Man’s Search for Meaning – Viktor E. Frankl
A fascinating cross between a self-help book and a memoir, although the former falls a little short.
Non-Fiction
Long Walk to Freedom – Nelson Mandela
Some people really have earned the status of hero when we consider history.
A Manual for Creating Atheists – Peter Boghossian
Epistemology: it’s not just for Atheism anymore.
Economix – Michael Goodwin and Dan E. Burr
Want to understand the economy? Look elsewhere. Want to understand economic history? This may help.
American Kingpin: The Epic Hunt for the Criminal Mastermind Behind the Silk Road – Nick Bilton
Nick Bilton’s treatment of Ross Ulbricht is a lot more even handed than I would have been.
Innumeracy: Mathematical Illiteracy and Its Consequences – John Allen Paulos
Can mathematics help a person become more skeptical?
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Fidel Castro: My Life: A Spoken Autobiography – Fidel Castro and Ignacio Ramonet
I don’t think this book had the desired effect.
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Technopoly – Neil Postman
The problem with predicting how society will go wrong based on what is wrong now is that it assumes all the factors will stay the same. Whoops.
Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody – Helen Pluckrose and James Lindsay
This book is meant to be a critique of the newest form of post-modern philosophy, and what it ultimately morphed into.
Failures in Polymathy 