Atomic Habits – James Clear
Huh. Imagine that – a self help book that I actually enjoyed.
Non-Fiction
Fatal System Error – Joseph Menn
The internet has broken a lot of boundaries and made the world a lot more interconnected. This is a good thing, until you think about it in the context of crime.
Why People Believe Weird Things – Michael Shermer
This book is more a typology of weird things believed than an explanation as to why they believe them.
The Penis Book – Aaron Spitz
I told some friends I would read anything, pretty indiscriminately. For some reason they though this would be a challenge of some sort.
The Mind’s Eye – Oliver Sacks
Oliver Sacks books are always interesting, but there is little new to say about one versus another.
The Portable Curmudgeon – Jon Winokur
The Portable Curmudgeon is a book of vignettes held together by the slightest of threads
Dispatches from the Edge – Anderson Cooper
Dispatches from the Edge is touching and horrifying, and reminds us how us how the fragility of live continues to effect us.
How to travel with a Salmon – Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco’s ‘How to travel with a Salmon’ and other essays show a different side of him – well, to most of us.
Talking to my Daughter About the Economy, or How Capitalism Works – and How It Fails – Yanis Varoufakis
I don’t know if distilling economics gives you correct simplifications, but it does make good reading.
Failures in Polymathy 