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Thoughts from some books I read in 2019 & 2020

A list and short thoughts

9 min readJan 1, 2021

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Nikhil Garg

Should I need a reservation to use public transportation?

“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” — Yogi Berra

10 min readMay 1, 2020

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Nikhil Garg

Review of “The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better…

Growth mindset meets baseball analytics. Ben Lindbergh and Travis Sawchik describe the (far more advanced) successor to Moneyball, in…

4 min readAug 13, 2019

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Review of “The MVP Machine: How Baseball’s New Nonconformists Are Using Data to Build Better…

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Nikhil Garg

Review of “Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies” by Reid…

A book on how to engineer a company worth tens of billions of dollars in just a few years, written by the experts. I cannot doubt that the…

3 min readJun 16, 2019

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Review of “Blitzscaling: The Lightning-Fast Path to Building Massively Valuable Companies” by Reid…

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Nikhil Garg

Top ten books I read in 2018

This is Part 1 (ranks 1–10) of my ranking of books read in 2018. See also Part 2 (ranks 11–30) and Part 3 (ranks 31–52).

6 min readDec 19, 2018

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Top ten books I read in 2018

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Nikhil Garg

Books I read in 2018, ranked (11–30)

This is Part 2 (ranks 11–30) of my ranking of books read in 2018. See also Part 1 (ranks 1–10) and Part 3 (ranks 31–52).

9 min readDec 19, 2018

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Nikhil Garg

Books I read in 2018, ranked (31–52)

This is Part 3 (ranks 31–52) of my ranking of books read in 2018. See also Part 1 (ranks 1–10) and Part 2 (ranks 11–30).

9 min readDec 19, 2018

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Review of “Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment,” by…

This book starts with two serious, non-trivial, overarching claims: that Buddhism is correct in

3 min readDec 19, 2018

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Review of “Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment,” by…

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Nikhil Garg

Review of “Energy, a Human History,” by Richard Rhodes

A historical survey of the major developments in the world’s collection and use of energy, from coal to steam power to electricity. It…

2 min readDec 19, 2018

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Review of “Energy, a Human History,” by Richard Rhodes

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Review of “A world without mind,” by Franklin Foer

A book that deserves a longer review than I have here. In it, journalist Franklin Foer argues, as in the subtitle, that big tech companies…

3 min readDec 19, 2018

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Review of “A world without mind,” by Franklin Foer

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Nikhil Garg

Nikhil Garg

I study CS/Econ and applications to socio-technical issues. Blog about books and technical issues. PhD Stanford, BS/BA UT Austin. gargnikhil.com

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