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Chiang My current favorite sci-fi short story: probably “Understand” by Ted Chiang. It’s in a collection called Stories of Your Life and Others. “Story of Your Life” was made into a movie called Arrival. [1] Exhalation: Stories by Ted Chiang This contemplates the marvel of thermodynamics from the best sci-fi short story writer of our age. The Lifecycle of Soft ware Objects by Ted Chiang Another masterpiece of sci-fi by Ted Chiang. Open the camera on your phone and hover over this image. Open the camera on your phone and hover over this image. 218 · T H E A L M A N A C K O F N A V A L R A V I K A N T Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson Snow Crash is an amazing, amazing book. There’s nothing quite similar to Snow Crash. Snow Crash is in a league of its own. Stephenson also wrote The Diamond Age. “The Last Question,” a short story by Isaac Asimov I quote “The Last Question” all the time. I loved it as a kid. What are the books you’re rereading now? That’s a good question. I’ll pull up my Kindle app as we talk. Usually, I’m always rereading some books in science. I’m reading a book on René Girard’s mimetic theory. It’s more of an overview book, because I couldn’t make it through his actual writings. I’m reading Tools of Titans, Tim Ferriss’s book of what he learned from a lot of great performers. I’m reading a book, Thermoinfocomplexity. It’s actually by a friend of mine, Behzad Mohit. I just fi nished reading Pre- Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Infl uence and Persuade, or I should say I just fi nished skimming Pre-Suasion by Robert Cialdini. I don’t think I needed to read the entire book to get the point, but it was still good to read what I did. It’s a great litt le history book. I’m currently reading The Story of Philos- ophy: The Lives and Opinions of the Great Philosophers, also by Will Durant. I have a young kid now, so I’ve got a lot of child-rearing books Open the camera on your phone and hover over this image. N A V A L ’ S R E C O M M E N D E D R E A D I N G · 219 I use more as reference material than anything else. I recently read some Emerson and some Chesterfield. I have a Leo Tolstoy book here. Alan Watts. Scott Adams. I reread God’s Debris recently. Tao Te Ching, a friend of mine is rereading it, so I picked it up again. There’s tons. I mean, I could go on and on. There’s Nietzsche’s book here. There’s The Undercover Economist [Tim Harford]. The Richard Bach book [Illusions: The Adventures of a Reluctant Messiah]. There are some Jed McKenna books. A little Dale Carnegie in here. The Three-Body Problem [Cixin Liu]. Man’s Search for Meaning [Viktor E. Frankl]. There’s lots. Sex at Dawn [Christopher Ryan]. There’s a lot of books out there. By the way, when I tell people what I’m reading, I skip two- thirds of my books. The reason I skip two-thirds is because they’re embarrassing. They don’t sound like good books to read. They’ll sound trivial or silly. Who cares? I don’t have to tell everybody everything I read. I read all kinds of stuff other people consider junk or even reprehensible. I read all kinds of stuff I disagree with because they’re mind-bending. [4] I always spent money on books. I never viewed that as an expense. That’s an investment to me. [4] BLOGS (Since there are so many links in this section, you may prefer a digital copy. Go to Navalmanack.com to get a digital version of this chapter for your convenience.) 220 · T H E A L M A N A C K O F N A V A L R A V I K A N T Some amazing blogs out there: @KevinSimler—Melting Asphalt, https://meltingasphalt.com/ @farnamstreet—Farnam Street, A Signal in a World Full of Noise, https://fs.blog/ @benthompson—Stratchery, https://stratechery.com/ @baconmeteor—Idle Words, https://idlewords.com/ [4] Download 1.8 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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