What are you reading right now?

[Meatwad]

Thinking fast and slow
Kahneman, Daniel

How to develop a brilliant memory week by week : 50 proven ways to enhance your memory
O'Brien, Dominic

Noise : a flaw in human judgment
Kahneman, Daniel, 1934-

Soon : an overdue history of procrastination, from Leonardo and Darwin to you and me
Santella, Andrew

Mind map mastery : the complete guide to learning and using the most powerful thinking tool in the universe
Buzan, Tony

Supercommunicators : how to unlock the secret language of connection
Duhigg, Charles

Braintenance : how to create healthy habits and reach your goals
Ravey, Julia

Atomic habits : tiny changes, remarkable results : an easy and proven way to build good habits and break bad ones
Clear, James

Think faster, talk smarter : how to speak successfully when you're put on the spot
Abrahams, Matt


Some useful titles read from the last 3-4 months, although a couple were a little too verbose. 

Currently reading a book by Charles Duhigg called "Smarter Faster Better". Its OK so far, but nothing especially revolutionary.

[Mindy]

I'm on chapter 8 of this^

[SGR]

I finally finished Ron Chernow's Grant recently. Wow. Easily the best biography of Grant I've read and one of the best biographies I've ever read period. As before, I started tearing up once I got to the end.

[innerspaceboy]

I'm so pleased to finally add this box set to my library after many years of it sitting on my wishlist. I was notified when it was marked down to 40% off and there were only 6 sets left in stock so I didn't hesitate. I've read all 7 volumes of 10,000 QI Facts: A Brain-Busting Box Set featuring mind-bending facts dug up by the elves who research for my favourite British panel show, QI: Quite Interesting.

My Top 30 QI Facts from the entire series:

Edgar Allan Poe's poem 'The Raven' was originally going to be about a talking parrot.

Pixar devised the key characters and plots of A Bug's Life, WALL·E, Monsters Inc. and Finding Nemo in a single lunch meeting.

Frank Beard is the only member of ZZ Top who doesn't have a beard.

Nobody knows who invented the fire hydrant: the patent records were destroyed in a fire.

Between 1960 and 1977, the secret number authorising US presidents to launch nuclear missiles was 00000000.

Jimmy Carter once sent a jacket to the dry-cleaner's with the nuclear detonation codes still in the pocket.

The highest scoring word in Scrabble is oxyphenbutazone, potentially earning 1,178 points. (It's a drug used to treat arthritis.)

In 1915, Charlie Chaplin entered a Charlie Chaplin lookalike contest in San Francisco. Not only did he not win, he failed even to make the final.

Dune, by Frank Herbert, the world's best-selling science fiction novel, was rejected over 20 times before being accepted by a publisher of car manuals.

As a reward for winning the part of Harry Potter, the 11-year-old Daniel Radcliffe was allowed to stay up and watch Fawlty Towers.

The entire Internet weighs about the same as one large strawberry.

Within 200 yards of the flat in Islington where George Orwell had the idea for 1984, there are now 32 CCTV cameras.

The founder of match.com, Gary Kremen, lost his girlfriend to a man she met on match.com.

When John Hetherington ventured out in public wearing the first top hat, it was considered so shocking that children screamed, women fainted and a small boy broke his arm in the chaos.

Martin Luther King Jr got a C+ in Public Speaking.

In a 2015 poll, 30% of Republicans and 19% of Democrats supported the bombing of Agrabah, the fictional city in Aladdin.

A statue of Nikola Tesla in Silicon Valley provides free Wi-Fi.

In 2000, Blockbuster Video turned down the chance to acquire a new video-streaming service called Netflix.

H. G. Wells was A. A. Milne's maths teacher.

John Williams has never seen any of the Star Wars movies he composed the music for.

The man who popularised the high five has only four fingers.

Neil Armstrong's application to become an astronaut arrived at NASA a week after the deadline.

Jeff Goldblum puts orange juice on his cereal.

The current 50-star US flag was designed in 1958 by a 17-year-old as part of a school project. He got a B.

The mysterious green code that begins all the Matrix movies is in fact recipes for sushi.

Whenever a hurricane is forecast, sales of strawberry Pop-Tarts increase sevenfold.

Mary Shelley learned to read using her mother's gravestone.

The sound of the doors on the starship Enterprise was made by pulling a piece of paper out of an envelope.

Brian Eno used an Apple Mac to compose the start-up music for Windows 95.

People who read books live longer than people who don't.

[Lucem Ferre]

Listen, after pouring a bowl of frosted flakes and finding out there was no milk I used Orange Juice instead and it was pretty good.

Goldblum is onto something.