Stuff I Want To Read

Philosophy (truth, mass movements)

good - Eric Hoffer - True Believer

Propaganda - Edward Bernays

On Truth and Untruth: Selected Writings (Harper Perennial Modern...)

[bio] Eric Hoffer - The Longshoreman Philosopher (Hoover Institution Press)

scifi (Science Fiction)

k v good [... kindle]

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25499718-children-of-time

k - [kindle] Slaughterhouse 5
(Kurt Vonnegut)

k not the best - The light of other days
Arthur C Clarke

Neal Stephenson (from AI conference 2025)

- Snow Crash

- The Diamond Age

xx - The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress -

by Robert Heinlein
xx stranger in a strange land

- The word "grok" was coined by Robert A. Heinlein in his 1961 novel Stranger in a Strange Land

xx starship troopers

xx - enders game

xx Gibson - Count zero, Mona Lisa overdrive

xx Flowers for Algernon

xx - 3 body problem

xx see chatgpt rec! in bb ML repo OR here in SIWTR

The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress - by Heinlein

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Lords of Uncreation [Adrian Tchaikovsky]

Elder Race [Adrian Tchaikovsky]

Dogs of War [Adrian Tchaikovsky]

Waybound [Will Wight]

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elon musk books - AI

https://www.blinkist.com/magazine/posts/9-books-elon-musks-reading-list-will-reinvent-life/
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scifi

[ordered from Margot]
Good! - This is how to lose the time war

xx - Blood music - Greg Bear (pandemic, nanotech, AI...) [1983]

xx - ling ma - Severence (satirical, short)

k - Dune (have it!)

k good - neuromancer

xx - The Paper Menagerie [Ken Liu]
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/24885533-the-paper-menagerie-and-other-stories

xx - Crudo (Molly read it) (like Weather)
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43811235-crudo?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=m7bXbnp7PP&rank=1

xx Famous men who never lived

xx Story of your life
Ted Chang

xx JG Ballard - he wrote Cloud Sculptors short story

k mix - Kingsley Amis - Collected Short Stories (penguin)

https://overduepodcast.com/

Culture shock and Travel

Culture Smart - Essential guide to customs and culture

(communication)
- double filtering (from marketing)

[good!]
- The Culture Map
https://www.amazon.nl/Culture-Map-Decoding-People-Cultures/dp/1610392760/ref=asc_df_1610392760/?tag=nlshogostdsp-21&linkCode=df0&hvadid=430554641661&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=15992394398964909449&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=1010752&hvtargid=pla-525261842565&psc=1

Providing and Receiving feedback - the BEST framework

Effective Feedback: Giving and Receiving with the BEST Method

Feedforward (future, improvements/actions) rather than feedback

Feedback vs. Feedforward — Here’s Why I Don’t Like Either Word to Describe Radical Candor | by Kim Scott | Medium

Books about Writing (and Reading)

Digital Zettelkasten: Principles, Methods

- more about reading than writing?

a swim in a pond in the rain
(analyses 4 classic short story authors)

New Micro: Exceptionally Short Fiction

K - Rilke's Orpheus:
https://www.amazon.com/Orpheus-Don-Paterson/dp/0571222706

On Writing Well - William Zinsser

The Elements of Style (also called Strunk & White)