Books, Websites, and articles

Books 

2022
  • Miracle in the Andes **** 
  • Lessons from History **** (need to read again)
  • Midnight library ****
  • (Reading) Inner Engineering
  • (Reading) Continuous Discovery habits

General
  • Thinking Fast and Slow
  • Sapiens
  • 21 Lessons for 21st century
  • The Body 

Life and philosophy
  • Steps to Liberation - The Buddha's Eight fold path (link)
  • Power of Now
  • 7 Habits of Highly Successful people
  • Mindset

Business and Product Management
  • Good Strategy, Bad Strategy 
  • Inspired
  • High Output Management
  • Communicate to Influence
  • Working Backwards
Biographies
  • Shoe Dog 
  • Total Recall (Arnold Shwarzenegger) 
  • Steve Jobs
  • Hatching Twitter
  • Creative Selection
  • Shantaram 

Fiction
  • Ready Player One 
  • 3 Body Problem
  • Shantaram
  • White Tiger 
  • Guns of Navarone  
  • Kane and Abel 

Movies and Shows

2022
  • Gilded Age ***"

Articles

Life


People 

...coming soon.

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