Books:  Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro I have been a big fan of Ishiguro ever since I read Remains of the Day. This book is told through the perspective of the main character, Klara, who is an AF or Artificial Friend. It's part of a book club with my brother. He is not as fond of it as I am. Nevertheless, I find it a perfect thought experiment as AI seems to become more prevalent in our lives.  

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The Genealogy of Morals by  Friedrich Nietzsche: One of the most famous books on morality, this book is one I have wanted to read for a long time.   

The Idiot by Elif Batuman: This Pullitzer prize finalist has me engaged after the first 80 pages. More to follow... 

Articles: Blots on a Field?  by Charles Piller: The term "blots" doesn't mean much to the average reader. But to the lab scientist, blots are one of the most sacred articles of evidence in scientific research. This article examines how some possibly altered Western blots could have helped buttress one of the leading theories in Alzheimer's research. 

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I'd Like to Play Alone Please by Tom Segura: I've never watched Tom Segura's comedy specials, but the way he writes lets me know he's a funny guy. Highly recommend to anyone wanting an easy read and some good laughs 

The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell: I first heard about this book while  reading Principles by Ray Dalio. If it is good enough to inspire Ray Dalio, it is good enough for me.

The Idiot by Elif Batuman: This Pullitzer prize finalist has me engaged after the first 20 pages. More to follow... 

Articles: Hard Seltzer has Gone Flat by Amanda Mull: "There's no laws when your drinking claws." This phrase epitomized the feeling that White Claws gave people when they first burst onto the drinking scene. In this article, Mull argues that seltzers might have lost their luster. 

Videos:  Stanford bioengineers develop a 20-cent, hand-powered centrifuge : I've always wondered weather low-cost science was really possible. This project makes me happy to know that it is. 

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I'd Like to Play Alone Please by Tom Segura: I've never watched Tom Segura's comedy specials, but the way he writes lets me know he's a funny guy. Highly recommend to anyone wanting an easy read and some good laughs    

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Slavoj Zizek: Political Correctness is a More Dangerous Form of Totalinarianism if you can get past the accent, this is a thought-provoking video from Zizek. I've felt that an overwhelming push for political correctness actually hinders unity rather than advances it. Zizek articulates this with some funny and surprising examples.

I am Not your Negro/ James Baldwin on the Dick Cavett Show/ Netflix  As a white male, I often gravitate toward speakers whose experiences align closely with my own. Baldwin's experiences are completely different than my own and forced me to adjust the lens with which I see the world.

Google Engineer on His Sentient AI Claim : AI is already transforming the world. This engineer is pushing for a greater oversight and regulation into AI's transformative impact. 

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Articles: Chashing Joan Didion by Caitlin Flanagan: Joan Didion was a famous writer. Despite never having heard of here, it presently a readable vignette of an important 20th centruy writer. 

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Articles: Taking the E-ROAD: For the next generation of physicians, lifestyle is becoming a more important consideration when choosing a specialty. How does E-ROAD fit into this trend

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Articles: Did Simone de Beauvoir's open 'marriage' make her happy? :  Simone de Beauvoir's and her lover, the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, constituted a power couple, but how did their sexual agreements added flavor to their richly intellectual lives?      

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Books: Inside a Pearl, My Years in Paris This memoir, penned by the licentious and loquacious Edmund White, is proving to be the introduction to Paris that I didn't know I needed    

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Books: Inside a Pearl, My Years in Paris This memoir, penned by the licentious and loquacious Edmund White, is proving to be the introduction to Paris that I didn't know I needed    

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Living with Edmund White: Who is the writer Edmund White? 

Where the bats hangout: How did a basement hideaway at UC Berkeley nurture a generation of blind innovators, one of whom just recently won the MacArthur Genius Grant 

IVF Post Repeal Of Roe v Wade: The Practical And Apolitical : Much of the polemic regarding Roe v Wade rightfully fixates on the rights of women, but this article written by a former reproductive endocrinologist looks at how it could affect in vitro fertilization 

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Books: The Serengeti Rules: An interesting book by American Biologist Sean B. Carroll describing biological regulation, in cells, organisms, and entire ecosystems  

Articles: Too Much AI May Not Be Good for Your Health or the NHS: Is Artificial Intelligence in medicine worth all the hype?

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Books:  The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley  This book written by the famous science writer Matt Ridley puts a positive spin on the evolution of our species and our systems over the past 10,000 years

Articles: What's a good doctor and how do you make one? A collection of letters to the editor about what makes a good answer. How do you define what makes a good doctor? 

The 7 biggest problems facing science, according to 270 scientists How familiar are you with the practice of science? It's a noble enterprise, but that doesn't mean it doesn't have its fair share of problems. This article tactfully describes pillars of scientific research like grant funding and peer-review, and objectively examines their merits and shortcomings.

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- A Young William James Thinking:  An exploration of the philosopher  and psychologist William James and his meanderings through his twenties as he figured out who he was and what he wanted to tell the world. 

- Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason: Where did the concept of madness originate? Has is always been around or did it emerge based on historical pressures? Michel Foucalt's exploration of these ideas warrants attention.

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Better your Best:  What responsible to we have to be highly elevated moral beings? If we know we aren't going to be at the level of Mother Teresa or Pope John Paul II is it still worth trying.

Which Comes First, Language or Thought?: This article details research that explores language and thought in babies, focusing on difference between Korean and American infants.

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Books: A Young William James Thinking:  An exploration of the philosopher  and psychologist William James and his meanderings through his twenties as he figured out who he was and what he wanted to tell the world. 

Articles:  Jean-Michel Basquiat, From Street Artist to Star of the Art Scene : Basquiat is a name I've heard thrown around in rap songs and popular culture. This article is an introduction to his artwork and his brief life.   

