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Pete Skomoroch Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Investor and AI startup founder. Focus: AI, LLMs, LifeOps, AI Product Management. Was founder @SkipFlag. EIR @Accel. Data Science & ML @LinkedIn, @AOL & @MIT

6 books
Book Cover for: Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist, Christof Koch

Consciousness: Confessions of a Romantic Reductionist

Christof Koch
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@josh_wills Yes, a few more links: https://t.co/fP8q6Ryhji Christof Koch on the neural basis of consciousness https://t.co/TeORfJLl4i Q&A with a person without an internal monologue https://t.co/cWizjA3FmL This one will probably give you an existential crisis https://t.co/KHuiA4Np6k

Paperback, 2017

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn, Barbara Oakley

Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn

Barbara Oakley
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@dschatsky Neuroscientists have learned a lot about how people learn over the last 30 years. Some highlights here: “Uncommon Sense Teaching: Practical Insights in Brain Science to Help Students Learn” https://t.co/e7VJbsV8fj Unfortunately, teachers are sold “math mindset” nonsense instead.

Paperback, 2021

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Qed: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter, Richard P. Feynman

Qed: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter

Richard P. Feynman
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Richard Feynman’s book “QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter” contains an excellent explanation of this Lagrangian formulation written for a general audience https://t.co/DUT98ifqi8 https://t.co/ZWDhKta6UQ

Paperback, 2014

$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai, Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai

Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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Timeless advice to remember if you are frustrated and begin writing a long work email to someone: "…when one is writing a letter, he should think that the recipient will make it into a hanging scroll." - Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Hagakure

Paperback, 2022

$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Oscar Wilde - Reviews: "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell.", Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde - Reviews: "We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell."

Oscar Wilde
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"We are each our own devil, and we make this world our hell." - Oscar Wilde https://t.co/wA0PIlVUJS

Paperback, 2017

$14.74$7.37 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell, Basil Mahon

The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell

Basil Mahon
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@akarp @adad8m Came here to say this, read the same one :) The Man Who Changed Everything: The Life of James Clerk Maxwell by Basil Mahon https://t.co/wdezv33BQs

Paperback, 2004

$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book