Favorite Reading
Books
Book count: 64
These are some of the books that I recalled that I have read, but not all of them
168 Hours: You Have More Time Than You Think by Laura Vanderkam
21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less by Richard Koch
The Age of Edison: Electric Light and the Invention of Modern America by Ernest Freeberg
A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Bennett
Alibaba: The House That Jack Ma Built by Duncan Clark
All That Remains: A Renowned Forensic Scientist on Death, Mortality, and Solving Crimes by Sue Black
A Mind For Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science by Barbara Oakley
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard W. Hamming
Ask Me Anything: A collection of Reddit's best from r/IAmA Volume 1
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou
The Complete Guide to Absolutely Everything: Adventures in Math and Science by Adam Rutherford and Hannah Fry
Cypherpunks: Freedom and the Future of the Internet by Julian Assange
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
Einstein: His Life and Universe by Walter Isaacson
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future by Ashlee Vance
Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA, and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen
Global Catastrophic Risks by Nick Bostrom and Milan M. Ćirković
Hello World: How to be Human in the Age of the Machine by Hannah Fry
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate: Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
The Ice Man: Confessions of a Mafia Contract Killer by Philip Carlo
The Last Unknowns: Deep, Elegant, Profound Unanswered Questions About the Universe, the Mind, the Future of Civilization, and the Meaning of Life edited by John Brockman
Learn Like a Pro: Science-Based Tools to Become Better at Anything by Barbara Oakley
Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark
Life's Edge: The Search for What It Means to Be Alive by Carl Zimmer
Life: The Leading Edge of Evolutionary Biology, Genetics, Anthropology, and Environmental Science – The Edge.org Series with Dawkins, Wilson, and Venter (Best of Edge Series) edited by John Brockman
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX by Eric Berger
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
The Mastermind: Drugs. Empire. Murder. Betrayal by Evan Ratliff
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III, and Mark A. McDaniel
Mindshift: Break Through Obstacles to Learning and Discover Your Hidden Potential by Barbara Oakley
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything by Joshua Foer
No Place to Hide: Edward Snowden, the NSA, and the U.S. Surveillance State by Glenn Greenwald
Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration by Warren Bennis and Patricia Ward Biederman
Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality by Max Tegmark
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise by Anders Ericsson, Robert Pool
The Pentagon's Brain: An Uncensored History of DARPA, America's Top-Secret Military Research Agency by Annie Jacobsen
Possible Minds: Twenty-Five Ways of Looking at AI edited by John Brockman
Power Play: Tesla, Elon Musk, and the Bet of the Century by Tim Higgins
Reinventing the Automobile: Personal Urban Mobility for the 21st Century by William J. Mitchell, Christopher E. Borroni-Bird, and Lawrence D. Burns
Remember It: The Names of People You Meet, All of Your Passwords, Where You Left Your Keys, and Everything Else You Tend to Forget by Nelson Dellis
The Road to Reality: A Complete Guide to the Laws of the Universe by Roger Penrose
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
She Has Her Mother's Laugh: The Powers, Perversions, and Potential of Heredity by Carl Zimmer
The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology by Ray Kurzweil
Speed Reading: Learn to Read a 200+ Page Book in 1 Hour by Kam Knight
The Sports Gene: Inside the Science of Extraordinary Athletic Performance by David Epstein
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber by Mike Isaac
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies by Nick Bostrom
The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life by David Quammen
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
Thinking: The New Science of Decision-Making, Problem-Solving, and Prediction in Life and Markets edited by John Brockman
The Elon Musk Blog Series: Wait But Why by Tim Urban
This Explains Everything: Deep, Beautiful, and Elegant Theories of How the World Works edited by John Brockman
Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career by Scott Young
Unlimited Memory: How to Use Advanced Learning Strategies to Learn Faster, Remember More and Be More Productive by Kevin Horsley
The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane
What to Think About Machines That Think: Today's Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence edited by John Brockman
Wild Ride: Inside Uber's Quest for World Domination by Adam Lashinsky
Why We Sleep: The New Science of Sleep and Dreams by Matthew Walker
Articles
What OpenAI Really Wants. Wired.
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Life Inside the Gigafactory. Wired.
Hard Startups by Sam Altman.
The intervention to stop Elon from starting SpaceX by Adeo Ressi.
Man and Uber Man. Vanity Fair.
On running toward extremely hard problems by David Kirtley.
Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner.
Papers
Ericsson, K. A., Krampe, R. T., & Tesch-Römer, C. (1993). The role of deliberate practice in the acquisition of expert performance. Psychological Review, 100(3), 363-406.
Duckworth, A. L., Peterson, C., Matthews, M. D., & Kelly, D. R. (2007). Grit: Perseverance and passion for long-term goals. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 92(6), 1087-1101.
Losch, S., Traut-Mattausch, E., Mühlberger, M. D., & Jonas, E. (2016). Comparing the Effectiveness of Individual Coaching, Self-Coaching, and Group Training: How Leadership Makes the Difference. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, 629.
Shulman, C., & Bostrom, N. (2021). Sharing the World with Digital Minds. In Rethinking Moral Status, Oxford University Press.