Book notes
List of books I've read, took notes and collected golden nuggets from.
I'd love a book recommendation, so if there's a book you think I should read please send it to me at contact.
How to Take Smart Notes: One Simple Technique to Boost Writing, Learning and Thinking – for Students, Academics and Nonfiction Book Writers
Date read: 2023-06-21Amazing book on how to read, think and write. Slip-box is a framework for great thinkers and writers. It helped me enjoy writing—something I always run away from.
Distributed Systems For Fun and Profit
Date read: 2023-04-27A great book about Distributed Systems. From the programmer's (not the mathematician's) point of view. I love the approach to abstractions and modelling. The great rationale behind different models and abstraction levels. Difference between CAP and FLP impossibilities. Excellent conceptualisation, and great metaphors. Great discussion about different types of consistency, strong, …
Crime and Punishment
Date read: 2023-03-20One of the best books I've ever read. This book tries to answer the hardest questions of humankind. What is the difference between ordinary and extraordinary people? How to distinguish them. What is wrong with thinking 'it's for the greater good'? What is good and what is bad? What is the role of religion? What is the biggest punishment a human can receive? Love it.
Flights
Date read: 2023-03-16The Righteous Mind: Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion
Date read: 2023-01-30Understanding Dance
Date read: 2023-01-13
A Pragmatic Introduction to Secure Multi-Party Computation
Date read: 2022-06-27My Inventions
Date read: 2022-04-29The book is badly written. Chaotic. Nevertheless, interesting. Tesla was some kind of unexplainable mutation. I can't even imagine his imagination.
Distributed Systems: Concepts and Design
Date read: 2022-04-27The Courage to Be Disliked: How to Free Yourself, Change your Life and Achieve Real Happiness
Date read: 2022-04-16How to live, according to Alfred Adler - a rival of Freud
Dune (Dune, #1)
Date read: 2022-03-29
The Old Man and the Sea
Date read: 2022-01-31
Learn You a Haskell for Great Good!
Date read: 2022-01-29
Models: Attract Women Through Honesty
Date read: 2022-01-20Although the goal of this book is to teach seduction, the book covers way more than that; it is one of the best books about interpersonal intelligence.
The Last Lecture
Date read: 2021-09-29When you discover you are going to die next month what would you like to say at your last lecture?
How to Live: 27 conflicting answers and one weird conclusion
Date read: 2021-08-09If I had to pick the best quote from the book, I would have to quote half of it. At first, I thought that the book is about extremes, and the author's intention is to convince readers that no "way of life" is superior to another. There were some "ways to live" that entirely resonated with me. Others don't. So I thought that maybe the book will help me find my way of life from all …
Antologia polskiego rapu
Date read: 2021-03-30Networks: An Introduction
Date read: 2021-01-25
MongoDB Applied Design Patterns: Practical Use Cases with the Leading NoSQL Database
Date read: 2020-12-20
Your Music and People: creative and considerate fame
Date read: 2020-12-04Thought-provoking book on how to live and how to do it well.
Steve Jobs
Date read: 2020-10-31
Anything You Want
Date read: 2020-10-25The philosophy of usefulness-driven entrepreneurship. How to make art of your business. And how to have fun. Short, dense, and very thoughtful.
Inteligentny Inwestor XXI wieku Tom I
Date read: 2020-09-25
Sztuka zwycięstwa
Date read: 2020-07-07
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
Date read: 2020-06-16
How Javascript Works
Date read: 2020-06-16Very insightful book, I learned a lot about JS objects, arrays, prototypes, and inheritance in non-OOP language.
The DevOps 2.1 Toolkit: Docker Swarm: Building, testing, deploying, and monitoring services inside Docker Swarm clusters (The DevOps Toolkit Series)
Date read: 2020-05-17
Hell Yeah or No: What's Worth Doing
Date read: 2020-05-01As every Derek Sivers's book, this one also is a collection of thoughtful articles which change the way of looking at life.
