With ❤️ by Antony M. Gitau (https://antony-gitau.github.io/)

Great reads

A collection of wonderful books I've had the pleasure of reading. I tag the year I first read the book.

  1. The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future ~ 2025
  2. 80K Hours ~ 2023/24
  3. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century: Harari, Yuval Noah ~ 2023
  4. The Black Swan ~ 2023
  5. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. ~ 2023
  6. The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz - 2022
  7. Thinking, Fast and Slow ~ 2023
  8. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth ~ 2022
  9. The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - 2020
  10. Contagious: Why Things Catch On: Berger, Jonah - 2023
  11. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - 2020
  12. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - 2020
  13. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - 2022
  14. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - 2022
  15. The four agreements - 2022
  16. The Alchemist ~ 2021
  17. Ikigai ~ 2021
  18. Think Again ~ 2022
  19. Give and Take ~ 2022
  20. So good they cannot ignore you ~ 2022
  21. Brain Food ~ 2023
  22. Shoe Dog ~ 2022
  23. Great by Choice ~ 2023
  24. Atomic Habit ~ 2021
  25. Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant ~ 2022
  26. The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday~ 2022
  27. Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday ~ 2022
  28. No Filter. The inside story of Instagram by Sarah Frier~ 2022
  29. The Everything store. Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon ~ 2022
  30. Rework by Jason Fried ~ 2022
  31. Who moved my cheese? ~ 2021
  32. The $100 startup by Chris Guillebeau ~ 2022
  33. The monk who sold his Ferrari ~ 2021
  34. How to win friends and influence people ~ 2021
  35. Zero to one by Peter Thiel ~ 2022
  36. Principles by Ray Dalio ~ 2021
  37. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down - 2020

Amazing quotes

Amazing words by amazing humans.

  1. Sometimes it's the people no one imagines anything of who do the things that no one can imagine. ~ The Imitation Game movie said by Alan Turing
  2. Hard work beats talent, if talent does not work hard ~ Mary Barra
  3. Action precedes motivation ~ 3blue1brown commemoration speech
  4. After graduation, success is a function of how much value you bring to others. ~ 3blue1brown commemoration speech
  5. what is possible now, that was not possible 10yrs ago, and that might get harder 10yrs from now. ~ 3blue1brown commemoration speech
  6. I found out in science and all its applications, what is crucial is not that technical ability, but is imagination in all of its applications. ~ E.O Wilson
  7. True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it's thinking of yourself less ~ C.S Lewis
  8. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending a night with a mosquito ~ African Proverb
  9. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Day by day, what you do is who you become. ~ Marcus Aurelius
  10. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition ~ Ryan Holiday.
  11. Try not to be a man of success, but rather, a man of value. A man of value will give more than he receives ~ Albert Einstein
  12. Always think with your stick forward. ~ Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
  13. Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing ~ Lord Henry
  14. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious ~Albert Einstein
  15. The obstacle in the path is the path. ~ Ryan Holiday’s obstacle is the way
  16. It is not important what we cover in class; it is important what you discover. To be truly educated, from this point of view means, to be in a position to inquire and create on the basis of resources available to you ~ Noah Chomsky
  17. Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. ~ Raymond Joseph Teller
  18. Making money is an inevitable byproduct of learning ~ Naval Ravikant
  19. Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day; Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime; Teach an AI to fish and it will teach itself biology, chemistry, oceanography, evolutionary theory…and fish all the fish to extinction. ~ A.I Dilemma
  20. Many people die at 25 and are not buried until they are 75 ~ Benjamin Franklin
  21. Do one thing better than anyone else you know ~ Cal Newport
  22. Test everything; retain what is good.~ Fr. Giussani
  23. The grass is greener where you water it. ~ Neil Barringham
  24. I learn best when I have something specific in mind to build.~ Greg Brockman
  25. People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles cannot fathom ~ Naval Ravikant
  26. No horsepower in the head, no horsepower in the wallet ~ Harry T. Roman
  27. No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else ~ PT Barnum, the Greatest Showman
  28. You can’t ever be a victim ~ The playbook
  29. You can have an impact on anything in the world ~ The playbook
  30. Each one of us has to start out by developing his/her own definitions of success ~ Inside Bill’s Brain
  31. Inspiration does exist, but it has to find you working ~ Pablo Picasso
  32. Eventually, you will define your success by performing excellent work in areas that are important to you ~ Sam Altman
  33. Ultimately, it is not what you get, it is what you become ~ Inside Bill’s Brain
  34. Spend extravagantly on the thing you love, but cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t ~ How to Get Rich
  35. Stay brave, a little awkward, and always kind ~ Brene Brown
  36. Traveler, your footsteps are the road. Traveler, there is no road, the road is made by walking ~ Antonio Machado
  37. Critique ideas, not people ~ read somewhere
  38. Men of action are favored by the goddess of luck ~ George Samuel
  39. If say you take an ordinary person who is willing to devote a great deal of time and study and work and thinking and mathematics, then he’s becoming a scientist. ~ Richard Feynman
  40. Good ideas are the limit for what we can do, not specific skills. ~ Sam Altman
  41. Forming your worldview by relying on the media would be like forming your view about me by looking only at a picture of my foot ~ Hans Rosling
  42. A data scientist is someone who builds things using data. Learn just what you need, just well enough to build what you’re making. Build something you can point to “Look what I did!” And when you finish it, turn around, pick another project, and start over again. ~ Brandon
  43. If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything ~ Ronald H. Coase
  44. DNA loads the gun and lifestyle pulls the trigger ~ Lisa Mosconi
  45. To glorify God by being a good steward of all that is entrusted to us ~ Chick - Fil - A company mission
  46. Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life, as by the obstacles which he has overcome while trying to succeed" - Booker T. Washington.
  47. Free education is abundant all over the internet. It is the desire to learn that’s scarce. ~ Naval Ravikant