I tracked the major revelations in Wind and Truth, from Shallan’s heritage as Chana’s daughter to the reformation of the Oathpact. My notes analyze the mechanics of the Fifth Ideals and Taravangian’s transformation into the Shard Retribution.

To add somewhere: There were 7-8 Honorspren, 1 cultivationspren, 1-2 of both Prologue https://chatgpt.com/c/68f216a3-e740-8323-a197-59ba257dc6b2 Gavilar saw ALL 9 Honorblades! So, BEFORE one was stolen? No, it was a vision. Interesting... I thought Nale had his Honorblade. He might not? Gavilar spoke with the Stormfather!? ... who wanted him to be his champion!? ... and assumed he'd take Taln's place after returning from Braize Q There are words to become a herald? #ANS No, it comes from the Oathpact Q Stormfather probably has tried / had several champions before? #ANS No Gavilar is quite a manipulator! Kelsier Uses Seons to communicate across planets Q ... is spiked in one eye!? #ANS Maybe iron/steel hemalurgical spike Q ... wants to transport stormlight. Why? #ANS To reduce local shard dependency for operations. Nale is the Makabaki accompanying Kelek. Q Kelek caused the recreance!? "I made them ... go wrong ..."? #ANS No Q What did Kelek do, then? “Before … I made them … go wrong …” #ANS Restoring voidbringers. Betraying Ba-Ado-Mishram. Ba-Ado-Mishram can grant forms. #Q Kelsier wants that secret? #ANS Kelsier wants investiture delinked from shards. Ba-Ado-Mishram did exactly that. Q Who is Axindweth, the off-world scholar Gavilar worked with? #ANS Terris ferruchemist worldhopper, maybe Set Gavilar (and Amaram) used gemstones in aluminum boxes to move voidspren (and voidlight) between realms. #Q How exactly did that trigger the return of the voidbringers? #ANS It didn't. It was too small a volume of light to matter. Axindweth and Ulim triggered the return using stormforms to sing the Everstorm into being. Ba-Ado-Mishram tried to replace Odium, give Voidbringer powers, was captured by radiants, and parshmen were created. Gavilar knew Vasher as Vasher! "My experiment was a success. I have the weapon." Gavilar had anti-voidlight. Vasher figured out how to make it. Taravangian met Gavilar before his death. Before visiting Cultivation. Taravangian's mother spoke a death rattle mentioning the Everstorm. Q Which herald died the night Gavilar died? Chana? Did THAT trigger the Oathpact breaking? #ANS Maybe Chana (at Shallan's hands!?) but Jezrien's death is what broke the Oathpact. Q Did Taln break? Or was it Chana's death and her breaking that brought them back? #ANS Taln didn't break. It wasn't a Herald's death either. It was the Everstorm. Gavilar was giving the anti-voidlight stone and message to the Stormfather, not Szeth. The initials of the The Stormlight Archive books are symmetrical: TWoK WoR O RoW KoWT Day 1 Chapter 1. Unfamiliar Ground Just 10 more days! This SERIES is going to end!! The wind ITSELF spoke to Kaladin! Ah, the radiants thought the spren would SURVIVE the recreance. Chapter 2. Taking the Next Step Q So, is there a dungspren or not? Chapter 3. The Cost of Heroism Kelek and the radiants captured Ba-Ado-Mishram and hid her in the Spiritual Realm! Deadeyes were created because Ba-Ado-Mishram was imprisoned! Q: The spren will come in late with strong support? (I guess it will) Chapter 4. Listening Adonalsium created the Old Magic on Roshar! Chapter 5: What Might Still Be Q Why DID the Tukari assault Notum on his ship? AQ Why was there a rule against bonding 2 spren? What powers does that give? Does Shallan really access Fortune? (No. She's Chana's daughter.) Chapter 6: Nobility. Dalinar makes Kaladin Urithru's heir. Chapter 7: Lost Blades. Shardblades vanish when forgotten. So, you can convert energy, light, investiture, matter, maybe even sound, all into each other. Chapter 8: The Coming Storm. Kaladin plans goodbyes. Shallan & team are attacked. Q Did Shallan absorb Drehy's lashing? Can they do that? Chapter 9: Tossing Spears. Sigzil tosses recruits spears out of the window. Radiant manifests physically and attacks Abidi. Chapter 10: Book-quartermaster. Syl borrows The Way of Kings So, spren can move stuff in the real world. Chapter 11: Musicspren Q Was the Musicspren that nuzzled Adolin his dead horse? Chapter 12: Beyond the Brands. Kaladin gets the Bridge Four tattoo Chapter 13: Promise. Kaladin promises drinks with Shallan at the end. Interlude 1: Kalak. Felt is a Ghostblood from Nalthis Ala, the Seon is the spy! Might have been the same Seon Kelsier used in the prologue. Iyatil and Kelsier know that Ba-Ado-Mishram is in the Spiritual Realm (but not where) Interlude 2: Odium Odium is "forbidden from taking any who are not fully given to you" by the Oathpact. Breaking the Oathpact opens Odium to outside attack. Q What is Taravangian planning? What is Cultivation planning? Day 2 Chapter 14: Not Asleep. Wit discovers his memory loss. Wit stores his memories in breath, not metals. Towerlight knocks fused unconscious and strengthens Radiants. Didn't we see the opposite of that used on Kaladin at the start of Rhythm of War? Frost the Dragon is the old friend Wit asked help from Chapter 15: Passionspren. Attacks on the Stattered Plains, Azir, and Theylen City Cultivation talks to Dalinar! Chapter 16: Vague Promises and Hints Q Who are the 2 new South Scadrian Ghostbloods? Honor's power is searching for a vessel! AQ Where exactly is Honor's power? (Moving in the Spiritual Realm) Chapter 17: A Tough Kind of Love. Shallan looks for Ghostbloods Chapter 18: An Exception to the Rules Frost has a sister! Q How is Wit talking to Frost's sister through a bone? Chapter 19: Ruled by Voices Szeth is forbidden from using Division Szeth does not know his highspren's name Chapter 20: Three Vital Points of Defense. Adolin will defend Azir with a small force. Jasnah - Thaylen City. Sigzil - the Shattered Plains. Chapter 21: Incomplete Truths Q Is the Sibling or the Nightwatcher the narrator in Day 1, The Wind and the Truth? Q Is Scadrial where a shard's power was all around? AQ In which world was the shard's power left to rot in Shadesmar? (Sel) Chapter 22: Looking for a Third Option. Dalinar decides on the spiritual realm Oh, so plants on Roshar retract. The ground is mostly stone. Missed that. Q What's "Silverlight Mercantile"? Chapter 23: Compromise AQ Is what happened at Threnody because the shard's power did not find a vessel? (Partly. Also, the fight between Odium and Uli Da.) Chapter 24: In the Dancing Ring. Szeth's backstory Ah, Szeth's sister had a flute. Kaladin has a flute. It's a wind instrument. It's all coming together. Q Why don't the Shin touch stone? Chapter 25: Purposeful Danger. Shallan penetrates Ghostbloods. Navani will join Dalinar into the spiritual realm. Q What were the objects in Iyatil's trophy case? A silvery horn or claw from some great beast. A chunk of light red crystal, like pink salt—though of a deeper, more vibrant color. A violet stone egg, partly crystalline, with silver swirling around its shell. A fat, succulent leaf that pulsed red and seemed to radiate heat. A vial of pale sand she now recognized as having a very practical application. Sja-anat does recognize Shallan. Q Was this Kelsier? Unlikely... "... a mortal did give up the power once. It proved to be the wrong choice, ..." Chapter 26. Hunting the Hunter. Shallan learns secrets and is found out Mraize and Iyatil are radiants, bonded with Sja-anat! Iyatil thinks finding Ba-Ado-Mishram will control the Shards. Chapter 27: What is right? Szeth's parents move the stone he found Chapter 28. Obstacle. Iyatil shoots Shallan with anti-stormlight and escapes into Shadesmar. Szeth and Kaladin find an unmade in Shinovar If a Radiant does not absorb Stormlight when attacked with anti-Stormlight, their spren can survive. Chapter 29. Secret Handshakes. Lift decides to follow Dalinar Chapter 30. Not Alone. Renarin AND Rlain see Ba-Ado-Mishram in a vision. Chapter 31. Shallan looks for Mraize & Iyatil near Urithru. Dalinar & Navani prepare for the spiritual realm. So, Shin workship stones because migrants carried stones from Ashyn to Roshar. Wit was there during the migration from Ashyn to Roshar! Chapter 32. Cords of Light. Mraize throws an anti-Stormlight dagger into Dalinar's perpendicularity. Chapter 33. The Conflux of All Darkness and Sorrow. The cremlings are still watching. AQ Oh, so Honor's remnants are in Shinovar? (No) AQ Did Ishar actually take over Honor's remnants? (No) Interlude 3: El. El kills Jezrien trapped in the gemstone and suggests an Elsegate to capture the Shattered Plains. Interlude 4: The Wrong Lesson. Part of why the shards shattered Adonalsium was that one solution wouldn't work for all. Let each god rule their plants Taking any 2 shards might cause a vessel to function poorly. #Q How did Adonalsium function, then? Valor is a shard. Hidden from Odium. Reason is the other hidden shard. Day 3 Chapter 34: For the good of all Roshar. Adolin plans the defense of Azir. Chapter 35: Memories like Wine. Szeth finds his home. Q A dawnshard passed? Which dawnshard? Change? What's "passing"? To Rysn? Or something else? Szeth's highspren is testing his abilities. Weird. Chapter 36: Correct Answers. Young Szeth learns to try new things. Chapter 37: People Who Build. Adolin, May, Aladar discuss. Chapter 38: Those Who Subtract. Young Szeth kills a soldier. So, there's an unmade in Shinovar. Makes people do bad things. Chapter 39: Between Two Realms. The attack on Azimir begins Maya can see into Shadesmar Q Who is the narrator that can see future winds? "Direforms" are 7' tall, strong and fast Chapter 40: Stuko Stem. Szeth prepares to find an elder. Adolin bulldozes into the battle. The blades have REJECTED the heralds!? So, Szeth had warned the Shin about the Unmade. The Shin knew the heralds were around and Odium was coming. They trained for Taln's return. So, Szeth