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Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men

By Caroline Criado Perez (2019) Pages: 411, Final verdict: Must-read Reading about discrimination, unfair labour, and prejudice against women became normal. We can surprisingly see that gender inequality is still hardly understood by many following such reports. The same people claiming that significant progress has been made are those who... Read more

Sociology

Humankind: A Hopeful History

By Rutger Bregman (2019) Pages: 400, Final verdict: Great-read Rutger Bregman is not your average historian. 32, Dutch, he rose to fame with his 2014 best-seller Utopia for Realists, where he shared his thesis for reconstructing modern society with "utopian" like universal basic income or a shorter workweek. His stardom... Read more

Sociology

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Principles: Life and Work

By Ray Dalio (2017) Pages: 552, Final verdict: Great-read What principles does one of the most successful investment managers of the last 40 years live by? At some point in life people decide it is time to share their recipe for success. For Ray Dalio, that time came at the... Read more

Autobiography Business

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

Science