Decentralized AI + science


Books

Bookshelf

Most books I read with ratings, many not from cover to cover as indicated

2023

2022

2021

2020

– Reinventing Discovery ** – ½ Psychology of Money ** – Almanack of Naval ***

2019

2018

– Architects of Intelligence *** – ½ Don’t make me think ** – ½ Titan: Rockefeller ** – ½ Love freedom aloneness ** – ½ AI by Russell & Norvig ** – ½ Thomas Edison: The Wizard of Menlo Park * – Total Freedom *** – ½ Playing to win * – Straight talk for startups *** – ½ The Rules of Genius ** – Strategic Intuition *** – ½ Toward Brain Computer Interfacing ** – Marc Andreessen Essays *** – ½ The Awakening of Intelligence *** – ½ Type Tricks ** – ½ Geometry of Type *** – Designing Type *** – Theory of Type Design – Blitzscaling * – Making and breaking the grid *** – ½ 21 lessons harari * – Art & Fear *** – ½ Mastering the market cycle (too obvious mostly but still interesting..)** – ½ Messy middle (too obvious/known..)* – ½ Radical Markets ** (too unrealistic) – ½ Reinventing Orgs * (too generic) – Morality, Foresight and Human Flourishing ** – ½ The Dance of the Possible * – ½ Enchanted Objects *** – ½ What I Learned Losing a Million Dollars ** – The Courage to be disliked *** – ½ Essentialism *** – ½ When ** – Seneca: vom glücklichen Leben *** – Behind the cloud * – Designing Agentive Tech ** – Only the paranoid survive ** – Antifragile ** – ½ Founders Dilemmas * – How will you measure your life *** – University of Berkshire ** – High Growth Handbook *** – The Upstarts *** – The Bed of Proscrustes ** – ½ Build better products ** – Make your mark *** – The Daily Stoic *** – Measure what matters by Doerr *** – Ending Aging *** – Data Science, MIT essentials ** – Malicious use of ai *** – ½ Managing Oneself ** – ½ The TAO of Charlie Munger ** – ½ The Score takes care of itself ** – Understanding Porter ** – ½ Break into VC ** – #4 Luminous Ground *** – ½ think twice ** – ½ the emotionally intelligent investor *** – ½ Systems View of Life ** – ½ Why Liberalism has failed ** – On Planning by Kretz/Chipperfield * – Algorithmic sustainable design ** – A Designers Art ** – Power of Moments *** – ½ Interaction of Color *** – ½ Billion dollar app * – Radical Candor *** – ½ Brain Computer Interfacing *** – The most important things illuminated *** – Square, Circle, Triangle *** – Lean UX ** – Anything you want *** – Culture Code ** – ½ Lean Analytics ** – She *** – The Book of Life *** – ½ Information Architecture ** – Great at work * – Seven Brief Lessons on Physics ** – Life Style by Bruce Mau * – Crossing the chasm *** – Inspired by Cagan ***

2017

– Designing Brand Identity *** – Kunst der Farbe, Itten ** – Der blaue Ozean ** – Product field *** – Designing multi- device experiences ** – The best interface is no interface ** – Bottlenecks: Aligning UX design with User Psychology ** – Machine Learning ** – Code 2.0, Lessig *** – The Art of Being ** – UX Strategy * – Life 3.0 Being Human in an Age of AI *** – Kern and Burn ** – Sprint *** – From Zero to One *** – Black Swan ** – On Intelligence ** – The Nature of Order #1 *** – A new theory of urban design *** – A pattern language *** – Superforecasting ** – What to do when machines do everything ** – Open Houses: Studio Olafur Eliasson ** – Attunement: Architectural Meaning *** – The Outsiders, Thorndike *** – Spatial Strategies for Interior Design * – Donald Judd Writings *** – Taut: Onkel Tom Siedlung ** – Margiela: The Hermès Years ** – The Timeless Way of Building *** – Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec ** – Axel Vervoordt Living with Light ** – Design, When Everybody Designs ** – The Start- up of You ** – Blockchain Basics *** – Design as Art *** – Platform Scale *** – Shoe Dog ** – Principles by Ray Dalio *** – Hedge Fund Market Wizards *** – Poor Richards Almanack** – Strategic sourcing and category management *** – Die Aura des Wertvollen * – Full House Diez Office *** – The Effective Executive *** – Der Möbelbau, Spannagel – Handbuch der Farbe ** – Designing in a complex world ** – Alvar Aalto *** – Biodesign ** – Preismanagement ** – Rethinking Prestige Branding *** – Sam Walton ** – Never split the difference *** – Ego is the Enemy *** – Notes On The Synthesis of Form** – The Lessons of History *** – Lieferantenmanagement 2030 ** – Poor Charlies Almanack *** – Die Wahrheit über IKEA *** – How to thrive in the next economy *** – James Dyson Against The Odds ** – S, M, L, XL *** – The green imperative *** – Research Methods for Product Design * – Becoming Steve Jobs *** – A fine line by Esslinger ** – The Digital Doctor ** – Risiko von Gerd Gigerenzer *** – Sustainable Materials *** – Let my people go surfing **

