April 17, 2018July 6, 2023 Reading

Go-To Essays and Books

Essays:

500 Miles, Trey Harris
A Mathematician’s Lament, Paul Lockhart
The days are long but the decades are short, Sam Altman
Was Cypher Right?: Why We Stay In Our Matrix, Robin Hanson
It’s Not Easy, Oak Tree Capital
Relentlessly Resourceful, Paul Graham
What You Can’t Say, Paul Graham
Visualizing Algorithms, Mike Bostock
How to Say Nothing in 500 Words, Paul Roberts
The LA Speed Story, Brian Shul
The Costs of Savoring, Robin Hanson
Speed matters, James Somers
Pmarchive, Marc Andreessen

These are the books that I re-read and recommend the most.

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard Feynman
The Elephant in the Brain, Robin Hanson
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
The Complete Robot, Isaac Asimov
The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
The Three Languages of Politics, Arnold Kling
Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey
The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

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