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So Good They Can’t Ignore You

Rating: 5/5 A really enjoyable book that goes into why following your passion is bad career advice. After debunking the “follow your passion” advice, Cal presents concrete advice for how to create a...

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Fooled by Randomness

Rating: 4/5 I really enjoyed this book. I had Antifragile recommended to me many times, but wanted to read Taleb’s books in order. (I don’t recommend this, just skip to Antifragile and read Fooled By...

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The Black Swan

Rating: 3/5 I read The Black Swan after reading Fooled by Randomness. I enjoyed this book, though a little less than the previous book. Here the focus is on Black Swans, those rare events with extreme...

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Antifragile

Rating: 5/5 I should have started with this book. It fleshes out Taleb’s ideas from Fooled by Randomness and The Black Swan into more applicable strategies. He frequently discusses how he applies the...

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Man’s Search for Meaning

Rating: 5/5 I really enjoyed this book. Frankl was a psychiatrist, Holocaust survivor, and the founder of logotherapy. Logotherapy is a form of existential analysis that seeks to resolve psychological...

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Stumbling on Happiness

Rating: 3/5 This book was an entertaining take on why we are bad at predicting our emotions in the future, specifically what will make us happy. Gilbert is funny throughout the book, which makes it an...

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Seneca: Letters from a Stoic

Rating: 4/5 I had high expectations for this book (or collection of essays), and it didn’t disappoint. When reading it I was constantly struck by how amazing it was that I was reading something...

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Fight Club

Rating: 5/5 Awesome book that ultimately shows how to find meaning in life in the modern age of consumerism. “You’re trapped in your lovely nest, and all the things you used to own, now they own you.”...

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A Confederacy of Dunces

Rating: 4/5 A Confederacy of Dunces is a Pulitzer Prize winning fiction book by John Kennedy Toole, posthumously published through the efforts of Toole’s mother after his suicide. For the background...

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The First Law

Rating: 5/5 I quickly worked my way through this series over the holiday break. Awesome trilogy with great characters. Strongly recommend.

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