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Thread of books I'm reading in 2018. Deciding that I'm going to focus on optimizing for "books started" (which is fun and interesting) rather than "books finished" (which for me has a sort of masochistic, completionist connotation I'd like to be free of).
1. The Inner Game Of Work (technically started in Dec 2017 but whatever) https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/942059541499281408
2. The Power of Moments https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/944992485817835520
3. An Unexpected Journey (SR Nathan's autobiography) https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/955057474955984896
4. Singapore Is Not An Island, Bilahari Kausikan https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/955437532891656192
5. Leading, Alex Ferguson https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/955815428076417024
6. Grooming, Gossip and the Evolution of Language, Robin Dunbar https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/956015597908824064
7. The Freud Wars https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/956170355147554816
8. Gang Leader For A Day, Sudhir Venkatesh. I finished this in a day. Very poignant, troubling true story. I was moved and felt changed when I put it down. Confidently waltzes onto my recommend list https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/957491354652721152
9. Ex Libris, Anne Fadiman https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/956378871590350848
10. The Now Habit, Neil Fiore https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/957647720054837248
11. I'm OK, you're OK - Thomas Harris (this is something I suspect I'm going to revisit a lot in the future) https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/958272938817478657
12. The Checklist Manifesto, Atul Gawande. Very humbling to be reminded in detail how there are people who go to work every day and make decisions that literally affect whether people live or die... and how simple checklists make a significant difference https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/963041757284909061
13. 50 inventions that shaped the modern economy, Tim Harford. I'm a fan of several of @TimHarford's books, and his God Complex talk. I also think individual objects are a great way to contextualize a history, so I'm excited for this https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/969412449114865665?s=19
14. The Body Keeps The Score. I'd seen it recommended in several different circles and contexts. I don't think I'm going to finish it soon but I've already gotten a lot of mileage out of it https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/981357303583485952?s=19
15. The Communist Manifesto. Read last month when someone said something like "you don't really understand communism". It's actually quite a short and entertaining read https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/970957217867317254?s=19
16. Learned Optimism. I think I watched Seligman's TED Talk once and really liked it. Been moving pretty quickly through this one https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/983909364112109568?s=19
17. Emotional Intelligence https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/984364518905077760
18. Isaacson's bio of Da Vinci https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/984617407237910528
19. Sebastian Junger's Tribe https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/988356861102444544?s=19
20. Your money or your life https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/988755132367060993?s=19
21. Zero to One, Peter Thiel https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/989430360109797376?s=21
22. A Subaltern History of the Indian Diaspora in Singapore, John Solomon https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1000453353841688577
23. Finite and Infinite Games https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1014460524161974272?s=21
24. Why be happy when you could be normal? Intense, intimate, honest, revealing, wholesome https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1022017669908910081
25. Gene Simmons, On Power https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1032832986360631296?s=21
30. Revisiting an old favourite, David Ogilvy’s Confessions https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1061692306619678720?s=21
31. Tommy Koh, Singaporean diplomat https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1065152236529938432?s=21
32. Debt, the first 5,000 years, by David Graeber https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1065534592793305089
33. Carl Sagan, a biography by Keay Davidson https://twitter.com/visakanv/status/1067765852500447232
34. Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
