{"id":12484,"date":"2018-09-13T03:19:10","date_gmt":"2018-09-12T19:19:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/blog\/?p=12484"},"modified":"2025-03-08T09:07:18","modified_gmt":"2025-03-08T09:07:18","slug":"books-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.visakanv.com\/archives\/2018\/09\/13\/books-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Books I&#8217;d like to talk about"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I used to have a really old version of this blogpost that was tattered and patchy, until eventually I got sick of it and decided to start from scratch. Books were a big part of my life growing up. I think it&#8217;s accurate to think of me as a library nerd.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What are the books I like and recommend? What books make up the core of my personal OS?<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Alan Watts<br\/>\nThe User Illusion<br\/>\nLost Illusions<br\/>\nSideways look at Time<br\/>\nLives of a Cell<br\/>\nSurely you\u2019re joking Mr Feynman<br\/>\nFoucault<br\/>\nSeneca<br\/>\nSeth Godin<br\/>\nSagan<br\/>\nAnimal Farm<br\/>\nAntifragile<br\/>\nOgilvy<br\/>\nRandy Pausch<br\/>\nWaitButWhy<br\/>\nbill wurtz<br\/>\nRussell Brand<br\/>\nDerek Sivers<br\/>\npg\u2019s essays<br\/>\nRibbonfarm<br\/>\n48 Laws of Power <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Thread of books I&#39;m reading in 2018. Deciding that I&#39;m going to focus on optimizing for &quot;books started&quot; (which is fun and interesting) rather than &quot;books finished&quot; (which for me has a sort of masochistic, completionist connotation I&#39;d like to be free of).<\/p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/955747886003732480?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 23, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Oddballs:<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>Satan Burger, Carlton Mellick<br\/>\nA Sideways Look At Time, Jay Griffiths<br\/>\nThe Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls<br\/>\nThe User Illusion, Tor Norretranders<br\/>\nSoul Made Flesh, Carl Zimmer<br\/>\nConfessions of an Advertising Man, David Ogilvy<br\/>\nThe Chocolate War, Robert Cormier<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-twitter wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">There are a books that people recommend because it makes them look smart, and then there are a books that people in the trenches share with each other because it saved their asses. I am very curious about the latter group. Eg: easyway to quit smoking, body keeps the score, &#8230;?<\/p>&mdash; Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/visakanv\/status\/1048386478068326400?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 6, 2018<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I used to have a really old version of this blogpost that was tattered and patchy, until eventually I got sick of it and decided to start from scratch. Books were a big part of my life growing up. 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