Books
Personal notes, summaries and excerpts of books I have read.
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Excellent Advice for Living, Wisdom I Wish I'd Known Earlier – Kevin Kelly
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A Visit from the Goon Squad – Jenniger Egan
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue – V. E. Schwab
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Ce que le mirage doit à l'oasis – Yasmina Khadra
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Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows – John Koenig
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Cloud Cuckoo Land – Anthony Doerr
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All the Light We Cannot See – Anthony Doerr
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Dans les forêts de Sibérie – Sylvain Tesson
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Midlife: A Philosophical Guide – Kieran Setiya
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Four Thousand Weeks, Time Management for Mortals – Oliver Burkeman
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Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries) – Martha Wells
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Artificial Condition (The Murderbot Diaries) – Martha Wells
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All Systems Red (The Murderbot Diaries) – Martha Wells
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Think Again, The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know – Adam Grant
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I consider myself a realist – True Detective, Season 1
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Dans la solitude des champs de coton – Bernard-Marie Koltès
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World – David Epstein
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Running – Haruki Murakami
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Everybody Lies – Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
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The Gulag Archipelago – Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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The Jaguar Smile – Salman Rushdie
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Principles: Life and Work – Ray Dalio
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Americanah – Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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The Tyranny of Metrics – Jerry Z. Muller
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Secrets of Sand Hill Road, Venture Capital and How to Get It – Scott Kupor
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The Victorian Internet – Tom Standage
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Trillion Dollar Coach – Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, Alan Eagle
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The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories – Ken Liu
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La Tristesse du Samouraï – Victor del Arbol
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Dieu n'habite pas La Havane – Yasmina Khadra
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Grit, the power of passion and perseverance – Angela Duckworth
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Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
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21 lessons for the 21st century – Yuval Noah Harari
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Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
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Flowers for Algernon – Daniel Keyes
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When: the scientific secrets of perfect timing – Daniel H. Pink
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Radical Candor: Be a Kick-Ass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity – Kim Scott
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Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World – Adam Grant
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13 truths (speech) – Matthew McConaughey
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Real artists don't starve – Jeff Goins
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The Coaching Habit – Michael Bungay Stanier
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The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck – Mark Manson
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Chronique japonaise – Nicolas Bouvier
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Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty‑Eight Nights – Salman Rushdie
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Des hommes sans femmes – Haruki Murakami
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La Veille de presque tout – Victor del Arbol
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The Rosie Project – Graeme Simsion
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The Talent Code – Daniel Coyle
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L'usage du monde – Nicolas Bouvier
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Le grand Coeur – Jean-Christophe Rufin
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How Google Works – Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg
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S'abandonner à vivre – Sylvain Tesson
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L'amour aux temps du choléra – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
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Joseph Anton: A Memoir – Salman Rushdie
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Confessions of a public speaker – Scott Berkun
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La carte et le territoire – Michel Houellebecq