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Highly recommend books to read:

  1. the courage to be disliked
  2. Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charles T. Munger
  3. the machiavellians
  4. awareness / the four agreements

In progress

Next book on the list

  • The Courage to be Happy by Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
  • Knowledge and Decisions by Thomas Sowell (audiobook)
  • The Cultural Revolution by Frank Dikottler (audiobook)
  • The Full Facts Book of Cold Reading by Ian Rowland

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  • Subliminal by Leonard Mlodinow
  • peak

Books finished with single sentence learnings

  • March 2025
    • Stalin’s War by Sean McMeeklin (audiobook)
      • President Franklin D. Roosevelt had a man crush on Joseph Stalin, one of the worst people who have ever lived in our current era, and essentially funded the entire current political landscape we have, which makes you think about what would have happened if Roosevelt didn’t give Stalin free weapons, trade secrets, and essentially free money with no strings attached…
  • February 2025 (7)
    • The Know-It-All by A. J. Jacobs (audiobook)
      • Entertaining journey of reading through the entire Encyclopedia Britannica without really much pay out afterwards for the author
    • The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver (audiobook)
      • The goal in life is to figure out what is signal and what is noise in any decision, and a useful way to do that is to apply Bayes’ Theorem for as long as possible, getting closer to the truth.
    • Poor Charlie’s Almanack by Charles T. Munger (audiobook)
      • There are psychological misjudgments that many people make and aren’t even aware of when dealing with the world and if you learn to recognize them and you will better understand the world and make better decisions that benefit you.
    • the machiavellians
    • How to Decide by Annie Duke (audiobook)
      • There are ways to improve your decision making by using checklists and thinking through both bad possibilities to mitigate and good possibilities to take advantage of.
    • the way of the superior man
    • the four agreements
  • January 2025 (6)
    • vagabonding
    • habits of a healthy brain
    • Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson (audiobook)
      • The man has a demon on his shoulder that compels him to do crazy things that fit in line with his goal of populating Mars.
    • the science of life
    • the courage to be disliked
    • Determined by Robert M. Sapolsky (audiobook)
      • Humans are biologically determined, where the environment turns on and off genes, injuries can alter brain function, which make a human behave differently, but there is a small window where you can decide what to do after your biology behaves.

List is not inclusive of the books I’ve read in the past unfortunately…

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