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BookLab Newsletter

  • | Nonfiction Books Takes I Human Nature, Tech, Psychology, Philosophy and hard assets. Let's prep for the Singularity.

BookLab Weekly — Code, Why Buddhism Is True & the Science of Scaling

Oct 5, 2026

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2 min read

BookLab Weekly — Code, Why Buddhism Is True & the Science of Scaling

A video on why you don't need to code anymore but still need to understand computers, the book that makes the hedonic treadmill look like design, and the tutor bot that finally made David Deutsch click.

Bjorn (BookLab)
Bjorn (BookLab)
BookLab Weekly — October Releases, Library Tour, Grief Without Permission & Marathon Monks

Sep 28, 2026

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2 min read

BookLab Weekly — October Releases, Library Tour, Grief Without Permission & Marathon Monks

11 nonfiction books for October, a walk through 500 books that shaped me, a passage about grief that stopped me cold, and monks who run 1,000 marathons or die trying.

Bjorn (BookLab)
Bjorn (BookLab)
BookLab Weekly — Economic Hit Men, a Sociopath's Memoir & 1890s New York

Sep 20, 2026

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2 min read

BookLab Weekly — Economic Hit Men, a Sociopath's Memoir & 1890s New York

A conspiracy that starts strong and ends in shamanic corporate therapy, a woman who broke into houses just to sit there, and the photos that changed American housing law.

Bjorn (BookLab)
Bjorn (BookLab)
BookLab Weekly - Reading List Detours, Mutants & October's Ten

Sep 13, 2026

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1 min read

BookLab Weekly - Reading List Detours, Mutants & October's Ten

A parasitic head embedded in a man's skull, a textbook I'm recommending before I've finished it, and ten October releases worth watching.

Bjorn (BookLab)
Bjorn (BookLab)
BookLab Weekly — Reading List Detours, November Releases & Notes from Underground

Sep 6, 2026

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2 min read

BookLab Weekly — Reading List Detours, November Releases & Notes from Underground

A 2026 list that went off-script, seven November books before they hit social, and the Dostoevsky that out-psychologizes most psychology books.

Bjorn (BookLab)
Bjorn (BookLab)
BookLab Weekly — September's Best Books, a 1951 Sci-Fi That Predicted Everything & the Stoic Book That Changed My Life

Aug 30, 2026

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BookLab Weekly — September's Best Books, a 1951 Sci-Fi That Predicted Everything & the Stoic Book That Changed My Life

Seven nonfiction picks for September, a sci-fi classic about why civilizations collapse from the inside, a new AI book that just landed in my mailbox, and the book I've reread more than any other.

Bjorn (BookLab)
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