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The Great Silence

"The Great Silence" An alternate take on The Fermi Paradox.
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The Elephant in the Brain

Fantastic read.
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The Sovereign Individual

Best book I've read since Sapiens (far less mainstream, though).
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Reality Is Not What It Seems

Best book I've read in the last year. Physics, poetry, philosophy and history packaged in a very accessible form.
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The Rational Optimist

Matt Ridley's "The Rational Optimist" is the most brilliant and enlightening book I've read in years. He has written 4 of my top 20
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Why Information Grows

Beautiful summary of an important book. Worth reading.
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Skin in the Game

Great summary of a great book.
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The Great CEO Within: The Tactical Guide to Company Building

A few years ago, one stormy night, @mattmochary appeared in my office window. He coached me out of my pit, and like any self respecting billionaire playboy, never charged me a dollar! Matt is since long gone, but I can hear his gentle counsel in these pages. The Great CEO Within
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Understanding Comics

The best book on semiotics that never uses the word.
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Collected Fictions

My “desert island” book.
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How to Change Your Mind

You many want to take a look at Michael Pollan’s most recent book, “How to Change Your Mind.”
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Incerto

Good books are worth re-reading. Great books are worth re-buying.
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Poor Charlie's Almanack

Best financial education book? Poor Charlie's Almanack
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Sapiens

Homo Deus, successor to Sapiens, it’s good but nowhere near as good as Sapiens. Sapiens I think is the best book of the last decade that I have read. I loved sapiens and I highly recommend it for everybody here.
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Meditations

Best classic book – philosophy? An intro, for someone starting out I love Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. For someone who’s more advanced Jiddu Krishnamurti– I like his Total Freedom book. Osho’s–Great Challenge. Michael Singer’s–Untethered Soul. Marcus Aurelius–Meditations
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The Untethered Soul

Best classic book – philosophy? An intro, for someone starting out I love Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. For someone who’s more advanced Jiddu Krishnamurti– I like his Total Freedom book. Osho’s–Great Challenge. Michael Singer’s–Untethered Soul. Marcus Aurelius–Meditations.
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The Great Challenge

Best classic book – philosophy? An intro, for someone starting out I love Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. For someone who’s more advanced Jiddu Krishnamurti– I like his Total Freedom book. Osho’s–Great Challenge. Michael Singer’s–Untethered Soul. Marcus Aurelius–Meditations.
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Total Freedom

For someone who’s more advanced Jiddu Krishnamurti– I like his Total Freedom book.
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Siddhartha

Best classic book – philosophy? An intro, for someone starting out I love Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
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Snow Crash

I still recommend Snow Crash. If anybody here is into sci-fi and all and hasn't read Snow Crash - it is an incredible cyberpunk novel. (8 m 45 s)
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The Happy Body

My workout routine is I do a little routine called The Happy Body by Jerzy Gregorek, you can look it up online. (1:06:26)
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Stories of Your Life and Others

There is a great story by Ted Chiang called "Understand". It is my favorite sci-fi story for the last two decades. Highly recommended. (1:06:40)
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