A techie by trade, interested in non-fiction books and sci-fi, leaning into cyberpunk and dystopian.
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Over the last decade, a single innovation has massively fueled digital black markets: cryptocurrency. Crime lords inhabiting lawless corners of …
An informational book that describes and advocates for the note taking system of the German …
The book is pushing hard down the 'academic' route of writing, which isn't really my goal. I'm finding myself skip-reading large chunks of text that provide context to the points...
Here’s the unfortunate thing—most people believe motivation is the true engine of behavior change. Words like “rewards” and “incentives” get thrown around with such regularity that most people think you can create whatever habits you want if you find the right carrot to dangle in front of yourself. This kind of thinking is understandable, but it also happens to be wrong.
— Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by B. J. Fogg, Doug Abrams
Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Philip K. Dick Awards, Neuromancer is a science fiction masterpiece—a classic that ranks as …
An informational book that describes and advocates for the note taking system of the German …
Not sure how much further this can go, as the book has already covered the key concepts of a Zettlekasten already…
In 2011, a twenty-six-year-old libertarian programmer named Ross Ulbricht launched the ultimate free market: the Silk Road, a clandestine Web …
Ryland Grace is the sole survivor on a desperate, last-chance mission--and if he fails, humanity and the earth itself will …
qntm has been writing science fiction for most of this millennium. His works start from elegant, deep hypotheticals and wind …
Book 3 of Clarke's Rama series is about an alien ghost ship that enters the solar system. This book picks …
A millennium into the future two advances have altered the course of human history: the colonization of the Galaxy and …
An informational book that describes and advocates for the note taking system of the German sociologist Niklas Luhmann. The author's …
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one …
