====== Books and Ideas ======

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]]
    * [[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 =====

 
  * Alfie Kohn on Competition and Rewards
    * [[https://www.amazon.com/No-Contest-Case-Against-Competition/dp/0395631254|No Contest: The Case Against Competition]]
    * [[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
    * Deep Work
    * Digital Minimalism
    * So Good They Can't Ignore You

===== 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 =====

    * [[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]]
    * [[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]]