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Non-Fiction
“Business Adventures” by John Brooks
A collection of twelve stories from the world of Wall Street, widely considered a classic of business literature. Warren Buffett and Bill Gates have both cited this as their favourite business book. The personal note marks it as read around August 2024. [→ books-literature]
Judith Orloff: The Empath’s Survival Guide: Life Strategies for Sensitive People
A self-help guide for highly sensitive or empathic people, covering strategies for emotional protection and energy management. The book bridges psychology and spirituality, focusing on techniques for managing emotional overwhelm. [→ books-literature; self-development → career-personal]
Books in progress (Jun 2024):
- Attia (longevity)
- Ramakrishnan — longevity, ribosome
- Learn to lead — de guilian
- Biography of Shannon
- Why we sleep — Walker
- Started: Skin in the Game
A personal reading list snapshot from June 2024 covering longevity science (Peter Attia’s “Outlive”), Venki Ramakrishnan’s “Why We Die”, Claude Shannon’s biography, Matthew Walker’s sleep research, and Nassim Taleb’s “Skin in the Game”. Spans health/science and philosophy. [→ books-literature; health content → health-fitness]
My Search for Ramanujam: How I Learned to Count — Ken Ono and Amir D. Aczel
A memoir and mathematical biography tracing Srinivasa Ramanujan’s life and mathematical genius, told through mathematician Ken Ono’s personal journey of connecting with Ramanujan’s legacy. Bridges personal narrative with number theory history. [→ books-literature; mathematical content → mathematics-science]
Barry Lopez — Arctic Dreams
A note about Barry Lopez’s 1986 National Book Award-winning work Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape, a meditation on the ecology, history, and beauty of the Arctic. Considered a landmark of American nature writing. [→ books-literature; natural history → mathematics-science; adventure → travel-outdoors]
Albert Camus reading list The Stranger, The Plague, The First Man, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Fall — en.wikipedia.org
A personal reading list of Albert Camus’s major works. Camus’s existentialism and absurdism — especially The Myth of Sisyphus and The Stranger — are perennial philosophy-of-life touchstones. [→ books-literature]
F. Scott Fitzgerald — The Great Gatsby https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Great_Gatsby
A Wikipedia reference for Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel, the quintessential portrait of American excess and the unattainable dream in the Jazz Age. Likely a reading note or discussion reference. [→ books-literature]
Robert Greene’s best ideas (Tim Carden tweet)
A tweet summarizing Robert Greene’s key ideas from works like The 48 Laws of Power, Mastery, and The Laws of Human Nature. Greene writes about power, strategy, and human psychology. [→ books-literature; self-development → career-personal]
Lit Nobel for Han Kang has significance deccanherald.com — https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/editorial/lit-nobel-for-han-kang-has-significance-3235471
A Deccan Herald editorial on South Korean novelist Han Kang winning the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature — noting its significance for Asian literatures and non-Western storytelling traditions. [→ books-literature; literary culture]