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Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Posted on December 19, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Novels / Fiction, World

Rating: 7.7/10. A romance novel by Colombian Nobel prize winning author. The story is set in a coastal town in Colombia in the late 19th century. The novel starts with elderly doctor Juvenal Urbino and his wife Fermina Daza attending a funeral; Urbino falls off a ladder while reaching for his parrot and dies; immediately…

Running Lean by Ash Maurya

Posted on December 5, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Nonfiction, Startups

Rating: 8.0/10. Running Lean: Iterate from Plan A to a Plan That Works by Ash Maurya Guide on early stages of a startup, recommended by Hussein Fazal (CEO of Snaptravel). Many new founders assume building a startup is the same as building a product, but in reality, you are building a business model, with the…

Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition by VanPatten, Smith, Benati

Posted on November 30, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Linguistics, Textbooks

Rating: 8.1/10. Key Questions in Second Language Acquisition: An Introduction by Bill VanPatten, Megan Smith, and Alessandro G. Benati Linguistics textbook about second language acquisition, covering key questions such as: Does L2 acquisition use the same processes as L1? Is input or output more important? Can L2 learners become nativelike or is there a critical…

The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef

Posted on November 26, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Nonfiction, Self-Help / Career

Rating: 7.8/10. The Scout Mindset: Why Some People See Things Clearly and Others Don’t by Julia Galef A lot of psychological research has shown how we’re prone to cognitive biases, although less has been written about how to overcome them. Many of these biases result from deciding on some opinion and holding onto it, even…

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Posted on November 19, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Classics, Philosophy

Rating: 8.3/10. One of the most influential philosophical essays by English philosopher John Stuart Mill, written in 1859 and espousing the values of individual freedom. It has since served as a foundational work for liberalism and many of its principles have been adopted into democratic societies. Mill argues that society tends to force the preferences…

No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram by Sarah Frier

Posted on November 16, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Business / Finance, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.8/10. Book about the creation and growth of Instagram, one of the largest social networks based on photo sharing. Instagram was founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger in 2010. Systrom had an interest in photography and wanted to appeal to users’ desire to look good, so the app provided filters that improved low-quality…

Shadows on the Rock by Willie Cather

Posted on November 7, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Canada, History, Novels / Fiction

Rating: 8.2/10. Historical novel set in Quebec City in the year 1697, when the settlement was just a small town on the frontier. The story follows Cecile, a 12-year-old girl whose father is the apothecary (similar to a doctor). Not much plot happens, rather, the novel is based on characters: we get to hear stories…

How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene

Posted on October 31, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Natural Sciences, Nonfiction

Rating: 8.1/10. How We Learn: Why Brains Learn Better Than Any Machine… for Now by Stanislas Dehaene Book by neuroscience researcher about human learning. A lot of cognition is taken for granted until we try to train AI to do it, then it becomes apparent how difficult it actually is. AI still has a long…

The Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman

Posted on October 13, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Business / Finance, Nonfiction

Rating: 8.0/10. Business book that teaches you the basic mental models you need to run a business. The author argues that MBA programs are overpriced and teach you outdated and over-specialized knowledge that’s irrelevant to most businesses, and building good mental models is more useful practically. The book is organized as short sections of advice…

A Short History of Quebec by John Dickinson and Brian Young

Posted on October 5, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Canada, History, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.3/10. Summary History of Quebec, from the first European contact in the 16th century until the present day. Before European contact, the natives were a mixture of farmers and hunter-gatherers who traded with each other. The Europeans first came to the region for cod, then the fur trade started in the 1630s. Due to…

AI Superpowers by Kai-Fu Lee

Posted on October 1, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: China, Data Science / ML, Nonfiction

Rating: 7.9/10. Book Review: AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order by Kai-Fu Lee Book by Taiwanese CEO and venture capitalist working in China, talking about the differences in AI in China and the US, as well as the future of AI in society. Lee starts the book with the AlphaGo matches,…

Introducing Second Language Acquisition by Saville-Troike and Barto

Posted on September 24, 2021April 11, 2022
Topics: Linguistics, Textbooks

Rating: 7.0/10. This is an introductory textbook on second language acquisition, approaching the subject from the perspective of linguistics, psychology, and sociology. Unfortunately, I didn’t enjoy this book and dropped it after about halfway through. It tries to cover a lot in only 200 pages, but the writing is disorganized, giving only a brief treatment…

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