economics

Reading List of 2021

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This is the big list of books I completed in 2021.

I would like to say there is a pattern, however I think that would be a lie.

The list is in (mostly) sequential order

note: just because it is on this list does not mean I recommend it or will not recommend it later, this is more the list of stuff I thought would be worth reading.

  1. The Reluctant Adventures of Fletcher Connolly on the Interstellar Railroad
  2. Eating the Dinosaur
  3. Song Machine
  4. Humble Pi
  5. Liquid Rules
  6. Better Than Before
  7. Libertarian Walks into a Bear
  8. All Creatures Great and Small
  9. Watership down
  10. Thrawn ascendancy: Greater Good
  11. White fang
  12. A Clockwork Orange
  13. Creativity INC
  14. Heavens river (Bobiverse)
  15. Mathematics of love
  16. The Ice Diary’s
  17. Shadows of the Empire (abridged)
  18. The Android’s Dream
  19. Sword of Destiny (Witcher)
  20. Invisible hook
  21. The Godfather
  22. Four Fish
  23. Orconomics
  24. Eaters of the Dead
  25. Cosmos
  26. Super Freakonomics
  27. Lies my Teacher Told Me
  28. Prisoners of Geography
  29. Nordic Theory of Everything
  30. Everybody has a Podcast Except You
  31. Thinking, Fast and Slow
  32. Curious
  33. Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil
  34. Existentially Challenged
  35. Consider the Fork

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

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Off the bat: I say this is one of “those boring books” that I think everyone should read.

I say “boring” as the author is a PHD (and winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics), and I will admit it can be a bit tedious to read at times (also note: if you read the audiobook like me, several figures he mentions are not “in” the audiobook you will need to reference them).

However, this book is high on my recommendation list. Everybody thinks. This book specifically looks at the “fast thinking” compared to “slow thinking”. IE you can have a reaction to “do you like X?” almost instantly but 13×37=? Will take you more time. The author excels at keeping this book accessible to anyone. The topics at times feel like a psychology 101 class, or econ 101. However, he excelled at being in your brain and knowing how you will think.  This also showed many biases people will not be aware of but make total sense.

Oddly one of the most self-reflecting books that does not really fit the self-improvement genre.