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The Body: A Guide for Occupants

By Bill Bryson (2019) Pages: 450, Final verdict: Should-read In the early 2000s I remember seeing an odd book at the front store of a bookshop. Its unusual title - A Short History of Nearly Everything - caught my attention. It told the story of the world (starting with the... Read more

Biology

The Book of Why

By Judea Pearl & Dana Mackenzie (2018) Pages: 432, Final verdict: Great-read I had countless discussions with my thesis supervisor on the causes of road traffic accidents. I was proposing to build an AI model to predict which variables had more impact and all I had was an enormous dataset. For... Read more

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The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

By Bog Iger (2019) Pages: 272, Final verdict: Great-read Bob Iger had a remarkable run as the CEO of Disney. From 2005 to 2020 Disney stock rose more than 400%, it released dozens of box-office hits, and he transformed the media landscape with the acquisitions of Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm and... Read more

Autobiography Business

The Happiness Hypothesis

By Jonathan Haidt (2006) Pages: 243, Final verdict: Must-read How should we live our life in order to be happy? The Happiness Hypothesis is the first book by psychologist Jonathan Haidt, today a professor of business ethics at New York University and an expert in the field of psychology concerned... Read more

Personal Development

The Man Who Solved the Market: How Jim Simons Launched the Quant Revolution

By Gregory Zuckerman (2019) Pages: 357, Final verdict: Great-read Jim Simmons is one of the most secretive and fascinating man in Wall Street. A mathematician and former code breaker for the US government, he is the founder of Renaissance Technologies, one of the world’s most lucrative hedge funds. In... Read more

Business Biography