had earned the right to his Honorblade. Chapter 41: Skybreaker. Szeth beats Rit. Adolin beats Abidi. Q Well of Control? Q "fragments of the dead moon"? Moon scepter? Q What was Rit? Chapter 42: Celebrations. So, the Shin swapped Taln's swoed. #Q How? Szeth fought for and win Jezrien's honorblade and was exiled with it Interlude 5: Baxil Axies the Collector is an Aimian and collects spens His skin is tattooed with a book Baxil has visited the Nightwatcher He used to work for Shalash Q What spren did Baxil give Axies? Interlude 6: The Weight of Information Odium might leave Taravangian for Ba-Ado-Mishram! Q Did it partly do that before? Dova (Battah the Herald, Elsecaller?) was serving as an ardent at Kharbranth. A member of the Diagram! Dova can create crystal eyes that can see investiture. Day 4 Chapter 43: The Origin of Songs. Dalinar and Navani await humans landing on Roshar. Singers know of Adonalsium. Were divided on Honor vs Adonalsium. Chapter 44: Semblance of Reality. Shallan, Renarin, etc. are together. Shallan still has anti-Light Chapter 45. Self-Mastery and Control. Nightblood persuaded the Honorblade not ot cut cloth! Chapter 46. Alaswha. Humans arrive on Roshar. Q Who is Ahu, the beggar, who drank with Dalinar AND was at the migration from Ashyn? Q How did Ishar open a portal across worlds? Why can't others do that now? Chapter 47. Failure Points. Adolin repels an attack. Sigzil plans a defence. Vienta is Sigzil's spren Chapter 48. A Talent. Young Szeth will be trained as a soldier. Chapter 49: A Realm of Possibilities. Shallan fails to kill Mraze. Q Maybe Tanavast behaved dishonorably? Chapter 50: The Price of Peace. Navani's vision ends as she takes Ash's ribbon. Adolin visits the injured. Q The portal from Ashyn was an Elsegate? Q What did Wit mean by "Is this how the Iriali feel all the time?" #ANS The Iriali may be worshipping the yellow/gold splinter of Virtuosity's cyan/magenta hion lines. ChatGPT Chapter 51. Test. Young Szeth and family join the army. Q Spren of the stone? What exactly spoke to Szeth? Chapter 52. A Perfect Moment. Adolin trains Yanagawn in shardplate. Kaladin dances with Syl and creates music. "Don’t ever get mad at a person you’re sparring with, especially when they defeat you. You need to be the kind of person the best duelists want to fight. If you only ever face people you can beat, then you’ll never improve." "Sometimes a hypocrite is just a man in the process of changing." Chapter 53. Makari Sin. Szeth defeats Elsecaller and Edgedancer in Shadesmar. Nightblood looks golden in Shadesmar Honorblades are mildly sentient and Nightblood can talk to them Chapter 54. A Friend. Shallan awaits the next vision. Adolin convinces Noura Yanagawn needs a friend. Interlude 7: Moash. Moash can now see investiture. Spren. Q Why does Dova/Battah have a rhythm of light? Interlude 8: The Only Way. Taravangian is willing to sacrifice anything to protect his family. Day 5 Chapter 55. Prayers, Heavens and Songs. 20 years after human arrival on Roshar. Gavinor is still in the spiritual realm. Kalak used to be always calm, reasonable. Singers confined humans who wanted to expand. Singers started listening to Odium. Honor was teaching Ishar, Jezrien to control surges. Chapter 56. By Bonds and Spren. Sigzil defends Narak. Venli talks Leshwi into abandoning Odium. Edgli (Endowment) is the one writing the letters from Nalthis. "gifting them the power of gods, as I was so long denied" Chapter 57. Which One To Follow. Young Szeth continues to train. Q Who is the Unmade talking to Szeth? Bonded to those of Shinovar? Szeth seems slightly autistic. Chapter 58. The Song of the Beasts. Chasmfiends become friends. Dalinar finds an anchor to Nale. The heralds were already near immortal surgebinders when they arrived. Q What broke the Shattered Plains? A Dawnshard? The Wind is preparing Kaladin as champion Before the migration, Nale fought against the other heralds who were on Odium's side Chapter 59. Whatever It Takes. Young Szeth defeats raiders. The Voice heals him. Chapter 60. Come and See. Adolin recruits Azish dropouts. Venli explores the shattering of the plains. Surges were native to the land. Driven by 4 moons for 4 tones. Honor, Odium, Cultivation did not understand surges. Q "With stone that is not quite stone."? Chapter 61. Forced to Bow. Jasnah plans for Thaylen City. Sigzil faces a Thunderclast. Endowment's letter says "For we all know what you are." #Q Why "what" and not "who"? Dawnshard bearer? Bearer of the first gem? Adonalsium's backup plan? The Everstorm eats up the highstorm. The Magnified Ones are huge, can grow carapace, have spiked arms The Focused Ones are denser and can stop Shardblade Chapter 62. Keeper of the Keys. Visions move to the Oathpact. Valor is working with Endowment! Renarin's lightweaving lets him see souls / futures El was Jezrien's friend. Nale saw Odium's true form. Jezrien and others saw that after the migration. Shifted to Honor. Odium coopted singers, made them Fused, and fought. Chapter 63. One Way Forward. Oathpact vision continues. Adolin demolishes the enemy. A chain reaction set the air ablaze in Ashyn. #Q Division + Dawnshard? Chapter 64. To Hold Back The Darkness. Valor requested aid. Endowment did not go in person. Honor contacted Ishar, Nale at Ashyn. The powers he gave them led to Ashyn burning. The Heralds were granted Odium's power, and hence a connection. That allowed Honor to have them swear oaths to him and check Odium in the Oathpact. Chapter 64. To Hold Back The Darkness. The Oathpact is formed, with Mraize as Honor. Chapter 65. Not for Honor. Shallan fights Mraize. Taln is recruited. Odium is afraid of Ba-Ado-Mishram and wants her imprisoned. Taln tried to kill Cultivation! There was a loophole Odium was exploiting that allows Fused to be reborn. Oathpact plugs that. Chapter 66. Reinforcements. Szeth's spren brings Nale. Q Hoid is trying to raise someone dead? "Be content to play with your toys on their world of storms. Or do I have to broadcast what I have learned of your goals? I certainly do not think it a coincidence that you have made a special study of the worlds where legends abound of the dead being raised." Chapter 67. Field Commission. Notum joins as captain. Sigzil spots Moash & regals at an Elsegate. Chapter 68. Acolyte. The Voice tells 3 Honorbearers to train Szeth. Interlude 9: Zahel. Axindweth tortures Zahel for breaths. Zahel can erase his memories! Interlude 10: The Moment of Decision. Taravangian re-concludes that he should conquer the world. Day 6 Chapter 69. Radical Philosophy. Nale riles Kaladin. Jasnah plans The humans of Ashyn followed the tones of Roshar through Elsecalling Chapter 70. Contest of Illusions. Szeth picks from the Lightweaver's illusions. Venli goes to the center of the Shattered Plains Chapter 71. Assumptions. Szeth beats the Lightweaver. Jasnah guesses Odium's ships are unmanned. Chapter 72. Statistically Dangerous. Shallan decides to send Lightweavings into the next vision. Chapter 73. The Luxury of Simplicity. Sivi concinces Szeth to try for the Windrunner Honorblade. Chapter 74. What he Made of Us. Sigzil loses Narak Four. Shallen enters a vision with Ba-Ado-Mishram. Q Does Moash cause Sigzil's spren to ... whatever? Q Is Iyatil doing the same thing Shallan is, viewing instead of entering the visions? Chapter 75. Family. Szeth's father goes with him on pilgrimage. Chapter 76. Concessions. Shallan talks to Ba-Ado-Mishram in the vision. Emul and Tashikk defect. Ba-Ado-Mishram was healing soldiers. Feels Odium does not care about singers. Odium is preparing armies for a Cosmere invasion. Ba-Ado-Mishram likes Sja-anat. Chapter 77. Aharietiam. Braize draws souls. Honor bound Odium into that prison via the Oathpact using Odium's connection to the heralds. Braize has a strange nature that multiples the power of the oaths. Honor agreed to Taln's taking up the Oathpact. Decided not to care. Ishar took some of the pain of the other heralds. Dova (Battah) used to visit Aesudan! Q Why does Honor no longer care? Why can he no longer "afford to care"? Q Is "Unite them" a call from Adonalsium to unite the gods themselves? Interlude 11. Dyel. Honor's perpendicularity opens at many places in Iriali Q Is Galladon looking for a cryptic? Q What was the metal tube the 17th Shard pulled out? Q Who are Dyel and her mother? How did the travel from off-Roshar if Ym ... was perhaps in Roshar all along? Interlude 12. What Must Be Done. Taravangian kills his family. Day 7 Chapter 78. A True Radiant. Sigzil plans another feint. Venli navigates the chasms. Jasnah confirms Odium's ships are unmanned. Q Will Leshwi become a windrunner? Hoid is the narrator here, writing to Jasnah Chapter 79. The Rhythm of Longing. Renarin & Rlain see a bit of their past. Chapter 80. Seeing the Future. Adolin uses binoculars. Dalinar and Navani see pre-recreance. A thunderclast arrives in Azimir. Radiants during the recreance debate whether to fight singers with surges who can't be reborn Q Why did the sibling fail? Chapter 81. The Scholar with a Spear. Sigzil's feint to Narak Three works. Adolin charges the thunderclast. Moash kills Leyten. Chapter 82. The Primary Purpose of Science. Adolin fights the thunderclast. Dalinar jumps to the recreance. Q Why did the sibling run down? Thunderclasts have trouble emerging from covered or worked stone Chapter 83. Hired Blade. Young Szeth kills the Windrunner honorbearer. Moelach was at Shinovar 9.5 years ago then. Chapter 84. For the Broken. Adolin kills thunderclast. Taln is up! Renarin talks to Ba-Ado-Mishram and proposes to Rlain. Ba-Ado-Mishram may be showing them visions for a purpose. Chapter 85. Parley. Taln and Ash destroy Fused and die. Recreance progresses. Garith knows about Odium? Melishi has been talking to Honor. He does not interfere any more. Chapter 86. River of Light. 