Rated Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion 10/10
This is the perfect follow-on to 10% Happier: How I Tamed the Voice in My Head, Reduced Stress Without Losing My Edge, and Found Self-Help That Actually Works.<br/><br/>Sam does such a great job of explaining why we want to meditate. And what we can get from it.<br/><br/>I cannot recommend it enough.
Finished reading The City in the Middle of the Night
Wants to read A Leader's Gift: How to Earn the Right to Be Followed
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.
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.
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 Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty
Wants to read Laboratory Life: The Construction of Scientific Facts
Amazing insights into cities, but he repeats himself a bit.<br/><br/>If you're into cities, absolutely recommended.
Wants to read Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Rated The Happy Atheist 4/10
There was a time in my early non-believer days where I may have enjoyed this book.<br/><br/>But I'm over ranting and straw-man putdowns.
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 Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking
Wants to read Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
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.