Tag: recommended
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Review: Soyinka’s Death and the King’s Horseman
Death and the Kings Horseman Wole Soyinka I’m a bit embarrassed I never read this classic before, but glad I rectified that this month. This short play is a story of colonialism, western chauvinism and profound cultural divides. It’s about what happens when ancient cultural traditions get disrespected by a new, allegedly more progressive force,…
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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: 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: 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: Harari’s Sapiens
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Yuval Noah Harari This book comes with so much hype, and such rave reviews, I was sure I was going to be disappointed. I wasn’t. Harari’s sweeping history of homo-sapiens is riveting from start to finish. The central thesis is simple. What separates us from other species is…
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What Are You Reading? For March 3, 2019 (Feat. Harari’s Sapiens, Newport’s Digital Minimalism and Tomlinson’s Elephant in the Room)
This month, I started a monthly newsletter of book recommendations call “What Are You Reading?”. I’ll be archiving the newsletter here on good old Milo. If you want to sign up for the newsletter head on over here. _______________________________________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the inaugural edition of “What Are You Reading?”, a monthly newsletter of book and…
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