12124, Szeth's spren, gets therapy from Kaladin. Chapter 87. Love and Betrayal. Melishi and Honor trap Ba-Ado-Mishram. Stormfather gives Dalinar to Odium. Odium finds them all. Ba-Ado-Mishram infused herself with the full power of his perpendicularity while he was trapped in Braize. She can replace him. Honor and Melishi conspired to trap Ba-Ado-Mishram in the gemstone. That broke the oath the radiants gave of negotiating in good faith. Honor shows a vision of Radiants destroying the planet after he can no longer watch them. Q Why can't Honor watch them? Interlude 13. Lift. Lift frees Zahel and the Aviar from a Ferruchemist. Zahel offers to train Lift. Q Who was the Ferruchemist? Q If Axindweth is working with Kelsier, did he try to get Odium back? If so, Why? Inderlude 14. The Correct Future. Taravangian decides to make Dalinar join him. He can't see Dalinar's future. Day 8 Chapter 88. Cycle of War. Sigzil loses Narak Three. Odium throws Dalinar into visions. Chapter 89. Revelations. Kaladin gets Nale talking. Venli gets to the center of the Shattered Plains. Jasnah meets Odium as Taravangian. The heralds brought the surges to Roshar! They're not native to Roshar. Where did they come from? Chapter 90. A Candle Before the Storm. Szeth refuses to fight his sister. Venli finds Odium's perpendicularity. Heralds want Szeth to take Jezrien's place in the Oathpact. Chapter 91. Recruiting. Gav sees Dalinar beating Elhokar. Taravangian plans to recruit Fen. El offers to make Venli a Fused. Chapter 92. Into the Blue. Young Szeth goes to the Voice. Chapter 93. White Carpet Now Red. Shallan watcher her young self killing her mother, Chana. Chana was Shallan's mother! Chana communicated with Nale using a Seon. Q Who was Shallan's father's bastard? Haleran? Q Are Shallan's brothers going to become radiants? Did the Oathpact pass on to Shallan? No. Chana was reborn and was at Shallan's wedding. Why were Skybreakers killing budding radiants? Because Nale believed killing them would prevent the Desolation. Chapter 94. Sacred Truth. Young Szeth faces an unmade and flees rather than follow the Voice. Q First Spren? What's that? Q How did the spren get nailed to the walls? Chapter 95. Because it is flawed. Adolin is on crutches, concerned. Szeth talks to his spren. Q Will Adolin ascend? Szeth knows the words to become a Herald! Nale's spren suffered with Nale on Braize. Ishar is looking for ways to make spren physical. Q Will Syl take a physical form? Young Szeth assumed that the Unmade meant the Return had begun. Chapter 96. All They Had. Young Szeth warns his father to hide. Chapter 97. Characters from a Play. S Oh, so Chana's return sparked the Return, not Taln's? No, can't be, Taln had returned before that. But still, she agrees. Chapter 98. The Day of Truth. Szeth declares that the voidbringers have returned. Chapter 99. Never Too Late. Shallan forgives Chana, who actually WAS there. Dalinar fights Blackthorn at Rathalas. Dalinar resists Odium. Chana: "Do not trust any of us, except for Taln." Interlude 15. Rysn and Hoid meet. Their Dawnshards almost fuse. Rysn decides to go off-planet with ship and crew. Hoid is still a Dawnshard. Interlune 16. Surprise. Odium can't find Dalinar. Perhaps Honor's power was hiding him. Day 9 Chapter 100. God. Honor finds Roshar. Cultivation finds Honor. Q Tanavast slayed Adonalsium for his own good? But Cultivation feels it a betrayal. Roshar had been created by mathematics: song, numbers, and art. Q What was the metal at the core of Ashyn? Honor broke an oath by being with Cultivation. Cultivation is a winged dragon with deep brown skin lined with silver. Chapter 101. Steering a Chull. Venli debates next steps. Navani exerts control over the vision. Chapter 102. A Blade in the Night. Sivi & Pozen confer. Szeth overhears. He confronts them. Chapter 103. Weathered. Wind asks Kaladin to help the heralds. Venli sends a message of help to Sigzil. Chapter 104. Enemy. Odium gives humans the surges and that nation invades the rest. One group resists. Honor gives them power. Q What sculpting stone had Honor given the singers? Chapter 105. Points of Transition. Navani uses an Oathgate transition to power a return. Venli proposes involving Jasnah. Chapter 106. Cardinal Sin. Young Szeth fights a civil war. Chapter 107. Voidbringer. Odium's surges burned Ashyn. Humans move to Ashyn. With Odium. Q Who was Zoral, who was named Voidbringer? Chapter 108. Service. Kaladin fights Nale. Taravangian appears to debate Jasnah. Chapter 109. Rationalization. Kaladin fights well but Nale beats him. Nale sent Helaran to kill Amaram. Ishar told Nale to kill all radiants. Chapter 110. Flute. Kaladin plays to Nale and reminds him. Nale's spren appears and vanishes. Chapter 111. The Flag of Rebellion. Neturo is Bondsmith and tells Szeth he's wrong. Chapter 112. The Song of Renunciation. Jasnah debates well. Venli plans to join El. Chapter 113. Accommodation. The 3 gods reach an agreement. Stormfather is an avatar of Honor. Rayse killed Uli Da (Ambition) at Threnody and the fight wounded him. He is weak now. Rayse drew Aona (Devotion), the healer and Skai (Dominion) into a conflict and killed them when weak. As a dragon, Kor was trained as a god even before ascension. Kor could see the future better than Tanavast but sometimes did not wish to. When Honor went to help dissidents in Ashyn, Odium took over the singers. Honor (the power) is rigid and pushed Tanavast into rejecting the singers. Directly fighting Odium would have destroyed Roshar in most visions Odium showed Kor and Tanavast. He mentions Threnody. Q Adonalsium had not fought the sixteen for fear of what would happen to the planet if he did? Honor, Cultivation and Odium lay out a contract where mortals can't destroy planets. Threatened him with grouping others to kill him like Adonalsium. Only a portio of powers are granted to mortals. Greater powers to those who follow divine rules. Less to all. Q ... what was the "unless" Tanavast considered? Dawnshards? Each violation of shards' words weakens them and opens them to attack. Chapter 114. The Greatest Good. Taravangian shows Fen Jasnah's contract to kill Aesudan. Navani & Wit plan to help Dalinar. Chapter 115. Binding. Tanavast and Kor created Roshar's tones. Created stone sculptures. Rayse created singers, knowing Tanavast will respond, allowing him to go further. If one of the shards died, followers can draw powers without bounds. So Taravangian is not as bound as Rayse. Cultivation KNOWS this! Euridrius (Reason) vanished. Leras (Preservation) had a strong nature. Ati (Ruin) was the kindliest and had taken up Ruin. Edgli (Endowment) was the most compassionate. Bavadin (Autonomy) was shrewd, capable. Chan Ko Sar (Invension) created great marvels. Medelantorius (Valor) is a warrior dragon and could not be found. All shares rejected Honor support in killing Odium since they were afraid intervention might release him. Tanavast discussed with Ishar to give them powers they wanted and to bind Odium. The Oathpact. Chapter 116. Two Women. Jasnah loses. Thaylenah goes to Odium. Chapter 117. Truthless. The Voice decides Szeth should take his Honorblade and Oathstone and be banished. The Voice wants destruction in Shinovar. The Voice PLANNED for Szeth to return in a decade to take over as a killer. The Voice showed the Honorbearers that voidbringers and radiants are no more and other worlds were the threat. Chapter 118. Prophecy. Venli, chasmfiends fake an attack. Sigzil retreats. Sigzil renounces oaths saving Vienta from Moash. Q Did Sigzil give ownership of Narak to the Singers, meaning it's THEIR territory? Chapter 119. Sunmaker's Gambit. Adolin is called to fight. Maya is a few hours away. Shallan talks to Mraize. Ishar is the voice! Q There is a world out there with an ocean in the sky. Where? Q Another where people fly upon kites, as if every man were a Windrunner. Where? Yet another where the gods can make any object stand up and walk. (Nalthis) Honor's perpendicularity moves around and doesn't let anyone touch it Ba-ado-mishram found Odium's perpendicularity and used it. So did Ishar! Q Will Szeth ascend as Honor? He seems the most rigid. Also hates Taravangian. Billid and a group of Skybreaker dissenters exist Chapter 120. Sheltered from the eyes of god. Honor and Odium clash Rayse and Fused are trapped on Rosharan system by the oaths. Humans are not. So he plans to create a human army Q Heralds seem able to draw from Roshar's power not just surges. How? Q How was Nale able to move so fast against Kaladin? Q How were the Unmade made? What are they? Anti Light was born when Odium clashed with Honor A piece of Roshar's 4th moon had metal or rock that could hide people from Shards Ba-ado-mishram tries to make peace with Honor Chapter 121. Bridger of Minds. Adolin struggles with pikes. Shallan faces harsh visions. Mishram shows Rlain and Renarin visions. Some singers abandoned Ba-Ado-Mishram. So she decided to meet humans and explore peace. Glys defected to Sja-anat and recently Chapter 122. Rival. Ishar suggests Taln take the Oathpact. Honor lets them decide. Honor sees the damage he has done. Makes a pact with Odium. Honor gave the heralds more of his power. They stuggled with it and would stop fighting in most futures. Honor was also losing his control, putting him at odds with himself. The Wind shows Honor the damage he has done. That's why Honor decides to step back. To avoid directly fighting Odium and destroying Roshar, Honor proposes a clash of champions Q How was Ba-Ado-Mishram able to use the perpendicularity and take Odium's power? Odium agrees not to attack Honor first, and to a vague contest of champions, in return for Honor remove Ba-Ado-Mishram. Kor knew how to capture spren. Honor teaches Melishi. Chapter 123. A memento of failure. The Thaylen Council aligns with