Emile Silvis
Books read
Non-fiction
AI & Machine Learning
- How to Create a Mind: The Secret of Human Thought Revealed β Ray Kurzweil (read: 2022-05-29)
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies β Nick Bostrom
- The StatQuest Illustrated Guide To Machine Learning β Josh Starmer (read: 2025-06-27)
- The StatQuest Illustrated Guide to Neural Networks and AI: With hands-on examples in PyTorch!!! β Josh Starmer (read: 2025-12-20)
- What Is ChatGPT Doing... and Why Does It Work? β Stephen Wolfram (read: 2024-03-27)
Art, Music & Culture
- Graded Go Problems for Beginners Volume One Introductory Problems 30 Kyu to 25 Kyu (Graded Go Problems for Beginners, #1) β Yoshinori Kano (read: 2023-03-20)
- The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business β Erin Meyer
Biology & Evolution
- From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds β Daniel C. Dennett
- Metazoa: Animal Life and the Birth of the Mind β Peter Godfrey-Smith
- Other Minds β Peter Godfrey-Smith (read: 2019-12-26)
- The Freeze-Frame Revolution β Peter Watts
- The Selfish Gene β Richard Dawkins
Food, Nature & Environment
- Caffeine: How Caffeine Created the Modern World β Michael Pollan (read: 2024-05-26)
- How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics β Michael Pollan (read: 2022-03-08)
Geography & Geopolitics
- Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Tell You Everything You Need to Know About Global Politics (Politics of Place, #1) β Tim Marshall (read: 2022-01-31)
Health & Wellbeing
- Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones β James Clear
- Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes are High β Kerry Patterson
- Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals β Oliver Burkeman (read: 2024-06-27)
- Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity β Kim Malone Scott (read: 2024-01-09)
- The Coaching Habit: Say Less, Ask More & Change the Way You Lead Forever β Michael Bungay Stanier (read: 2024-04-23)
History
- A Short History of Nearly Everything β Bill Bryson
- A Time Traveller's Guide to Our Next Ten Years β Frans Cronje
- Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow β Yuval Noah Harari (read: 2018-08-13)
- Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI β Yuval Noah Harari (read: 2025-06-17)
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind β Yuval Noah Harari
- Where Good Ideas Come From: The Natural History of Innovation β Steven Johnson (read: 2011-01-01)
- Why the Dutch are Different: A Journey into the Hidden Heart of the Netherlands β Ben Coates
Mathematics
- A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) β Barbara Oakley (read: 2024-01-01)
- Chaos: Making a New Science β James Gleick (read: 2008-11-09)
Neuroscience & Psychology
- 59 Seconds: Think a Little, Change a Lot β Richard Wiseman (read: 2015-05-06)
- Being You: A New Science of Consciousness β Anil Seth (read: 2023-10-23)
- The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change Your Life and Achieve Real Happiness β Ichiro Kishimi
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales β Oliver Sacks (read: 2022-08-05)
- Thinking, Fast and Slow β Daniel Kahneman
Philosophy & Science
- Death: A Philosophy Course β Shelly Kagan
- Thank You for Arguing: What Aristotle, Lincoln, and Homer Simpson Can Teach Us About the Art of Persuasion β Jay Heinrichs
- Thinking In Systems: A Primer β Donella H. Meadows
- What Is This Thing Called Science? β Alan F. Chalmers
Physics & Cosmology
- Prince of Networks: Bruno Latour and Metaphysics β Graham Harman (read: 2015-05-06)
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark β Carl Sagan (read: 2024-08-13)
- The Universe in a Box: Simulations and the Quest to Code the Cosmos β Andrew Pontzen (read: 2024-12-01)
Politics & Society
- 21 Lessons for the 21st Century β Yuval Noah Harari
- Blue Like Jazz: Nonreligious Thoughts on Christian Spirituality β Donald Miller (read: 2010-10-01)
- Factfulness: Ten Reasons We're Wrong About the World β and Why Things Are Better Than You Think β Hans Rosling
- The Wisdom of Crowds β James Surowiecki
Software Engineering & Technology
- Accelerate: Building and Scaling High Performing Technology Organizations β Nicole Forsgren
- Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies: A Comprehensive Introduction β Arvind Narayanan
- Continuous Discovery Habits: Discover Products that Create Customer Value and Business Value β Teresa Torres (read: 2024-01-01)
- Escaping the Build Trap: How Effective Product Management Creates Real Value β Melissa Perri (read: 2024-01-01)
- Finite and Infinite Games: A Vision of Life as Play and Possibility β James P. Carse
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters β Richard P. Rumelt (read: 2022-12-31)
- How to Measure Anything: Finding the Value of "Intangibles" in Business β Douglas W. Hubbard
- Liberating the Corporate Soul : Building a Visionary Organization β Richard Barrett (read: 2011-12-12)
- Measure What Matters β John Doerr
- Moving the Needle with Lean OKRs β Bart den Haak
