Of Martin and books in 2018.
Martin Omedo
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I was once advised by one of my mentors that everything I need for a better future, and success has already been written. And guess what? All I need to have is a library. This is an advice I took, ran with, and implemented everything about it to the latter.
In the year 2018, I bought a total 110 (approximately KSh 220,000 excluding the book-gifts I gave out in the said year) - this is the reason why I always insist that my book can only leave Thee Book Temple with only me. Out of that, I managed to read 25 books, some were total let down, and some served their intended purpose in a nuanced and illuminating way. In the list below are some of the books I found useful and you can consider them for your 2019 read if you haven't read any of them. The ordering has no inherent meaning; however, some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly. The first three books need to be chewed and digested thoroughly.
1) Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
2) Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
3) 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
4) Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism and Progress by Steven Pinker
5) Factfulness: Ten Reasons We are wrong about the World by Prof Hans Rosling
6) Reinventing Foreign Aid by William Easterly
7) Edge of Chaos: Why Democracy is Failing to deliver Economic Growth and How to fix it by Dambisa Moyo
8)Everybody Lies Big Data, New Data Seth Stephens-Davidowitz
9) Making and Unmaking of Public Health in Africa: Ethnographic and Historical Perspectives by Ruth J. Prince & Rebecca Marsland
10) From Third World to First Singapore and the Asian Economic Boom by Lee Kuan Yew
11) The New Edge in Knowledge by Carla O'Dell & Cindy Hubert
12) The Stupidity Paradox: The power and Pitfalls of Functional Stupidity at Work by Mats Alvesson & Andre Spicer
13) The Story of Philosophy by James Garvey & Jeremy Strangroom
14) Logic: A Very Short Introduction by Graham Priest
15) Global Health Watch 4 by Various Authors
16) Global Health Africa: Historical Perspectives on Disease Control by Tamara Giles Vernic & James L. A. Webb Jr
17) Big Bang Disruption by Larry Downes & Paul Nunes
18) New Power: How it's Changing the 21st Century and Why you need to know by Henry Timms & Jeremy Heimans
19) Christianity, Development, and Modernity in Africa By Paul Gifford
20) Small Giants: Companies that choose to be Great Instead of Big by Bo Burlingham
21) Development as Freedom by Amartya Sen
The more you learn. The more you learn. It is that simple. Happy New Year and Happy reading in the year 2019
International Consultant on Education, Research, Socio- Economic & Human Development
5 年Thanks for sharing a list of worth reading books. Are all of these available online or in E-Books format.
CP3P (Foundation),Supply Chain Leader & Expert, Capacity Builder
5 年Daktari,you are one of the few surviving readers in Kenya.Iam proud of you.It is healthy for the mind even if they are e-books
Impact & Economic Evaluations Advisor
5 年Nice one and a great encouragement. Do you have a bias to Yuval Noah Harari though?
MPH, MA Monitoring and Evaluation, BSc Biomedical Science
5 年Now l know the source of your great writing skills!! ????????
Great motivation