Odium. Taravangian invites Jasnah to become a Fused. Chapter 124. Rejection. Honor rejects Tanavast. Odium kills Tanavast. Honor puts a piece of Tanavast's soul into the Stormfather. Honor had not anticipated singers not being able to hear the tones. Roshar had aligned with Ba-Ado-Mishram. Honor showed Radiants how the surges would destroy the planet without him. Odium kills Tanavast but Honor takes a piece of Tanavast's soul and memories and gives it to the Stormfather. As Stormfather, Tanavast is looking for someone to bear Honor. Chapter 125. One Man Against a Tide. Azir is lost. Interlude 17. Dieno. The Mink is captured, escapes execution. A greatshell emerges. Interlude 18. Conflux. Honors power moves Dalinar back to the physical realm. Odium has hidden the power of Aona and Skai in the Cognitive realm, making it difficult to access the land. Odium attacking Uli Da directly destroyed planets (near Threnody) and wounded him. Odium splintering Honor would violate his oath not to attach first and leave him open to attach from Cultivation. Day 10 Chapter 126. That Which He Must Not Know. Dalinar forgives Stormfather. Szeth goes to Ishar. Stormfather had been looking for Honor candidates steadily. Each was too eager for immortality or power. Odium will ensure Honor's vessel will attack him, freeing him from the oath. Chapter 127. Their Homes Become Our Dens. Dalinar and Wit talk. Yanagawn plans to sneak back into the throne. Spren started appearing in the physical realm without bonds (like Notum) when the land and people started thinking more of them. Yanagawn plans to sneak back into the throne. (The Brandon avalanche / Sanderlanche begins?) Young Hoid had found a Dawnshard and was carrying it un-wittingly. Q Who was the lumberman's son who failed to be a noble? Chapter 128. The Price of Survival. Nale shares Ishar's plans. Wit encourages Dalinar. Yanagawn enters the palace. Kalak, Chana and Vedel were among the weaker heralds, struggling to access their powers. If they dies, the Desolation might happen. Ishar walked the spiritual realm and decided that stopping radiants would halt Odium. Ishar stepped into the Well of Control (Odium's perpendicularity) and took some of his power. Ishar physicalized spren. Ishar made the Honorbearers Human Fused. Souls that would be reborn given a new body. Plans more. Chapter 129. Oaths and Light. Szeth goes to Ishar. Abidi awaits Adolin. Shallan finds Mishram and Mraize. Dalinar prepares. Szeth is the Knight of Truth. Kaladin is the Knight of Wind! Q So, do they go back to strengthening old magic? 1,000 years ago, when Shinovar sent armies to attack the west, Ishar connected with the land. Chapter 130. The Pleasure of Bleeding. Szeth fights 6 honorbearers. Adolin fights Abidi. The spren rejected Ishar. Ishar plans to replace all Heralds. Elhokar is Odium's champion! (Actually, it's Gavinor.) Chapter 131. The Worth of a Life. Kaladin struggles to talk to Ishar. Dalinar faces an adult Gavinor. Ashyn was called Alashwa. Ishar wrote down the take of Wandersail and Derethil. Wit led Ishar to Odium by talking about shards. Fleet was trying to jog Nohadon's path. Chapter 132. Fear What is Coming. Renarin and Rlain debate what to do with Mishram. Kaladin talks to Ishar. Chapter 133. Puppet. Adolin fights Abidi. Honorbearers are Ishar's puppets. Szeth takes the fifth oath directly! Adolin's plate comes alive and protects him! Chapter 134. The Third Way. Shallan kills Iyatil. Adolin kills Abidi. Ishar protects himself from Szeth's fifth ideal. Chapter 135. The Choice of Honor. Deadspren arm Adolin's team. Renarin & Rlain free Mishram. Szeth rejects his spren. Ishar shares his pain. Maya brought all the forgotten deadeyes! Maya is a cultivationspren. Chapter 136. Ten People with Ten Shardblades Alight. Darlinar fights Gav. Adolin wins Azir. Notum is wearing a shardplate! Chapter 137. The Suckling Child. Shallan kills Mraize. Dalinar knows the words. Mraize's original name is Betd. Q El is a radiant? One of the Skybreakers? Chapter 138. The Burdens of Nine. Radiant merges into Shallan. Kaladin fights Ishar's pain. Anti-Light killed only part of the Sja-anat sprens of Iyatil and Mraize. Their Voidlight part is still alive. Chapter 139. Words. Kaladin swears the Fifth Ideal. Dalinar ascends. Cultivation was priming Dalinar to be Honor, not just resist Odium! Chapter 140. The Light We Kindle Ourselves. Kaladin drives away Ishar's darkness. Szeth fights with Nightblood. The WIND accepts Kaladin's words! The blackness Ishar absorbed from Odium was infecting all the heralds. Q Nightblood has learnt the surges and now is a multi-honorblade? Chapter 141. That Which was Lost. Mishram does not kill Renarin. Szeth kills Honorbearers. Chapter 142. A Man Stands on a Cliff Side. Honor considers killing Odium. Dalinar teaches Honor as a kid. Honor renounces his oaths! The shard powers are relatively young and immature. Q What is Nohadon? Chapter 143. One of Them Will Destroy Us. Nightblood learns Kaladin's lessons. Sja-anat thanks Shallan. Honor accepts Taravangian who becomes Retribution! Now all the shards would gang up against Retribution. Dalinar ensures allies. Chapter 144. The Tower. The Crown. And the Spear. Kaladin takes Szeth's place as Ishar reforms theOathpact to bind Retribution. Cultivation flees. Shallan is stranded in the Cognitive realm without stormlight. Chapter 145. To Weep for the End of All Things. Oathpact is reformed. Dalinar dies saving Gav. Retribution plans to attack Wit. Retribution has taken the Shin government The Blackthorn memory becomes a spren Chapter 146. Night of Sorrows. Wit gives Sig a dawnshard, Exist. Renarin plans a democracy. Q What geared device is Hoid using? Q Does Retribution know Wit escapes? Chapter 147. Light Flickering in the Darkness. Wit awakes in Scadrial and understands Dalinar's plan. Q How did Hoid regenerate after vaporization? Q Who is Ulaam? The combination of shards created a slowness bubble around Roshar? Unoathed plates and blades still function thanks to the deadspren. Radiants can still summon blades and plates. Other blades can't be bonded, plates can't be repaired. Maya can travel to and from shadesmar. Deadeyes are healing. Everstorm blanketed the world and permanently rains, except Azir (probably Urithru and the Shattered Plains) Shallan plans to talk to Kelsier via Felt's seon Ala Spren can leave Roshar now. Szeth's spren leaves Roshar with Sigzil on a caravan in shadesmar. Taravangian had taken the people of Kharbranth and hid them in the Spiritual realm. Epilogue. Majestic improvization Wit plans to contact Valor Postlude The heralds are in Ashyn. Healing.

Brandon Sanderson - Stormlight 5 - Wind and Truth


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I recommend sampling broadly early in your career, stacking rare skills, and over-using AI to discover new competencies. I also detail how to leverage boring tasks and find value in projects that never ship.

My answers to career advice people have asked me. Should I go deep or broad in my career? Early in your career, sample actively, i.e. go broad. Commit to depth when process (not just outcomes) energizes you. Read Range (David Epstein, 2019). How do I explore when I'm stuck in a role? Say yes to stuff you don't like. You'll do what you like anyway. For breadth, you need the opposite. You'll learn: 1. New things you enjoy. (Do you enjoy the same things you enjoyed 10 years ago?) 2. How to enjoy stuff you don't like. (A useful meta-skill.) 3. How to get out of stuff you don't like. (Another useful meta-skill.) How do I make boring work more fun? 1. Do the minimum on boring tasks. Spend more time on fun adjacent tasks. 2. Make boring work more fun. (I once wrote an RFP so dry no human could read it. So I turned it into a 430-character poem via the first letter of every page.) 3. Don't assume what's boring now will be boring later. (Testing bored me until Simon Tully explained that it's detective work!) What skills should I learn? Ignore your passions. Pick what's rare and valuable. In winner-take-all markets (e.g. sports, sales, research), double-down on the most important skill. Otherwise (e.g. consulting, entrepreneurship), stack related skills to build rare + valuable combinations. In rapidly changing fields (e.g. technology, digital marketing), learn how to learn fast. In stable fields (e.g. law, medicine), gain knowledge. In your early career, bet on emerging technical skills. In late career: invest in slower-decay judgement & leadership skills. Will AI use atrophy my skills? Yes, but that's OK. You can't do long division as well as we did before calculators. But it's less important today. Instead, you analyze several KPIs as ratios. AI will definitely atrophy some skills - but many of them will be used less. Observe which ones you'll need and why. AI will also necessitate new skills. Over-use AI to discover what these are. Under-use of AI is a bigger risk than skill atrophy. What projects should I work on? Choose projects where the process of getting good at them solves a problem you care about for people whose judgment you respect. | | Short Runway | Long Runway | | ------------ | --------------------------------------------------------- | --------------------------------------------------------- | | Low Capital | Skills-first. Optimize for learning. Pay Unshipped work is often harder work - more ambitious - which risks failure. Recognize its value over an easy, safe bet that's deployed. Hard work is often niche work. Competitors often hire for such niche experience. Try to get it deployed. It teaches you organizational navigation and resilience. Sometimes, projects aren't meant to be deployed. They're for business to experiment and learn. Share project failures in your CV. "We built this, and it didn't go anywhere" builds your credibility.

