My favorite book.
Where Is My Flying Car?
J.Storrs Hall
Read: March 27, 2024 • Rating: 10/10
We wanted flying cars, instead we got 140 characters
Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field
Nancy Forbes and Basil Mahon
Read: March 27, 2024 • Rating: 9/10
Interesting.
The Science of Can and Can't
Chiara Marletto
Read: March 27, 2024 • Rating: 9/10
This will be read in the future.
The Rational Optimist
Matt Ridley
Read: March 27, 2024 • Rating: 9/10
Optimism is a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Zero to One
Peter Thiel
Read: July 3, 2022 • Rating: 9/10
The straussian message of this book is that you should not start a company.
The Elephant in the Brain
Kevin Simler and Robin Hanson
Read: March 27, 2024 • Rating: 8/10
Some interesting ideas.
Gödel, Escher, Bach
Douglas Hofstadter
Read: March 27, 2024 • Rating: 8/10
No one has actually read this book.
Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World
Jack Weatherford
Read: March 27, 2024 • Rating: 8/10
History has no meaning.
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Read: December 13, 2022 • Rating: 8/10
Naval is a clear thinker.
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Dale Carnegie
Read: Jan 9, 2021 • Rating: 8/10
The definitive handbook on being a genuine, likeable, influential, and positive-sum person with many practical tips and anecdotes.
It would be great if everyone operated with this philosophy.
This book is the conceptual opposite of The 48 Laws of Power.
