My personal book notes and important quotes. One of the last works before he had a psychotic break, Nietzsche expounds the reasons he doesn't like Wagner.
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My personal book notes and important quotes. One of the last works before he had a psychotic break, this is a condensed synopsis of Nietzsche's philosophy.
James Dyson's autobiography offers excellent advice for inventors, business owners, and anyone in manufacturing.
Vaclav Smil delivers again with a book that discusses inventions that turned undesirable, that were supposed to dominate and don't, and others that we keep waiting for.
Iris Murdoch argues that contemporary philosophy has replaced love and virtue ethics with freedom and authenticity.
A fantastic short essay on the topic of bullshit, offering up a salient and technical definition of the word.
Kreeft believes that Pascal was ahead of his time as a philosopher and provides insight for modern non-believers.
An intuitive and laymen's look into how materials behave and how engineers design using these materials.
Walter Kaufmann provides perhaps the most important exposition of Nietzsche's philosophy ever written.
Collins and Porras deep dive into 18 visionary companies and pull out key management principles.
A practical guide to managing time, decision making, and communication in a business organization.
My personal book notes and important quotes. A follow-up to Beyond Good and Evil, he discusses bad vs evil, bad conscience, and asceticism.
Do the simplest thing first when you need to gain momentum, mapping unknown territory, for emergency fixes, and when people are waiting.
My personal book notes and quotes. How disruptive technologies blindsided good companies, and strategies for avoiding these failures.
My personal book notes and quotes. The management and efficiency classic, The Goal communicates manufacturing principles through story.
My personal book notes and quotes. Presented are metrics for evaluating engineering projects at a high level.