The book summarizes the teachings of John from the course CS190 that he teaches at Stanford. Good system designers get to spend a larger fraction of time in the design phase. Poor designers spend most of their time chasing bugs in complicated and brittle code.
The story of the rise and fall of the biggest foreign investor in Russia.
The book is a great read about how money and wealth are acquired, preserved, and lost. And that too not because of the market but because of the individual鈥檚 psychology.
Another great read in the Incerto series by Taleb. The core idea is that certain systems benefit from uncertainty. And our goal should be to make all systems antifragile, so that, they can benefit from uncertainty.
Digital Minimalism is a philosophy of technology in which you focus your online time on a few carefully selected activities that support the things you value.
The book takes a data-driven approach to analyze the world.
The book posits a unique viewpoint to understand randomness and unpredictability in the world around us. Rather than trying to predict the improbable black swans, it focuses more on how not to be adversely impacted by them.
The book is a detailed introduction to how what we eat can kill or save us and how the modern diet makes people sick. This book鈥檚 companion website is NutritionFacts.org.
The book is a good read on why some nations are rich today while others are poor.
The book is aimed at anyone who has an idea to convey and is trying to ensure that what they are trying to communicate sticks with their audience. Proverbs and folklores survive while corporate marketing material does not.