2016

– Glück und Architektur ** – Picasso. His Life and Work. ** – Enzo Mari Autoprogettazione ** – The Intelligent Investor *** – 1000 Chairs, Fiell/Taschen * – Design des 20 Jhd, Fiell/Taschen *** – Peter Zumthor Häuser ** – Interiors. Atelier AM. *** – ½ Drawing Ideas ** – Drawing for product designers ** – Das Geheimnis hinter IKEA *** – Wegner: just one good chair *** – Wabi– Sabi: Woher? Wohin? ** – Die Villen von Venetien ** – 48 Gesetze der Macht ** – Designzeichnen *** – Zumthor Architektur denken *** – Wabi Sabi *** – Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits *** – Lean Startup *** – Matisse in Marokko *** – Vincent van Duysen Monography *** – Axel Vervoordt Wabi Inspirations *** – Die unsichtbaren Städte ** – A Guide to the Good Life ** – Traction *** – Designer Founders 1&2 ** – Growth Hacker Marketing * – Talking Fashion *** – Mein Werk by Le Corbusier ** – Die unerträgliche Leichtigkeit des Seins *** – Exponential Organizations ** – ½ Scaling Up by Verne Harnish – Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits by Fisher ** – Barragan: Raum und Schatten, Mauer und Farbe by Pauly *** – The Charisma Myth by Cabane ** – The Hard Things about Hard Things by Horowitz *** – Le Corbusier Conversation with students * – ½ THE Philosophy of Andy Warhol *** – Es kommt nicht darauf an, wer Du bist, sondern wer Du sein willst by Paul Arden *** – Tadao Ando Conversation with students ** – Die Lust des Lebens und der Liebe by Casanova * – Picasso über Kunst *** – Vignelli Kanon by Massimo Vignelli *** – Growth Hacker Marketing *** – Le Corbusier by Jean– Louis Cohen ** – Die Vier Versprechen by Don Miguel Ruiz *** – Aesthetics by Charles Taliaferro ** – The Life and Work of Frank Gehry by Paul Goldberger ** – Pier Luigi Nervi by Heinz Wirz ** – Plain Space by John Pawson *** – Mastery by Robert Greene *** – Bionik by Martina Rüter **

2015

– Rebell Buddha by Rinpoche.. * – Zen mind *** – Smartcuts ** – How Google works *** – Der Sandmann von Hoffmann ** – The innovators dilemma *** – Influence by Cialdini *** – The art of manliness *** – Smart Business Concepts by Gromberg *** – Letters from a stoic by Seneca *** – ½ She by kerner ** – ½ Joy of less ** – Wir sind das Kapital * – Cradle to Cradle ** – Design for the Real World Human Ecology and Social Change ** – Mit Buddhismus das Leben meistern *** – Selbstbetrachtungen von Marc Aurel – ½ The Willpower Instinct ** – One up on Wall Street ** – Biomimickry in Architecture – Designing Design *** – Elon Musk Biografie *** – Zumthor Architektur denken *** – Buckmister Fuller Spaceship Earth ** – Lost Japan ** – Buckminster Fullers Universe *** – Biomimikry

2014

– Weiss by Kenya Hara *** – Design as Art by Munari ** – Hooked (habit forming products) ** – As A Man Thinketh by James Allen ** – The Magic of Thinking Big by David Schwartz ** – Bobby Dekeyser: Unverkäuflich!: Schulabbrecher, Fußballprofi, Weltunternehmer ** – Naokos Lächeln *** – ½ Mit Buddhismus das Leben meistern ** – 7 Strategies for Wealth & Happiness – Twelve pillars by Rohn ** – Anleihen simplified ** – Physik der Zukunft *** – Der Weg zum erfolgreichen Unternehmer ** – Zero to One *** – Our final invention by Barrat * – Man’s search for Meaning by Frankl *** – The Future by Al Gore * – Wir müssen die Welt verändern by Niemeyer *** – Think and Grow Rich *** – The design of everyday things ** – Creativity Inc *** – ½ Homo Faber ** – ½ Parzival *** – Daily Rituals: How Artists Work ** – ½ Walden * – ½ The startup owner? – The 100$ startup *** – Sorge dich nicht – lebe *** – Der Weg zum Glück (Dalai Lama) ** – Der Alchemist *** – ½ Elf Minuten **

2013

– Richard Branson Biografie *** – Steve Jobs Biografie ** – 4– Stunden– Woche * – Kopf schlägt Kapital, Faltin *** – Velocity **