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Fiction

I discovered and read Blake Crouch this year

- Dark Matter

- Recursion

- Upgrade

- Pines

I also discovered and read

- Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir

- Gravity by Tess Gerritsen

- A Man by, At the End of the Matinee Keiichiro Hirano

It's between Recursion and Project Hail Mary for me. I am leaning more towards Recursion.

Non-fiction

I discovered and read the following this year

- Deep Work by Cal Newport

- The Millionaire Fastlane by M.J. DeMarco

- Zero to One by Peter Thiel

- How to Start a Business Without any Money by Rachel Bridge

- Creative Gene by Hideo Kojima

- Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson

- The Psychology of Money by Morgan Housel

- Show Your Work, Steal Like an Artist by Austin Kleon

- Press Reset by Jason Schreier

I would say Deep Work and Steve Jobs had the biggest impact on me.

Programming

I am learning Elixir using Elixir In Action by Sasa Juric.

Project Hail Mary was such a fun read. I burned through it in 2 days, and was sad when I finished it. 10/10 would recommend

If you enjoyed PHM, you might also like: - For a more horror take, "There's no Antimemetic Division" https://qntm.org/scp. Without spoiling, it's about people trying to fight against a threat that's impossible to remember about. - Ted Chiang's "Understand". Again without spoiling too much, it's about a man whose intelligence rapidly increased. - Harry Potter and Methods of Rationality. Yeah, I'm serious, if you like the "smart character solves problem by thinking" it's amazing.

Everything by Qntm that I've read has been great. Incredibly imaginative. I recommend Ra and Fine Structure in addition to the Antimemetics stuff.

I didn't like Ra nearly as much as Antimemetics... It started out really strong and then took a very weird turn. I should get around to reading Fine Structure though.

It was way too short, but also just long enough.

Newport's work led me to read 4,000 Weeks by Oliver Burkeman, which I regularly think about. It's a refreshing read on time management.

If you haven’t already, I strongly recommend to read „Becoming Steve Jobs“, too.

Isaacson‘s book isn’t “wrong” per se, but it makes the wrong point, imho. There really have been two Steve Jobs it seems (but crucially, NOT in a Jekyll & Hyde way!), and Isaacson didn’t get that.

Been loving Blake Crouch as well. It can be a little light but it's at least gripping every time.

I really enjoyed Recursion but am disappointed by Upgrade (finishing it atm).

Recursion, Blake Crouch was an amazing ride.

I’ll third that. It was so much fun!

Supposedly there will be a Netflix adaptation.

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