In my sixth review, I am going to look at the book Ikigai: The Japanese Secret to a Long and Happy Life by Hector Garcia and Fransesc Miralles. This book takes the reader on a journey into a remote Japanese village with the highest life expectancy of anywhere in the…

In the fifth review, I am going to review The Almanack of Naval Ravikant. I had seen this book floated around alot, and really wanted to get to reading it after seeing lots of Naval’s tweets floating around on Twitter. His twitter handle is @naval, and you can find him…

In my fourth review here, I am going to be reviewing Antifragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. This book discusses how different things actually gain from randomness, a concept unthought of by most people. There are things in the world that go beyond just robust, so Taleb coined the term antifragile…

In the third book review of JRB, I am going to review Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions. This book discusses the ways in which different computing methods can be used to help us in our everday lives. In many ways, it formalizes some of the…

My second book review will be focused on Fooled by Randomness by author Nassim Nicholas Taleb. The author is a trader in the financial markets who uses his mathematical background to exploit price inefficiencies, especially when it comes to the probability of unlikely (or, using the term coined by Taleb…

This will be the first review of my book series, JimReviewsBooks. Today I am going to review a book based on a commencement speech given by a retired Navy SEAL, Make Your Bed. We will start off with the basics of the book, then get into the 8-point scale, big…

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