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2023:

Where Stuff Is Made: An Illustrative Overview (Part 2: Minerals, Metals, and Industrial Materials)

Where Stuff Is Made: An Illustrative Overview (Part 1: Agricultural Commodities)

Lords of War: A Visual Exploration of Military Might

Single Sentence Summaries for Every Book I Read in 2022


2022:

Enjoy Being Useful to the World: 15 Career Lessons (10 Areas of Life – Part 3)

Single Sentence Summaries for Every Book I Read in 2021


2021:

Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel [quotes and notes]

Psychological vs Sociological Narratives: Individuals vs Systems

Man’s Search For Meaning by Viktor Frankl [quotes and notes]

How The Dollar Became Fiat: An Oversimplified History

Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber [quotes and notes]

Languishing: Neglected Middle Child of Mental Health

Commodity Price Rise Not Necessarily Inflation Warning

How the Media Got to Now: News in the Age of Abundance

Misbehaviour of Markets: Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward [quotes and notes]

Never Split The Difference: This Book Helped Me Get a $33K Pay Rise [quotes and notes]

Prisoners of Geography: An Indispensable Primer on Geopolitics [book notes]

Muffin or Chihuahua: Confusion Matrix and the Base Rate Fallacy

False Dichotomies: an Antidote to Lose-Lose Situations


2020:

Single Sentence Summaries for Every Book I Read in 2020

10 Areas of Life – Part 2: Partner, Family, Friends

10 Areas of Life: From Introspection to Resolutions (Part 1: Physical, Mental, and Financial Health)

Oil Geopolitics: the Shale Saga and Shifting Sands (Part 2/4)

Oil Geopolitics: the Shale Saga and Shifting Sands (Part 1/4)

100 Plus Inspirational Cliches That Were Actually Helpful

Quarterly reading list [2020 Q2]

Sex Robots: The Third Sexual Revolution (Part 2/2)

Sex Robots: The Third Sexual Revolution (Part 1/2)

Valley of Stupidity: More Knowledge, Less Confidence

Ergodicity: the Most Over-Looked Assumption

Common Knowledge: Consensus View of the Consensus View

An Hour a Day is 50 Books a Year: Tried and Tested Reading Tips

Antifragility, Modernity, and Dancing with Disorder

This Person Does Not Exist: Deep Fakes and Synthetic Truth

Single Sentence Summaries for Every Book I Read in 2019


2019:

Colours of Our Lingua Franca: Unnecessarily Fancy vs Semantic Specificity

Avoiding Ad Hominem: Criticise the Idea Not the Person

Transdisciplinarity: a Case for Generalism in a Complex World

When Surprisingly Simple Solutions Work

Single Sentence Summaries for Every Book I Read in 2018