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I cataloged the massive trail of digital exhaust I leave behind, ranging from obvious logs like search history and bank statements to hidden signals like keystroke dynamics, battery levels, and ambient Wi-Fi beacons.

Exhaust I "emit": Bank statements Blog posts Browser history ChatGPT / Claude / Gemini history Cloud usage (billing, usage, storage, activity) Codex / Copilot / Claude Code logs Command line history Google Workspace (Email, Calendar, Tasks, Drive, Keep, etc.) GitHub commits Google Fit data Google Location data Google Meet/Teams/Zoom/Phone/WhatsApp/F2F call recordings + transcripts Search history (Google, Maps, YouTube, Amazon, Netflix, etc.) LinkedIn contacts List of files accessed on Linux Mobile OS location data Notes (things I learned, LLMs, about people, etc.) Phone/WhatsApp call logs Photos, music and videos RSS feeds SMS/text message history Tasks lists Transport usage (Uber, Ola, flights, bus/train) Utility usage/bills WhatsApp chats YouTube history Sources to Consider Collected from billions of users: Cell tower connection logs (carrier-level) Social media activity (Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, X, LinkedIn) Wi-Fi connection history App install/uninstall history Screen time and app usage duration Contact lists synced to cloud Credit/debit card transactions Device identifiers and fingerprints IP address logs (virtually every service) Keyboard/typing patterns (Gboard, SwiftKey) Clipboard history Push notification interactions Biometric authentication logs (Face ID, fingerprint) Hundreds of millions: Streaming watch/listen history (Netflix, Spotify, Prime Video) E-commerce browsing and purchase history Food delivery orders (Swiggy, Zomato, DoorDash) Ride-sharing trip history (Uber, Ola, Lyft) Smart speaker voice recordings Fitness wearable data (steps, heart rate, sleep, SpO2) Gaming activity and achievement logs Password manager access logs Smart TV viewing data (including ACR - automatic content recognition) Tens of millions: Smart home device logs (thermostats, cameras, locks) Toll road/FASTag usage Public transit card taps Parking app data Loyalty program transactions Medical/patient portal records Education platform activity (Google Classroom, Canvas) Dating app swipes and messages Job application tracking Nutrition/meal logging Smaller but significant: DNA/genetic testing data Vehicle telematics (connected cars) Court and legal filings Property transaction records Insurance claims history Also: Device identifiers & telemetry (device model, OS version, language/locale, time zone, IPs, carrier, crash logs, performance stats, app analytics) App install list + app usage (what’s installed, first/last opened, time spent, notifications received/opened, background activity) Contacts/address book (names, numbers/emails, relationship hints via interaction frequency) Location traces (multi-source): GPS + Wi-Fi SSIDs + Bluetooth beacons + cell towers + IP-based location Wi-Fi + network metadata (known networks, connection times, sometimes MAC addresses; plus home router logs) Advertising identifiers & ad events (mobile ad ID, attribution links, ad impressions/clicks, conversion events) Keyboard + input signals (telemetry-level) (typing speed, autocorrect usage, language switching; usually not raw text, but still behavioral) Camera roll / gallery metadata (timestamps, geotags, device, faces/objects inferred, albums/shared items) Cloud photo backups & “memories” features (what got backed up, searched, shared, edited) Browser history + web tracking (URLs, downloads, cookies, trackers/pixels, referrers, autofill usage, saved passwords) Search history (Google/Bing/DuckDuckGo; plus in-app search inside Amazon/YouTube/Maps/etc.) Maps navigation & mobility (routes, commute patterns, saved places, reviews, “visited” inferences) Email metadata + content (senders, subjects, threads, attachments, newsletter subscriptions, receipts) Calendar (meetings, locations, attendees, recurring routines) Notes & documents (personal notes, highlights, OCR’d text from images, document edits/version history) Messaging apps (WhatsApp/Telegram/iMessage/Signal): chats, groups, media, reactions; plus call logs inside the app Social graph signals (who you follow, who you interact with, DMs, blocks/mutes, relationship strength via engagement) Music/podcast history (listening time, skips, playlists, favorites) E-commerce activity (browsing, carts, wishlists, purchases, returns, delivery addresses) Payment & wallet metadata (Apple Pay/Google Pay tokens, transaction notifications, loyalty cards, transit cards) Bank statements (aggregated view) (merchant categories, recurring bills, salary cadence, travel patterns) Utility & telecom bills/usage (electricity/water trends; mobile data usage; roaming events) Fitness & health telemetry (steps, HR, sleep, workouts, weight logs, menstrual tracking where applicable) Bluetooth proximity ecosystem (smartwatch pairing logs, car Bluetooth, earbuds; sometimes “nearby device” history) Smart home device logs (speakers, lights, thermostats, cameras, doorbells: motion events, voice commands, schedules) Smart TV / streaming logs (what was watched, when, on which profile/device) Ride-hailing & delivery (pickup/dropoff points, order history, tipping) Travel systems (boarding passes, airline apps, hotel bookings, immigration e-gates in some places) Work identity + access logs (SSO logins, badge access, VPN, device posture checks, MDM telemetry) Collaboration tools (Slack/Teams: messages, reactions, meeting attendance, search queries) File access trails on devices (recent files, Spotlight/Windows Search indexing, thumbnail caches) Clipboard history (on-device managers; cross-device paste features) Command line / dev telemetry (shell history, editor telemetry, package installs, build logs) Source control (Git commits, PRs, issue comments, CI logs) Cloud usage (AWS/GCP/Azure: API calls, billing, resource graphs) — very “work-specific” RSS/news reading (feeds opened, dwell time, saves, shares) Other sources (might be duplicated): I. Ubiquitous Passive Telemetry (Collected from nearly everyone with a smartphone) Advertising ID (IDFA / AAID): A unique, resettable alphanumeric string assigned to your device (iOS or Android) specifically to track your behavior across different apps and build a profile of your interests. Device "Fingerprint" Data: Technical details used to identify your specific device even without cookies (e.g., screen resolution, battery level, installed fonts, OS version, time zone, and browser user-agent). Battery & Charging Habits: Logs of when you charge your phone and how quickly your battery drains, often used to optimize OS performance but also accessible to apps to infer usage patterns. Nearby Wi-Fi & Bluetooth Beacons: A constantly updating list of all Wi-Fi networks (SSIDs) and Bluetooth devices near you. This is used to pinpoint your physical location within inches, even when GPS is turned off (often called "Wi-Fi scanning"). Accelerometer & Gyroscope Logs: Continuous raw data measuring how your device moves in 3D space. This can identify if you are walking, driving, or lying down, and can even be used to identify you by your unique "gait" (walk style). App Usage Stats (Screen Time): Precise logs of exactly which app is open, for how long, and at what time of day (e.g., "User opened Instagram at 11:42 PM and stayed for 14 minutes"). Cell Tower Triangulation: Logs maintained by your carrier (Verizon, T-Mobile, etc.) showing which cell towers your phone connected to, creating a rough location history independent of Google/Apple maps. II. Behavioral Biometrics (The "How" you interact) Keystroke Dynamics: Not just what you type, but how you type it—your typing speed, the rhythm between key presses, and how many mistakes you backspace. This is often used for fraud detection as it is unique to you. Touch Pressure & Area: The exact surface area of your fingertip touching the screen and the pressure applied during taps or swipes. Scroll & Swipe Patterns: The velocity and angle at which you scroll through feeds (e.g., TikTok or Twitter). Mouse Movement (Desktop): The path your cursor takes to click a button (curved vs. straight lines, hesitation before clicking), used to distinguish humans from bots. III. Network & Communication Metadata DNS Queries: A log of every website domain your device has tried to contact (e.g., api.tinder.com, netflix.com), visible to your ISP (Internet Service Provider) even if the website content is encrypted (HTTPS). Email Metadata: Even if the body is encrypted, the "envelope" data is logged: Sender, Recipient, Time, Subject Line, and IP address of the sender. Push Notification Logs: Records of every alert sent to your device, including the time it was received and whether you tapped on it or dismissed it. IV. Smart Home & IoT Exhaust Smart TV "ACR" (Automatic Content Recognition): Pixels on your screen are sampled to identify exactly what show, movie, or ad you are watching, regardless of the source (Cable, Xbox, Streaming App). Voice Assistant "False Positives": Short audio snippets recorded when a device thought you said "Hey Siri" or "Alexa" but you didn't. These are often stored for quality assurance. Smart Plug/Bulb Usage: Patterns of when lights turn on/off, which can be used to map your "patterns of life" (when you wake up, when you leave for work, when you go to sleep). V. Financial & Transactional Exhaust Credit Header Data: Updates to your name, address, or phone number reported by banks to credit bureaus, often sold to skip-tracing and marketing firms. Digital Wallet Tokens: Anonymized transaction identifiers used by Apple Pay/Google Pay that link a purchase to a device without revealing the actual card number to the merchant.

Digital Exhaust


I archived these comments from my original guestbook, spanning over a decade of feedback. They document early blog culture, my time at BCG, and interactions with fellow alumni from IIT, IIM, and Vidya Mandir.

