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Rated How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed 10/10

Fascinating. Informative. A great read.<br/><br/>It's pretty technical, though. You'll be better off if you've done some computer science or a bit of math beyond high school.

Rated A History of the World in 6 Glasses 8/10

This book probably goes along with those TV shows showing connections between everything. Likely the thesis was taken a bit too far to make a nice story...but it was a nice story.<br/><br/>Great anecdotes. Great history. Fun stories. Glad I read it. Happy to recommend it.

Wants to read The World Until Yesterday: What Can We Learn from Traditional Societies?

Wants to read Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking

Wants to read How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics

Wants to read Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China

Wants to read This Will Make You Smarter: New Scientific Concepts to Improve Your Thinking

Rated Fugitive Telemetry 8/10

Rated How Children Succeed: Grit, Curiosity, and the Hidden Power of Character 10/10

Well researched, well written, absolutely fascinating, a must read for anyone who cares about education.

Rated John Adams 10/10

WOW! I'm inspired. What an amazing man. What an amazing life. The things he accomplished. The way to saw things. The way to approached his work, his duty, his wife, his family, his country.<br/><br/>So inspiring.<br/><br/>I feel I have such a better understanding of the American Revolution and what came after. Franklin and Jefferson and the rest. A whole huge slice of US history and how it relates to world history just got glued down in my head.<br/><br/>It's a huge book, but well worth it. Must read. Can't recommend it enough.

Wants to read God's Problem: How the Bible Fails to Answer Our Most Important Question - Why We Suffer

Rated Shadow of the Hegemon 8/10

Rated Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation 6/10

I really wanted to like this book. I'm sure I'd love to sit down with Tim Brown and talk about his work and how he thinks about design,<br/><br/>But the book wasn't anything special. A lot of anecdotes gathered around some themes.<br/><br/>The notion of lowercase 'd' design I really like. The idea that design is important and can have a huge impact on our lives--love it.<br/><br/>But it's also motherhood and apple pie.<br/><br/>Interesting, but I can't say I recommend it.

Rated Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content 6/10

This one is tough. Mark's ideas are very interesting and likely useful, but this book very much felt like a long article turned into a book.<br/><br/>Maybe the reputation is necessary to really hit his point home.<br/><br/>This felt a <b>lot</b> like the The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence.

Wants to read In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Wants to read When Breath Becomes Air

Wants to read Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World

Rated Level Five 8/10

Super solid sci-fi with some AMAZINGLY prescient looks into the scary future of advanced AI and nanotechnology.<br/><br/>The author clearly read Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence – or at least it reads that way.<br/><br/>The lip biting and pervasive marital discord were a bit over the top, but overall I'd recommend it!

Wants to read Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning

Wants to read Perfectly Reasonable Deviations from the Beaten Track [First Printing]

Wants to read Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

Rated The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change 8/10

Wants to read Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts

Wants to read Attack of the Theocrats!: How the Religious Right Harms Us All — and What We Can Do About It

Wants to read Feynman