Rainier Ababao

🌧 Rainier Ababaolast updated: 5/3/20

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I've read and recommended things that I do not agree with nor that have agreed with each other.
In no specific order:

Books

Inadequate Equilibria by Eliezer Yudkowsky
The world might be a better place if there existed a simplified celebrity reading (I'm talking like, Saiorse Ronan, Donald Glover, Ryan Gosling à la The Big Short) of the Visitor/Simplicio/Cecie dialogue in the chapter Moloch's Toolbox.
If you want to develop a framework for why problems in the world have stuck (issues in education, voting systems, adoption of multi-sided marketplaces, etc.), then I suggest that chapter alone (I had to read it super slowly tbh).
Flow by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
Tempo: timing, tactics and strategy in narrative-driven decision-making by Venkatesh Rao
Same author of the incredible blog series, The Gervais Principle.
Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I personally enjoyed Skin in the Game more but Antifragile was a big hit, like The Black Swan. It alludes to antifragility a lot and is quite shorter.
The Complacent Class by Tyler Cowen
So good...
First as Tragedy, Then as Farce by Slavoj Žižek
How to Talk About Books You Haven't Read by Pierre Bayard
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Wisdom of the Jewish Sages: A Modern Reading of Pirke Avot by Rabbi Rami Shapiro
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
The Coddling of the American Mind by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt
Subtitle: How Good Intentions and Bad Ideas Are Setting Up a Generation for Failure. Another incredible read.
The Mother Tongue - English And How It Got That Way by Bill Bryson
Algorithms to Live By by Brian Christian and Tom Griffiths
Golden Gates: Fighting for Housing in America by Conor Dougherty
Decent entry point if you want to understand the YIMBY movement.
The Color of Money: Black Banks and the Racial Wealth Gap by Mehrsa Baradaran
Showstopper! by G. Pascal Zachary
Subtitle: The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft. Inspiring and my personal antidote after reading The Gervais Principle.

Blogs

Podcasts

Life hack: If you listen to podcast episodes about a book interviewing the author, you don't have to read the whole book (especially if it's between 250-300 pages in length, the Malcolm Gladwell-esque pop sci book sweet spot)

Other media