Umarbek

Notes

Books I've read or am reading. Some have notes, most are just listed here.

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant— Eric Jorgenson
• An Introduction to Probability Theory and Its Applications — William Feller
• Anything You Want— Derek Sivers
• Probability Theory: The Logic of Science — E.T. Jaynes
• Judgment under Uncertainty: Heuristics and Biases — Kahneman, Slovic & Tversky
• Thinking, Fast and Slow— Daniel Kahneman
• Thinking in Bets — Annie Duke
• Superforecasting — Philip Tetlock
• What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars — Jim Paul
• The Failure of Risk Management — Douglas Hubbard
• The 4-Hour Workweek— Tim Ferriss
• A Few Lessons from Sherlock Holmes — Peter Bevelin
• The Black Swan— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Silent Risk — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Against the Gods — Peter L. Bernstein
• History of Financial Crises — Charles Kindleberger
• Normal Accidents — Charles Perrow
• The Collapse of Complex Societies — Joseph Tainter
• The Beginning of Infinity— David Deutsch
• The Logic of Scientific Discovery — Karl Popper
• Conjectures and Refutations — Karl Popper
• Objective Knowledge — Karl Popper
• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions — Thomas Kuhn
• Outlines of Pyrrhonism — Sextus Empiricus
• Les sceptiques grecs — Victor Brochard
• The Character of Physical Law — Richard Feynman
• Six Easy Pieces — Richard Feynman
• Six Not Easy Pieces — Richard Feynman
• Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman! — Richard Feynman
• The Pleasure of Finding Things Out — Richard Feynman
• The Road to Reality — Roger Penrose
• Reality Is Not What It Seems — Carlo Rovelli
• Seven Brief Lessons in Physics — Carlo Rovelli
• On Computable Numbers — Alan Turing
• Gödel, Escher, Bach — Douglas Hofstadter
• The Many-Worlds Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics — Hugh Everett
• The First Six Books of the Elements of Euclid — Euclid
• Mathematics — A.D. Aleksandrov
• The Thing Explainer — Randall Munroe
• Thinking Physics — Lewis Carroll Epstein
• Birth of a Theorem — Cédric Villani
• Essays — Montaigne
• The Complete Essays — Michel de Montaigne
• Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• Discourses & Enchiridion — Epictetus
• Letters from a Stoic — Seneca
• The Tao of Seneca — Seneca
• Tao Te Ching — Lao Tzu
• Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
• Allegory of the Cave — Plato
• The Denial of Death — Ernest Becker
• Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
• Straw Dogs — John Gray
• Black Mass — John Gray
• Finite and Infinite Games — James P. Carse
• Food Rules— Michael Pollan
• Confessions of a Philosopher — Bryan Magee
• The Life of Reason — George Santayana
• Scepticism and Animal Faith — George Santayana
• The Sovereign Individual — James Dale Davidson
• The Rational Optimist — Matt Ridley
• The Tyranny of Experts — William Easterly
• Order Without Design — Alain Bertaud
• Private Truths, Public Lies — Timur Kuran
• The Psychology of Money— Morgan Housel
• Alchemy — Rory Sutherland
• The Halo Effect — Phil Rosenzweig
• The Management Myth — Matthew Stewart
• Influence — Robert B. Cialdini
• Pre-Suasion — Robert B. Cialdini
• Yes! — Cialdini, Goldstein, Martin
• The Small BIG — Cialdini, Goldstein, Martin
• Social Cognition — Ziva Kunda
• Mean Genes — Terry Burnham
• The Hour Between Dog and Wolf — John Coates
• The Wisdom Paradox — Elkhonon Goldberg
• Mapping the Mind — Rita Carter
• Guns, Germs, and Steel — Jared Diamond
• The Dawn of Everything — David Graeber
• The Lessons of History — Will & Ariel Durant
• Who We Are and How We Got Here — David Reich
• In the Shadow of the Sword — Tom Holland
• Dominion — Tom Holland
• A History of Private Life, Volumes I–V
• Intellectual Life in the Middle Ages — Lesley M. Smith
• Life of Jesus — Ernest Renan
• What is a Nation? — Ernest Renan
• The World as I See It — Albert Einstein
• Einstein: His Life and Universe — Walter Isaacson
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• The Autobiography of Malcolm X — Malcolm X, Alex Haley
• Alexander Hamilton — Ron Chernow
• A Man for All Markets — Edward Thorp
• Models of My Life — Herbert A. Simon
• Shoe Dog — Phil Knight
• My Life and Work — Henry Ford
• Born a Crime — Trevor Noah
• Chaos Monkeys — Antonio García Martínez
• Idea Makers — Stephen Wolfram
• The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
• Demons — Fyodor Dostoyevsky
• Collected Fictions — Jorge Luis Borges
• The Iliad — Homer
• Atlas Shrugged — Ayn Rand
• The Fountainhead — Ayn Rand
• The Last Question — Isaac Asimov
• Illuminations — Walter Benjamin
• The Arcades Project — Walter Benjamin
• The Unquiet Grave — Cyril Connolly
• The Poetics of Space — Gaston Bachelard
• Tristes Tropiques — Claude Lévi-Strauss
• The Savage Mind — Claude Lévi-Strauss
• Mythologies — Roland Barthes
• Camera Lucida — Roland Barthes
• The Trouble with Being Born — Emil Cioran
• A Short History of Decay — Emil Cioran
• The Hedgehog and the Fox — Isaiah Berlin
• Against the Current — Isaiah Berlin
• Kant and the Platypus — Umberto Eco
• Elements of Information Theory — Thomas M. Cover
• Deep Learning — Ian Goodfellow
• The Elements of Statistical Learning — Trevor Hastie
• How Nature Works — Per Bak
• Information and the Nature of Reality — Paul Davies
• Statistical Models: Theory and Practice — David A. Freedman
• The Compleat Strategyst — J.D. Williams
• The Evolution of Cooperation — Robert Axelrod
• Good Calories, Bad Calories — Gary Taubes
• The Cancer Code — Jason Fung
• The Easy Way to Stop Drinking — Allen Carr
• Love Yourself Like Your Life Depends on It — Kamal Ravikant
• The Checklist Manifesto — Atul Gawande
• Happy Accidents — Morton A. Meyers
• The Status Syndrome — Michael G. Marmot
• How to Change Your Mind — Michael Pollan
• The Joyous Cosmology — Alan Watts
• Know Yourself: An Explanation of the Oneness of Being — Ibn Arabi
• Why Does the World Exist? — Jim Holt
• What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?— Stephen Wolfram
• You and Your Research— Richard Hamming (1986)
• I Think, Therefore I Laugh — John Allen Paulos
• The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity — Carlo Cipolla
• Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar — Thomas Cathcart
• Cool Tools — Kevin Kelly
• How Buildings Learn — Stewart Brand
• This Explains Everything — John Brockman
• Zero to One— Peter Thiel