

Jean Craighead George

A childhood favourite.

★

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2017-10

The Martian

Andy Weir

A fun read.

★

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2017-10