If you like thrillers with a geeky edge to them, you might like Zero Sum Game by S.L Huang. Some review I read described the protagonist of the story as "the geek's Jack Reacher". Pretty good analogy, IMO.
If you want non-fiction, maybe try Dreaming In Code. Or if you haven't read it before, how about *The Soul of a New Machine"?
American Kingpin was a really good read. It's the story of Ross Ulbricht, the guy that built the silk road.
It reads like fiction, but is a true story, and hits all the right buttons for me (technology, entrepreneurial spirit, understanding how to (or how not to) learn from your mistakes, etc.).
It's well written and hard to put down.
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The power of habit was also a really good read if you hadn't read it already.
I just finished the audiobook of American Kingpin and LOVED IT. Nonfiction that reads like a thriller. Very well done and the narration was also excellent (which also comes into play a lot for audiobooks!).
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou about the rise and fall of Theranos is very similar feel to American Kingpin, if you enjoyed one you will probably love the other; I thought both were equally fantastic, probably my best reads of 2018.
I didn't expect much, and don't think I was a fan of the first chapter because the story is pretty well known atleast in my circles. But it grows exponentially interesting as the chapters roll
A word on words, a speech by Václav Havel, is one of the most interesting and increasingly pertinent things I've read. Havel was the last president of Czechoslovakia, and a lifelong dissident against the Communists. He talks about the way Communists revised thought through the words that were allowed to be spoken.
I just bought "The marijuana conviction: a history of marijuana prohibition in the United States," although I don't think you'll find it on Kindle. Pick up a copy at Amazon or AbeBooks.
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[ 1.7 ms ] story [ 43.8 ms ] threadIf you want non-fiction, maybe try Dreaming In Code. Or if you haven't read it before, how about *The Soul of a New Machine"?
If you have a Goodreads profile, you could link to that so we don't recommend things you've already read.
Every chapter you read there will be at least one "Holy shit. I can't believe someone did that" moment.
Bill Gates concurs https://www.gatesnotes.com/Books/Bad-Blood
Banish Your Inner Critic - Denise Jacobs
It reads like fiction, but is a true story, and hits all the right buttons for me (technology, entrepreneurial spirit, understanding how to (or how not to) learn from your mistakes, etc.).
It's well written and hard to put down.
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The power of habit was also a really good read if you hadn't read it already.
Bad Blood by John Carreyrou about the rise and fall of Theranos is very similar feel to American Kingpin, if you enjoyed one you will probably love the other; I thought both were equally fantastic, probably my best reads of 2018.
I didn't expect much, and don't think I was a fan of the first chapter because the story is pretty well known atleast in my circles. But it grows exponentially interesting as the chapters roll
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My Life as a Quant by Emanuel Derman
The Quants by Scott Patterson
A Man for All Markets by Edward O. Thorp
Reminiscences of a Stock Operator by Edwin Lefevre
Flash Boys by Michael Lewis
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1990/01/18/words-on-words/
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