Vansh Kumar

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How Children Learn cover
How Life Works cover
The Making of the Atomic Bomb cover
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Books I recommend

because they somehow changed how I see the world.

A Brief History of Intelligence cover notes
Blindsight cover notes
Chaos: Making a New Science cover
Children of Dune cover
Exhalation cover
Finite and Infinite Games cover
Flowers for Algernon cover
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre cover
Land Is a Big Deal cover
The Art of Learning cover
The Children's Machine cover notes
The Clock Of The Long Now cover notes
The Inner Game of Tennis cover
The Invention Of Nature cover notes
The Nurture Assumption cover
The Pathless Path cover
The Remains of the Day cover
The Robot Trilogy cover
The Structure Of Scientific Revolutions cover notes

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  1. Zhuangzi: Basic Writings by Zhuangzi
  2. The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect by Roger Williams
  3. Becoming a Writer by Dorothea Brande
  4. Chop Wood, Carry Water: The Yoga of Work by Andrew Taggart
  5. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
  6. When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
  7. The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
  8. Blindsight by Peter Watts (my notes)
  9. Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility by James P. Carse
  10. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
  11. Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone
  12. The Invention of Nature: Alexander Von Humboldt's New World by Andrea Wulf (my notes)
  13. Theories of Childhood: An Introduction to Dewey, Montessori, Erikson, Piaget, and Vygotsky by Carol Garhart Mooney
  14. Children's Machine: Rethinking School in the Age of Computer by Seymour Papert (my notes)
  15. Heretics of Dune by Frank Herbert
  16. God Emperor of Dune by Frank Herbert
  17. Children of Dune by Frank Herbert
  18. Meditations for Mortals: Four Weeks to Embrace Your Limitations and Finally Make Time for What Counts by Oliver Burkeman
  19. The Clock of the Long Now: Time and Responsibility by Stewart Brand (my notes)
  20. Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
  21. Dune by Frank Herbert
  22. A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro
  23. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
  24. A Brief History of Intelligence: Evolution, AI, and the Five Breakthroughs That Made Our Brains by Max Solomon Bennett (my notes)
  25. Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
  26. The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas S. Kuhn (my notes)
  27. The Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self, Third Edition by Alice Miller
  28. Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
  29. How to Read a Book: The Classic Guide to Intelligent Reading by Mortimer J. Adler, Charles Van Doren
  30. The Art of Learning: A Journey in the Pursuit of Excellence by Josh Waitzkin
  31. The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
  32. The Montessori Baby: A Parent's Guide to Nurturing Your Baby with Love, Respect, and Understanding by Simone Davies, Junnifa Uzodike
  33. A Little Book on the Human Shadow by Robert Bly
  34. Kokoro by Natsume Sōseki
  35. Exhalation by Ted Chiang
  36. The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories by Ken Liu
  37. The Motern Method by Matt Farley
  38. Excellent Advice for Living by Kevin Kelly
  39. The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
  40. The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
  41. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
  42. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey
  43. Stories of Your Life and Others by Ted Chiang
  44. Nightfall and Other Stories by Isaac Asimov
  45. The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
  46. The Money Men: Capitalism, Democracy, and the Hundred Years' War Over the American Dollar by H.W. Brands
  47. The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
  48. The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
  49. Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective by Joel Lehman, Kenneth O. Stanley
  50. Robot Visions by Isaac Asimov
  51. Making Sense of Chaos: A Better Economics for a Better World by J. Doyne Farmer
  52. Robot Dreams by Isaac Asimov
  53. Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World by Anne-Laure Le Cunff
  54. The Autobiography Of John Stuart Mill by John Stuart Mill
  55. The Complete Robot by Isaac Asimov
  56. The Creative Act: A Way of Being by Rick Rubin
  57. Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  58. Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  59. The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do by Judith Rich Harris
  60. Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov
  61. Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov
  62. The Power Broker: Robert Moses and the Fall of New York by Robert A. Caro
  63. The Robots of Dawn by Isaac Asimov
  64. Foundation's Edge by Isaac Asimov
  65. Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov
  66. Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov
  67. The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov
  68. The Stars, Like Dust by Isaac Asimov
  69. Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman
  70. Pebble in the Sky by Isaac Asimov
  71. The Naked Sun by Isaac Asimov
  72. The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov
  73. Imperial Earth by Arthur C. Clarke
  74. Days at the Morisaki Bookshop by Satoshi Yagisawa
  75. I, Robot by Isaac Asimov
  76. Focusing by Eugene T. Gendlin
  77. The New Lombard Street: How the Fed Became the Dealer of Last Resort by Perry Mehrling
  78. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
  79. Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
  80. Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata
  81. Good Work: Reclaiming Your Inner Ambition by Paul Millerd
  82. Lying for Money: How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World by Dan Davies
  83. Land is a Big Deal by Lars A. Doucet
  84. The Inner Game of Tennis: The Classic Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance by W. Timothy Gallwey
  85. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
  86. The Pathless Path: Imagining a New Story For Work and Life by Paul Millerd
  87. The Untethered Soul at Work: Teachings to Transform Your Work Life by Michael Singer
  88. The Untethered Soul: The Journey Beyond Yourself by Michael A. Singer
  89. Living from a Place of Surrender: The Untethered Soul in Action by Michael Singer
  90. Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street by William Poundstone
  91. Poverty, by America by Matthew Desmond
  92. The Science of Enlightenment: How Meditation Works by Shinzen Young
  93. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
  94. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney
  95. Yearbook by Seth Rogen
  96. Adult Children of Emotionally Immature Parents by Lindsay C. Gibson
  97. Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market by Walter Bagehot
  98. Chaos: Making a New Science by James Gleick
  99. Die with Zero: Getting All You Can from Your Money and Your Life by Bill Perkins
  100. Just Keep Buying: Proven Ways to Save Money and Build Your Wealth by Nick Maggiulli
  101. The Alchemy of Finance by George Soros
  102. How to Sleep: The New Science-Based Solutions for Sleeping Through the Night by Rafael Pelayo
  103. The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth's Resources by Jack Farchy, Javier Blas
  104. Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work by Chip Heath, Dan Heath
  105. Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
  106. The Cult of Smart: How Our Broken Education System Perpetuates Social Injustice by Fredrik deBoer
  107. Disorder: Hard Times in the 21st Century by Helen Thompson
  108. The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma by Bessel van der Kolk
  109. Bottle of Lies: The Inside Story of the Generic Drug Boom by Katherine Eban
  110. Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear
  111. Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic by Sam Quinones
  112. Fentanyl, Inc.: How Rogue Chemists Are Creating the Deadliest Wave of the Opioid Epidemic by Ben Westhoff
  113. Trade Wars Are Class Wars: How Rising Inequality Distorts the Global Economy and Threatens International Peace by Michael Pettis, Matthew C. Klein
  114. Devil Take the Hindmost: A History of Financial Speculation by Edward Chancellor
  115. Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber
  116. Lords of Finance: The Bankers Who Broke the World by Liaquat Ahamed
  117. The Lessons of History by Ariel Durant, Will Durant
  118. The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
  119. The Deficit Myth by Stephanie Kelton
  120. Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefèvre
  121. More Money Than God: Hedge Funds and the Making of a New Elite by Sebastian Mallaby
  122. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  123. Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World by Adam Tooze
  124. Dark Money: The Hidden History of the Billionaires Behind the Rise of the Radical Right by Jane Mayer
  125. Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City by Matthew Desmond

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