Here goes nothing. This is what I have entertained my mind this year.
Kindle
Lifespan: Why We Age—and Why We Don’t Have To and The Longevity Diet
It is not easy to get over the big 4. Yes, now that I am dad, I have to live forever. Both books mostly say the same thing, don’t eat too much, you will be fine. Sleeping hungry is not a bad thing. And
juventologyis a real word.Screen Kids
I worry too much, yes, but did you know I also worry too early? I didn’t. After a visit to Turkey, seeing my 9 years old niece surfing online and discussing with it with my brother, I realized I need to book to think about this.
Two Cheers for Higher Education
Yet another book to help me disagree with myself about the worth of higher education in 15 years time. The book was more about academia and less about the higher education, but I got what I wanted.
The Personal MBA: Master the Art of Business
What a waste of money.
Reinventing Organizations: A Guide to Creating Organizations Inspired by the Next Stage of Human Consciousness
Bought this after learning my organisation kfzteile24 is using this book as a blueprint to reshuffle its management strategies. I am sorry Klaus and Markus, never finished the book.
Project to Product: How to Survive and Thrive in the Age of Digital Disruption with the Flow Framework
Bought this after learning my organisation kfzteile24 is greatly struggling moving past project culture, where ever great idea is pursued and abandoned in favor of the next great one. Helped me a lot writing proposals how to get out of that.
There was something so fundamentally wrong with the way business people and technologists worked and communicated that even leaders with the best of intentions could still lead their companies into predictable decline.
Hardcover
- The Broom of the System by David Foster Wallace
I am certain I am not getting wht the dude is saying mostly, but love reading him, probably wishing I could write like him?
Inceldigi Yerden by Asli Bicen
Another Basak’s recommendation. I remember the story but couldn’t quite grasp the last part, how the whole story abruptly turned around.
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track by Will Larson
This engineering manager thing is getting more recognition and it is hard to not notice the correlation between writing for a long time and writing well, even for techiical books.
Although of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself: A Road Trip with David Foster Wallace
Better than the movie I guess. Made me happy to hear I am not the only one.
11. Peron: Bir Yanı Memleket Bir Yanı Gurbet by Gokhan Duman
We are not the first ones coming here. Very aglamakli book
This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly
This shit will happen again. I got lost a bit in the numbers.
The Big Score: The Billion-Dollar Story of Silicon Valley
My fascination of some people inventing things will never cease I guess.
The Making of Modern Turkey: Nation and State in Eastern Anatolia, 1913-1950 by Umit Ungor
First time I bought a book after reading an excerpt. Hard read for my lazy brain but got through it somehow.
Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment by Kahneman
I am so jealous of people who found their working-significant-others.
21 Lessons for 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
This is a book I should like, but hardly raised any interest since everything is well thought but somehow intengable?
Turkish Kaleidoscope: Fractured Lives in a Time of Violence by Jenny White
Wonderful history of the 80’s in Turkey in a comic book format.
The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Revised Edition: An Account in Words and Pictures
You got a daughter, you got worries.
Covid Chronicles: A Comics Anthology
The War That Ended Peace: The Road To 1914 by Margaret MacMillan
My beloved summer read. Loved this one. Not sure how/where the obsessions with the world wars is coming from but the whole feeling of the book was very lively, a few people fulfilling their destiny at the expense of millions.
Merhume by Murat Uyurkulak
Didn’t get it.
Audible
Death by Meeting , The Advantage and The Motive by Lencioni
I hate when this dude’ stories become my reality. Discovering him is a pain
The Leadership Habit
Hah, I saw this one on my boss’ table. So kiss-ass I am, started listening to this one. End of the year, the book on my boss table has not moved an inch. I wonder if that was an eloborate ruse all along (it was not)
Indistractable
The genuises who can reframe the idea of focusing and selling back to me must be recognized. Brava gentlemen, brava.
A Seat at the Table
Yep, I am the big boss now, sitting in the big bosses table. Surprisingly practical advices in this one.
- Raising Good Humans