Books
Now Reading: The Fabric of Civilization
Now Reading: The Fabric of Civilization by Virgina Postrel From Paleolithic flax to 3D knitting, this book covers a global history of textiles and the world they made driving technology, business, politics, and culture. The… Read More »Now Reading: The Fabric of Civilization
Now Reading: “Ikigai”
Now reading “Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life” by Héctor García and Frances Miralles. According to the Japanese, everyone has an ikigai—what a French philosopher might call a raison d’être. Some… Read More »Now Reading: “Ikigai”
Now Reading: Rabid
Now reading: Rabid, A cultural history of the World’s most diabolical virus , by Bill Wasik and Monica Murphy
Now Reading: Sentient
Now Reading: Sentient by Jackie Higgins After reading a review of this book in the Guardian, I thought it was a good book to add to my list. Jackie Higgins explains how the animal kingdom… Read More »Now Reading: Sentient
Now Reading: The Disordered Mind
Now reading: The Disordered Mind by Erik R. Kandel. What unusual brain tell us about ourselves.
Now Reading: Dune
It is one (or actually several) of those books you have always heard something about, but actually never read it… Now Reading: Dune by Frank Herbert. I think it is high time I change that.… Read More »Now Reading: Dune
Now Reading: Dark Data
Now Reading: Dark Data by David Hand I first came across a mention of this book in the Summer 2020 number of Imperial, the magazine for the Imperial College Community in a feature note about… Read More »Now Reading: Dark Data
Now Reading: Getting Things Done
Now reading: Getting Things Done by David Allen Let’s see how many things I am already doing “right”… :) OK… still going through this. I am finding hard to get through it… not because it… Read More »Now Reading: Getting Things Done