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Review: Sack’s On The Move
On the Move: A Life Oliver Sacks I’ve always been interested in Sacks as a person, even if I’ve never been particularly interested in his work as a neurologist. His intelligence, eccentricity and playfulness are on full display in this memoir. From motorcycling across the country and breaking weightlifting records, to discovering his calling as…
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Review: Harari’s 21 Lessons for the 21st Century
21 Lessons for the 21st Century Yuval Noah Harari The third in Harari’s trilogy of books and by far his most accessible. If you know Harari through youtube videos and magazine articles, a lot of this will be familiar. Brilliant insights here into how A.I. will change work, how the stories will tell ourselves today…
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Review: Tegmark’s Life 3.0
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Max Tegmark I’m not an expert in AI, but I dabble, and I found this book to be amongst the best introductions to this complex field for the lay reader. Life 3.0 investigates a world of intelligent machines that may be utopia of life without…
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Review: Brown’s Dare to Lead
Dare to Lead: Brave Work, Tough Conversations, Whole Hearts Brene Brown Brown is everywhere now and a force in the world of leadership development / business psychology / personal development. Part self-help guru part executive coach, part cool mom, Brown has hit a certain sweet spot among a certain type ambitiously present upwardly mobile types…
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Review: Harari’s Home Deus
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow Yuval Noah Harari The second in Harari’s trilogy on the past and future of our specifics. This isn’t quite as jaw dropping brilliant as Sapiens, but still well worth your time. Sapiens takes all of human history and distills it down to a clear story powered by…
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Review: Wallace-Wells The Uninhabitable Earth
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming David Wallace-Wells David Wallace-Wells is here to tell you that not only is climate change very real, it is already worse than you think. Its happening at a rate that we’re not ready for and its effects will be more destructive in more overlapping ways, than you’re probably imaging.…
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Review: Williams’ the Dinosaur Artist
The Dinosaur Artist: Obsession, Betrayal and the Quest for Earth’s Ultimate Trophy Paige Williams I have a friend who categories books such as this as “better as an article” and perhaps there is some truth to that. Williams takes the compelling story she wrote for the New Yorker of a fossil hunter, the government of…
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Review: Newport’s Digital Minimalism
Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World Cal Newport I’m a big fan of Cal Newport’s work (I’ve read Deep Work, twice). This feels like his best book yet. Part evisceration of social media and what it does to our brains, part guidebook on how to live a less distracted life, this…
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Review: Zelnick’s Becoming Ageless
Becoming Ageless: Four Secrets To Looking and Feeling Younger Than Ever Strauss Zelnick Part memoir of the super-rich and successful Strauss Zelnick, part guide to aging well, this book is just like many many others that claim to have some new information but are really saying – eat well, exercise regularly, sometimes hard, sometimes easy,…
Milo and the Calf 