Rating: 7.6/10. This is the second book I read by this author, after Black Swan. An antifragile object is something that becomes stronger when stress is applied (up to a certain point). To make it antifragile, it should be exposed to positive black swan events, where it will gain a lot from randomness, and have…
Category: Nonfiction
Consider Your Options by Kaye A. Thomas
Rating: 5.0/10. I got this book because options are a big part of tech company compensation and people don’t understand them that well, so I wanted to get a better understanding of them. This book sorta does it, but most of it focuses on all sorts of very technical tax details. It was so taxing…
So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
Rating: 7.0/10. Life and career advice book by Cal Newport, the guy that writes study blog. He offers a few pieces of advice, kind of similar to Larry Smith’s book: Don’t pursue your passion, because most people don’t have any passion that can be turned into a career Focus on career capital, that is, increase…
The E-Myth Revisited by Michael Gerber
Rating: 6.5/10. Book about how to manage a small business, basically avoid doing all the work in your business and get other people to do it for you in a scalable way, run it as if you were running a franchise. The ideas make sense, but when it comes to specifics, the book doesn’t really…
The Gene: An Intimate History by Siddhartha Mukherjee
Rating: 5.5/10. This book describes the complete history of genetics, from Darwin and Mendel to DNA to modern gene therapy and the Human Genome Project. The book is 500 pages, which is way too long in my opinion. Most of the stuff I already kind of knew from high school biology, the book goes a…
No Fears, No Excuses by Larry Smith
Rating: 7.3/10. No Fears, No Excuses: What You Need To Do To Have A Great Career by Larry Smith Larry Smith is famous in Waterloo for being a really good Economics professor who also has a TED talk advocating for the importance of pursuing your passion. This book starts off kind of the same way,…