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253 reviews

Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil deGrasse Tyson

3.0

All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age by Hubert L. Dreyfus

4.0

Wait: The Art and Science of Delay by Frank Partnoy

4.0

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs: A New History of a Lost World by Stephen Brusatte

4.0

Anathem by Neal Stephenson

5.0

The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains by Nicholas Carr

3.0

Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris

1.0

Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man by Marshall McLuhan

3.0

Computer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculation by Joseph Weizenbaum

5.0

Perfect pacing. Great point. And amazingly relevant 43 years later. If you do anything related to computer science: read it.

Switch: How to Change Things When Change Is Hard by Chip Heath, Dan Heath

5.0

I was about to give it four stars, but the great recap at the end made me switch: five stars for this very educational read about change.