Animal Farm
Date read: 2020-04-23
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
Date read: 2020-04-16Great, I enjoyed it much more than first part. It is also much more detailed than movie.
Learning Python
Date read: 2020-01-22
Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming
Date read: 2019-12-25
Practical Vim: Edit Text at the Speed of Thought
Date read: 2019-12-21
Go in Action
Date read: 2019-12-19
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Date read: 2019-12-18Unfortunately first 9 chapters are quite boring. But then it gets more and more interesting to the end. I enjoyed his first book "Sapiens" more than this, but this one also contains some unique and fascinating insights.
Flutter in Action
Date read: 2019-10-10I would expect more insights or 'behind the hood' aspects of this technology. This book is rather for beginner mobile developers.
Poor Richard's Almanack
Date read: 2019-09-30Benjamin Franklin is the model of a wise and virtuous man. This Almanack is an amazing collection of wise adages. Amazing how much wisdom was he able to concentrate on them.
The Law
Date read: 2019-09-20How Will You Measure Your Life?
Date read: 2019-09-19This book reminds you about the multi dimensionalism of life success. Overtake motivational books can be compared to taking steroids by bodybuilders. This book is like PCT (Post Cycle Therapy) for them.
The Alchemist
Date read: 2019-09-10We pursue our goals just to realize that the moment we achieve them gives us nothing more than disappointment. What is the true source of satisfaction is the journey to achieving those goals. That's why we should enjoy every day of our lives, it's what life is about. It doesn't mean you can neglect your goals because the journey without the destination is not a journey, it's wandering.
Efficient Android Threading: Asynchronous Processing Techniques for Android Applications
Date read: 2019-08-19
John Adams
Date read: 2019-08-11Too voluminous and too heavy pen for not native English reader. Maybe someday it will come easier for me. For now I will stick to Benjamin Franklin.
Man’s Search for Meaning
Date read: 2019-07-03I think that most people, at some point in their life face the big question 'What is the purpose of life?'. The author of this book is the one who can handle this huge question. He survived death camps and noticed what gave people the will to live.
Mastering Ethereum: Building Smart Contracts and DApps
Date read: 2019-06-29
Slicing Pie - Funding Your Business Without Funds
Date read: 2019-06-08The book covers the majority of startup problems. How to split IP, how to pay a salary, and how to do it right. It can save me tons of mistakes and problems in future startups.
The Four: The Hidden DNA of Amazon, Apple, Facebook, and Google
Date read: 2019-05-05Psychologia szefa 1. Szef to zawod. Wydanie III rozszerzone
Date read: 2019-04-25
Mininawyki. Małymi krokami do sukcesu
Date read: 2019-02-20
iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had Fun Doing It
Date read: 2019-02-10Amazing autobiography of one of the most influential engineers of humankind who considered engineering an art.
An Essay On Criticism
Date read: 2019-01-15Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown proposed as things forgot.
Myśl jak FREAK!
Date read: 2019-01-14
Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Date read: 2019-01-01
Budowa pojazdów samochodowych
Date read: 2019-01-0167 Steps Program
Date read: 2018-12-28The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It
Date read: 2018-12-22
Introducing Stephen Hawking (Introducing
Date read: 2018-09-23Egypt - Culture Smart!: The Essential Guide to Customs & Culture
Date read: 2018-09-23
As a Man Thinketh
Date read: 2018-09-20
Gradle in Action
Date read: 2018-09-16
Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us
Date read: 2018-08-1390% of this book is a digression and not important stories. It would be great to create a 2nd edition that summarises it on 100 pages.
Clean Architecture
Date read: 2018-06-23
A Short Course in Intellectual Self-Defense: Find Your Inner Chomsky
Date read: 2018-06-20The Java Virtual Machine Specification
Date read: 2018-05-07The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
Date read: 2018-05-07
Od nędzy do pieniędzy czyli znad Bugu na Wall Street
Date read: 2018-05-07
Kryptografia dla praktyków. Protokoły, algorytmy i programy źródłowe z języku C
Date read: 2018-04-10
Gandhi: An Autobiography
Date read: 2018-03-18
Mastering Blockchain: Distributed Ledgers, Decentralization and Smart Contracts Explained
Date read: 2018-02-18Trading for a Living: Psychology, Trading Tactics, Money Management
Date read: 2018-01-23
How Linux Works: What Every Superuser Should Know
Date read: 2018-01-08This book opens your mind to how the OS (not only Linux) works.
