The book defines 5 different ways we need affection from our loved ones. It covers how you can identify which love language your significant other uses and how to strengthen love by talking to them in their language. It does this by using examples of love languages or dialects and shows how others have used them to a great extent.
This book is about automation in the Mac sphere. The book goes through some cool automation. Most of it is pretty unconvincing.
This book is all about the BS. It is split into defining, identifying, and calling bullshit in the modern world. It is an easy read, with good examples and a skeptical eye on everything.
This book is about identifying and navigating crucial moments in communication and getting to the desired end state. It goes through the identifiers of crucial conversations, gives advice on how to identify issues for yourself and others, and finally tries to make the reader understand how they should behave to get to the desired end state.
This book covers the fundamentals of designing machine learning systems. It goes through the entire lifecycle of a machine learning system and then discusses the ecosystem and the challenges and cases that need to be considered.
This book is about prices and the fact that the economic machine should not be tampered with. It is a classic Austrian school of Economics type of book, and contains the usual arguments from that school. It uses 200 pages to conclude that you should not tamper with it.
A book about advanced Python concepts. Nice to learn about more advanced Python concepts.
This book takes all the productivity and self-help books and asks if we should take a step back and not be captives of our ambitions. This book is for those who try too hard to be 10X'ers and feel demotivated by their lack of results.
The memoirs of the immaculate Christopher Hitchens. From birth to almost the end, it is never a boring story of a man who witnessed the history of the political world in the 20th century. From bohemian soixante-huitard to the aftermath of the Iraq war, Hitchens is always championing what he believes to be the rational truth.
This book is about the psychology of modern web apps and how we get people "hooked" to the apps and websites. It goes into detail about the steps required to get people invested in the product they are using and how to maintain that investment.
This book explores how big projects succeed or fail and the underlying causes. Big things fail, and when they fail, they usually fail catastrophically. The book identifies the causes and explains how to fix them.
This book is for the naturalist and realists that are concerned about the environment. It goes through the most critical things that drive our modern society, cement, steel, ammonia and plastic, and goes through what it takes to produce said elements. You don't get that enthusiastic about a zero-oil society by reading it.
It is a kinda of half Marxist, half academic book about how language primarily shaped nation-states and how written language is the primary factor of nationalism. Imagined comities, aka the nation as a concept, are shaped by languages.
This book is about the life of Olav Haraldson, also known as Olav the Holy. This book offers a glimpse into how the Viking Age was. Mostly, it shows the strife and warfare that shaped history and how the impressions of the writers shape the historical narrative.
This book is basically an introduction guide to google flutter and how to best start working with it. It goes through dart, flutter widgets, and state management, as well as other things. It gives example code as well as images of the apps created by the code.
This book describes the underlying reasons why an idea sticks. It goes through the concreteness, unexpectedness, and credibility of an idea and how it affects how well an idea sticks. It goes through interesting cases and highlights reasons why these ideas have become ingrained in our collective minds.
This book is a gathering of all things related to the art of modern dating. Olivia Petter explores how dating apps, shows, porn and the sexual revolution has changed how we approach love. It is a deeply personal tale, with examples and anecdotes that underlines the cold hard numbers.
This book is about dating for men. But it is an honest book, that says that you should start with yourself and become a person people likes and you are comfortable with. Real men are vulnerable and in charge of their feelings.
This book is a critique of the horrendous way Israel has treated the Palestinians. It delves into all the classical arguments on the situations and dispels them. Their main argument is that Palestinians have as much of a right to their land as the Israelis.
This book is a practical introduction to VIM. It contains an introduction to Vim and help with the different modes and how to set it up properly.
This book is about negotiations but slowly becomes a self-help book. It argues against compromise and says that no is an important word in negotiations. Maybe is the worst word in negotiations.
This book is about systems, why they exist, and the rules that govern them. The book dives into the fundamentals of human-made systems and pokes fun at the tribulations of complicated systems and how humans often fail to comprehend the systems.
This book goes deep on evolution and explains how evolution is not random but rather an unconciusly driven thing that shapes the creatues. Dawkins eloquently dismisses arguments that darwinian evolution is random and that complexity cannot arrive by small steps and explains how it happes.
This book is about understanding how the world as we perceive it is not based on truth, but fitness. Fitness is the maximisation of survivability. It takes our cognitive science and applies the acid of Darwin´s theory of evolution to it.
This book takes a critical look at the post-sexual revolution society and asks if not everything that has been a good development. It asks if society as a whole, with liberalised sex, has been a disadvantage to society.
This book is about how creativity is entering a new age where AI and machine learning enhances and sometimes surpass human creativity. It is about what creativity is at its core. And it is about how
Nobody rules alone. In order to rule you need to reward your supporters. Everyone who wastes money is likely to be replaced by those who don't. The more concentrated your supporting groups are, the more power is given to them.
This book is about the history of the great world war. It covers the major strategic themes and goes in-depth on the conflicts outside of the Western front. It is a book that focuses on the war and only the war.
This book is about the fascinating life of John von Neumann. It describes the work and the ramifications of the work he ventured on. Things like game theory, the biology of cell automata, economics, physics, mathematics, and computer science are all fields either founded or drastically influenced by the work of John von Neumann.
Albert Camus is talking about the existence of good and the absence of meaning. The goal is to rebel against the existentialist.
This book is about the limitations of the mind, and how we can utilize the environment to make our minds more organized and more structured. It goes through a lot of different types of cognitive failures and tries to highlight in a good way how the mind works.
This book examines what constitutes a "scientific revolution". The book goes into detail, with some specific examples covering Copernicus's heliocentric theory of astronomy, Lavoiser´s gas theory and Røntgen´s x-ray theory. It covers what the background for each was and tries to find some common criteria for a scientific revolution.
This book is about seeds from trees. How did they evolve? How did they flourish? What causes them to be like they are?
Breathing is apparently all you need. It can cure anxiety, hangovers, MS, and much more. Also, Ice baths are good as well and the core temperature can be manipulated.
This book is about understanding and conveying how the system works and how you can use systems thinking to understand the world differently. Systems have mechanisms that govern their behavior, and system thinking allows you to model how the system behaves when manipulating it.
This is a book that takes the human stories of living life during the revolutionary war. It shows how America´s first real spy ring was formed and how they used deception, cunning, and wit to deliver intelligence. It also gives insights into the motivations of the people who choose to rebel against the British or to preserve the British empire in the colonies.
This book is about the brightest minds and their dumbest opinions. It goes into detail about modern philosophers, and their political opinions, who sometimes show how brilliant minds fall for the simplest falsehoods. It is a warning that knowledge is not always transferable.
THis book goes into the fact that we are more or less getting fatter and tries to understand the reasing.
This book is about how you can understand and work on your performance by understanding how the brain works. The book goes through different scenarios and explains why the persons in the scenario do what they do and what they can do to achieve better results. The book contains helpful hints about how to "hack" your brain to achieve better results and improve your life.
This book is a philosophical work, wrapped in a story of a father and son travelling around the US. It concerns thoughts about quality, understanding things, and appreciation of the process itself. It also discusses quality in a philosophical setting.