Archive of comments about this site. Comments Sumeet 20 Feb 2009 3:50 pm: Interesting site. One observation...the fiction and non fiction books have 'Watch once' or 'watch many times' text alongside the book name. Thanks, Sumeet Ajay Shankar 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Very nice. Anyone who likes Calvin n Hobbes is ok with me. When that person is another Vidya Mandir alumnus, its even better. I also assume that IIT, IIM and LBS is up here not because you like these institutions.\ Very nice blog. Alagappan 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hi Anand\ I came to know your site through your friend Harish. I like visiting your site and use to see lot of information\ My email id:alag75@yahoo.com\ Cheers\ Alag\ :-)) Alien 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hi Anand, Very intresting site, accidently bumped into this. Cool chat transcripts & ur stories. Gr8 going man.. amit 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: cool site urs is.. Amit 'Netahoy' Agarwal 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: great man! I'm stuck here Amit 'Netahoy' Agarwal 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: saw the h2g2 link wow its a treasure... thxs for the link netahoyatnetahoydotorg an adorer 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: anand,\ are bcg guys only writing comments thesedays ?????!!! andersja 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Consulting vs blogging vs social/family life is indeed a function with variable outcome. I hope its not all work and no lift -- Enjoy some time off (I try to too ;-) and see you back in the blog-o-sphere later :-) anish 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Add some color to your site anand, it looks bland. Ashish 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: great !! Keep updating it regularly .. Ashish Agarwal "Panth" 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hey Bhalla,\ I am not sure if you would remember me. I am Panth, a fellow wingie in B2 & a year junior to you. Came across this site by accident but loved it. Am going to visit again ashok heliya 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: i got to know about ur site from a friend.it has been wonderfully done, and i m planning to replicats the same form with ur permission . take care, bye. babu 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: hi anand\ its a wonderful site and very happy to see old family photographs. Bhasker rao.A 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: HI Anand,\ I am Suderhan Krishnasway (IBM) friend. I am frequent visitor of your Web Site\ When ever I fee bored first thing come in my mind to visit your site.\ It is really good.\ \ Regards,\ Bhasker Danish 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Great work Anand (thats an understatement)..keep it up!!!! Danny 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hey Buddy,\ \ Good Europe snaps!Well I decided to go to Mauritius and Singapore. Will call you soon. Hope you are enjoying married life!! devi 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: hey anand, am a very regular visitor around here. long time since u had a new entry. are u ok/ or just plain busy?? Dhooma Kedhu 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Good Site except for the irritating pop-ups and the bottom ad . dikshit 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: hey u havent updated the site for a long time now. pretty busy these days?? DM 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: The terror signature of the antichrist has been revealed, the God who destroys with paradox and duality...SEE DOUBLE? DM foshoonetwo@hotmail.com 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Interesting,\ sir,\ I found your site very informative.I would like to introduce myself.but generally people dont reply.and dont like to continue talking, will you pl continue talking to me.final outcome of discussion would be seeing God( philosophy)face Friend 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hey, Here is a neat website for you to try: www.answerpool.com Garima 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: this is a great idea! I have travelled a fair bit myself and this is the besy way i can think of to maintain a log of your activities and share your experiences. Will try it myself some day! but i wouldnt include pictures! Gaurav 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Fundu site, Anand...it has inspired me to touch my site after almost six months GURU 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: AMAZING NEWS harish 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: hi anand.. great... but try to get rid of the ads and the namezero panel. otherwise its great work... as expected from you!!! harishan 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: mate, thats a cool site. hope you dont mind me taking a few ideas from the layout for my upcoming site www.harish-an.com joe 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: hi there - it is lovely - my third visited site - after my two yahoo accounts :) keep up the good work. although u might want to give a site map. John Thomas 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: The site is really impressive. Thanks for making it\ \ John Thomas\ IITB(1999),IIMC(2002) kbharath@vsnl.net 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hi Anand,\ Landed up on you website by clicking on a link featured on my friend Kribs's blog (www.kirubashankar.com).\ \ I'm at a loss of words to appreciate the good work that you have done. The links are more than a treasure.\ \ This site has now found kakul 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: good to have you back Stud kakul ( iimb:00-02) 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: hey stud you are back.. hope you had a great vacation.... Kakul Sinha 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Stud\ This site is sexy!! I look forward to reading it every week. I do miss talking to you.\ Kakul Sinha (PGP -02 batch) Kalidas 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Who is Karishma? Kamesh 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: My old memories with you in school and scouts are flashing in my eyes.\ This site is as nice as you. kashmiraforu 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Nice photos! But the brown colour scheme looks more like white! kkwu 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: techno-renaissance man, this S Anand Krishna 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Nice site. Lot of info. Thanks! kulvir singh 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: hi... you helped me in ACS ...with the final project..... i just wanted to thank you again Mahesh Shantaram 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Dear Mr. S. Anand,\ \ It has been noted with due concern that your weblog is far behind schedule. Please take appropriate measures to bring it up to date at once.\ \ Senior Inspector Shantaram,\ Blog Police Mahesh Shantaram (msram@techrose.org) 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hi Anand! Rather than "new blog format", I would like to refer to it as the "classical blog format". The reason is that while Epiphany became a space for long, contemplative well-thought out posts, the need for a space where I can write short, quick quips Mahesh Shantaram (www.techrose.org) 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hmm... I find your blog to be made up in an interesting fashion, quite different from the ordinary. I like the single line entries and the selection of photo in the 'contact' box. And now to explore deeper...\ \ (BTW, I found this link through Daypop) Maltesh 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hello, its been nearly 2 weeks since you updated? Hope to see more interesting links soon :) Manav 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: I hope you continue the site. Its one of my most regular visits Nachappa 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Looks like the ET error is not limited to just ET. TOI also has the same error and it happened atleast a couple of times today Nandakumar 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Just Nice. You will be one among the people I admire. naresh 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Do we have to say ANYTHING about the site.....? neuropro 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Please visit our site if you are interested in related science news and some background info. Cats are our exceptional favorites :-)\ NeuroProsthesis News Nicholas 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Quite a comprhensive site! Keep it up!\ (PGP98) Pradeep 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: you update the page everyday \yourself\? or is it automated? Pradyot 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: I came across your site by trying a google on IIMA + Aditya Birla. Ur profile is well...mindblowing!! I do hope that I cam emulate you someday, hopefully in the next 2 years or so, coz I intend to write the CAT this year. I am basically from blr, now in m Prakash Ayer 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Visit ur webpage atleast once in 2 days. I like the way u put the things in perspective. prakash s 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: could you put up a RSS feed, thanks pranab 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Anand, I was kind of bugged doing the odd excel and word that's the staple of ibankers. Thought I could take a stroll in the wonderland that u have built. I was accessing for the first time after leaving IIMB. The colour combination looks much more profe Praveen 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: hi anand,\ there was lots of reports in ur website earlier....why hav u removed them.?? it was quite usefull. Prem 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Well a Great Site\ Well now Iam drawing inspiration from U ..believe it or not. Priya 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: You were a cocky guy in school and you havent really improved. You are so full of yourself that your head must be having a hard time dealing with your ego. You are smart and all that , also have to admit that your site is fine..but you cud improvise it by raj- ur well wisher 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: hey why dont u just load some of ur latest picz RajeshK, VA 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Have you had the HumanClock mentioned on your blog b4?...if not here it is....http://www.humanclock.com rajnish kanojia 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: hye s anand ,i am greatly impressed by you.Really man, if possible ,some times i would like to meet u raju 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: urs is innovative,i found ur site on sufing the other pages...it makes me to readeveryday.good progress...ALB Ramna/ Krishna 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hey Anand, I saw the engagement snaps today. Good work. I am yet to do the same for my engagement snaps. So how is engaged life getting along. Its been ages since i mailed you or for that matter you mailed me. Hope all is fine. Keep in touch.\ Regards ritzkini 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: A very interesting site for a very interesting person,I must say...Really loved the chat transcripts that u have put up(A/s/l and kaboom !!)Keep up the good work !!\ http://ritzkini.blogspot.com Rojan 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Belated birthday wishes. Googled to your page today. Cool site, expect more hits :) Rupesh Tripathi 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hey Anand,\ I have been a regular with your blog. (About 4 visits a week). Got to know about it from Joe.\ Was wondering if alls well?? I mean this must be the longest break thAt Ive seen in your blogging. Wish to see it rolling again soon. sathish 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hi Anand,\ There must be some mistake regarding no-site linking to your page..\ \ Infact, I do. Yours is the first link in my page at http://sathishr.blogspot.com Saurabh 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hi Anand , have been a regular visitor of u'r site now from the past 5-6 months I guess. A pretty exhaustive and comperhensive website I must say ! I always find a new interesting addition whenever I come here. A very good blend of info and entertainmen Scary 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Amazing web-site, but don't know how you have the time to fill up the material on a regular basis - ain't bcg overloading you - a consultant? Shamit Bagchi 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Amazing Articles - IIMpressions LOL\ Too many GBook entries? Bear with me after all I am impressed. shikha 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: terry pratchet fan? shira 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Anand- lovely engagement photos!Thanks for sharing with the world.\ www.mervis.blogspot.com sindu gopaal 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: No content. sriram 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: The previous look was better anand sudhir 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: hi anand! amazing web-site! the big ? you work in a consultancy (from what I've heard you don't get time to sleep even!) ... then how is it that you find time to update the site reguarly???? Sumeer 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Much better colour choice!!! The black was difficult to navigate through Sumit Shantanu 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hey Anand...your site is so amazing...actually, someone recommended me to take a look... Suneel Regulla 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Every morning I log on to yahoo first and then to s-Anand.net...what more can I say... suneel\regulla@yahoo.com Sunil Dias 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Hey!! Whats up? No postings for quite some time. Vandana 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Well I thought that forwards conveyed feelings beter than those written by amateurs Venkatachalam Ramakrishnan 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Seems it is a long time since you have updated the site? Any specific reasons? Well Wisher 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Fabulous documention done with much frankness .Keep up the Quality Work !!! www.floatingcreeper.org 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: Anand, I like your star burst filter experiment. yashodhara 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: this is an amazing site, by the way.. Anonymous 1 Aug 1996 12:00 am: About the SBC story:\ http://www.museumtour.com/sbclawsuit.html\ http://uk.news.yahoo.com/030120/152/dlcma.html\ http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,77789,00.html\ On another note about recent Internet pa bindurajesh 24 Mar 2009 5:58 am: Hi Anand, i am a keralite now living in Oman with my family.i am a usual visitor for ur web site. but today only i reach at home page and can see u. i am too happy to see u and i cant believe that how u can make this website this much useful. thank u very much for giving such a useful website.actually now i am becoming a fan of urs. wishing u all the success in ur life. bindurajesh oman.

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I organized my reading into thematic clusters to synthesize ideas across related books. By grouping titles on habits, trauma, or leadership, I can use AI to compare, summarize, and fact-check concepts more effectively.

