Fascinating and scary read.
Tag: reading
Jonathan Haidt: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom
Great, entertaining read. Didn’t get rid of all grumpiness, but at least provided some flagposts for orientation 🙂
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Poor Folk
Good read, not sure I’d keep it on my top 100 books to read before you die list though.
Tracy Kidder: The Soul of A New Machine
Fun read as well, even though it gets repetitive/boring after a while, and lacks some structure (jumps back and forth) – but certainly worth reading.
Neal Stephenson: Snow Crash
Excellent read even though the metaverse is pretty much here now 🙂
Tim Ferriss: The 4-Hour Body
After having attempted to read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_4-Hour_Body (https://tim.blog/category/the-4-hour-body/) before, and stopping half way through, I finally found the time to read the second half of the book as well.
Seen as a guide to various health and fitness related aspects to dive deeper into, I think the book does a reasonable job. – There are a couple of things I hadn’t heard about before (and a couple which are so far out of my horizon, I don’t think I’d ever have learned about them, if it weren’t for the book (baseball..)) providing a reasonable increase in knowledge spectrum.
Hans Rosling: Factfulness
Based on a recommendation, I’ve finally read Anna Rosling Rönnlund’s, Hans Rosling’s and Ola Rosling’s book “Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World — and Why Things Are Better Than You Think“.
I remember Hans Rosling from some of his famous TED talks (like https://www.ted.com/talks/hans_rosling_the_best_stats_you_ve_ever_seen, https://www.ted.com/speakers/hans_rosling) but wasn’t aware of the book until a couple of weeks ago – and to be honest, I only now made the connection between Dollar Street (https://www.gapminder.org/dollar-street/matrix, https://www.ted.com/talks/anna_rosling_ronnlund_see_how_the_rest_of_the_world_lives_organized_by_income) and Gapminder (silly me, in hindsight it’s too obvious).
The findings shared have been transformational for my worldview, and how I navigate the world today. If you need to kill some time, I recommend to at least watch the TED talks – after which the book is a bit of a repeat and you could skip to Chapter 11 right away.