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.... Read more

Sociology

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.... Read more

Science

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