Books and Ideas

My favorite books, authors and ideas.

Taleb created/systematized some concepts related to real-world Philosophy and risk:

1. Black Swan
2. Skin in The game
3. Antifragility
4. Precautionary Principle
5. Via Negativa

• Books: Nassim Nicholas Taleb's Incerto and Skin in the Game

• Taleb on Twitter https://twitter.com/nntaleb

He is against GMOs.

• Basecamp, DHH, Fried
  • DHH on Twitter https://twitter.com/dhh
  • Shape Up
• Maverick: The Success Story Behind the World's Most Unusual Workplace, Ricardo Semler

• Alfie Kohn on Competition and Rewards
  • No Contest: The Case Against Competition
  • Punished by Rewards: The Trouble with Gold Stars, Incentive Plans, A's, Praise, and Other Bribes
  • Alfie Kohn on Twitter

Competition is useless and dangerous.

Rewards kill intrinsic motivation.

• Cal Newport
  • Deep Work
  • Digital Minimalism
  • So Good They Can't Ignore You

• Miguel Nicolelis
  • Beyond Boundaries: The New Neuroscience of Connecting Brains with Machines---and How It Will Change Our Lives
• Gilson Volpato
  • Método Lógico para Redação Científica

• Programming Elixir, by Dave Thomas
• Learn Functional Programming with Elixir: New Foundations for a New World, by Ulisses Almeida
• Seven Languages in Seven Weeks, Bruce Tate

• The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis

• Ancient Tillage, by Raduan Nassar