Wojciech Waśniewski

Yet another Stephenson beast - 900+ pages! Too long. But very interesting, with two storylines (WWII and 90s). As usual with his books, you can learn a ton about a variety of topics while enjoying the story and (male) characters, if you don't mind the digressions and meandering. This one was heavy on maths, cryptography, digital currency (it's a book from 1999!), history, warfare, tactical deception, codebreaking, mining and a few other areas. Took me almost 5 months to finish though.

HUGE book. That's it.

Decent book, however the main premise might as well have been published in a blog post. Rest of the book is just various stories illustrating the points - while very interesting (and making readers shine at dinner parties), they don't bring much value to the argument. I guess it's the case of vast majority of non-fiction. Still quite enjoyed listening to it (I have the audible version) and gave me quite a few ideas to experiment with both in personal as well as professional life.

Interesting perspective on parenting. Probably a bit too extreme, a bit too preachy, and the author spends far too much time on the “wrong” practices, and far too little on what “good” parenting actually looks like, but definitely worth a read.
I would be interested to read a similarly persuasive book(s) from the “behaviourist” camp to form a more informed opinion - especially that in general I'm implicitly biased against behaviourism - any recommendations would be much appreciated!

Highly recommend to anyone who, like me, keeps on thinking or saying “that doesn't make sense” and keep finding loopholes while reading or watching fiction.

The book is massive, but I really enjoyed reading it.

In short - it's Harry Potter for geeks.
Useful to be well-acquainted with the original series.