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(WIP) This is an evolving collection of papers, websites, blogs, videos, and other artefacts of knowledge that have challenged, clarified, or provoked my thinking.
An Ask: I'd love to read the blogs, papers, videos, or books that have had a major impact in the way you see the world. If you have any recommendations, please do send them my way.
Papers
- The Mundanity of Excellence, Daniel F. Chambliss
- Schopenhauer as educator, Nietzsche
- The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge, Abraham Flexner
- On the Use and Abuse of History for Life, Nietzsche
- An Answer to the Question: What is Enlightenment?, Immanuel Kant
- Industrial Society and Its Future, Theodore Kaczynski
- The Nature of the Firm, R. H. Coase
- The Uncanny Valley, Masahiro Mori
- What is Strategy? Michael Porter
- What Theory is Not, Theorizing Is, Karl E. Weick
- Readings: The Political Economy of Education
- On Learning and the Learned, Arthur Schopenhauer
- Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Essays
- Market Research, Wireframing, and Design, Balaji Srinivasan
- Cities and Ambition, Paul Graham
- Luxury Beliefs are Status Symbols, Rob Henderson
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail, John Salvatier
- How to do Great Work, Paul Graham
- Looking for Alice, Henrik Karlson
- You and Your Research, Richard Hamming
- 1000 True Fans, Kevin Kelly
- The Logic of Envy, Rob Henderson
- The Cactus and the Weasel, Venkatesh Rao
- The pmarca blog archives, Marc Andressen
- Notebooks, Cosma Shalizi
- The Myth of Sisyphus, Albert Camus
- Story of Your Life, Ted Chiang- short story that inspired the movie Arrival
- The Inner Ring, C. S. Lewis
- On the shortness of life, Seneca
Talks / Lectures / Videos
- Science and the Taboo of psi, Dean Radin
- Human Behavioral Biology, Robert Sapolsky
- Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations: The Stoic Ideal, Michael Sugrue