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2021 Reading Challenge: 6 of 10
Friendly Fire: How Israel became its own worst enemy (Very interesting read on Israel/Palestine conflict)
Made in china: A Prisoner, an SOS Letter, and the Hidden Cost of America's Cheap Goods
The Ten Equations that Rule the World: And How You Can Use Them Too
The Data Detective: Ten Easy Rules to Make Sense of Statistics
One Day in December
How Are We Going to Explain This?
2020 Reading Challenge: 9 of 25
Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
The Dream Architects: Adventures in the Video Game Industry (Special Mention)
Cilka's Journey
Alchemy: The Surprising Power of Ideas that Don't Make Sense
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
The Outlaw Ocean: Journeys Across the Last Untamed Frontier
Call Sign chaos: Learning To Lead
The Fifth Risk
Finding Chika: A Little Girl, an Earthquake, and the Making of a Family
Pre-Suasion
The Joy of Game Theory
Never Grow Up
The Beginning and the End of Everything
Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution
Dark Market
One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment
- An insight into China's one child policy, and some dark stories too
Drug Warrior: The Hunt for El Chapo
Born A Crime
Blockchain: Transforming Your Business and Our World
The Unteachables (A Light-Hearted Fiction Novel)
Hit Refresh
Brief Answers to the Big Questions
The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane
The Mamba Mentality
Everything is F*cked
American Predator
A Man for All Markets
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?
Socialism Sucks
Talking to Strangers
The Tattooist of Auschwitz
- Based on a true story of an interview with a survivor of the concentration camp. World class writing style that keeps one sucked into writer's world. The kind of book to finish in a single seating given the excellent writing
The Girl with Seven Names
- Story of a privileged girl (from higher Songbun) who escaped from North Korea, filled with twists and turns and a never say die attitude to fight for the free life she dreamt of. My first foray into true stories of the atrocities of the regime
Nothing to Envy
- The above story piqued my interest in sufferings of North Korea, and this is a follow up, brilliant book that contains more stories from other individuals, this time, from citizens of a lower songbun (something like the caste system N.Korea developed to classify their citizens into whom the regime rewards for their loyalty and vice versa)
2018 Reading Challenge: 27 out of 35
Naked Economics
Life After Google
- Google created a centralised world, but increasingly, what humans want is a de-centralised world and privacy, (think Blockchain)
Billion Dollar Whale
Emotional Intelligence
Bad Science
- We cannot believe everything the professionals say, because even they do not know what they are saying. For example, the supposed popularity of giving children fish oil to improve their cognitive abilities, while, it isnt founded on solid research backing, but one obvious fact is that the company is aggressively pushing out articles that claim fish oil has magical properties
Switching Time
Prediction Machines
I Suck At Girls
Innumeracy
Sh*t My Dad Says (Such a good laugh)
Never Split The Difference
Predictably Irrational
Models
Gang Leader For A Day
- A sociologist's interesting journey into a gang. In essence, gang leaders are human too, something we who live in a part of the world where our everyday life is almost not threatened by crime, and we are unable to relate to the concept of a gang or an area which is part of a gang's territory
Six Easy Pieces
Bad Blood
- Horrifying story of a company dubbed the next Apple/Google of the Silicon Valley world. With the owner touted as the female version of Steve Jobs. But it was all a lie. Really brings about the point that not everything that is impressive is truly impressive
Dead Companies Walking
The Looting Machine
Sam Walton - Made In America
The Everything Store
How To Lie With Statistics
The Magic Of Math
Shoe Dog
Flash Boys
The Undoing Project
- Friendship between Amos Tversky and Daniel Khaneman, that introduced the modern day world to Behavioural Psychology. Think Cognitive Bias-ness. Without their work, we might not even be aware of our human fallacies. Dan Ariely's books are another of this kind!
Influence
Fooled By Randomness
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