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- DryAugusten Burroughs
That was intense.
- Either/OrElif Batuman
Not as good as the prequel.
- The Human ConditionHannah Arendt
As Archimedes said, “Give me a lever long enough and a fulcrum on which to place it, and I shall move the world.”
- Silent SpringRachel Carson
- The Loneliness of Sonia and SunnyKiran Desai
- Boom: Bubbles and the End of StagnationByrne Hobart and Tobias Huber
The chapters on the Manhattan Project and the Apollo program are amazing.
- The Harry Potter SeriesJ.K. Rowling
As good as it was in elementary school. Not so good for my exam studying.
- The Memory PoliceYōko Ogawa
Unsatisfying ending.
- American PrometheusKai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin
The only time I’ve liked the movie better.
- The NamesakeJhumpa Lahiri
“You remind me of everything that followed.”
- Stay TrueHua Hsu
A privilege to read.
- Nineteen Eighty-FourGeorge Orwell
Mildly ashamed I didn’t read it earlier.
- One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against ThisOmar El Akkad
“It is a hallmark of failing societies, I’ve learned, this requirement that one always be in possession of a valid reason to exist.”
- The Three-Body ProblemLiu Cixin
So much physics.
- The IdiotElif Batuman
I loved it.
- When Breath Becomes AirPaul Kalanithi
Cried.
- SiddharthaHerman Hesse
I then began reading an extensive history of Buddhism.
- Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindYuval Noah Harari
This should be a textbook in schools, I think.
- Principles for Navigating Big Debt CrisesRay Dalio
Spreadsheets in the 80s would have ripped.
- Normal PeopleSally Rooney
- The Bell JarSylvia Plath
- The Handmaid’s TaleMargaret Atwood
- Their Eyes Were Watching GodZora Neale Hurston
- The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ckMark Manson
Incredibly inspiring. I would do well to follow this more often.
- Interpreter of MaladiesJhumpa Lahiri
This is my favorite book of all time.
Stuff I Like
- The fall of the theorem economyDavid Bessis
“The product of mathematics is clarity and understanding. Not theorems, by themselves.” —Bill Thurston.
- Everyone Can Tell if You’re a Serious PersonConnor Jennings
“If your life isn’t worth taking seriously, what is?”
- The Optimization Theory of EverythingAmol Kapoor
Goodhart’s Law says, “when a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.”
- This Is WaterDavid Foster Wallace
“It is unimaginably hard to do this, to stay conscious and alive in the adult world day in and day out. Which means yet another grand cliché turns out to be true: your education really IS the job of a lifetime.”
- Humanity’s Last MachineSourish Jasti, Zoey Tang, Intel Chen, and Vishnu Mano
And on top of it all, the design!
- Why China got rich and India didn’tDavid Oks
- Wiki SpyNeal Agarwal
- Every Supply Chain in the WorldVincent Huang
- The Question Concerning TechnologyMartin Heidegger
- Das Kapital, Vol. 1Karl Marx
Chapter XV, “Machinery and Large-Scale Industry” (1867). This hit.
- The Consumption RitualJermaine Fowler
- Why is South Korean fertility so low?Phoebe Arslanagić-Little and Works in Progress
- The realities of being a pop starCharli XCX
- Anatomy of a manchildAmanda Montei