I’m Miro, a proud generalist, boundless builder, analytical artist, caring critic, eager explorer, eternal inquirer, first-principles fool, agnostic …

2026 will be the year of revolution in recruitment. Great things are built by great companies that are made up of great people. However, despite …

A great collection of Cosmere “short” stories about very different but uniquely memorable characters in a wide variety of fantastical …

A fascinating and very approachable treasure trove introduction to the evolution of the brain as a recursive prediction machine via a framework of …

what makes a team great and how can you ever hope to find yourself in such rare and precious a circumstance?

Hairdressing is the most AI-proof industry. We were talking at lunch the other day about having to go get our hair cut and, as it always does …

Vectors have exploded in popularity as the datatype enabling semantic search, which powers all kinds of AI applications ranging from standard RAG …

Epic ending for a masterfully crafted trilogy! Sanderson strikes the perfect balance of promise, payoff and mystery for a satisfying ending of an epic …

For some reason the name “The Well of Ascension” had been distantly familiar to me long before ever even hearing about Brandon Sanderson. …

Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn is a great piece of Dune-esque fiction with fantastic world building, a very original and interesting hard magic …

I and my copy of this book have been through a lot together. I carried it in my backpack for a couple of months, accidentally causing it water damage, …

Tress of the Emerald Sea is a fun, quotable and theoretically very surprising fantasy adventure with various twists and trope inversions, which does, …

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter is a great Cosmere story full of mystery, mundane magic and occasionally somewhat awkward teenage romance. The …

I picked up The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People by Stephen Covey to read on the plane on our trip to Italy mostly due to its physically robust …

Victor E. Frankl’s “Man’s Search for Meaning” is an important and ever-so-timely exploration about the most central of …

We revolutionized democracy last weekend at Junction 2024 for Sitra’s Digital Democracy challenge - only to discover on Saturday evening with 14 hours …

Introduction Art and science - as expressions of fundamental human creativity and curiosity - need no justification, whereas the value of business and …

I bought this as a separate book as I only realized afterwards that it would have been a part of Arcanum Unbounded. My expectations might have been …

What a book! After the first couple of the Stormlight Archive books I had high expectations which were still vastly exceeded. I don’t want to tell too …

This was pretty much what I expected it to be, if not a little less still. Mark H. McCormack’s What They Don’t Teach You At Harvard Business School is …

Reviewing books deeper into a series in a meaningful way, particularly when they are split into two parts, becomes in a way quite difficult and hence, …

Everything I said in the review of the first part still stands but now raised to the second power! The world feels very real, and it feels like the …

As claimed on the cover of my edition by The Guardian: ‘The Stormlight Archive is epic in every sense’. While I cannot vouch for the entire series …

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is perhaps the most relevant and important classic for the modern day – only it failed to predict smartphones. This …

Animal Farm is perhaps one of the most famous allegories and in that it is anything but subtle, just like the pigs in the story. Any elementary …

The secondary title “A Way of Being” of Rick Rubin’s The Creative Act is a bit of a misleading title as this book is only a very loose, non-continuous …

What a great coincidence getting to read this book for two courses simultaneously. We used this as our coursebook for both Human-Computer Interaction …

I can tell that The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fritzgerald may contain quite a bit of depth buried somewhere among its dense paragraphs but I may have …

I am not quite sure why I had to read this book or what I expected of it but perhaps due to repeated subconscious exposure, somehow familiar cover art …

Atomic Habits by James Clear is a great book reminding you mostly about what you already know with some cool stories and quotes sprinkled in between. …

This has really been a long time coming. The Lightning Thief has been at the back of my reading list pretty much ever since I learned to read. I have …

The human race will most likely not continue existing indefinitely. As long as we are confined to a single planet, we are faced with various …

Machine ethics, as described by Colin Allen and Wendell Wallach refers to the new field of enquiry in ethics concerning the development of artificial …

“Spark Joy” is a great book for a very specific audience. As Kondo herself says in the book, one should not read this book if they are not …

I found out about this book through the 2021 audiovisual masterpiece, Dune, which works as a fantastic trailer for this book. Frank Herbert’s …

Double triple quadruple check everything you read and see. The book is filled with mistakes and inaccuracies and is often written very …

This is what I eventually ended up doing my individual oral presentation on as it explores a wide variety of rather universal themes such as freedom …

Existential dread, here we come! This is a dangerous book for those who just want to get by in everyday life without delving too deep into the …

William Shakespeare’s “Macbeth” is a difficult and laborious read that has a lot to offer to the patient reader. We had an entire …

Henrik Ibsen’s A Doll’s House is by far the best play I have read for school. It is also among the best literary classics we have read …

This has really been a long time coming. The Lightning Thief has been at the back of my reading list pretty much ever since I learned to read. I have …

John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men” is an American classic, one that I have now read twice for both middle and high school, in …

I had high expectations for this one as Mark Twain has been described as one of the greats and I have heard the name Huckleberry Finn so many times …

Everything you ever need to know about economics! It sure is “the most comprehensive, systematic, forthright, and powerful defense of the …

Moonwalking with Einstein is an extremely entertaining and well-written story about the author’s journey from an ordinary journalist with …

Plato and a Platypus Walk Into a Bar is the perfect introduction to philosophy. It’s educational, funny, inspiring and and despite the names of …

An interesting account on the 1980’s Wall Street and Michael Lewis’ own journey in Salomon Brothers with a pretty predictable teaching. …

A great book that brings the Ellingham case to a conclusion. It’s a gripping and well written, light mystery-drama which I can honestly …

A good sequel to a great book with some very interesting plot twists that answer some of the questions from the first book while setting up a lot more …

A great book with a truly interesting catch! There are two factors that make it so unique: first, it is only written in letters and secondly but more …

Read this one for school. It’s an adequately interesting account of the evolution of the news industry with a lot of “behind-the-scenes …

Straight to the point. It delivers what it promises: a kick in the ass. There’s no shortcuts to realizing ones potential but the work has to be …

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman discusses the two “systems” involved in thinking: the fast and automatic and the slow and …