April 17, 2018December 1, 2020 Reading

Go-To Essays and Books

This is a list of essays and authors I re-read often — the type of writing where you get something new out of it each time.

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. Some are pragmatic, some are simply pleasure reading.

Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard Feynman
The Elephant in the Brain, Robin Hanson
Unbroken, Laura Hillenbrand
The Complete Robot, Isaac Asimov
The Power of Habit, Charles Duhigg
The Three Languages of Politics, Arnold Kling
Leviathan Wakes, James S.A. Corey
The Most Good You Can Do, Peter Singer
The Hard Thing About Hard Things, Ben Horowitz
Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson
The Old Man and the Sea, Ernest Hemingway

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Yes, I genuinely do like The Old Man and the Sea. Everyone yells at me for that one. It’s the one “school made me read this” book I didn’t hate.

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