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Rated Republic, Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress--and a Plan to Stop It 10/10

Wants to read In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

Rated Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content 6/10

This one is tough. Mark's ideas are very interesting and likely useful, but this book very much felt like a long article turned into a book.<br/><br/>Maybe the reputation is necessary to really hit his point home.<br/><br/>This felt a <b>lot</b> like the The Einstein Factor: A Proven New Method for Increasing Your Intelligence.

Wants to read Guitar Zero: The New Musician and the Science of Learning

Reading Fruit Fly

Rated The Pleasure of Finding Things Out: The Best Short Works of Richard P. Feynman 10/10

Wants to read Attack of the Theocrats!: How the Religious Right Harms Us All — and What We Can Do About It

Rated The Ancestor's Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution 8/10

Finished reading To Be Taught, If Fortunate

Rated Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones 8/10

A very by-the-numbers teach a lesson with 1 or more compelling anecdotes. I will certainly be revisiting.

Wants to read Thinking In Systems: A Primer

Rated Hellion 8/10

Again, just solid fun. Fascinating character development. Fun twists. Cool characters. Great action.

Rated The Dark Between the Stars: The Saga of Shadows, Book One 10/10

It's tough to believe that a human being can create such an intricate, fascinating universe.<br/><br/>Great SciFi.

Finished reading Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Wants to read Newton: The Making of Genius

Rated Daemon 10/10

Holy crazy fun ride.<br/><br/>It's like Michael Crichton meets Fight club. With video games.

Wants to read A Rainha Vermelha

Wants to read Who Owns the Future?

Rated John Adams 10/10

WOW! I'm inspired. What an amazing man. What an amazing life. The things he accomplished. The way to saw things. The way to approached his work, his duty, his wife, his family, his country.<br/><br/>So inspiring.<br/><br/>I feel I have such a better understanding of the American Revolution and what came after. Franklin and Jefferson and the rest. A whole huge slice of US history and how it relates to world history just got glued down in my head.<br/><br/>It's a huge book, but well worth it. Must read. Can't recommend it enough.

Rated Change by Design: How Design Thinking Transforms Organizations and Inspires Innovation 6/10

I really wanted to like this book. I'm sure I'd love to sit down with Tim Brown and talk about his work and how he thinks about design,<br/><br/>But the book wasn't anything special. A lot of anecdotes gathered around some themes.<br/><br/>The notion of lowercase 'd' design I really like. The idea that design is important and can have a huge impact on our lives--love it.<br/><br/>But it's also motherhood and apple pie.<br/><br/>Interesting, but I can't say I recommend it.

Wants to read Feynman

Wants to read Sex, Genes and Rock 'n' Roll: How Evolution Has Shaped the Modern World

Wants to read Design for Hackers: Reverse Engineering Beauty

Rated The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change 8/10

Rated Strange Dogs 10/10