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

Amazing quotes

Amazing words by amazing humans.

  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. Hard work beats talent, if talent does not work hard ~ Mary Barra
  4. Action precedes motivation ~ 3blue1brown commemoration speech
  5. 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
  6. After graduation, success is a function of how much value you bring to others. ~ 3blue1brown commemoration speech
  7. what is possible now, that was not possible 10yrs ago, and that might get harder 10yrs from now. ~ 3blue1brown commemoration speech
  8. 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
  9. True humility is not thinking less of yourself; it's thinking of yourself less ~ C.S Lewis
  10. If you think you are too small to make a difference, try spending a night with a mosquito ~ African Proverb
  11. The soul is dyed the color of its thoughts. Day by day, what you do is who you become. ~ Marcus Aurelius
  12. Never forget, within every obstacle is an opportunity to improve our condition ~ Ryan Holiday.
  13. 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
  14. Always think with your stick forward. ~ Amelia Earhart, the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
  15. Nowadays, people know the price of everything and the value of nothing ~ Lord Henry
  16. I have no special talents. I am only passionately curious ~Albert Einstein
  17. The obstacle in the path is the path. ~ Ryan Holiday’s obstacle is the way
  18. 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
  19. Sometimes magic is just someone spending more time on something than anyone else might reasonably expect. ~ Raymond Joseph Teller
  20. Making money is an inevitable byproduct of learning ~ Naval Ravikant
  21. 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
  22. Many people die at 25 and are not buried until they are 75 ~ Benjamin Franklin
  23. Do one thing better than anyone else you know ~ Cal Newport
  24. Test everything; retain what is good.~ Fr. Giussani
  25. The grass is greener where you water it. ~ Neil Barringham
  26. I learn best when I have something specific in mind to build.~ Greg Brockman
  27. People who live far below their means enjoy a freedom that people busy upgrading their lifestyles cannot fathom ~ Naval Ravikant
  28. No horsepower in the head, no horsepower in the wallet ~ Harry T. Roman
  29. No one ever made a difference by being like everyone else ~ PT Barnum, the Greatest Showman
  30. You can’t ever be a victim ~ The playbook
  31. You can have an impact on anything in the world ~ The playbook
  32. Each one of us has to start out by developing his/her own definitions of success ~ Inside Bill’s Brain
  33. Inspiration does exist, but it has to find you working ~ Pablo Picasso
  34. Eventually, you will define your success by performing excellent work in areas that are important to you ~ Sam Altman
  35. Ultimately, it is not what you get, it is what you become ~ Inside Bill’s Brain
  36. Spend extravagantly on the thing you love, but cut costs mercilessly on the things you don’t ~ How to Get Rich
  37. Stay brave, a little awkward, and always kind ~ Brene Brown
  38. Traveler, your footsteps are the road. Traveler, there is no road, the road is made by walking ~ Antonio Machado
  39. Critique ideas, not people ~ read somewhere
  40. Men of action are favored by the goddess of luck ~ George Samuel
  41. 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
  42. Good ideas are the limit for what we can do, not specific skills. ~ Sam Altman
  43. 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
  44. 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
  45. If you torture the data long enough, it will confess to anything ~ Ronald H. Coase
  46. DNA loads the gun and lifestyle pulls the trigger ~ Lisa Mosconi
  47. To glorify God by being a good steward of all that is entrusted to us ~ Chick - Fil - A company mission