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Books:  The Serengeti Rules: An interesting book by American Biologist Sean B. Carroll describing biological regulation, in cells, organisms, and entire ecosystems 

Articles:  The tangled history of mRNA vaccines: Before Moderna and mRNA vaccines entered the public sphere, a host of scientists had been exploring the mercurial nucleic acids  

Videos: The Ultimate Nick Saban Leadership Speech : There's no real secret sauce to Nick Saban's success, just execution and discipline for decades and decades. This is one of the best leadership talks I've ever heard 

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The Follies of Writer Worship : Why do people have such an interest in the lives of writers? Is it healthy and what can we learn from it 

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Nobel Minds: a round table discussion with the 2017 Nobel Prize winners in each category. Drink in their intelligence and compassion  

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- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin : rethinking your relationship with money  

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-  the value of vulnerability : story of a surgeon whose life radically changed after he suffered from a stroke while performing a surgery 

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- Decoded: How does a Quantum Computer Work? : A great introduction to the value and challenges of quantum computing 

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- Your Money or Your Life by Vicki Robin : rethinking your relationship with money  

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Articles: Invitation to History by Will Durant  , What Makes a Jackson Pollack Painting Worth Millions by John Seed 

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Articles: Improving Ourselves to Death by Alexandra Schwartz 

Books:   A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution  ,  Klara and the Sun: A novel

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 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand ,  The Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio

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 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand , Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century,  A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution 

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 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand , The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn , Dorothy Day: Dissenting Voice of the American Century,  A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of the Scientific Revolution 

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 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman , The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn 

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 Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman , The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn 

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Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit , Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni & Rob Goodman

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The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz   , From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel Dennett, Reasons and Persons by Derek Parfit

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Guns, Germs, and Steele by Jared Diamond , Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey, The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz   , From Bacteria to Bach and Back by Daniel Dennett, The Pseudoscience of B.F. Skinner by Tibor Machan ,  C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships by Miguel Serrano  

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Guns, Germs, and Steele by Jared Diamond , Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey, The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz   

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Père Goriot by Honoré de Balzac ,  C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships by Miguel Serrano  

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The Case for Filing Cabinets , I Don't Know that I Would Even Call it Meth Anymore ,   A Day in The Life of A Science Policy Advisor ,  Patents are Destroying the Soul of Academic Medicine  

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Sinclair Lewis: The Rebel from Main Street by Richard Lingeman, An Unquiet Mind by Kay Redfield Jamison  

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Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond,  Sinclair Lewis: The Rebel from Main Street by Richard Lingeman , The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle , Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman 

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An Ode to Not Meditating 

The Mind of a Misanthrope 

Good Immigrant Novels: Jhumpa Lahiri and the Aesthetics of Respectability

Legendary writer John McPhee to a student: "I don't create the writer. At all"

The Real Meaning of Freedom at Work 

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Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships by Miguel Serrano ,  Sinclair Lewis: The Rebel from Main Street by Richard Lingeman , The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

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10 Elements of Perfect Hospital Design , Autodidactics: Habits of Highly Successful Self-Learners  , 

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C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships by Miguel Serrano ,The War of Art by Steven Pressfield,  Sinclair Lewis: The Rebel from Main Street by Richard Lingeman, Selected Essays by Havelock Ellis 

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C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships by Miguel Serrano ,The War of Art by Steven Pressfield,  Sinclair Lewis: The Rebel from Main Street by Richard Lingeman, Selected Essays by Havelock Ellis 

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The Erosion of Personal Ownership  

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C.G. Jung and Hermann Hesse: A Record of Two Friendships by Miguel Serrano ,The War of Art by Steven Pressfield,  Sinclair Lewis: The Rebel from Main Street by Richard Lingeman, The Plague by Albert Camus, 'Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt  

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The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne, , Thinking Strategically by Avinah K. Dixit and Barry Nalebuff, Thinking about Thinking by Anthony Flew, The Plague by Albert Camus, 'Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt  

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Square Stormed the Gates of the Credit Card Industry by Challenging Every Assumption  

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The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne, , Thinking Strategically by Avinah K. Dixit and Barry Nalebuff, Thinking about Thinking by Anthony Flew, The Plague by Albert Camus, 1000 Dollars and an Idea: Entrepreneur to Billionaire  by Sam Wyly, 'Tis: A Memoir by Frank McCourt  

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Meditation without Meditating , Getting In , The Right Way to Hate People and Be Healthy , Square Stormed the 

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The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne, , Blockchain Revolution by Don and Alex Tapscott, Thinking Strategically by Avinah K. Dixit and Barry Nalebuff, The 12 Week Year by Brain Moran and Michael Lennington, Thinking about Thinking by Anthony Flew, The Remains of the Day 

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Meet the Most Brilliant Couple in Town

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The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne, , Blockchain Revolution by Don and Alex Tapscott, Thinking Strategically by Avinah K. Dixit and Barry Nalebuff, The 12 Week Year by Brain Moran and Michael Lennington

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Sharing Slow Ideas, Quantum Computing and Cryptography

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Managing the Dream by Warren Bennis,  Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson, My Turn: A Life of Total Football by Johan Cryuff, The Book of Satoshi by Phil Champagne, The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts , Blockchain Revolution by Don and Alex Tapscott, Thinking Strategically by Avinah K. Dixit and Barry Nalebuff

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The Honorable Suicide of Kurt Vonnegut , The Humor Spectrum, from 9/11 to Tik Tok: A Millenials Walk in Comedic Oblivion  , Susceptibiliy to Mental Illness May Have Helped Humans Adapt over the Millenia  

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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes, Managing the Dream by Warren Bennis,  Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson, My Turn: A Life of Total Football by Johan Cryuff, Principles by Ray Dalio

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