As an IT engineer and a philosopher, I can see that this new world is not going away. My dentist fears for his job, and my daughter says we shouldn't touch AI. My book is about inner work: not watching which way the wave goes, but how we relate to it and stay ourselves. I most want to help those who face it with fear.
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Find Your Meaning in 60 Days
By
Krisztián Galánthai Fekete,
What is my book about?
If machines can do so much of our work, what is life for? Find Your Meaning in 60 Days answers…
Few books have shaped the way I think as deeply as this one.
I corresponded with Charlie Munger by post, and that makes this book especially close to my heart. His insights are brilliant, but what I love most is that they are practical.
I do not just admire his mental models; I use them every day. They help me slow down, look at a problem from more than one side, and see my own mistakes more clearly. They have helped me a lot in my life. I keep coming back to these pages, and I recommend this book to everyone.
From the legendary vice-chairman of Berkshire Hathaway, lessons in investment strategy, philanthropy, and living a rational and ethical life.
"A timeless classic that will change how you approach life. There is a billion-dollar education inside this book."
-Shane Parrish, founder of Syrus Partners and Farnam Street
"Spend each day trying to be a little wiser than you were when you woke up," Charles T. Munger advises in Poor Charlie's Almanack. Originally published in 2005, this compendium of eleven talks delivered by the legendary Berkshire Hathaway vice-chairman between 1986 and 2007 has become a touchstone for a generation of investors and…
I carry this thought from Chapter 14 with me everywhere. I first came to know it through my friend's translation, and I think that is why the Tao Te Ching feels so personal to me: I did not meet it as a distant classic on a shelf, but as a gift passed from one person to another.
Since then, it has been my measure. When I judge a person, an idea, or a situation, I remind myself that the most important things are often the ones I cannot see. I love how few words Lao Tzu needs to say so much.
The bestselling, widely acclaimed translation from Stephen Mitchell
"Mitchell's rendition of the Tao Te Ching comes as close to being definitive for our time as any I can imagine. It embodies the virtues its translator credits to the Chinese original: a gemlike lucidity that is radiant with humor, grace, largeheartedness, and deep wisdom." — Huston Smith, author of The Religions of Man
In eighty-one brief chapters, Lao-tzu's Tao Te Ching, or Book of the Way, provides advice that imparts balance and perspective, a serene and generous spirit, and teaches us how to work for the good with the effortless skill…
Big Ideas... For Small Businesses
by
John Lamerton,
Big Ideas… for Small Businesses is a straight-talking, no-nonsense guide to growing a small business without sacrificing your lifestyle. Written by a former civil servant turned entrepreneur, the book challenges hustle culture and instead champions the idea of an "ambitious lifestyle business" - one that provides freedom and financial stability,…
The pencil story Milton Friedman tells in this book showed me what human society is capable of: a pencil is made from the work of many people in many countries.
I owned several of his signed books and pamphlets with his notes, and I donated them to the Milton Friedman University to be put on display.
Argues that free-market forces work better than government controls for achieving real equality and security, protecting consumers and workers, providing education, and avoiding inflation and unemployment.
That is the realisation this book gave me, and I found it very exciting. It put into words something I now believe deeply: meaning cannot simply be handed to me by someone else. What I love about Sean Patrick's book is that it treats purpose as a choice, not a duty. I have to choose my purpose myself, and that choice is what makes me free.
Reading it, I felt both challenged and encouraged. It reminded me that my freedom begins with the purpose I choose for myself.
Awakening Your Inner Genius
By
Sean Patrick,
What is this book about?
If you’d like to know what some of history’s greatest thinkers and achievers can teach you about awakening your inner genius, and how to find, follow, and fulfill your journey to greatness, then you want to read this book today.
You can score in the highest ranges of IQ...and fail to succeed in life. You can work incredibly hard...and never realize your dreams.
You can stumble across beautiful opportunities...only to watch them wither and die.
There’s something else—something considered unfathomable by many—that lies behind greatness. And in Awakening Your Inner Genius, you’re going to be taken on an adventure to…
Indicting the 45th President is a sequel to Criminology on Trump in real time, continuing the criminological investigation into the former US president. It expands on the themes of political deviance, deception, dishonesty, lawlessness and lying.
In his second book, Gregg Barak considers the campaigns and policies, the corruption, the…
By
Jose Ingenieros,
Carlos Emilio Picone (translator),
Why I love this book
Life is not worth living without ideals.
My best friend's grandfather came from a poor family and became one of Mexico's most famous doctors. He read this book and kept knocking on the medical school's door until they started an evening course for working people.
He became Mexico's best hematologist; there are statues of him, and he was president of the Rotary Club. Everyone in Mexican medicine knows this family. I recommend this book to everyone.
The Mediocre Man
By
Jose Ingenieros,
Carlos Emilio Picone (translator),
What is this book about?
The book that made the most powerful impact in my adolescence was “El Hombre Mediocre” (The Mediocre Man), Jose Ingenieros’ most important work. I read it when I was 17 years old, growing up in my Argentina’s Pampas. Upon its completion, and motivated to drink all I could from his rich fountain, I found his published works and made quick progress with all of them as you may as well, once you devour his first page. Jose Ingenieros grew up in Argentina, where he graduated as a physician from the University of Buenos Aires in 1900. He later became a…
If machines can do so much of our work, what is life for? Find Your Meaning in 60 Days answers with one small step a day. None of the steps ask you to compete with a machine. A tool can do a task well, but it cannot decide what you value, whom you love, or who you want to become.
Each day takes about fifteen minutes: a short story from everyday life, one clear idea, and one small task, such as a walk, a conversation, a list, or a single act of kindness. Nine weeks move outward from who you are beyond your work to the people in your life, your contribution, and the long view, followed by ten bonus days.
No Color is My Kind tells the stories of the desegregation of Houston, TX, in 1960, the life of civil rights leader Eldrewey Stearns, and the author's relationship to Stearns.
They met in a psychiatric case conference while Stearns was hospitalized at the University of Texas Medical Branch. After his…
An enthralling portrait of the Bloomsbury Group’s key figures told through a rich collection of intimate photographs. Photography framed the world of the Bloomsbury Group. The thousands of photographs surviving in albums kept by Virginia Woolf, Vanessa Bell, Dora Carrington, and Lytton Strachey, among others, today offer us a private…
