Books - Recently completed

Non-Fiction

• Edward Bernays - Propaganda
• Eugen Herrigel - Zen in the Art of Archery
• Terence Real - Fierce Intimacy
• Yanis Varoufakis - Technofeudalism
• Richard Feynman - Perfectly Reasonable Deviations From the Beaten Track

Fiction

• Hugh Howey - Wool
• Haruki Murakami - Hard-boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (second reading)
• Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
• Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
• Stendhal - The Charterhouse of Parma

Courses

In addition to my formal academic studies, I’ve been learning through The Great Courses (aka The Teaching Company) for over fifteen years. I’ve done over 50 courses lasting over 500 hours. Learning is a deep passion of mine.

Recently completed

Philosophy

• Modern Intellectual Tradition - From Descartes to Derrida
• Consciousness and Its Implications
• Argumentation - The Study of Effective Reasoning
• Existentialism And The Meaning Of Life
• Rick Roderick’s “Philosophy and Human Values”
• Rick Roderick’s “Nietzsche and the Post-Modern Condition”
• Rick Roderick’s “Self Under Siege”
• Will to Power - The Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche
• Voltaire and the Triumph of Enlightenment
• Emerson, Thoreau, and the Transcendentalist Movement
• Ethics Of Aristotle
• Skepticism 101

Psychology

• Effective Communication Skills
• Nonverbal Communication
• Customs of the World
• Art of Teaching - Best Practices from a Master Educator
• The Intelligent Brain
• Optimizing The Brain
• The Art of Negotiating the Best Deal
• Understanding Imperial China: Dynasties, Life, and Culture
• Transformational Leadership: How Leaders Change Teams, Companies, and Organizations
• Improving Your Statistical Inferences
• Improving Your Statistical Questions

Science, Technology, Engineering, Math, and Medicine

• Games People Play: Game Theory in Life, Business, and Beyond
• Great Thinkers, Great Theorems (Mathematics)
• Physics And Our Universe How It All Works
• Understanding the Science for Tomorrow
• Secrets of Sleep Science
• Understanding Genetics
• Trails of Evidence (Forensic Science)
• Human Body - How We Fail, How We Heal
• Mastering Differential Equations
• How Music and Mathematics Relate

Music (courses by Robert Greenberg)

• How to Listen To and Understand Great Music
• Understanding the Fundamentals of Music
• Bach and the High Baroque
• Chamber Music of Mozart
• Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas
• Great Masters - The Schumanns
• Great Masters - Shostakovich
• Great Masters - Mahler
• Great Masters - Stravinsky
• The 30 Greatest Orchestral Works
• The Symphony
• Concerto
• The 23 Greatest Solo Piano Works

History

• Capitalism versus Socialism: Comparing Economic Systems
• Barbarian Empires of the Steppes
• The Persian Empire
• Rome and the Barbarians
• World of Byzantium
• Europe and Western Civilization in the Modern Age
• History of Russia

Literature

• Understanding Literature and Life - Drama, Poetry and Narrative
• Aeneid Of Virgil
• Lives and Works of English Romantic Poets
• Masterpieces of the Imaginative Mind
• Classics of Russian Literature
• Literary Modernism
• Poetry: A Basic Course
• How to Read and Understand Poetry
• Joyce’s Ulysses

Other

• Adobe Premier Pro, Adobe InDesign, and Adobe Illustraitor via BYOL
• How to Look At and Understand Great Art
• Fundamentals of Photography
• Writing and Civilization
• Introduction to the Study of Religion
• The Everyday Guide To Wine
• The Everyday Guide to Spirits and Cocktails
• Espionage and Covert Operations
• Structuring Machine Learning Projects
• Understanding Investments