Reading

Now Reading

1. Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays
2. Causal Inference in Statistics: A Primer by Judea Pearl, Madelyn Glymour, Nicholas P. Jewell
3. Shadows at Noon: The South Asian Twentieth Century
   Book by Joya Chatterji
4. Causal AI by Robert Osazuwa Ness
5. Open Socrates: The Case for a Philosophical Life by Agnes Callard

Up next

1.  1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles C. Mann.
2.  Utopia by Thomas More

Just finished

1. A Poetry Handbook by Mary Oliver
2. Ways of Seeing by John Berger: online edition: https://www.ways-of-seeing.com
3. Writing to Learn – William Zinsser
4. On Writing Well by William Zinsser
5. The Golden Road William Dalrymple
6. Majapahit: Intrigue, Betrayal and War in Indonesia’s Greatest Empire by Harold van der Linde
7. Ocean of Churn by Sanjeev Sanyal
8. Don Quixote – Cervantes
9. Zheng He: China And the Oceans in the Early Ming Dynasty, 1405-1433 by Edward L. Dreyer
10. Islamic Gunpowder Empires by Dougles E. Streusend
11. Kingdoms of Faith by Brian A. Catlos
12. Monkey King: Journey to the West –  Lovell edition
13. The printing revolution in early modern Europe
    by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
14. Raiders, Rulers, and Traders: The Horse and the Rise of Empires by David Chaffetz
15. Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances Yates
16. The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie instant top read. Anyone in science who didn’t learn causality as a part of their stats training must read this book.
17. Ibn Khaldun An Intellectual Biography by Robert Irwin
18. City of Fortune: How Venice Ruled the Seas: Crowley, Roger

Favourites

• The printing revolution in early modern Europe
  by Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
• Discworld Series by Terry Pratchett – Ook!
• Getting Things Done by David Allen – if there was a book that I can say changed my life it is this one. I only wish I had read it earlier.
• The Book of Why by Judea Pearl and Dana Mackenzie
• The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick – Wonderful book. It’s like meeting the who’s who of the people that make today possible. Will recommend this book repeatedly.
• The works of Edward Tufte – The Visual Display of Quantitative Information was a particularly influential book and forever made me a critic of scientific figures.

Antilibrary

1. Artful Sentences by Virginia Tufte