| - The Prince (get's a bad press, thought provoking) - Apex [Nexus 3] (prose is meh, inevitable life goes this way) - Factfulness (Awesome, most important book I read this year) - Prisoners of Geography (why nations act the way they do) - Crux [Nexus 2] (prose is meh, inevitable life goes this way) - Debt: the first 5000 years (slog to get through but interesting) - Nexus [Nexus 1] (prose is meh, inevitable life goes this way) - Digitocracy (super short story, super powerful message) - Artemis (Not as good as the martian) - Before Mars (Starts out great, fizzles out) - Down and Out in Magic Kingdom (How reputation based social currency might pan out) - Blood Sweat and Pixels (How games are really made) - Masters of Doom (Awesome story of how the game was made and what it led to) - Foundation [Foundation 1] (Prescient with where the world is, what might happen in reality) - Quiet: the Power of Introverts in a World that can't... (Ok, not great, read it on blinkist) - Ender's Game (Under rated, most fun I had reading this year, I know...) - Neuromancer (classic, must read) - Pre-suation (interesting and worth reading if starting a consumer facing business) - The Three-Body Problem (Found it tedious, honestly. Interesting though) - Radical Candour (A lot of common sense advice we take for granted and could do better with) - Seveneves (Longggggg, but really worth it. Shame about the ending) - The Virgin Banker (Really good read, how a bank came into being) - Why information grows (Great read, could of been half the length, would recommend) - Babylon Revisited (Meh) - Money: the Unauthorised Biography (Simplistic history of money before and after coin. Good) - Hellbent (Enjoyed it, good for a holiday read) - Snow Crash (Classic, Awesome, read it) - The little prince (must read) - To Pixar and Beyond (A different viewpoint on Jobs) |