Non-fiction: "The Winner-Take-All Society" if I must pick one. Add Peter Senge's "The Fifth Discipline" for discussion of systems thinking, of which WTAS is a superb example. (Go read both. Like, now!)
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⓵ a current fav fiction read
⓶ a current fav non-fiction read
these can be esoteric things YOU like, not necessarily with wide appeal
books, short stories, articles, poems, scripts, whatevs
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I'm very thin on fiction reading, preferring movies. (I like having other people do my imagining for me.) But, I enjoyed the supernatural sci-fi epic "Pegasus in Space" on audiobook last spring.
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Fiction: The Nix by Nathan Hill, Non-Fiction: The Emperor of All Maladies by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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Fiction: The Name of the Wind by
@PatrickRothfuss Non-fiction: Radical Markets by Glen Weyl and Eric PosnerThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Non-fiction: The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee https://www.amazon.com/Gene-Intimate-History-Siddhartha-Mukherjee/dp/147673352X … Also non-fiction: Make Your Words Work by Gary Provost; very helpful, instantly rewarding https://www.amazon.com/Make-Your-Words-Work-Writing/dp/0595174868/ …
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Fiction: Ward (https://www.parahumans.net ), the sequel to web serial Worm (https://parahumans.wordpress.com ), which I really recommend first. And reading it along the We've Got Worm/Ward podcast that analyzes it (
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Recent fiction I liked: Ball Lightning. Cixin Liu’s pre-Three-Body novel https://www.amazon.com/Ball-Lightning-Cixin-Liu/dp/076539409X/?tag=elidourado-20 … Recent non-fiction: The Elephant in the Brain. Simler does a great job of making Robin comprehensible and the ideas shine https://www.amazon.com/Elephant-Brain-Hidden-Motives-Everyday/dp/0190495995?tag=elidourado-20 …
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Current non-fiction: Dropping Ashes on the Buddha. Letters from a South Korean monk. Fairly lucid explanation of zen concepts/ideas. https://www.amazon.com/Dropping-Ashes-Buddha-Teachings-Master/dp/0802130526 …
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Fiction: "The Lover" by Marguerite Duras https://www.amazon.com/Lover-Marguerite-Duras-ebook/dp/B0055PGVFS/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1538679694&sr=8-2&keywords=the+lover …
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Non-fiction: The Ghost in the Machine by Arthur Koestler. https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/1939438349/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o01_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 … Wanted to get to the source of "holons." Well worth it so far (about 1/3 into it).
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