Summaries

Conferences, talks and presentations

• Life Extension Conference 2012

• Quantified Self Conference 2011

• Humanity Plus conference at Caltech 2010

Books

• Alan Lightman - Einstein's Dreams - not recommended

• Dale Carnegie - How to Win Friends and Influence People - RECOMMENDED; in progress

• Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - not recommended

• Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions - not recommended

• Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers - recommended

• Michael Shermer - The Mind of the Market - RECOMMENDED; in progress

• Tim Ferriss - The 4-Hour Body

Audiobooks

Brian Tracy - Master Your Time

Essays and papers

• Why we should hope we don't find life on Mars
• Why privacy matters even if you have 'nothing to hide'
• Peter Thiel's advice on pitching your startup to venture capitalists -- summary of class notes

Studies

• Sex differences in romantic kissing among US college students

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi - Flow, money and happiness

Video lectures

• My up-to-date list of all TED talks to date, many with ratings and summaries.

• Harvard University's Justice with Michael Sandel

Miscellaneous

• Brad Neuberg - Inventing the Future, 2007

• The Ideas Underlying Silicon Valley's Success (Commonwealth Club of California panel, 2011-Sep-12)

• Darrel Ray - The God Virus: How Religion Infects Our Lives and Culture (summary of Dr. Ray's presentation of the book in San Francisco, 2009-Oct-31)

• David J. Linden - Vice, Virtue and the Brain's Pleasure Circuits

• Crowdfunding Your Startup - The Future of Startup Funding

• Ephemerisle 2011 microtalks

Programming

• Ricardo Signes - Git is easy

• Cory Watson - Moose for managers

• Michael Schwern - Better programming through testing

• BayJax 2009-July - Bay Area AJAX and JavaScript meetup. Speakers include Douglas Crockford, Nicole Sullivan, Satyen Desai and Jonathan LeBlanc.