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A good read on six principles of human psychology that can help you to persuade others. This is a “pop psychology” book, so as always, take the contents of the bo...

This book has me torn. It contains so much good… and yet, it has so many problems. It’s an important read for everyone… but also misleading. Overall, I learned a ...

Take a few of the ideas from Buddhism, Sartre, Becker, and others, remix them into the social-media driven context of the 21st century, toss in a few swear words,...

Every Sci-Fi story needs an interesting premise—a “what if” question that it explores. This book has that covered. The key question is what if in human society, t...

A charming story full of lovable characters, a hilarious coffee-drinking dog (the “doorman”), and a number of beautiful, touching scenes. It’s ostensibly the stor...

An entertaining, occasionally moving story that’s too damn long. It about an Australian convict who escaped from prison and fled to India and his adventures getti...

We started Gruntwork in 2016 with two goals: (1) make it 10x easier to understand, build, and deploy software and (2) build a company where we can work on intere...

The good: A fantastic way to improve your programming abilities and understanding. Learning a number of different programming languages and paradigms in ...

The Remembrance of Earth’s Past trilogy contains, arguably, some of the biggest, most original, most outrageous, and most mind-blowing ideas ever seen in a Sci-Fi...

A great read that explains evolution, natural selection, darwinism, and why these are not only the theories most strongly supported by the evidence, but also why ...