BOOKS

Wind and Truth - Brandon Sanderson

Brandon Sanderson

The Fifth instalment of Sanderson’s Stormlight archive starts to reach further beyond Roshar and bring the full Cosmere into the folds of this story. At over 1300 pages, I’ve spent quite a while work

RECOMMENDED FICTION Fantasy
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The Big Fix - Denise Hearn and Vass Bednar

Denise Hearn, Vass Bednar

Denise and Vass us this book to take a look at the regulatory framework that Canada uses to evaluate competition and monopoly powers. While I knew that many companies owned many brands that "competed

MAYBE NONFICTION Big Tech Canada Competition Monopoly
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Co-Intelligence - Ethan Mollick

Ethan Mollick

AI has come for our world, whether we like it or not. In Co-Intelligence, Ethan Mollick, takes a positive look at what AI could mean for our lives. He explores how to maximize it's effectiveness for

MAYBE NONFICTION AI Big Tech Technology
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A System for Writing - Bob Doto

Bob Doto

Bob Doto's, A System for writing is a good entry into the world of note-taking books. He is concise and direct while still hitting all the high points I think need to be hit to create a good practice

MAYBE NONFICTION PKM Writing Zettelkasten
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The Language of the Night - Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin

This is a compilation of many essays by Le Guin on writing and writing science fiction in particular. She deals with the pronouns used in sci-fi to describe characters, with special updated notes cov

MAYBE NONFICTION Essay Science Fiction Writing
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The Courage to Be Disliked - Kishimi & Koga

Fumitake Koga, Ichiro Kishimi

The Courage to be Disliked is a discussion between a philosopher and a young adult who comes to challenge the philosopher on the validity of their ideas. The philosopher has taken Alfred Adler's psyc

MAYBE NONFICTION Philosophy Psychology
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Thinking in Systems - Donella H Meadows

Donella H Meadows

Just a few pages into this book I was expecting a fairly dense book on the mechanics of systems thinking. In fact I assumed the first chapter was a warmup to deep hard to wrap my head around topics.

RECOMMENDED NONFICTION Business Management Economics Systems Theory
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The Black Swan - Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

This is supposed to be some all fired amazing book about randomness. The title is derived from the idea that Europeans thought all swans were black until they visited Australia and suddenly found a b

NONFICTION Business Management Economics
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Anxious People - Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman

While this is the second time I’ve read Anxious People, it’s the first time I realized that this is the same author from A Man Called Ove, which is also an excellent read. Anxious People follows a

RECOMMENDED FICTION Literary Fiction
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Decluttered - Jenny Albertini

Jenny Albertini

Decluttered is a different book that I imagined it would be. I expected a book about strategies to reduce the clutter in my home, but I got a bunch more discussion about the systems that bring clutte

NONFICTION Minimalism
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