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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.
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 & Blogs
- 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
- The power of good design, Vitsoe
- Stratechery, Ben Thompson
- Marginal Revolution, Tyler Cowen
Talks / Lectures / Videos
- Science and the Taboo of psi, Dean Radin
- Human Behavioral Biology, Robert Sapolsky
- Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations: The Stoic Ideal, Michael Sugrue
- How to Hack Year One
Poems
- The Man in the Arena, Theodore Roosevelt
- Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas
- Ozymandias, Percy Bysshe Shelley
- If—, Rudyard Kipling
- Ulysses, Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Invictus, William Ernest Henley
- Ithaka, Constantine Cavafy
- Musée des Beaux Arts, W. H. Auden
- Scaffolding, Seamus Heaney
- The Rainy Day, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Tables Turned, William Wordsworth
- How Did You Die?, Edmund Vance Cooke
Hindi & Urdu Poetry
- हज़ारों ख्वाहिशें ऐसी (Hazaaron Khwahishen Aisi), Mirza Ghalib
- मधुशाला (Madhushala), Harivansh Rai Bachchan
- सरफ़रोशी की तमन्ना (Sarfaroshi Ki Tamanna), Bismil Azimabadi
- लब पे आती है दुआ (Lab Pe Aati Hai Dua), Allama Iqbal
- सितारों से आगे जहाँ और भी हैं, Allama Iqbal
- मिरे जुनूँ का नतीजा ज़रूर निकलेगा, Ameer Qazalbash
- Faiz Ahmad Faiz - Complete Works