Books read

Books I’ve read and recommend.

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Non-fiction

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Good summary of humans.

Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Startup Bible, can also be read as a motivational or a book on philosophy, showing how good it really is.

Be Here Now

Ram Dass

Book from the hippie culture of 60s California.

Life 3.0

Max Tegmark

Emotional Design

Don Norman

Ram Dass

Lessons on designing, I read it also as a guide to Human-Computer Interaction (HCP).

A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Take Charge of your life

Dr. William Glasser, MD

Hit Refresh

Satya Nadella

The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

A brief history of civilisations.

The Book of Clarity

Paras Chopra

I have a signed copy!

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gold.

The Technological Republic

Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

Keith Johnstone

Learnt about story-telling and improvisation.

Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Tom Griffiths

Explains several algorithms non-technical way, connecting it to everyday life.

The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari

Robin Sharma

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Fiction

The Mill On The Floss

George Eliot

Read it in childhood, really loved it.

1984

George Orwell

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J K Rowling

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Everyone must read it, or atleast the philosophy of it.

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Crux or Some Parts Only

The structure of scientific revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

Superintelligence

Nick Bostrom

Mostly speculatory, but concrete.