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Synced from Goodreads 26 SEPT 2026Edward L. Deci · 1995 · 240 pp
Why We Do What We Do: Understanding Self-Motivation
Date read21 SEPT 2026Goodreads →Katy Bowman · 2014 · 301 pp
Move Your DNA: Restore Your Health Through Natural Movement
Date read05 AUG 2026Goodreads →Charles Duhigg · 2024 · 320 pp
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Date read19 MAY 2026Goodreads →James Nestor · 2020 · 280 pp
Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art
Date read14 APR 2026Goodreads →Cal Newport · 2016 · 296 pp
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Date read26 MAR 2026Goodreads →James Clear · 2018 · 319 pp
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
Date read18 FEB 2026Goodreads →Nicole Perlroth · 2021 · 528 pp
This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race
Date read16 FEB 2026Goodreads →Clifford Stoll · 1989 · 399 pp
The Cuckoo's Egg: Tracking a Spy Through the Maze of Computer Espionage
Date read12 DEC 2025Goodreads →Anne-Laure Le Cunff · 2025 · 304 pp
Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Date read10 NOV 2025Goodreads →Nancy Kline · 1999 · 256 pp
Time to Think: Listening to Ignite the Human Mind
Date read14 SEPT 2025Goodreads →W. Timothy Gallwey · 1974 · 134 pp
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
Date read20 AUG 2025Goodreads →Jim Kwik · 2020 · 344 pp
Limitless: Upgrade Your Brain, Learn Anything Faster, and Unlock Your Exceptional Life
Shelved09 AUG 2025Goodreads →Leonard Mlodinow · 2018 · 272 pp
Elastic
Shelved09 AUG 2025Goodreads →Nir Eyal · 2019 · 290 pp
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
Date read24 APR 2025Goodreads →Yuval Noah Harari · 2024 · 528 pp
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Date read16 JAN 2025Goodreads →Steven Pressfield · 2002 · 168 pp
The War of Art
Date read24 OCT 2024Goodreads →Robert M. Pirsig · 1974 · 540 pp
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
Date read26 SEPT 2024A really amazing book. For me at least.
On Goodreads →Ryan Holiday · 2022 · 312 pp
Discipline Is Destiny: The Power of Self-Control
Date read23 JUL 2024Goodreads →Claire L. Evans · 2018 · 288 pp
Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet
Date read15 JUL 2024A really ingenious book. I thoroughly enjoyed the perfectly apt prose for the time and eras. Evans’s choice of female powerhouses is excellent. By far one of the best internet history books I own.
On Goodreads →Atul Gawande · 2009 · 208 pp
The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right
Date read14 MAY 2024Goodreads →Draper Kauffman · 158 pp
Systems 1: An Introduction to Systems Thinking
Date read29 APR 2024I really loved this book. I think it is written very well and gives you such a good, accessible introduction to systems thinking. It distills so much wisdom and I could not help but find myself seeing more and more. Applying the theory to life and many areas.
On Goodreads →Rachel Carson · 1962 · 378 pp
Silent Spring
Date read28 APR 2024A fascinating book that reads like a novel and so important that almost everyone should read it. It is about our environment and our influence on it. The books examines the use of pesticides and insecticides in various ways and how the results caused significant issues one way or another. However, the book weaves a theme of responsibility being core to our choices all the way through it. We should not act without well done examination of what may happen. The book illustrates systems thinking spectacularly and proves that with consideration we can find harmony with nature. We don’t have to kill everything to make things easier, just observe a bit more.
On Goodreads →Giulia Enders · 2014 · 273 pp
Gut: The Inside Story of Our Body's Most Underrated Organ
Date read23 APR 2024Goodreads →Laura Whateley · 2018 · 364 pp
Money: A Users Guide
Date read26 MAR 2024Goodreads →Adam M. Grant · 2023 · 304 pp
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Date read17 MAR 2024Goodreads →Donella H. Meadows · 2008 · 218 pp
Thinking In Systems: A Primer
Date read10 MAR 2024Goodreads →Steven D. Levitt · 2005 · 268 pp
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Date read11 FEB 2024Goodreads →Mustafa Suleyman · 2023 · 332 pp
The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-first Century's Greatest Dilemma
Date read23 JAN 2024Goodreads →Paul Graham · 2004 · 258 pp
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Date read15 DEC 2023Goodreads →Daniel Kahneman · 2011 · 499 pp
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Date read07 DEC 2023Goodreads →Gregory Zuckerman · 2019 · 359 pp
The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution
Shelved20 NOV 2023Goodreads →Joe Moran · 2018 · 256 pp
First You Write a Sentence.: The Elements of Reading, Writing … and Life
Date read19 JUN 2023What a great book. Joe puts things into tangible understanding pieces. She talks about the beauty of writing and why we should pursue it. She adds reflections on life along the way and they are great.
On Goodreads →Marty Cagan · 2008 · 349 pp
Inspired: How to Create Tech Products Customers Love
Date read24 MAY 2023Goodreads →Yuval Noah Harari · 2018 · 372 pp
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Date read24 MAY 2023Goodreads →Brian Christian · 2016 · 368 pp
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Date read12 MAY 2023Goodreads →James E. Lovelock · 2019 · 160 pp
Novacene: The Coming Age of Hyperintelligence
Shelved02 MAY 2023Goodreads →Gyles Brandreth · 2018 · 256 pp
Have You Eaten Grandma?
Date read02 MAY 2023Goodreads →Ben Horowitz · 6 pp
Good Product Manager/Bad Product Manager
Shelved27 MAR 2023Goodreads →Yuval Noah Harari · 2015 · 513 pp
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Shelved27 MAR 2023Goodreads →Barbara Oakley · 2014 · 336 pp
A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra)
Shelved27 MAR 2023Goodreads →Walter Isaacson · 2014 · 542 pp
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Shelved27 MAR 2023Goodreads →Richard P. Feynman · 1985 · 400 pp
"Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character
Shelved27 MAR 2023Goodreads →Steve Wozniak · 2006
I, Woz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon - Getting to the Core of Apple's Inventor
Shelved27 MAR 2023Goodreads →Bertrand Russell · 1925 · 48 pp
What I Believe
Shelved27 MAR 2023Goodreads →Charles Petzold · 1999 · 396 pp
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software
Shelved24 MAR 2023Goodreads →Jeff Sutherland · 2014 · 248 pp
Scrum - The Art of Doing Twice the Work in Half the Time
Shelved24 MAR 2023Goodreads →Katie Hafner · 1996 · 304 pp
Where Wizards Stay Up Late: The Origins of the Internet
Shelved24 MAR 2023Goodreads →Farley Mowat · 1963 · 246 pp
Never Cry Wolf: The Amazing True Story of Life Among Arctic Wolves
Shelved24 MAR 2023Goodreads →Nicholas Negroponte · 1995 · 249 pp
Being Digital
Shelved24 MAR 2023Goodreads →Edward Snowden · 2019 · 352 pp
Permanent Record
Shelved24 MAR 2023Goodreads →Phil Knight · 2016 · 400 pp
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Shelved24 MAR 2023Goodreads →Marcus Aurelius · 180 · 254 pp
Meditations
Shelved24 MAR 2023Goodreads →Viktor E. Frankl · 1946 · 165 pp
Man's Search for Meaning
Shelved24 MAR 2023Goodreads →Malcolm Gladwell · 2000 · 301 pp
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Shelved24 MAR 2023Goodreads →Malcolm Gladwell · 2008 · 309 pp
Outliers: The Story of Success
Shelved24 MAR 2023Goodreads →Yuval Noah Harari · 2011 · 512 pp
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
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