Resources
Great thinkers, books and Twitter accounts.
A set of unordered lists including my favorite thinkers, books and Twitter accounts.
Note: I do not necessarily agree with everything listed here. I sometimes consume someone’s content precisely because I don’t agree with them and find their opposing opinion interesting.
Favorite contemporary thinkers:
Great books:
Favorite books in bold, with all-time favorite books underlined.
- A Guide to the Good Life - William B. Irvine
- A History of Private Life, Volume I - Paul Veyne
- A Philosophical Walk - Sven Schnieders
- A Tour of C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup
- The Rust Programming Language - Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols
- The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
- Awareness - Anthony De Mello
- Complete Krav Maga - Darren Levine and John Whitman
- Direct Truth - Kapil Gupta
- Discourses and Selected Writings - Epictetus
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
- Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
- The Enchiridion - Epictetus
- High Growth Handbook - Elad Gil
- The Man from the Future - Ananyo Bhattacharya
- Influence - Robert B. Cialdini
- Le Comte De Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (in French)
- Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
- Bound to Be Free - Jane Fortune-Wood
- Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
- Poor Charlie’s Almanack - Peter D. Kaufman
- Radical Markets - Eric A. Posner and E. Glen Weyl
- Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
- Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Mastering Ethereum - Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- Spiritual Enlightenment - Jed McKenna
- The Brand Gap - Marty Neumeier
- Freedom - Osho
- The C Programming Language - Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
- The Courage To Be Disliked - Ichiro Kishimi and Fumitake Koga
- The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
- The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
- The Truth about Carbs - Nate Miyaki
- Why We Sleep - Matthew Walker
- Mastering Bitcoin - Andreas M. Antonopoulos
- Pitching Hacks - Venture Hacks
- With Consent - Jane Fortune-Wood
- Zero to One - Peter Thiel
- The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
- A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander
- The Science of Can and Can’t - Chiara Marletto
- Guests of the Sheik - Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
- Doing It Their Way - Jane Fortune-Wood
- Too Soon Old, Too Late Smart - Gordon Livingston
- Drugs Without the Hot Air - David Nutt
Favorite Twitter accounts: