Ah, I love reading, and have found a lot of good suggestions from earlier discussion on LW. Looking forward to what comes up here. Having said that, some of my current reading:
Thinking slow and Fast by Kahneman—excellent book; I’ve read a lot of the pop-psy stuff like Dan Ariely’s, The Invisible Gorilla etc., which are also well worth reading, but Kahneman takes it a step further, and, while still very accessible, is going further in trying to explain things.
The Portable Atheist and Hitch-22 by the late Christopher Hitchens; the books were on my list for a while, but Hitchens’ death compelled me to actually start reading them. The former is a kind of reader into various (semi-)atheists of the last few centuries. Nothing like God is not great, but a bit more intellectual. Not really a light read, but interesting nevertheless. Currently reading his memoir, Hitch-22, which is interesting in its own right—I learnt a lot about the British far left in 60s/70s and his life as a school boy...
REAMDE—Stephenson. (finished this mid-Dec 2011) I very much like Neal Stephenson’s book, and I did like this one, around MMOGs and a kind of John-le-Carre story. However, I found there were a couple of things in the story line I did not find very convincing—and the Jihadist terrorists are described as sort-of ‘generic’ terrorists with a thin vereer of some Jihad cliches
Then, reading The Checklist Manifesto, for my periodical reading of a productivity-book. The book’s on the power of having (and following) checklists for any complicated process, So far, pretty good. It’s a quick read anyway.
Ah, I love reading, and have found a lot of good suggestions from earlier discussion on LW. Looking forward to what comes up here. Having said that, some of my current reading:
Thinking slow and Fast by Kahneman—excellent book; I’ve read a lot of the pop-psy stuff like Dan Ariely’s, The Invisible Gorilla etc., which are also well worth reading, but Kahneman takes it a step further, and, while still very accessible, is going further in trying to explain things.
The Portable Atheist and Hitch-22 by the late Christopher Hitchens; the books were on my list for a while, but Hitchens’ death compelled me to actually start reading them. The former is a kind of reader into various (semi-)atheists of the last few centuries. Nothing like God is not great, but a bit more intellectual. Not really a light read, but interesting nevertheless. Currently reading his memoir, Hitch-22, which is interesting in its own right—I learnt a lot about the British far left in 60s/70s and his life as a school boy...
REAMDE—Stephenson. (finished this mid-Dec 2011) I very much like Neal Stephenson’s book, and I did like this one, around MMOGs and a kind of John-le-Carre story. However, I found there were a couple of things in the story line I did not find very convincing—and the Jihadist terrorists are described as sort-of ‘generic’ terrorists with a thin vereer of some Jihad cliches
Then, reading The Checklist Manifesto, for my periodical reading of a productivity-book. The book’s on the power of having (and following) checklists for any complicated process, So far, pretty good. It’s a quick read anyway.