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 ====== Books and Ideas ======
-  * Management:
+My favorite books, authors and ideas.
+===== Nassim Nicholas Taleb =====
+Taleb created/systematized some concepts related to real-world Philosophy and risk:
+  - Black Swan
+  - Skin in The game
+  - Antifragility
+  - Precautionary Principle
+  - Via Negativa
+    * Books: [[https://amzn.to/2pUzCef|Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Incerto]] and [[https://amzn.to/2pSPFsY|Skin in the
+Game]]
+    * Taleb on Twitter https://twitter.com/nntaleb
+He is against GMOs.
+=====  Management/Entrepeneuship =====
     * Basecamp, DHH, Fried
       * DHH on Twitter https://twitter.com/dhh
       * [[https://basecamp.com/shapeup|Shape Up]]
-    * Ricardo Semler
+    * [[https://www.amazon.com/Maverick-Success-Behind-Unusual-Workplace/dp/0446670553/|Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace, Ricardo Semler]]
+===== Education =====
-  * Real-world Philosophy and Risk:
-    * [[https://amzn.to/2pUzCef|Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Incerto]] and [[https://amzn.to/2pSPFsY|Skin in the
-Game]]
-    * Taleb on Twitter https://twitter.com/nntaleb
   * Alfie Kohn on Competition and Rewards
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     * [[https://www.amazon.com/Punished-Rewards-Twenty-fifth-Alfie-Kohn/dp/132845052X/|Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes]]
     * [[https://twitter.com/alfiekohn|Alfie Kohn on Twitter]]
+Competition is useless and dangerous.
+Rewards kill intrinsic motivation.
+===== Work =====
   * Cal Newport
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     * So Good They Can't Ignore You
-  * Science
+===== Science =====
     * Miguel Nicolelis
+      * [[https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Boundaries-Neuroscience-Connecting-Machines-ebook/dp/B00457X87Q/|Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives]]
     * Gilson Volpato
+      * [[https://www.amazon.com.br/Método-Lógico-para-Redação-Científica/dp/8564201127|Método Lógico para Redação Científica]]
+===== Programming =====
-  * Programming:
     * [[https://amzn.to/2pUzM5l|Programming Elixir, by Dave Thomas]]
     * [[https://amzn.to/2pV3zLq|Learn Functional Programming with Elixir: New Foundations for a New World, by Ulisses Almeida]]
-    * Seven languages in seven Weeks, Bruce Tate
+    * [[https://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks|Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, Bruce Tate]]
+===== Fiction =====
+  * [[https://www.amazon.com/Posthumous-Memoirs-Brás-Cubas-ebook/dp/B07F1DV8G1|The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis]]
   * [[https://amzn.to/2pTqwhP|Ancient Tillage, by Raduan Nassar]]