Book highlights and notes

All books posted here are worth reading. I don't bother posting those that aren't.

Books are rated from one to three stars.

??/??/2020 Dealers of Lightning - Michael A. Hiltzik ★★★

A time machine of a book that transports you into the wild and wacky world of Xerox PARC, a research arm of Xerox that invented many of the modern technologies we use.

06/04/2020 Dune - Frank Herbert ★★★

One of the great classic sci-fi books. My favorite sci-fi book ever, hands down.

12/28/2019 The Dream Machine - M. Mitchell Waldrop ★★★

Book on the Johnny Appleseed of computing: J.C.R. Licklider. Also has a ton of interesting stories about computing history.

07/14/2019 AI Superpowers - Kai Fu Lee ★★★

About China's role in the AI age. Highlights large differences in the startup/innovation ecosystems of China and the US

04/11/2019 Creativity, Inc. - Ed Catmull and Amy Wallace ★★★

A story of how things are in Pixar. A manual on how to create an organization where creativity thrives.

04/11/2019 Thinking Strategically - Dixit and Nalebuff
01/23/2019 Never Split the Difference - Chris Voss ★★★
12/19/2018 Poor Charlie's Almanack - Charlie Munger ★★★
12/12/2018 Prediction Machines - Ajay Agrawal ★★
11/26/2018 Scarcity - Shafir and Mullainathan ★★★
10/30/2018 How to Stop Worrying and Start Living - Dale Carnegie
08/30/2018 When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing - Daniel Pink
08/19/2018 How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie ★★★
07/15/2018 Essentialism - Greg McKeown ★★★
07/08/2018 Skin in the Game - Nassim Taleb (notes to follow) ★★
06/09/2018 Peak - Anders Ericsson ★★★
05/27/2018 Flow - Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi ★★
05/10/2018 Remote - Jason Fried
04/17/2018 A Mind at Play - Jimmy Soni ★★★
04/10/2018 Competing Against Luck - Clayton Christensen ★★★
03/20/2018 The Lean Startup - Eric Ries ★★
02/14/2018 Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari ★★★
12/30/2017 Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
12/30/2017 The Manager's Path - Camille Fournier ★★
11/20/2017 Letters to a Young Poet - Rainer Maria Rilke
10/10/2017 Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb ★★★
08/18/2017 Chaos Monkeys - Antonio Garcia Martinez ★★★
08/18/2017 Shoe Dog - Phil Knight ★★★
08/08/2017 A Mind For Numbers - Barbara Oakley ★★★
07/08/2017 The Hard Thing About Hard Things - Ben Horowitz ★★★
05/22/2017 The Mythical Man Month - Frederick Brooks ★★
05/16/2017 Zero to One - Peter Thiel ★★★
04/26/2017 Thinking Fast and Slow - Daniel Kahneman ★★★
04/04/2017 Grit - Angela Duckworth
03/27/2017 Idiomatic Python - Jeff Knupp ★★
02/16/2017 Algorithms To Live By - Brian Christian
12/11/2016 The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck - Mark Manson ★★★
09/09/2016 The Obstacle is the Way - Ryan Holiday
07/26/2016 Ego is the Enemy - Ryan Holiday ★★★
00/00/2016 Elon Musk - Ashlee Vance ★★★
00/00/2016 Talent Code - Daniel Coyle ★★★
00/00/2016 Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl ★★
00/00/2012 Steve Jobs - Walter Isaacson ★★★