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The End of Alzheimer’s by Dale Bredesen

Posted on March 2, 2019April 10, 2022
Topics: Medicine / Health, Nonfiction

Rating: 5.0/10. Book by Dr. Dale Bredesen’s protocol which he calls “ReCODE”, otherwise known as the “Bredesen Protocol”. He claims it can reverse Alzheimer’s, through a mixture of a lot of different lifestyle changes to sleep and diet patterns. This is certainly a miraculous claim, to have a cure for AD when so many others…

The Climate Casino by William Nordhaus

Posted on February 13, 2019April 10, 2022
Topics: Economics, Nonfiction

Rating: 9.8/10. This book is about climate change in the eyes of an economist, quite an in-depth treatment about a very complex and politicized topic, and one that’s commonly misunderstood. There are two extremes: conservatives deny it altogether and environmentalists warn about impeding catastrophe. The reality is somewhere in the middle: if we don’t do…

A History of Canada in Ten Maps by Adam Shoalts

Posted on February 3, 2019April 9, 2022
Topics: Canada, History, Nonfiction

Rating: 8.1/10. Canada has a long history of exploration: to European settlers, much of it was uncharted wilderness. This book presents a bunch of expeditions in history that uncovered Canada’s geography, with dramatic storytelling of adventure and danger. In some way, it resembles “The Hobbit”, where a band of brave adventurers venture into the unknown,…

Losing the Nobel Prize by Brian Keating

Posted on January 22, 2019April 9, 2022
Topics: Natural Sciences, Nonfiction

Rating: 8.0/10. A scientist arrives in Antarctica to make observations with a telescope, then gets a call that his dad is dying, and has to leave. This book has two intertwined parts: one telling the author’s story with cosmology and the second explaining problem in modern physics research and the Nobel prize. The title is…

Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber

Posted on January 1, 2019April 9, 2022
Topics: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Rating: 6.9/10. A bullshit job is one where the worker feels does not contribute anything useful to society, but is obligated to pretend otherwise. About 40% of all jobs in the USA are bullshit by this definition. People feel unhappy in these jobs because they must pretend to work, yet ultimately the work is pointless,…

The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg

Posted on December 25, 2018April 9, 2022
Topics: Nonfiction, Self-Help / Career

Rating: 7.7/10. Book that discusses various aspects of how habits work. On a high level, habits have three components: cue, routine, and reward. The cue is a set of conditions, such that you automatically perform a routine in order to get a reward. After a while, you will crave the reward when given the cue,…

My Warren Buffet Bible by Robert Bloch

Posted on December 16, 2018April 9, 2022
Topics: Business / Finance, Nonfiction

Rating: 6.8/10. A bunch of quotes by famous investor Warren Buffett about principles of investing. They follow a few basic motifs, like invest based on fundamental long-term value, avoid speculation, keep control of your emotions. [redacted] got this from the bookstore and I decided to read it too. Most of the advice is trivially true…

How Your Brain Works by New Scientist

Posted on November 21, 2018April 9, 2022
Topics: Medicine / Health, Nonfiction

Rating: 6.3/10. A fairly short book (200 pages) by a team of neuroscientists that covers various aspects of neuroscience like memory, intelligence, emotion, perception. The subject should be very interesting but the book was a dull read, it basically gave a bunch of facts and lacked character, with no attempt to string them together in…

Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker

Posted on October 26, 2018April 9, 2022
Topics: Medicine / Health, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.7/10. This book gives a comprehensive scientific overview of sleep. Although there are still many unanswered questions, there’s been a lot of research lately and this book sums it up. Sleep is a very necessary function of life. Every living organism requires it, although in different amounts, and total lack of sleep very quickly…

The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan

Posted on September 12, 2018April 9, 2022
Topics: Natural Sciences, Nonfiction

Rating: 4.5/10. A classic book by astronomer Carl Sagan about how to distinguish science from pseudoscience. The beginning is really interesting and talks about a man who seems well-read, but his knowledge is completely wrong. Stuff like aliens, UFOs, ghosts, Atlantis, crop circles, other supernatural stuff. The book proceeds to debunk all of these in…

Factfulness by Hans Rosling

Posted on September 11, 2018April 9, 2022
Topics: Nonfiction, Social Sciences

Rating: 8.4/10. This book was written by Hans Rosling (the same guy that made The Joy of Stats documentary) just before he died in 2017. [redacted] recommended it to me. It uses stats to show that despite what the media portrays, and despite popular conception, the world is not such a bad place. Extreme poverty…

Skin in the Game by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Posted on August 5, 2018April 9, 2022
Topics: Business / Finance, Nonfiction

Rating: 5.7/10. This is the third Taleb book that I’ve read, and it was recommended by [redacted]. I’m disappointed in this book, and felt it was downhill from Black Swan, then to Antifragile, then this book. Compared to the previous two books, it’s a lot less structured, and he kind of throws out a mix…

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