Rather than read individual books, why not read clusters on related topics? Using AI to summarize, compare, and fact-check? [x] Tiny-habits + behavior design wave (2018–2020) Atomic Habits (James Clear, 2018) Tiny Habits (BJ Fogg, 2019/2020 editions) The Power of Habit (Charles Duhigg, 2012) [x] Learning faster, remembering more (2014–2020) Make It Stick (Peter C. Brown, 2014) A Mind for Numbers (Barbara Oakley, 2014) Ultralearning (Scott Young, 2019) How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Ahrens, 2017) [x] Motivation, grit, and “how people get good” (2016–2019). # Gemini Grit (Angela Duckworth, 2016) Peak (Anders Ericsson & Robert Pool, 2016) Range (David Epstein, 2019) [ ] Hidden Potential (Adam Grant, 2023) [ ] Mindset (Carol S. Dweck, 2006) [ ] The Talent Code (Daniel Coyle, 2009) [ ] Drive (Daniel H. Pink, 2009) [x] The “Attention Resistance” and Digital Minimalism (2016–2022) Deep Work (Cal Newport, 2016) Digital Minimalism (Cal Newport, 2019) Indistractable (Nir Eyal, 2019) How to Do Nothing (Jenny Odell, 2019) Stolen Focus (Johann Hari, 2022) [x] Trauma, healing, and therapy “going mainstream” (2014–2022) What Happened to You? (Bruce Perry & Oprah Winfrey, 2021) The Myth of Normal (Gabor Maté, 2022) The Body Keeps the Score (Bessel van der Kolk, 2014) No Bad Parts (Richard Schwartz, 2021) My Grandmother’s Hands (Resmaa Menakem, 2017) Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Lori Gottlieb, 2019) It Didn’t Start with You (Mark Wolynn, 2016) [x] Endurance running as history + meaning + limits (2006-2016) # The Road to Sparta (Dean Karnazes, 2016) Born to Run (Christopher McDougall, 2009) Endure (Alex Hutchinson, 2018) Ultramarathon Man (Dean Karnazes, 2006) What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami, 2007) Running with the Kenyans (Adharanand Finn, 2011) [x] Socialism "after the 20th century": rebuilding the case, testing alternatives, arguing with critics (1944-2021) # Socialism Is Dead! Long Live Socialism! (Todor Bombov, 2017/2021 editions) The Socialist Manifesto (Bhaskar Sunkara, 2019) Why You Should Be a Socialist (Nathan J. Robinson, 2016) Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas Piketty, 2013/2014) The Nordic Theory of Everything (Anu Partanen, 2016) The Road to Serfdom (Friedrich Hayek, 1944) [x] Coaching-centered leadership and building high-performing teams (1998-2019) # Trillion Dollar Coach (Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg & Alan Eagle, 2019) High Output Management (Andrew S. Grove, 1983) The Coaching Habit (Michael Bungay Stanier, 2016) Radical Candor (Kim Scott, 2017) The Making of a Manager (Julie Zhuo, 2019) Multipliers (Liz Wiseman, 2010) [x] Superforecasting and the craft of good judgment under uncertainty (2001-2018) # Superforecasting (Philip E. Tetlock & Dan Gardner, 2015) The Signal and the Noise (Nate Silver, 2012) Thinking in Bets (Annie Duke, 2018) How Not to Be Wrong (Jordan Ellenberg, 2014) Fooled by Randomness (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2001) The Black Swan (Nassim Nicholas Taleb, 2007) Notes: https://claude.ai/chat/201867d4-4a0e-44e3-8aa4-deba48a3a0ee Everything that compounds, has network effects, involves social contagion — Extremistan. A turkey is raised by a farmer for 1,000 days. Each day, the farmer brings food. The turkey's confidence in the farmer increases with each passing day. On day 1,001, it is Thanksgiving. Nexus and the history of information networks: media, power, and the AI turn (2010-2024) # Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI (Yuval Noah Harari, 2024) The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood (James Gleick, 2011) The Master Switch (Tim Wu, 2010) The Shallows (Nicholas Carr, 2010) The Square and the Tower (Niall Ferguson, 2017) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff, 2019) "Remarkable service" leadership playbook (1993-2022) # Unreasonable Hospitality (Will Guidara, 2022) Setting the Table (Danny Meyer, 2006) Be Our Guest: Perfecting the Art of Customer Service (The Disney Institute, 2001; updated editions later) Delivering Happiness (Tony Hsieh, 2010) The Experience Economy (B. Joseph Pine II & James H. Gilmore, 1999) Raving Fans (Ken Blanchard & Sheldon Bowles, 1993) Explanations, progress, and the Popperian worldview (1963–2018) # The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World (David Deutsch, 2011). #TODO Read this chapter-by-chapter Conjectures and Refutations (Karl Popper, 1963) The Logic of Scientific Discovery (Karl Popper, 1934; English 1959) The Fabric of Reality (David Deutsch, 1997) Enlightenment Now (Steven Pinker, 2018) Inequality, capitalism, and who wins (2012–2019) # Capital in the Twenty-First Century (Thomas Piketty, 2013/2014) Winners Take All (Anand Giridharadas) The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (Shoshana Zuboff) The Price of Inequality (Joseph Stiglitz, 2012) Inequality: What Can Be Done? (Anthony Atkinson, 2015) After Piketty (Heather Boushey et al., 2017) Curable Plagues, Global Health, and Medical Inequality (2003–2025) Everything Is Tuberculosis (John Green, 2025) Phantom Plague: How Tuberculosis Shaped History (Vidya Krishnan, 2022) Mountains Beyond Mountains (Tracy Kidder, 2003) Pathologies of Power (Paul Farmer, 2003) The Ghost Map (Steven Johnson, 2006) Spillover (David Quammen, 2012) Algorithmic Harm, Data Power, and Automated Inequality (2015–2021) Weapons of Math Destruction (Cathy O’Neil, 2016) The Black Box Society (Frank Pasquale, 2015) Automating Inequality (Virginia Eubanks, 2018) Algorithms of Oppression (Safiya Umoja Noble, 2018) Race After Technology (Ruha Benjamin, 2019) Atlas of AI (Kate Crawford, 2021) Ancient Wisdom Meets Positive Psychology (1990–2023) The Happiness Hypothesis (Jonathan Haidt, 2006) Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1990) Authentic Happiness (Martin Seligman, 2002) Stumbling on Happiness (Daniel Gilbert, 2006) The How of Happiness (Sonja Lyubomirsky, 2007) The Good Life (Robert Waldinger & Marc Schulz, 2023) Data Infrastructure, AI Business, and the People Who Built the Stack (2001–2023) The Datapreneurs (Bob Muglia & Steve Hamm, 2023) The Dream Machine (M. Mitchell Waldrop, 2001) The Innovators (Walter Isaacson, 2014) The Master Algorithm (Pedro Domingos, 2015) Prediction Machines (Ajay Agrawal, Joshua Gans & Avi Goldfarb, 2018) Competing in the Age of AI (Marco Iansiti & Karim R. Lakhani, 2020) Soviet Espionage, Defectors, and Cold War Intelligence (1985–2018) Inside the Aquarium / Aquarium (Viktor Suvorov, 1985/1986) The Sword and the Shield (Christopher Andrew & Vasili Mitrokhin, 1999) A Spy Among Friends (Ben Macintyre, 2014) The Billion Dollar Spy (David E. Hoffman, 2015) The Spy and the Traitor (Ben Macintyre, 2018) Agent Sonya (Ben Macintyre, 2020) Race, systems, and social structure (2019–2020) How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi) White Fragility (Robin DiAngelo) Caste (Isabel Wilkerson) Social contagion, networks, and how behavior spreads (2009–2013) Connected (Christakis & Fowler) Contagious (Jonah Berger) The Righteous Mind (Jonathan Haidt) Science graphics, visual explanation, and evidence-based information design (1983-2023) Building Science Graphics (Jen Christiansen, 2023) The Visual Display of Quantitative Information (Edward Tufte, 1983) Visual Explanations (Edward Tufte, 1997) The Truthful Art (Alberto Cairo, 2016) Storytelling with Data (Cole Nussbaumer Knaflic, 2015) Show Me the Numbers (Stephen Few, 2004) Decision-making, noise, and cognitive bias (2011–2021) Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman) Superforecasting (Tetlock & Gardner) Noise (Kahneman, Sibony, Sunstein) Thinking in Bets (Annie Duke) Happiness → meaning → the good life (2016–2023) The Happiness Trap (ACT-based) The Power of Meaning (Emily Esfahani Smith) The Good Life (Waldinger & Schulz) Build the Life You Want (Brooks & Winfrey) Relationships + attachment + communication (2010–2018) Attached (Levine & Heller) Nonviolent Communication (Rosenberg) Crucial Conversations The 7 Principles for Making Marriage Work (Gottman) Longevity / healthspan “protocol” wave (2017–2023) The Telomere Effect (Blackburn & Epel, 2017) Lifespan (David Sinclair, 2019) Outlive (Peter Attia, 2023) Sleep finally gets its “public health” moment (2016–2018) Why We Sleep (Matthew Walker, 2017) The Sleep Revolution (Arianna Huffington) Sleep Smarter (Shawn Stevenson, 2016) The Power of When (Michael Breus, 2016) The Sleep Solution (W. Chris Winter, 2017) Metabolic health, obesity, and food environment (2015–2023) The Obesity Code (Jason Fung) How Not to Die (Michael Greger) Ultra-Processed People (Chris van Tulleken) Exercise as medicine + movement as mood (2008–2020) Spark (John Ratey) Born to Run (McDougall) The Joy of Movement (Kelly McGonigal) Modern management craft: feedback, coaching, teams (2016–2019) The Coaching Habit (Michael Bungay Stanier) Radical Candor (Kim Scott) The Culture Code (Daniel Coyle) The Fearless Organization (Amy