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- Mutual Causality in Buddhism and General Systems Theory by Joanna Macy
Mastering the Core Teachings of the Buddha by Daniel Ingram.
Lenin by Victor Sebestyen.
- Lawrence in Arabia by Scott Anderson A mathematician's apology by G.H Hardy My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Jack Weatherford Churchill: Walking with Destiny by Andrew Roberts Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror by Victor Sebestyen Hamilton by Ron Chernow
- Life 3.0 by Max Tegmark - great glimpse into the current and potential future of AI
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Issacson - fascinating look into the real life of Leonardo, demystifying the genius
Excession by Iain M Banks - a bit of a let down
Bluets by Maggie Nelson - lyrical and philosophical and explicit ruminations on the color blue
How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan - a lot of already known and rehashed info on psychedelics
Lost City of the Incas by Hirham Bingham - Yale professor who discovered Machu Pichu. Good history of the Incas and region
Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbuy - Classic!
2041 by Kim Stanley Robinson - NYC underwater in the future. A bit of a let down compared to his Mars series
Shiver by Junji Ito - short stories from the king of Japanese horror manga
Lenin: The man, the dictator, the master of terror by Victor Sebestyen - great bio on Vladimir Lenin. Knew very little about him before reading this. Fantastic!
Deep Learning by Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, and Aaron Courville - definitive text book on Deep Learning
The Curse of Bigness by Tim Wu - interesting read into the history of Antitrust and the Sherman Act and how they relate to modern tech giants like Amazon, Google, Facebook
Connecting the Dots by John Chambers - a bit dry. Lessons Chambers learned while CEO of Cisco
