My completed books (pre 2024.02.01) WIP Public
Created by Sanjay
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4 stars
The story is set in a seemingly perfect global society. Uniformity is the defining feature; there is only one language …
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Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
4 stars
Psychologist Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's famous investigations of "optimal experience" have revealed that what makes an experience genuinely satisfying is a state …
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Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
4 stars
Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our …
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The Technological Society by Jacques Ellul
5 stars
As insightful and wise today as it was when originally published in 1954, Jacques Ellul’s The Technological Society has become …
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The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan
4 stars
How can we make intelligent decisions about our increasingly technology-driven lives if we don’t understand the difference between the myths …
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The hidden rise of personalization on the Internet is controlling--and limiting--the information we consume. In 2009, Google began customizing its …
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The Ascent of Money by Ferguson, Niall
3 stars
Bread, cash, dough, loot: Call it what you like, it matters. To Christians, love of it is the root of …
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The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
4 stars
Examines the role of the unexpected, discussing why improbable events are not anticipated or understood properly, and how humans rationalize …
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Ego is the enemy by Ryan Holiday
4 stars
Many of us insist the main impediment to a full, successful life is the outside world. In fact, the most …
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Amusing ourselves to death by Neil Postman
4 stars
Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business (1985) is a book by educator Neil Postman. …
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