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Book recommendations
If you like my blog, you might like the following books.
Education and Learning
- Ungifted: Intelligence Redefined by Scott Barry Kaufman
- The Smartest Kids in the World by Amanda Ripley
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Sex
- Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex by Mary Roach
Science
- Reinventing Discovery by Michael Nielsen
- The scientific method by Armstrong and Green
Technology and economics
- The Rational Optimist: How Prosperity Evolves and How Innovation Works: And Why It Flourishes in Freedom by Matt Ridley
- Wonderland: How Play Made the Modern World by Steven Johnson
- The Myth of the Entrepreneurial State by McCloskey and Mingardi
Programming
- The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks
- Hacker’s Delight by Henry S. Warren
Environment
- Apocalypse Never: Why Environmental Alarmism Hurts Us All by Michael Shellenberger
- False Alarm: How Climate Change Panic Costs Us Trillions, Hurts the Poor, and Fails to Fix the Planet by Bjorn Lomborg
- Unsettled by Koonin
Work
- Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work by Matthew B. Crawford
- The Art of Procrastination: A Guide to Effective Dawdling, Lollygagging and Postponing by John Perry
- Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
Society
- Made by Hand: Searching for Meaning in a Throwaway World by Mark Frauenfelder
- Life Inc. and Program or Be Programmed by Douglas Rushkoff
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
Scifi
- House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
- Glasshouse, Saturn’s Children and The Atrocity Archives by Charles Stross
- Pandora’s Star and the rest of the Commonwealth Saga by Peter F. Hamilton
- Holy Fire by Bruce Sterling
- Rainbows End and Marooned in Realtime by Vernor Vinge
Health and longevity
- Cracking the Aging Code by Josh Mitteldorf
- The Telomerase Revolution by Michael Fossel
- The Abolition of Aging by David Wood
- Ending Aging by Aubrey de Grey
- Biologically Modified Justice by Colin Farrelly