Comment by jerkstate

I got into audiobooks this year and so have “read” a lot more than usual. Here are some of the most memorable:

Outlive by Attia - wouldn’t take everything he says as gospel but he helped me focus on what is really important in health and fitness and why

I am a Strange Loop by Hofstadter - trying to get a grasp on Gödels incompleteness theorem, but this book is a lot more. I particularly enjoyed the bits about Albert Schweitzer, and the chapter on his late wife, how we host the souls of others crudely on our own hardware. Helpful book in the age of AI.

The Man from the Future by Bhattacharya, a Von Neumann biography. Really helped understand the context of this great man’s achievements.

On the Edge by Silver. The signal and the noise was a lot better (which I read last year)

Benjamin Franklin by Isaacson. Fascinating renaissance man, interesting tour through US history

Can’t Hurt Me by Goggins. This book helped me through some emotionally difficult times and has some really great life advice (mixed with some really self-destructive behavior)

The Misbehavior of Markets by Mandelbrot, Hudson. Currently reading this, so far pretty fascinating