I'm reading a book called "じょうぶな子どもをつくる基本食": Joubuna Kodomo-o Tsukuru Kihonshoku. ("Base Diet for making Strong/Healthy Kids").<p>It's a book about child nutrition that disparages all foreign influences in Japanese eating and encourages everything traditional. Steamed rice, miso soup, tsukemono and so on. Plus various parenting advice around food as well as not.<p>Non-traditional foods influenced by foreign cultures, in particular Europe and America, are blamed for all sorts of ills and ailments of the skin, bowel and whatnot, not to mention cancer.<p>Quite entertaining.<p><a href="https://www.amazon.co.JP/じょうぶな子どもをつくる基本食-幕内-秀夫/dp/4072292281" rel="nofollow">https://www.amazon.co.JP/じょうぶな子どもをつくる基本食-幕内-秀夫/dp/4072292281</a>
Programming on Purpose - best book I read on software design so far.<p>Behave: the biology of humans at our best and worst - explaing human behavior from many points of view, well written and mind blowing.
I am currently reading How to Read a Book. I would recommend it as it covers how to read different kinds of text and analytical reading.<p>Its a practical book
The Hidden Life of Trees
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City of a Million Dreams: A History of New Orleans at Year 300 -> Great insight into the history of New Orleans, and how the diverse culture from its beginning has shaped the city we love today.<p>and<p>A Confederacy of Dunces -> Hilarious yet well-written book.
The messy middle by Scott Belsky<p>The founder of Behance covers the journey towards product market fit. It's where most startup's fail and yet very little has been written about that part of the software entrepreneurs journey.
I recently read the short story Omnilingual by H Beam Piper (1957).<p>A planet becomes extinct due to climate change and a team of archaelogists are sent to study its civilisation.