Blink talks about using our instant instinctive reactions to our advantage (as opposed to overthinking things), as well as how they become more useful and accurate as our experience builds up. The book also spends a good amount of time describing the dangers and dark side of these instinctive reactions …
read moreBook review: The dip, by Seth Godin
Book review: Monstrous Regiment, by Terry Pratchett
Monstrous Regiment was a pleasure to read, it's a very good story -- and the first Pratchett I read in English! Don't know if it's this particular book or reading in the original language, but I didn't get any pun-overdose related headache this time, yay.
The book works very well as …
read moreBook review: Outliers, by Malcolm Gladwell
It's the first Malcolm Gladwell book I read and I'm well impressed. It's a pleasant read that challenges various preconceptions. It does seem heavily based on anecdotes but I think the people used as examples illustrate the points made well enough. The overall style of the book often reminded me …
read moreBook review: Marcher, by Chris Beckett
Despite finding it a bit hard to start, I tremendously enjoyed Chris Beckett's Marcher novel -- I would recommend not reading the extract at the beginning of the book. The italicised prologue is a bit heavy too, but provides some context and once you get through it the story gets interesting …
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