This book looks into failure and how to learn from it. The main premise is that we have a lot to learn from failure. People who hide from failure or are not exposed to it deny themselves from improving from there mistakes. The title comes from the black box concept of learning from plane crashes. … Continue reading Book suggestion: Black Box Thinking
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Book suggestion: The Drunkard’s Walk
This book looks into different aspects of our lives in order to demonstrate how randomness plays more of a role than we would like to think. It explores areas such as medicine, sports, politics, the film industry and crime to demonstrate to the reader how many practitioners in these fields are easily fooled due to … Continue reading Book suggestion: The Drunkard’s Walk
Book suggestion: Zero to One
This book is written by Peter Thiel, a co-founder of PayPal, early investor in Facebook, and founder of Palantir. Peter hasn’t just sat around counting his money. He has an interest in politics and has attended debates on subjects like the effectiveness of education. This well-roundedness comes through in this book. The book mainly focuses of … Continue reading Book suggestion: Zero to One
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