Edmondson) Execution systems: OKRs and operating cadence (2015–2018) Measure What Matters (John Doerr) Radical Focus (Christina Wodtke) The 4 Disciplines of Execution (McChesney et al.) Startups & product-building playbook wave (2011–2016) The Lean Startup (Eric Ries) Zero to One (Peter Thiel, 2014) Sprint (Knapp et al.) Hooked (Nir Eyal) The Hard Thing About Hard Things (Ben Horowitz, 2014) Creativity, Inc. (Ed Catmull, 2014) Strategy “clarity” wave (2011–2017) Good Strategy Bad Strategy (Rumelt) Playing to Win (Lafley & Martin) The Innovator’s Dilemma (Christensen) Seven Powers (Hamilton Helmer) Incentives, misalignment, and corporate pathology (2015–2020) Misbehaving (Thaler) The Undoing Project (Lewis) The Man Who Solved the Market (Zuckerman) (if you like finance angle) No Rules Rules (Hastings & Meyer) “Why nations succeed/fail” + institutions (2012–2015) Why Nations Fail (Acemoglu & Robinson) The Dictator’s Handbook (Bueno de Mesquita & Smith) Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall) Big History and the “Sapiens” Effect (2014–2021) Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind (Yuval Noah Harari, 2014) The Better Angels of Our Nature (Pinker) The Silk Roads (Peter Frankopan, 2015) Homo Deus (Yuval Noah Harari, 2016) The Dawn of Everything (David Graeber & David Wengrow, 2021) Geopolitics reboot (2012–2020) The Revenge of Geography (Robert Kaplan, 2012) Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall, 2015) The Future is Asian (Parag Khanna) Connectography (Parag Khanna, 2016) AI and the future of work (2017–2023) Life 3.0 (Tegmark) AI Superpowers (Kai-Fu Lee) The Alignment Problem (Brian Christian) The Coming Wave (Mustafa Suleyman) Climate “this is the constraint” wave (2014–2021) The Sixth Extinction (Kolbert) Drawdown (Hawken, ed.) The Uninhabitable Earth (Wallace-Wells) How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (Gates) Physics/cosmology for humans (2014–2017) Seven Brief Lessons on Physics (Rovelli) The Big Picture (Sean Carroll) Astrophysics for People in a Hurry (Tyson) Modern Stoicism and Ego Management (2014–2019) The Obstacle Is the Way (Ryan Holiday, 2014) Ego Is the Enemy (Ryan Holiday, 2016) The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F-ck (Mark Manson, 2016) Stillness Is the Key (Ryan Holiday, 2019) The “Wood Wide Web”: Plant and Fungal Intelligence (2015–2021) The Hidden Life of Trees (Peter Wohlleben, 2015) The Overstory (Richard Powers, 2018) Entangled Life (Merlin Sheldrake, 2020) Finding the Mother Tree (Suzanne Simard, 2021) Breathwork and Respiratory Health (2015–2020) The Oxygen Advantage (Patrick McKeown, 2015) Just Breathe (Dan Brulé, 2017) Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art (James Nestor, 2020) The Microbiome and Gut-Brain Axis (2014–2016) Missing Microbes (Martin Blaser, 2014) The Good Gut (Justin & Erica Sonnenburg, 2015) 10% Human (Alanna Collen, 2015) I Contain Multitudes (Ed Yong, 2016) The Psychedelic Renaissance (2018–2021) How to Change Your Mind (Michael Pollan, 2018) The Psychedelic Renaissance (Ben Sessa, 2012/2018 edition) Acid Revival (Danielle Giffort, 2020) This Is Your Mind on Plants (Michael Pollan, 2021) CRISPR and the Gene Editing Revolution (2017–2021) A Crack in Creation (Jennifer Doudna & Samuel Sternberg, 2017) The Gene (Siddhartha Mukherjee) Hacking Darwin (Jamie Metzl, 2019) Editing Humanity (Kevin Davies, 2020) The Code Breaker (Walter Isaacson, 2021) The Meritocracy Trap (2019–2020) The Meritocracy Trap (Daniel Markovits, 2019) The Tyranny of Merit (Michael Sandel, 2020) The Cult of Smart (Fredrik deBoer, 2020) The Crisis of Democracy and Authoritarianism (2018–2020) How Democracies Die (Steven Levitsky & Daniel Ziblatt, 2018) Fascism: A Warning (Madeleine Albright, 2018) The People vs. Democracy (Yascha Mounk, 2018) Twilight of Democracy (Anne Applebaum, 2020) The Gender Data Gap and Invisible Labor (2019–2021) Invisible Women (Caroline Criado Perez, 2019) Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters (Deborah Stone, 2020) The Authority Gap (Mary Ann Sieghart, 2021) The “Unicorn” Fall: Corporate Fraud and Failure (2018–2021) Bad Blood (John Carreyrou, 2018) Super Pumped (Mike Isaac, 2019) Billion Dollar Loser (Reeves Wiedeman, 2020) The Cult of We (Eliot Brown & Maureen Farrell, 2021) New Urbanism and Walkable Cities (2012–2019) Walkable City (Jeff Speck, 2012) Happy City (Charles Montgomery, 2013) Streetfight (Janette Sadik-Khan, 2016) Soft City (David Sim, 2019) Silk Roads and “history as networks”: trade routes, exchange, and the Eurasian pivot (2008–2018) The Silk Roads (Peter Frankopan, 2015) The New Silk Roads (Peter Frankopan, 2018) Empires of the Silk Road (Christopher I. Beckwith, 2009) A Splendid Exchange: How Trade Shaped the World (William J. Bernstein, 2008) The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (David Abulafia, 2011) The Modern Synthesis forming: evolution meets genetics and math (1930–1942) The Causes of Evolution (J. B. S. Haldane, 1932) The Genetical Theory of Natural Selection (R. A. Fisher, 1930) Genetics and the Origin of Species (Theodosius Dobzhansky, 1937) Evolution: The Modern Synthesis (Julian Huxley, 1942) What Evolution Is (Ernst Mayr, 2001) Forecasting science’s consequences: biotech futures and moral whiplash (1924–2005) Daedalus; or, Science and the Future (J. B. S. Haldane, 1924) The World Set Free (H. G. Wells, 1914) Brave New World (Aldous Huxley, 1932) Silent Spring (Rachel Carson, 1962) The Singularity Is Near (Ray Kurzweil, 2005) Erudite historical mystery: monasteries, manuscripts, and ideas as suspects (1977–1993) The Name of the Rose (Umberto Eco, 1980) Foucault’s Pendulum (Umberto Eco, 1988) The Club Dumas (Arturo Pérez-Reverte, 1993) A Morbid Taste for Bones (Ellis Peters, 1977) Labyrinth (Kate Mosse, 2005) Chemistry as memoir, ethics, and survival: science told as literature (1975–2016) The Periodic Table (Primo Levi, 1975) If This Is a Man / Survival in Auschwitz (Primo Levi, 1947) Uncle Tungsten: Memories of a Chemical Boyhood (Oliver Sacks, 2001) The Disappearing Spoon (Sam Kean, 2010) Lab Girl (Hope Jahren, 2016) Insight under pressure: intuition, expertise, and how people actually decide (1998–2015) Seeing What Others Don’t: The Remarkable Ways We Gain Insights (Gary Klein, 2013) Sources of Power (Gary Klein, 1998) Blink (Malcolm Gladwell, 2005) Thinking, Fast and Slow (Daniel Kahneman, 2011) Superforecasting (Philip Tetlock & Dan Gardner, 2015) Awe and everyday transcendence: the science of wonder and its effects (2006–2023) Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life (Dacher Keltner, 2023) The Happiness Hypothesis (Jonathan Haidt, 2006) Flow (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, 1990) The Book of Delights (Ross Gay, 2019) Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer, 2013) Introversion, temperament, and the “extrovert ideal” (1996–2012) Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (Susan Cain, 2012) The Highly Sensitive Person (Elaine N. Aron, 1996) The Introvert Advantage (Marti Olsen Laney, 2002) The Introvert’s Way (Sophia Dembling, 2012) Personality (Daniel Nettle, 2007) Why societies diverge: geography, germs, institutions, and big-history arguments (1997–2021) Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond, 1997) Why Nations Fail (Daron Acemoglu & James A. Robinson, 2012) The Wealth and Poverty of Nations (David S. Landes, 1998) Prisoners of Geography (Tim Marshall, 2015) The Dawn of Everything (David Graeber & David Wengrow, 2021) Presence, mindfulness, and “waking up” from mental noise (1975–2014) The Power of Now (Eckhart Tolle, 1997) The Miracle of Mindfulness (Thích Nhất Hạnh, 1975) Wherever You Go, There You Are (Jon Kabat-Zinn, 1994) Waking Up (Sam Harris, 2014) 10% Happier (Dan Harris, 2014) Therapy made legible: human stories, clinical craft, and change (1989–2020) Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Lori Gottlieb, 2019) Love’s Executioner (Irvin D. Yalom, 1989) The Gift of Therapy (Irvin D. Yalom, 2001) Good Morning, Monster (Catherine Gildiner, 2019) Group (Christie Tate, 2020) Classic success psychology: ambition, persuasion, and “prosperity” narratives (1903–1937) Think and Grow Rich (Napoleon Hill, 1937) How to Win Friends and Influence People (Dale Carnegie, 1936) The Richest Man in Babylon (George S. Clason, 1926) The Science of Getting Rich (Wallace D. Wattles, 1910) As a Man Thinketh (James Allen, 1903) TODO The Art of Spending Money The Infinity Machine World War 2 books The Panda's Thumb (Stephen Jay Gould, 1980) Pluto's Republic (Peter Medawar, 1983) The Science of the Artificial (Herbert A. Simon, 1969) Weapons and Hope (Freeman Dyson, 1984) Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field: How Two Men Revolutionized Physics (Nancy Forbes & Basil Mahon, 2017) Art in the age of mechanical reproduction Turtles, Termites, and Traffic Jams: Explorations in Massively Parallel Microworlds (Mitchel Resnick, 1994)

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