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Quiddity

Get a grip on the key ideas of some of the best non fiction books.  Here is a link to the list of the Quids on the blog. 

Mentioned below as well:


The Quid on:

1) The Wealth of Nations, by Adam Smith
2) Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
3) A Brief History of Thought, by Luc Ferry
4) The Art of War, by Sun Tzu
5) Algorithms to Live By, by Brian Chrstian and Tom Griffiths
6) Dogfight, by Fred Vogelstein
7) Screw it Let's Do it, by Richard Branson
8) Moonwalking with Einstein, by Joshua Foer
9) A Short History of Nearly Everything, by Bill Bryson
10) Prisoners of Geography, by Tim Marshall
11) Blitzscaling, by Chris yeh & Reid Hoffman
12) Thus Spoke Zarathustra, by Friedrich Nietzsche
13) A Briefer History of Time, by Stephen Hawking
14) Antifragile, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
15) Fooled by Randomness, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
16) The Black Swan, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
17) Skin in the Game, by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
18) Accidental Genius, by Mark Levy
19) Blink, by Malcolm Gladwell
20) Blockchain Revolution, by Alex and Don Tapscott
21) The Rise and the fall of the third Chimpanzee, by Jared Diamond
22) Homo Deus, by Yuval Noah Harari
23) Sapiens, by Yuval Noah Harari
24) The Republic, by Plato
25) Free Will, by Sam Harris
26) Capital in the 21st Century, by Thomas Piketty
27) Energy: A Beginner's Guide, by Vaclav Smil
28) Factfulness, by Hans Rosling
29) Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
30) Future Crimes, by Marc Goodman
31) Zero to One, by Peter Thiel with Blake Masters
32) The Four Hour Body, by Tim Ferriss
33) Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, by Robert M Pirsig
34) Common Sense, by Thomas Paine
35) Habit Stacking, by SJ Scott
36) Blue Ocean Strategy, by Renee Mauborgne & W Chan Kim
37) Mindset, by Carol Dweck
38) Man's Search for Meaning, by Viktor Frankl
39) The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**K, by Mark Manson

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