With ❤️ by Antony M. Gitau

Great reads

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

21 Lessons for the 21st Century: Harari, Yuval Noah ~ 2023
The Black Swan ~ 2023
Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World – and Why Things Are Better Than You Think. ~ 2023
The Mastery of Love by Don Miguel Ruiz - 2022
Thinking, Fast and Slow ~ 2023
The Psychology of Money: Timeless Lessons on Wealth ~ 2022
The Defining Decade: Why Your Twenties Matter - 2020
Contagious: Why Things Catch On: Berger, Jonah - 2023
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People - 2020
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance - 2020
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less - 2022
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World - 2022
The four agreements - 2022
The Alchemist ~ 2021
Ikigai ~ 2021
Think Again ~ 2022
Give and Take ~ 2022
So good they cannot ignore you ~ 2022
Brain Food ~ 2023
Shoe Dog ~ 2022
Great by Choice ~ 2023
Atomic Habit ~ 2021
Blue Ocean Strategy, Expanded Edition: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant ~ 2022
The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday~ 2022
Ego is the Enemy by Ryan Holiday ~ 2022
No Filter. The inside story of Instagram by Sarah Frier~ 2022
The Everything store. Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon ~ 2022
Rework by Jason Fried ~ 2022
Who moved my cheese? ~ 2021
The $100 startup by Chris Guillebeau ~ 2022
The monk who sold his Ferrari ~ 2021
How to win friends and influence people ~ 2021
Zero to one by Peter Thiel ~ 2022
Principles by Ray Dalio ~ 2021
The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down - 2020

Amazing quotes

Amazing words by amazing humans.

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
True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it's thinking of yourself less ~ C.S Lewis
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending a night with a mosquito ~ African Proverb
The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Day by day, what you do is who you become. ~ Marcus Aurelius
Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition ~ Ryan Holiday.
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
Always think with your stick forward. ~ Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing ~ Lord Henry
I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious ~Albert Einstein
The obstacle in the path is the path. ~ Ryan Holiday’s obstacle is the way
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
Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. ~ Raymond Joseph Teller
Making money is an inevitable byproduct of learning ~ Naval Ravikant
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
Many people die at 25 and are not buried until they are 75 ~ Benjamin Franklin
Do one thing better than anyone else you know ~ Cal Newport
Test everything; retain what is good.~ Fr. Giussani
The grass is greener where you water it. ~ Neil Barringham
I learn best when I have something specific in mind to build.~ Greg Brockman
People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles cannot fathom ~ Naval Ravikant
No horsepower in the head, no horsepower in the wallet ~ Harry T. Roman
No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else ~ PT Barnum, the Greatest Showman
You can’t ever be a victim ~ The playbook
You can have an impact on anything in the world ~ The playbook
Each one of us has to start out by developing his/her own definitions of success ~ Inside Bill’s Brain
Inspiration does exist, but it has to find you working ~ Pablo Picasso
Eventually, you will define your success by performing excellent work in areas that are important to you ~ Sam Altman
Ultimately, it is not what you get, it is what you become ~ Inside Bill’s Brain
Spend extravagantly on the thing you love, but cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t ~ How to Get Rich
Stay brave, a little awkward, and always kind ~ Brene Brown
Traveler, your footsteps are the road. Traveler, there is no road, the road is made by walking ~ Antonio Machado
Critique ideas, not people ~ read somewhere
Men of action are favored by the goddess of luck ~ George Samuel
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
Good ideas are the limit for what we can do, not specific skills. ~ Sam Altman
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
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
If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything ~ Ronald H. Coase
DNA loads the gun and lifestyle pulls the trigger ~ Lisa Mosconi
To glorify God by being a good steward of all that is entrusted to us ~ Chick - Fil - A company mission
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.
Free education is abundant all over the internet. It is the desire to learn that’s scarce. ~ Naval Ravikant
Seek wealth, not money or status. Wealth is having assets that earn while you sleep. Money is how we transfer time and wealth. Status is your place in the social hierarchy. ~ Naval Ravikant
The three most harmful addictions are heroin, carbohydrates, and a monthly salary ~ Nassim Taleb
We are drowning in information and starving for knowledge ~ read somewhere
Strong beliefs weakly held (the idea that you should be able to present things you believe to be right but willing to accept that you might be wrong) ~ Attributed to Jeff Bezos
It is only by going through a volume of work that you will close that gap (the gap that exists for the first couple of years you make stuff and it’s just not that good), and your work will be as good as your ambitions. ~ Ira Glass
Our mission is to move innovations and discoveries from the lab to the marketplace for the benefit of the public ~ MIT Technology Licensing Office

Fantastic watch list

A collection of terrific films I have enjoyed watching