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Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn.

Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn.

This book has a lot of detailed notes, but overall I didn't like it that much.

Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn.

Welcome to awesome stuff, from the last 2 weeks, bundled together in a newsletter.

Welcome to the Awesomeness from the last 2 weeks, bundled together in a newsletter!

Welcome to the Awesomeness from the last 2 weeks, bundled together in a newsletter!

If you have ever played any video game in your life, you used algorithms that solve the hard problem of collision detection, without even knowing about it.

A book about how the human immune system works.

This is my first newsletter, *ever*.

A book about attention and techniques that help focusing our attention, when faced with the diversions of a modern life.

A classic that has shaped a lot of thinking in economics over the last centuries.

This post is an exploration of many different and important vector concepts.

This is part 2 of a series of posts on building the Fractal Garden, my first 1 month project.

I finished my first 1-month project.

It's September now in Berlin, and it starts to get cold.

I think something is wrong with our world and I have not seen this thought expressed anywhere else in quite that way yet.

Epictetus is one of the great stoic writers and this book is a collection of his work.

Consciousness is something measurable and we are beginning to understand what it is.

This book is a fun little read.

The Brain by David Eagleman dives deep into how our brains work, covering key insights of neuroscience, that tell the fascinating story of what makes us us.

Max Tegmark wants the reader to think about the problems of AI safety and the thorny questions related to creating machines that surpass us in intelligence someday.

This is a book about a few very deep and important questions - how can physics give rise to life?

A bit too heavy on biographical details and the history of the Santa Fe institute, and not going deep enough into the weeds of complexity theory as I was hoping, when I first picked it up.

In this book Nick Lane explores the profound impact that the oxygen molecule had on the history of life and how it changed everything.

This book moved me.

In the hard sci-fi novel Rocheworld, Robert L.

A few days ago I watched the OpenAI Codex demo and I am still thinking about what to do because it means that I will lose my job as a software engineer pretty soon.

Decisions are the most important thing in life.

This article is a consortium of things that I think about how or why to invest money.

The Beginning of Infinity is jam-packed with amazing ideas.

The Fabric of Reality presents a bold, interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of reality.

This book is about how to build a business in a non-traditional way.

The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most influential books in history I would argue.

A small book filled with wisdom from long ago.

The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is one of the best books I have ever read and one I am going to re-read over and over and over again, simply because it is packed so full of wisdom that it's unbelievable.

I think the main insight from Poor Charlie's Almanack is that one needs to have strong mental models in order to deal with the world effectively.

The Enigma of Reason by Dan Sperber and Hugo Mercier offers a provocative and scientifically grounded exploration of the human capacity for reasoning.

A very short book.

This book provides an accessible and comprehensive exploration of neuroplasticity => the brain's remarkable ability to reorganize and adapt by forming, pruning, enhancing, weakening, destroying and sculpting neural connections throughout life.

Nicholas Nassim Taleb writes a lot of good books.

Something that I am playing with as an idea, is to write down all of the things I know and the knowledge I accumulate in the form of blog posts.

Disturbing the universe is an autobiography written and lived by Freeman Dyson, who worked on the Los Alamos team alongside Richard Feynman.

This book is an attempt at describing basic problem-solving strategies.

I am sitting alone in my room.

This book is an engaging exploration of structural engineering and the science behind why everday buildings, like bridges, roadways, or churches don't collapse in on themselves.

Algorithms from computer science are a source of knowledge that can be used to improve our lives.

A rather short book about a dystopian world.

The Diamond Age is as crazy as Neal Stephensons other books.

Six Not-So-Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman is a collection of more advanced physics lectures taken from his famous Feynman Lectures on Physics.