Bookshelf

Taking inspiration from Patrick Collison’s bookshelf, below are content/books that I have enjoyed in the past or am planning to read soon.

Blogs

• Slate Star Codex
  • e.g. Parable of the Talents, Should You Reverse Advice, Meditations on Moloch
• The Last Psychiatrist
  • requires patience reading a few to grok his style and worldview
• Alexey Guzey
  • e.g. Why blog, What should you do with life
• Applied Divinity Studies
  • e.g. Is time working for or against you?
• Gervais Principle
• Paul Graham Essays
  • e.g. Earnestness, Bus ticket theory of genius

Books

• How to Solve It – Polya
• Antifragile – Nassim Taleb
• Thus Spoke Zarathustra – Nietzsche
• Dune – Frank Herbert
• Arguably – Hitchens
• Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World – Girard
• Atlas of the Heart – Rene Brown
• Sadly, Porn – Edward Teach
• Book of Why – Judea Pearl
• Godel’s Proof – Ernest Nagel
• Meditations – Marcus Aurelius
• History of the Peloponnesian War - Thucydides
• Snow Crash – Neal Stephenson

Miscellaneous

• Learn X in Y minutes