fifthrevision › On the Bookshelf

The Republic
Plato, Tom Griffith (translator), G.R.F. Ferrari (Editor) Reading
The Algebraist
Iain M Banks Reading
The Practice
Seth Godin ★★★★☆ 2025.03
Art as Experience
John Dewey ★★★★☆ 2025.03
The World Beyond Your Head
Matthew B. Crawford ★★★★☆ 2025.01
The Hour Between Dog and Wolf
John Coates ★★★★☆ 2025.01
A Desolation Called Peace
Martine Arkady ★★★★★ 2024.12
A Memory Called Empire
Martine Arkady ★★★★★ 2024.12
Understanding Computers and Cognition
Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores ★★★★★ 2024.12
The Buried Giant
Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★☆ 2024.12
On the Edge
review Nate Silver ★★★★★ 2024.12
CoIntelligence
Ethan Mollick ★★★☆☆ 2024.11
Unreasonable Hospitality
Will Guidara ★★★☆☆ 2024.11
The Right It
Alberto Savoia ★★★★★ 2024.08
The Creative Act
Rick Rubin ★★★★★ 2024.08
Superforecasting
Philip E. Tetlock, Dan Gardner ★★★★★ 2024.08
The Warmth of Other Suns
Isabel Wilkerson Unfinished
American Prometheus
Kai Bird, Martin J. Sherwin Unfinished
Love, Loss and What We Ate
Padma Lakshmi Unfinished
The Unaccountability Machine
Dan Davies ★★★★★ 2024.08
Same As Ever
Morgan Housel ★★★★☆ 2024.07
Supercommunicators
Charles Duhigg ★★★★★ 2024.06
The Coaching Habit
Michael Bungay Stanier ★★★★★ 2024.05
Clear Thinking
Shane Parrish ★★★★☆ 2024.04
Henry at Work
John Kaag, Jonathan van Belle ★★★★☆ 2024.03
Computing Taste
Nick Seaver ★★★★☆ 2024.02
Build the Life You Want
Arthur C. Brooks, Opera Winfrey ★★★★☆ 2024.02
Turn the Ship Around
review L. David Marquet ★★★★★ 2024.01
Holding the Calm
review Hesha Abrams ★★★★☆ 2024.01
Conversational Design
Erika Hall ★★★★☆ 2023.12
Why Startups Fail
Tom Eisenmann ★★★★★ 2023.11
The Transcendent Brain
Alan Lightman ★★★☆☆ 2023.10
Masters of Doom
David Kushner ★★★★☆ 2023.10
Circe
Madeline Miller ★★★★☆ 2023.10
Poverty, by America
Matthew Desmond Unfinished
Getting to Yes
review Roger Fisher, William L. Ury, Bruce Patton ★★★★★ 2023.10
One Billion Americans
Matthew Yglesias ★★★★☆ 2023.09
The Crux
Richard P. Rumelt ★★★★★ 2023.09
Chip War
Chris Miller ★★★★☆ 2023.08
Beyond Command and Control
John Seddon ★★★★☆ 2023.08
Outlive
Peter Attia ★★★★★ 2023.08
Build
Tony Fadell ★★★★★ 2023.07
Proust and the Squid
Maryanne Wolf ★★★★★ 2023.07
The Fractalist
Benoît B. Mandelbrot ★★★★★ 2023.05
This is How You Lose The Time War
Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone ★★★☆☆ 2023.03
Unwinding Anxiety
Judson Brewer ★★★★★ 2023.02
What Happened To You
Bruce D. Perry, Oprah Winfrey ★★★★★ 2023.01
The Mom Test
Rob Fitzpatrick ★★★★★ 2022.12
The Future of Money
Eswar S. Prasad Unfinished
Escaping the Build Trap
Melissa Perri Unfinished
The Minimalist Entrepreneur
Sahil Lavingia ★★★★★ 2022.12
Can't Even
Anne Helen Petersen ★★★★☆ 2022.05
Clear and Simple as the Truth
Francis-Noel Thomas, Mark Turner ★★★★☆ 2022.05
This Is Your Mind on Plants
Michael Pollan ★★★★★ 2022.05
Exhalation
review Ted Chiang ★★★★★ 2022.04
The Burnout Society
review Byung-Chul Han, Erik Butler ★★★★☆ 2022.04
Seven and a Half Lessons About the Brain
review Lisa Feldman Barrett ★★★★☆ 2022.04
Termination Shock
Neal Stephenson ★★★★☆ 2022.03
Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro ★★★★★ 2022.02
The Sciences of the Artificial
Herbert A. Simon ★★★★★ 2022.02
The Extended Mind
Annie Murphy Paul ★★★★☆ 2022.02
Flowers for Algernon
Daniel Keyes ★★★★☆ 2022.01
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory
Raphael Bob-Waksberg ★★★★★ 2022.01
Skin in the Game
Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★★★☆☆ 2022.01
Four Thousand Weeks
Oliver Burkeman ★★★★★ 2022.01
Living With Data
Jer Thorp ★★★★★ 2022.01
Notes from a Young Black Chef
Kwame Onwuachi, Joshua David Stein ★★★★☆ 2021.12
The Secret to Superhuman Strength
Alison Bechdel ★★★★★ 2021.12
The Practice of Groundedness
Brad Stulberg ★★★★☆ 2021.12
A Thousand Brains
Jeff Hawkins ★★★★☆ 2021.12
Insight
Tasha Eurich ★★★☆☆ 2021.11
How to Write One Song
Jeff Tweedy ★★★★☆ 2021.09
Why Fish Don't Exist
Lulu Miller ★★★★☆ 2021.09
This Is How They Tell Me The World Ends
Nicole Perlroth ★★★★★ 2021.08
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me)
Carol Tavris, Elliot Aronson ★★★★☆ 2021.06
The Alignment Problem
Brian Christian ★★★★★ 2021.05
The Code Breaker
Walter Isaacson ★★★★★ 2021.04
The Innovation Stack
review Jim McKelvey ★★★☆☆ 2021.04
The Price of Peace
review Zachary D. Carter ★★★★★ 2021.03
Think Again
review Adam Grant ★★★★☆ 2021.03
Calling Bullshit
review Carl T. Bergstrom, Jevin D. West ★★★★☆ 2021.03
Winning Now, Winning Later
review David M. Cote ★★★★☆ 2021.03
Thinking in Bets
review Annie Duke ★★★★☆ 2021.02
How to Decide
review Annie Duke ★★★☆☆ 2021.02
What Tech Calls Thinking
review Adrian Daub ★★★☆☆ 2021.01
Deep Thinking
review Garry Kasparov, Mig Greengard ★★★★☆ 2021.01
Steve Jobs
review Walter Isaacson ★★★★★ 2013.08