#audiobook
A Brief Candle in the Dark
Dawkins’ autobiography, the second part. Up to his 70th birthday
A Short History of Nearly Everything
A good non-fiction audiobook if you are cooking or cleaning your room.
An Appetite for Wonder
Dawkins’ autobiography, the first part, up to the Selfish Gene publication
Antifragile
Taleb introduces another great term—antifragility—which can be found in many areas. And which can be consciously improved. It’s more than robustness.
Artemis
A crimi-thriller novel from the author of Martian
Beginning of Infinity
A scientific and optimistic view of our future. A really captivating book.
Calling Bullshit
How to spot bullshit and what to do after that. Funny and important book.
Can't Hurt Me
Almost unbelievable life story of David Goggins who probably lacks self-preservation instinct. Too extreme to be a true self-help book, but there are some truths in what he is telling (preaching).
Den Trifidů
A lot of material for thinking about our society and psychology
Enlightenment now
Velmi dlouhý argument o tom, proč je věda, vzdělání dobrá.
Everything is Fucked
His previous book was much better, but this one is better compared to other self-help books I have read.
Foundation
The first book in the Foundation series.
Foundation and Earth
the last book from the Foundation series
Foundation and Empire
The fall of the first foundation. Mule’s quest.
Foundation's Edge
the search for the Earth or Gaia, 500 years after Harry Seldon
Freakonomics
An original take on many topics
Give and Take
Givers, takers and matchers. Givers are the most and least successful of all. I had to stop listening to this.
God is not great
Hitchens has much more arguments against religions than other prominentatheist writers (e.g. Dawkins with his God’s delusion) and this book seemed more compelling.
Gump
Pěkný příběh. Číšila z toho láska k psům a zvířatům.
Hell Yes or No
A brief but dense book full of wit, clever questions, ideas and thought food. Derek is compressing many self-help and life-hack books and it is
Heroes
Fry is doing a great job of retelling the ancient well-known stories. As good as his previous book.
How to Avoid Climatic Disaster
An overview of challenges on the way to carbon-neutral future by Bill Gates
How to live
One of a few authors who writes about ideas without any unnecessary words
How to Win Friends and Influence People
One of the oldest self-help books. I am not the intended audience. I couldn’t follow his rules and being true to myself, authentic and consistent.
Jací jsme dnes
Vzpomínky investigativního novináře Respektu
Lifespan
There is a slight chance that our generation can live to 100 years with a good health. There is also a non-negligible chance that we won’t die.
Mindset
Fixed vs growth mindset. The former is limiting you, the latter will help ou to improve yourself quickly.
Prelude to Foundation
Harry Seldon on the run with help of Doors.
Proces
Zoufalství ve střetu s bezhlavou mašinérií
Project Hail Mary
A highschool teacher on a suicide mission to save the humanity
Quiet
Our world needs introverts. Being introvert is normal.
Rationality
Ramblings on rationality, biases, false believes, artificial intelligence, …
Rich Dad Poor Dad
Learning at work is win-win: you earn money and at the same time learn new things so invest into yourself. Buy assets, not liabilities. Invest as soon as possible.
Silmarillion
a collection of myths and stories from the world of The Lord of the Rings
Snow Crash
A sci-fi novel coining terms as Metaverse and Avatar
Solaris
A unique planet orbiting two suns is explored by scientists who are completely clueless. The planet creates persons from the scientists’ hidden memories but they fail to communicate and comprehend the planet.
Stalker
A well known philosophical sci-fi novel
Starship Troopers
A story about a young man who became a soldier accidentally, then became a lieutenant. All while fighting bugs in our galaxy.
The Dark Forest
The second part of the trilogy.
The Death's End
It. Was. Grand. I consider it to be almost on a par with A. C. Clarke’s work. We started to the Czech audioversion on 2022-07-09.
The Five Elements of Effective Thinking
Five steps toward a better thinking.
The Great Mental Models I
Probably the best (and funniest) was Hanlon’s razor: never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
The Martian
A survivor’s journal on Mars
The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari
A self-help novel, full of great wisdoms packed into a bit weird story.
The Parasitic Mind
Bit misleading title for the book full of angry arguments against overly liberal policies mainly in USA. I stopped listening to the audio version of the book circa in the middle.
The Power of Habit
Understand how habits are made and broken and change your life!
The Rational Optimist
The best time to live is now. And it will be even better.
The Science Book
A brief history of natural sciences. Heavily biased towards physics and chemistry.
The Second Foundation
Mule’s search for the second foundation.
Think and Grow Rich
Self-help book from 1937. After reading so many self-help book before this one, I realized it gets boring…
Thinking in Bets
A poker player teaches us how to decide under uncertainty
Three-body problem
I enjoyed it almost as books from A. C. Clarke and other titans of sci-fi.
War of Art
How to overcome the resistance to do anything important and to achieve your goals.
When Things Fall Apart
A soothing voice will tell you how to cope with problems in your life, but not how to solve them.
Your Music and People
How you should promote yourself and your music creatively