Luke Muehlhauser

Books I finished reading in July 2014

August 2, 2014 by Luke 2 Comments

Several decent, enjoyable books:

  • Pennebaker’s The Secret Life of Pronouns
  • Levy’s In the Plex
  • Ellenberg’s How Not to Be Wrong
  • Heller’s Ayn Rand and the World She Made
  • Stone’s The Everything Store
  • Stross’ The Launch Pad
  • Hoffman’s The Dead Hand

Quammen’s Spillover was not particularly “enjoyable” given it’s subject matter, but it was informative and engaging.

Banerjee & Duflo’s Poor Economics is one of the most persuasive books I’ve read on the subject of poverty reduction.

Murray’s Curmudgeon’s Guide to Getting Ahead was short and entertaining but a mixed bag.

Lochbaum et al’s Fukushima was a helpful overview of exactly what happened at Fukushima, in what order, what the policy response was, and what the health and political fallout was.

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  1. Erik Torsson says

    August 7, 2014 at 11:05 pm

    Hello Luke,

    Thanks for the book list; always interesting to get ideas for one’s own reading.

    Do you keep notes of these books that you like to share as well?

    In any case, since I think that you are a diligent person, I suspect that you have researched a good way to keep a structured set of notes for all you read; would you like to write a bit about that?

    It would be interesting to hear about the actual set up and also if/when you use something like anki.

    Since “use it of lose it” seems to be a correct statement for human memory/ability, I have the thinking I must take anything I find valuable when reading a book and do some anki cards of it. That can take a lot of time though; perhaps you have a better system?

    Cheers,

    Erik

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    • Luke says

      August 14, 2014 at 4:02 pm

      Hi Erik,

      I highlight things in Kindle and make bookmarks on Audible audiobooks but I don’t actually keep particularly well-organized notes on things I read. I personally prefer to read a lot of stuff very quickly and then I usually can remember where to look something up when I need that piece of information later.

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