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A book full of powerful, important ideas that could have a major impact on how you see the world, all wrapped in dense, academic writing that is not particularly ...

I can honestly say I have no idea what this book is about. Having this feeling after reading a book used to make me feel like it was my fault—that I’m too dumb to...

The title is cheesy, the cover is cheesy, and much of the writing is cheesy; most of the “real life examples” are either entirely fake or massively simplified; th...

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...