Books I read in 2018
Here are the books I read in 2018. This year my reading ranged from history to AI to business to economics!
Did not get to my goal of 50, but 28 is not bad either
- Prediction Machines: The Simple Economics of Artificial Intelligence, by Ajay Agrawal
- Compete Smarter, Not Harder: A Process for Developing the Right Priorities Through Strategic Thinking, by William Putsis
- The Curse of Cash, by Kenneth S. Rogoff
- What Should We Be Worried About? Real Scenarios That Keep Scientists Up at Night, by John Brockman
- Mind+machine: A Decision Model for Optimizing and Implementing Analytics, by Marc Vollenweider
- What to Think About Machines That Think: Today’s Leading Thinkers on the Age of Machine Intelligence, by John Brockman
- Lightning Strikes: Timeless Lessons in Creativity from the Life and Work of Nikola Tesla, by John F. Wasik
- The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home, by Dan Ariely
- Screw Business As Usual, by Richard Branson
- A Field Guide to Lies: Critical Thinking in the Information Age, by Daniel J. Levitin
- The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right, by Atul Gawande
- Winning: The Answers: Confronting 74 of the Toughest Questions in Business Today, by Jack Welch
- The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business, by Erin Meyer
- The Art of the Good Life, by Rolf Dobelli
- Tilt: Shifting Your Strategy from Products to Customers, by Niraj Dawar
- Black Box Thinking: Why Some People Never Learn from Their Mistakes - But Some Do, by Matthew Syed
- Blue Ocean Shift: Beyond Competing - Proven Steps to Inspire Confidence and Seize New Growth, by W. Chan Kim
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We’re Wrong About the World, and Why Things Are Better Than You Think, by Hans Rosling
- The Art of the Sale, by Philip Delves Broughton (4/5)
- Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World, by Timothy Ferriss (4/5)
- The Wealth of Humans: Work, Power, and Status in the Twenty-first Century, by Ryan Avent (3/5)
- Fluke: The Maths and Myths of Coincidence, by Joseph Mazur (4/5)
- Reclaiming Conversation: The Power of Talk in a Digital Age, by Sherry Turkle (5/5)
- Dollars and Sense: How We Misthink Money and How to Spend Smarter, by Dan Ariely (3/5)
- At the Edge of Uncertainty: 11 Discoveries Taking Science by Surprise, by Michael Brooks (3/5)
- The Internet of Us: Knowing More and Understanding Less in the Age of Big Data, by Michael P. Lynch (3/5)
- Common Sense, the Turing Test, and the Quest for Real AI, by Hector J. Levesque (3/5)
- Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence, by Max Tegmark