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.

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  2. Gandhi ~ 2026
  3. How to Write a Thesis by Umberto Eco ~ 2025
  4. George Washington by  Calista McCabe Courtenay ~ 2026
  5. The Optimist: Sam Altman, OpenAI, and the Race to Invent the Future ~ 2025
  6. 80K Hours ~ 2023/24
  7. 21 Lessons for the 21st Century: Harari, Yuval Noah ~ 2023
  8. The Black Swan ~ 2023
  9. Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. ~ 2023
  10. The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz - 2022
  11. Thinking, Fast and Slow ~ 2023
  12. The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth ~ 2022
  13. The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - 2020
  14. Contagious: Why Things Catch On: Berger, Jonah - 2023
  15. The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - 2020
  16. Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - 2020
  17. Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - 2022
  18. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - 2022
  19. The four agreements - 2022
  20. The Alchemist ~ 2021
  21. Ikigai ~ 2021
  22. Think Again ~ 2022
  23. Give and Take ~ 2022
  24. So good they cannot ignore you ~ 2022
  25. Brain Food ~ 2023
  26. Shoe Dog ~ 2022
  27. Great by Choice ~ 2023
  28. Atomic Habit ~ 2021
  29. Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant ~ 2022
  30. The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday~ 2022
  31. Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday ~ 2022
  32. No Filter. The inside story of Instagram by Sarah Frier~ 2022
  33. The Everything store. Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon ~ 2022
  34. Rework by Jason Fried ~ 2022
  35. Who moved my cheese? ~ 2021
  36. The $100 startup by Chris Guillebeau ~ 2022
  37. The monk who sold his Ferrari ~ 2021
  38. How to win friends and influence people ~ 2021
  39. Zero to one by Peter Thiel ~ 2022
  40. Principles by Ray Dalio ~ 2021
  41. The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down - 2020

Amazing quotes

Amazing words by amazing humans.

  1. It doesnt matter if its a white cat or a black cat as long as it catches mice ~ Deng Xiaopin
  2. It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change. ~ Charles Darwin
  3. 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
  4. Hard work beats talent, if talent does not work hard ~ Mary Barra
  5. Action precedes motivation ~ 3blue1brown commemoration speech
  6. I am rooted in the African community, but I am not defined by it. I am comfortable in my racial identity, but that's not all I am ~ President Barack Obama
  7. After graduation, success is a function of how much value you bring to others. ~ 3blue1brown commemoration speech
  8. what is possible now, that was not possible 10yrs ago, and that might get harder 10yrs from now. ~ 3blue1brown commemoration speech
  9. 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
  10. True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it's thinking of yourself less ~ C.S Lewis
  11. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending a night with a mosquito ~ African Proverb
  12. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Day by day, what you do is who you become. ~ Marcus Aurelius
  13. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition ~ Ryan Holiday.
  14. 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
  15. Always think with your stick forward. ~ Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
  16. Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing ~ Lord Henry
  17. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious ~Albert Einstein
  18. The obstacle in the path is the path. ~ Ryan Holiday’s obstacle is the way
  19. 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
  20. Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. ~ Raymond Joseph Teller
  21. Making money is an inevitable byproduct of learning ~ Naval Ravikant
  22. 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
  23. Many people die at 25 and are not buried until they are 75 ~ Benjamin Franklin
  24. Do one thing better than anyone else you know ~ Cal Newport
  25. Test everything; retain what is good.~ Fr. Giussani
  26. The grass is greener where you water it. ~ Neil Barringham
  27. I learn best when I have something specific in mind to build.~ Greg Brockman
  28. People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles cannot fathom ~ Naval Ravikant
  29. No horsepower in the head, no horsepower in the wallet ~ Harry T. Roman
  30. No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else ~ PT Barnum, the Greatest Showman
  31. You can’t ever be a victim ~ The playbook
  32. You can have an impact on anything in the world ~ The playbook
  33. Each one of us has to start out by developing his/her own definitions of success ~ Inside Bill’s Brain
  34. Inspiration does exist, but it has to find you working ~ Pablo Picasso
  35. Eventually, you will define your success by performing excellent work in areas that are important to you ~ Sam Altman
  36. Ultimately, it is not what you get, it is what you become ~ Inside Bill’s Brain
  37. Spend extravagantly on the thing you love, but cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t ~ How to Get Rich
  38. Stay brave, a little awkward, and always kind ~ Brene Brown
  39. Traveler, your footsteps are the road. Traveler, there is no road, the road is made by walking ~ Antonio Machado
  40. Critique ideas, not people ~ read somewhere
  41. Men of action are favored by the goddess of luck ~ George Samuel
  42. 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
  43. Good ideas are the limit for what we can do, not specific skills. ~ Sam Altman
  44. 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
  45. 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
  46. If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything ~ Ronald H. Coase
  47. DNA loads the gun and lifestyle pulls the trigger ~ Lisa Mosconi