| The silk roads: a new history of the world |
Peter Frankopan |
2018-11-01 |
2019-02-01 |
Amazing review of the entire history from Asia's perspective |
| On Writing |
Stephen King |
2019-01-01 |
2019-02-01 |
How does Stephen King write, some interesting things to apply to every job, including Sotware Engineering |
| The simple path to wealth |
JL Collins |
2019-03-01 |
2019-05-02 |
Book about how to financial plan to be financially idependent. Very practical! |
| The Automatic Millionaire |
David Bach |
2019-05-15 |
2019-05-18 |
Some common-sense advice on financial planning. Pay yourself first and make it automatic. |
| Why We Sleep |
Matthew Walker |
2019-05-20 |
2019-07-27 |
What are the main sleep phases, why we sleep and how important it is. Prioritize sleep. |
| Leaders Eat Last |
Simon Sinek |
2019-08-02 |
2019-10-18 |
Leaders create and maintain a circle of safety for their people. True leadership comes at the expense of self-interest |
| Il Filo Infinito |
Paolo Rumiz |
2019-10-21 |
2019-11-18 |
L'ordine dei Benedettini, Rumiz visita monasteri in giro per l'Europa e si lamenta dei tempi d'oggi. |
| Deep Work |
Cal Newport |
2019-11-18 |
2019-11-27 |
The value of deep work and how to do more deep work in your life. |
| Permanent Record |
Edward Snowden |
2019-11-24 |
2019-12-06 |
The first part is a bit boring but this is a very good book about the importance of privacy and how to protect it |
| The Tipping Point |
Malcolm Gladwell |
2019-12-06 |
2020-01-11 |
A wonderful book where Gladwell identifies different factors that contribute to epidemics. The oftern small and neglected details that make a social phenomenon tip. |
| Getting to Yes |
Roger Fisher and William Ury |
2019-12-23 |
2020-02-21 |
Very good book that explains the basis of negotiation. Negoatiation is not a zero-sum game |
| Eat and Run |
Scott Jurek |
2020-02-21 |
2020-03-03 |
An autobiography of Scott Jurek that talks about his life through some of the runs he competed in, how he bacame vegetarian and why he runs |
| The Death of Ivan Ilyich |
Leo Tolstoy |
2020-03-4 |
2020-04-20 |
A short story about death. Mildly interesting. |
| Memoirs of a Geisha |
Arthur Golden |
2020-04-21 |
2020-06-23 |
A very engaging novel, albeit pretty long! I would give it 4 and a half stars. |
| The Manager's Path |
Camille Fournier |
2020-04-27 |
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| The Five Disfunctions of a Team |
Patrick Lencioni |
2020-06-24 |
2020-09-04 |
Great book about managing teams. Great explanation about the basic building blocks of great teams. |
| Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind |
Yuval Noah Harari |
2020-10-01 |
2020-11-01 |
A lot of hype but the book is not good. Just the first chapter is worth reading. The author thinks he can talk about economics, science, antropology and give his opinion about everything. It takes much more than that. |
| Guns, Germs and Steel |
Jared Diamond |
July, 2021 |
October, 2021 |
An interesting book that shows how different societies are influenced by the environment they live in. Contains an explanation as to why Euroasians came to dominate the modern world. Of the same author, I like "Collapse" better. |
| Smarter Faster Better |
Charles Duhigg |
November, 2021 |
December, 2021 |
Awesome book that offers a lot of different strategies to improve productivity. I especially liked it because it has a whole chapter on how to implement them |
| First, Break all the Rules |
Marcus Buckingham |
December, 2021 |
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