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🚨 NEW VIDEO: 11 nonfiction books coming out in October 2026. No fillers.
The death of reading. The case for ditching your phone. The AGI race from inside the labs. And a memoir arguing attention beats willpower.
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0:00 Intro
0:30 The New Dark Ages: The Death of Reading and the Dawn of the Post-Literate Society – James Marriott ( @j_amesmarriott )
2:04 You Don't Need a Smartphone – August Lamm
3:37 The AGI Chronicles: The Inside Story of the Race to Create an Artificial Superintelligence – Kevin Roose ( @kevinroose )
6:03 Co-Existence: The Next Phase of AI – Ethan Mollick ( @emollick )
7:56 Why We Ask Why: The Science of Explanation and the Human Drive to Understand – Tania Lombrozo ( @TaniaLombrozo )
10:04 Vibe: The Secrets of Strong Connections in a Lonely World – Adam Grant
11:56 Will and Attention: A Memoir – Meghan O'Gieblyn
13:56 The Daily Stoic: 10th Anniversary Edition – Ryan Holiday & Stephen Hanselman
14:55 Sleeping Beauties: Why Good Ideas Go Dormant and How They Wake Up – David Byrne
16:23 Blockers: Rebels in the Deep State – Michael Lewis
18:01 The Rush: California Gold, the Civil War, and the Making of the Modern World – Nathaniel Philbrick
19:31 Pick of the month
My pick: Sleeping Beauties. Why great ideas sleep for decades before they wake up.
Which one are you reading? 📚 👀
Notes from today’s reading of A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the Internet Tells us About Sexual Relationships.
Library tour #14 (out of ~500)
I left my copy of Stephen Hawkings A Brief History of Time on the Stockholm subway for someone to find. Nobody noticed.
Similar to how no one cared when we passed the Turning Test.
⭐️ The idea that stuck with me is the arrow of time. Disorder only increases, and that's what separates the past from the future. Time has a direction because entropy does.
Which book actually made you better at negotiating?
Mine is Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss. I used to hate negotiating.
Worked on my negotiating skills reluctantly (it’s a teachable skill you know, and now I kinda enjoy it. The ROI on this book is crazy.
(the techniques works on your wife and kids too, believe it on not.)
👋 This is who runs this account:
- Swede, father, runner, husband
- Got sick of working in grocery stores and became a video game artist
- Shipped 5 open-world games on console
- Started reading seriously at 30
- Started reviewing books for better retention
- Read 400 books that helped me understand life and the universe
- On a mission to help books find their readers
- Surfing the supersonic tsunami of the singularity with a smile on my face
Nice to meet you all!
Roosevelt was a sickly kid with asthma. Then he got to work. (CV)
Theodore Roosevelt:
- Published a naval history book at 23
- Elected to the New York State Assembly at 23
- Ran a cattle ranch in the Dakota Badlands
- New York City police commissioner
- Assistant Secretary of the Navy
- Led the Rough Riders in Cuba
- Governor of New York
- Youngest US president ever, at 42
- First American to win a Nobel Prize
- Protected around 230 million acres of public land
- Wrote over 35 books
- Got shot in 1912 and gave his speech anyway
- At 55, mapped an uncharted river in the Amazon
He didn't wait to feel ready. He kept picking something harder.
"I constantly see people rise in life who are not the smartest, sometimes not even the most diligent, but they are learning machines." - Charlie Munger
Be a learning machine.
Library tour #13 (out of ~500)
Skepticism 101: How to Think Like a Scientist is about how science protects you from your own brain.
The method is simple. Ask what would change your mind. Look for evidence against you. Earn certainty in small pieces.
“Wind extinguishes a candle and energizes fire. Likewise with randomness, uncertainty, chaos: you want to use them, not hide from them. You want to be the fire and wish for the wind.”
― Nassim Taleb, Antifragile
It's time for me to finalize the Novemeber list of the most anticipated nonfiction releases.
Any books/authors releasing anything good next month?
Read Encyclopedia Britannica, then build Encyclopedia Galactica.
When Elon Musk ran out of books at the school library, he started reading the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
"You don't know what you don't know. You realize there are all these things out there." @elonmusk
