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My top books:

- The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan - It gave me the tools required to cut through bullshit and helped me free myself from the shackles of a religious upbringing

- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins - Gave me the courage to look at things differently when everyone thinks we know it all

- Zero to One by Peter Thiel - It made me question what I was doing professionally and I now have a list of questions to answer whenever I am in a startup to help guide me

- Compersion by Hypatia From Space - It help remove limits to how I can love and care for the people that are important to me.



I'm reading 'The Demon Haunted World' at the moment - "Finding the occasional straw of truth awash in a great ocean of confusion and bamboozle requires vigilance, dedication and courage. But if we don’t practise these tough habits of thought, we cannot hope to solve the truly serious problems that face us and we risk becoming a nation of suckers, a world of suckers, up for grabs by the next charlatan who saunters along." From 1997. Very prescient. We've a mountain of suckers... a Suckerberg.




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