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Yes, I didn't expect so many answers !! I have a whole page of reading recommendations now. Just have to choose where to start.

Thanks for all your recomendations, especially the BBC documentary. I'm really interested in Gödel and Cantor.

I'll add this one to my list, thanks !

I loved this book when I read it indeed. Really comprehensive and smart.

Thanks, I had read some Feyerabend essays a few years ago. This is indeed instead thought provoking.

Thanks, I'll add the John Stillwell book to my reading list. And thanks for the idea of watching the newer "Cosmos" series. I'm always looking for ideas for shows to watch with my son!

Thanks, I have heard a lot about Bill Bryson but never took the time to read it. I will start with this one.

I went back to college and started a bachelor in philosophy in a specific cursus tailored for people with a full time job. Met plenty of fantastic people with various backgrounds.

Business & work : Deep Work - Cal Newport, Anti fragile - Nassim Taleb CNV : Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Life. Marshall Rosenberg "spiritual" or wisdom related : Tao Te King, Marcus Aurelius, the Gospel, Meditation on the Tarot classics : Plato, Homer, and Peloponese's war by Thucydides. And I couldn't explain why but I re-read Into thin air by Krakauer every year.

I faced the same question and ended joining a climate-tech company (www.carbometrix.com). There are plenty of tech jobs in the climate tech, you can read Climate Tech VC newsletter - they have a good job board. DM me if you want to discuss the subject.

"How do they deal with vulnerability, or being wrong, or someone else being wrong?" this is indeed an excellent question. I had so many difficulties in the past with engineers who where "never wrong". Thanks very useful advices.

I deleted the app on my Iphone. I don't regret at all. My mind seems clearer, not swamped into unnecessary content curated by the algorithms. I loved Instagram because I love painting, and photography, and visual arts in general but these past years it has become terrible with all the videos, and advertisement. And to answer your second question, when I feel mentally exhausted I try to do something physical like going out for a short walk. Seek boredom is an excellent advice !

this is excellent advice ! it sounds much better indeed to have the candidate working on concrete problems we are trying to solve. Thanks