The blog has been quiet for the last year as li, but to try and get things started again I’m sharing the list of books I’ve read in the first half of 2021:
- Goliath’s Revenge: How Established Companies Turn the Tables on Digital Disruptors by Scott Andrew Snyder and Todd Hewlin
- Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World by Fareed Zakaria
- The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Rationalist’s Guide to the Galaxy: Superintelligent AI and the Geeks Who Are Trying to Save Humanity’s Future by Tom Chivers
- The Wise Man’s Fear by Patrick Rothfuss
- The Ghost Map: The Story of London’s Most Terrifying Epidemic – and How it Changed Science, Cities and the Modern World by Steven Johnson
- Pattern Recognition by William Gibson
- Working Backwards: Insights, Stories, and Secrets from Inside Amazon by Colin Bryar & Bill Carr
- The Player of Games by Iain Banks
- Nomadland by Jessica Bruder
- Use of Weapons by Iain Banks
- How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
- Excession by Iain Banks
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland
I’m trying to alternate fiction and non-fiction. Some of these are re-reads of SF/Fantasy books that I found very influential though my teens and early twenties. Non fictions reads mostly come from referrals and now walking though bookshops looking for topics on the intersection of technology, economics and history.
I have to recommend Goliath’s Revenge and Working Backwards as most useful from a work perspective. Pattern Recognition and Microserfs are great fiction books.
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