Books
Essays, field notes, technical explorations, books, travel, and the connections between them.
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Book: Trust Me, I’m Lying: Confessions of a Media Manipulator by Ryan Holiday
Ryan Holliday is very disillusioned by modern media. You could call it Karma, since he made his career as a marketing director for American Apparel – one of the biggest clothing brands… Read →
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Book: The Charisma Myth
How Anyone Can Master the Art and Science of Personal Magnetism by Olivia Fox Cabane Charisma is not something set in stone. It is ultimately a set of habits and we can… Read →
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Book: How to Win Friends and Influence People
This classic is a treasure trove of great advice. Initially published in 1936 it is still filled with timeless knowledge. Only small bits are a bit dated almost 100 years later –… Read →
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Book: Tools of Titans – Healthy
“Tools of Titans” is a summary of Tim Ferris’s amazingly popular podcast. The caliber of people presented there is spectacular and the depth of knowledge amazing. I let myself split my book summary… Read →
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Book: First 20 hours… How to learn anything… fast.
How to learn anything extremely fast? Well, that book is precisely about that. Josh is a master learner and he chose few skills that he became quite good at within 20 hours.… Read →
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Book: Creativity Inc.
Ed Catmull is a CEO of Pixar – studio responsible for such amazing movies as Up, Wall-e and Toy Story. He took upon himself to protect the creativity of Pixar and find… Read →
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Book: Benjamin Franklin, An American Life
Benjamin Franklin is certainly one of those “Larger than Life” personas. One of the founding fathers whose face is forever immortalized in a $100 bill. Apart from the United States, he is… Read →
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Book: An Astronauts guide to live on earth
This is an autobiography of Christopher Hadfield, a Canadian astronaut that had served as a commander of expedition 35 to the International Space Station. He is an all around cool dude and he… Read →