Włam się do mózgu
Date read: 2017-12-15
Mastering Bitcoin
Date read: 2017-12-15
Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal
Date read: 2017-12-15
Success and Change
Date read: 2017-11-13
Linux. Rozmówki
Date read: 2017-11-08
Psychologia Sprzedaży - droga do sprawczości, niezależności i pieniędzy
Date read: 2017-10-07
Smarter Faster Better: The Secrets of Being Productive in Life and Business
Date read: 2017-09-23Effective Java : Programming Language Guide
Date read: 2017-08-12
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Date read: 2017-06-23
Winning
Date read: 2017-06-23
Sam Walton: Made In America
Date read: 2017-06-23
Managing Oneself
Date read: 2017-06-23Speed Reading For Dummies
Date read: 2017-06-22
Mindfulness
Date read: 2017-05-09
On the Shortness of Life: Life Is Long if You Know How to Use It
Date read: 2017-05-04
Screw It, Let's Do It: Lessons in Life
Date read: 2017-04-03Clean Code: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
Date read: 2017-03-24
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
Date read: 2017-03-05
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story
Date read: 2017-02-16Autobiography of a man that achieved everything he wanted to achieve. Read a few pages every day and keep going.
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Date read: 2017-02-07The book shows the importance of focusing on one thing in your life and not getting distracted.
Psychologia relacji, czyli jak budować świadome związki z partnerem, dziećmi i rodzicami
Date read: 2017-02-04Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion
Date read: 2017-02-02
Motywacja bez granic
Date read: 2017-01-17
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: A Short Guide to Making Over Your Mornings-and Life
Date read: 2017-01-11
The Compound Effect
Date read: 2017-01-11
No Excuses!: The Power of Self-Discipline
Date read: 2017-01-11
Awaken the Giant Within: How to Take Immediate Control of Your Mental, Emotional, Physical and Financial Destiny!
Date read: 2017-01-11
Outliers: The Story of Success
Date read: 2017-01-10
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
Date read: 2017-01-09
Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future
Date read: 2017-01-09
The Decision Book: Fifty Models for Strategic Thinking
Date read: 2016-12-13This book is a simplification of great ideas. But it can be used as an index for deeper reading.
The Art of War
Date read: 2016-12-12Great book, you can find similarities in many other areas of your life, like business, games and relationships.
Finansowy ninja
Date read: 2016-10-10How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling
Date read: 2016-09-07The 4-Hour Workweek
Date read: 2016-08-21The Lessons of History
Date read: 2016-06-09I would love to have such lessions in my school education path.
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
Date read: 2015-10-08Sperm Wars: Infidelity, Sexual Conflict, and Other Bedroom Battles
Date read: 2015-09-23
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Date read: 2015-07-21How to Talk to Anyone: 92 Little Tricks for Big Success in Relationships
Date read: 2015-06-05
The Little Prince
Date read: 2015-06-01Getting Rich Your Own Way: Achieve All Your Financial Goals Faster Than You Ever Thought Possible
Date read: 2015-03-30Who Moved My Cheese?
Date read: 2015-03-08Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Date read: 2015-03-05Nasty People
Date read: 2015-02-04The Power of Your Subconscious Mind
Date read: 2015-01-25
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Date read: 2015-01-08Think and Grow Rich
Date read: 2014-12-28
Brave New World
Date read: 2014-12-25
The Slight Edge: Turning Simple Disciplines into Massive Success and Happiness
Date read: 2014-10-19Stop looking for easy paths, for quantum leaps. Yes, this will be harder, slower and you will be often alone in this journey. But you need to follow it to achieve what you want from life.