- No Rules Rules: Netflix and the Culture of Reinvention β Reed Hastings (read: 2022-01-19)
- Sooner Safer Happier: Antipatterns and Patterns for Business Agility β Jonathan Smart (read: 2024-05-26)
- Strategize: Product Strategy and Product Roadmap Practices for the Digital Age β Roman Pichler (read: 2022-01-19)
- Team Topologies: Organizing Business and Technology Teams for Fast Flow β Matthew Skelton
- The Lean Startup β Eric Ries
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel About IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win β Gene Kim
Fiction
- 1984 β George Orwell
- A Brief History of Time β Stephen W. Hawking (read: 2025-07-05)
- A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2) β George R.R. Martin (read: 2005-12-01)
- A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5) β George R.R. Martin
- A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4) β George R.R. Martin
- A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) β George R.R. Martin (read: 2005-12-19)
- A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3) β George R.R. Martin (read: 2008-11-09)
- A Tale of Two Cities β Charles Dickens (read: 2006-01-01)
- A Wizard of Earthsea (Earthsea Cycle, #1) β Ursula K. Le Guin (read: 2025-08-28)
- Accelerando β Charles Stross (read: 2008-12-10)
- American Gods (American Gods, #1) β Neil Gaiman (read: 2000-01-01)
- Anathem β Neal Stephenson
- Animal Farm β George Orwell
- Blindness β JosΓ© Saramago (read: 2006-01-01)
- Chasm City β Alastair Reynolds (read: 2011-01-01)
- Children of Time (Children of Time, #1) β Adrian Tchaikovsky (read: 2024-03-17)
- Death's End (The Three-Body Problem, #3) β Cixin Liu (read: 2023-12-10)
- Diary β Chuck Palahniuk (read: 2004-01-01)
- Diaspora β Greg Egan
- Distress β Greg Egan (read: 2019-11-14)
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? β Philip K. Dick (read: 2005-01-01)
- Dragon's Egg (Cheela, #1) β Robert L. Forward (read: 2024-11-26)
- Embassytown β China MiΓ©ville (read: 2011-09-13)
- Exhalation β Ted Chiang (read: 2022-12-26)
- Fahrenheit 451 β Ray Bradbury
- Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions β Edwin A. Abbott (read: 2024-12-07)
- Glasshouse β Charles Stross (read: 2008-12-26)
- GO: A Complete Introduction to the Game β Chikun ChΕ
- House of Suns β Alastair Reynolds
- Incandescence β Greg Egan
- Instantiation β Greg Egan (read: 2020-07-27)
- Klara and the Sun β Kazuo Ishiguro
- Life of Pi β Yann Martel (read: 2001-09-01)
- Maya β Jostein Gaarder (read: 2008-11-09)
- Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) β China MiΓ©ville (read: 2011-08-31)
- Permutation City β Greg Egan (read: 2018-08-23)
- Project Hail Mary β Andy Weir (read: 2021-12-28)
- Quarantine β Greg Egan (read: 2018-08-04)
- Reamde β Neal Stephenson (read: 2015-05-06)
- Redemption Ark (Revelation Space, #2) β Alastair Reynolds (read: 2011-12-12)
- Rendezvous with Rama (Rama, #1) β Arthur C. Clarke (read: 2024-03-22)
- Revelation Space (Revelation Space, #1) β Alastair Reynolds (read: 2011-01-01)
- Scale β Greg Egan (read: 2024-05-26)
- Schild's Ladder β Greg Egan
- Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1) β Charles Stross (read: 2010-02-25)
- Snow Crash β Neal Stephenson
- Solar Lottery β Philip K. Dick (read: 2024-09-06)
- Sophie's World β Jostein Gaarder (read: 2000-01-01)
- Stories of Your Life and Others β Ted Chiang (read: 2022-08-05)
- Teranesia β Greg Egan
- Terminal World β Alastair Reynolds (read: 2010-09-01)
- The Atrocity Archives (Laundry Files, #1) β Charles Stross
- The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time β Mark Haddon
- The Dark Forest (The Three-Body Problem, #2) β Liu Cixin
- The Demolished Man β Alfred Bester (read: 2005-01-01)
- The Drawing of the Three (The Dark Tower, #2) β Stephen King (read: 2022-05-01)
- The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) β N.K. Jemisin
- The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2) β Stieg Larsson
- The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium #1) β Stieg Larsson
- The Great Gatsby β F. Scott Fitzgerald (read: 2007-01-01)
- The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1) separate β Stephen King
- The Hobbit, or There and Back Again β J.R.R. Tolkien (read: 2001-01-01)
- The Left Hand of Darkness β Ursula K. Le Guin (read: 2025-02-02)
- The Lord of the Rings β J.R.R. Tolkien (read: 2000-01-01)
- The Ringmaster's Daughter β Jostein Gaarder (read: 2004-01-01)
- The Shadow of the Torturer β Gene Wolfe
- The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth's Past, #1) β Liu Cixin
- The Waste Lands (The Dark Tower, #3) β Stephen King (read: 2022-12-31)
- The White Tiger β Aravind Adiga (read: 2008-11-09)
- The Windup Girl β Paolo Bacigalupi (read: 2010-12-07)
- Through a Glass, Darkly β Jostein Gaarder (read: 2000-01-01)
- To Kill a Mockingbird β Harper Lee (read: 2004-01-01)
- We β Yevgeny Zamyatin (read: 2008-07-10)
- Where the Crawdads Sing β Delia Owens (read: 2021-12-28)
- Wonder Boys β Michael Chabon (read: 2001-01-01)
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values β Robert M. Pirsig (read: 2007-12-19)