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Thursday, December 14, 2023

Book recommendations (in no particular order)

  • Anti-Fragile , by Nassim Taleb (also Fooled by Randomness, Black Swan)
  • Randomistas: Fighting Poverty with Science  by Esther Duflo
  • Rationality: What It Is, Why It Seems Scarce, Why It Matters  by Steven Pinker
  • Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and Progress by Steven Pinker 
  • Everybody Lies: Big Data, New Data, and What the Internet Can Tell Us About Who We Really Are  by Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
  • Prediction Machines, Updated and Expanded: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence  by Ajay Agrawal , Joshua Gans
  • Chaos Monkeys: Obscene Fortune and Random Failure in Silicon Valley, link
  • Amazon Unbound, Why is Bezos such an Extraordinary Manager?
  • Randomistas
  • Algorithms to Live By
  • Factfulness
  • The Art of Strategy
  • Shoe Dog
  • An Economist Walks into a Brothel
  • Sapiens
  • Dataclysm
  • Rising Strong (squishy, but good)
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