Books
Below is a list of interesting books, essays, papers, lectures and videos
Philosophy
- Poor Richard’s Almanack - B. Franklin
- Anti-Education - F. Nietzsche
- The Birth of Tragedy - F. Nietzsche
- Human, All To Human - F. Nietzsche
- The Genealogy of Morals - F. Nietzsche
- Untimely Meditations - F. Nietzsche
- Man’s Search for Meaning - V. Frankl
- Meaning In History - K. Loweth
- How To Live - D. Sivers
Existentialism
- The Myth of Sisyphus - A. Camus
Probability
- The Black Swan - N. Taleb
- Fooled By Randomness - N. Taleb
- Antifragile - N. Taleb
- Skin in the Game - N. Taleb
Twenty First Century
Political
- The American Challenge
Eastern
- Tao Te Ching - L. Tzu
- First and Last Freedom - J. Krishnamurti
- Freedom from the Known - J. Krishnamurti
- The Way of Zen - A. Watts
- Out of Your Mind - A. Watts
- You’re It - A. Watts
- The Five Invitations
Humanities
Drama
- Impro
English
- Bartlebee The Scrivener
- Brave New World - A. Huxley
- 1984 - G. Orwell
- The Road to Wigan Pier - G. Orwell
- Fahrenheit 451 - R. Bradbury
- Animal Farm - G. Orwell
German
- The Sorrows of Young Werther - J. Goeth
- Faust I & II - J. Goeth
- Metamorphosis - F. Kafka
Russian
- Demons - F. Dostoevsky
- Crime and Punishment - F. Dostoevsky
- The Brother’s Karamzov - F. Dostoevsky
- Dead Souls - N. Gogol
- A Hero Of Our Time - M. Lermenov
- The Death of Ivan Illiych - L. Tolstoy
- Confessions - L. Tolstoy
- Notes From The Underground - F. Dostoevsky
Computers
- The Future of Software
- Kingpin
- Ghost In The Wires
- Countdown to Zero Day
- Spam Nation
- Algorithms To Live By
- The Seventh Sense
- Serious Cryptography
- Chaos Monkeys
Artificial Intelligence
- Artificial Intelligence: A Modern Approach
- How To Create a Mind - R. Kurzwile
Economics and Business
- Basic Economics - T. Sowell
- The Road to Serfdom - F.A Hayek
- The Sovereign Individual
- Rational Optimist
- Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think
- The Personal MBA
- Flash Boys - M. Lewis
Capital Markets and Investing
- The Dao of Capital
- A Random Walk Down Wall Street
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
- The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
- The Intelligent Investor - B. Graham
- The Simple Path To Wealth
- The Richest Man in Babylon
- University of Berkshire Hathaway
Crypto
- Mastering Bitcoin - A. Antonopoulos
- Digital Gold
- The Business Blockchain
- Bitcoin The Future Of Money?
- Blockchain Revolution
- Industries of the Future
- Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies
- Mastering Ethereum - A. Antonopoulos
- The Bitcoin Standard
Entrepreneurship and Early Stage Companies
- The Lean Start Up
- The Innovator’s Dilemma
- Lean Customer Development
- Smart Cuts
- Zero to One
- Built To Last
- Good To Great
- Venture Deals
- Disciplined Entrepreneurship
- The Founders: The Story of Paypal
- The Great CEO Within
- Rich Dad Poor Dad
- Start Your Own Corporation
- Angel Investing: From Start To Finish
- Getting Real
- Remote: Office Not Required
- Rework
- Big Bang Disruption: Strategy in the Age of Devastating Innovation
- Bold - P. Diamandes
- Bad Blood
- The Hard Thing About Hard Things
Leadership
- Endurance: Shackleton’s Voyage
Health
- Beyond Coffee
- The Brain Maker
- The Bullet Proof Diet
- Grain Brain
- How Not To Die
- Strong Lifts 5 x 5
- The Body Keeps The Score
Psychology
- The Power of Habit
- Awareness - A. Demello
- Man and His Symbols - CG. Jung
- The Undiscovered Self - CG. Jung
- Modern Man In Search of a Soul CG - Jung
- Strangers To Ourselves
- Freedom from Self Sabotage
- Education and the Individual - Adler
- The Elephant In The Brain
- Alchemy and Psychology - CG. Jung
History
- Caffeine
- Ordinary Men
- When Genius Failed: The Rise and Fall of LTCM
- Alexander The Great
- The Story of Philosophy
- Lessons of History
- Story of Civilization: Our Oriental Heritage
- The Gulag Archipelago: Vol 1
Ancient & Mythology
- The Illiad
- The Hero of 1,000 Faces
- Paradise Lost
- Alexander The Great
- The Odyssey
Creativity
- The War of Art
- The Artist’s Way
- Wired to Create: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Creative Mind
- Lateral Thinking
- Creativity Inc
Social
Society
- The Diversity Myth
- Emily Post’s Etiquette
Relationships
- How To Win Friends and Influence People
Natural Science
- Philosophy of Science: A Very Short Introduction
Brain Sciences
- Autopilot: The Art & Science of Doing Nothing
- The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind
Biology
- The Gene
- The Emperor of All Maladies
- The Vital Question
- The Human Superorganism
Mathematics
- Finite and Infinite Games
Videos and Lectures
- The Tech Curse - P. Thiel
- Hoover Institute: Make Ticker Tape Parades Great Again - P. Thiel, P. Robinson
- Hoover Institute: The Straussian Moment - P. Thiel, P. Robinson
- Hoover Institute: The World According to Thiel - P. Thiel, P. Robinson
- Hoover Institute: Insights with Rene Girard - R. Girard, P. Robinson
- Hoover Institute: Thomas Sowell on Myths of Economic Inequality - T. Sowell, P. Robinson
- Hoover Institute: Thomas Sowell on Basic Economics - T. Sowell, P. Robinson
- IQ Squared: Too Many Kids Go To College - P. Thiel, C. Murray, V. Wadhwa, H. Bienen
- How To Live In A World We Don’t Understand - N. N. Taleb
- Eric Schmidt and Peter Thiel 2012 Debate - P. Thiel, E. Schmidt
- In Tech We Trust?: Stagnation - P. Thiel, M. Andreesen
- Hoover Institute: Cardinal Conversations with Peter and Reid - P. Thiel, R. Hoffman
- Where did the future go? - P. Thiel, D. Graeber
- RSA Replay: On Bullshit Jobs - D. Graeber
- Debt, Service and Origins of Capitalism - D. Graeber
- Series: The Psychological Significance of the Biblical Stories - J.B. Peterson
- 3 hour Discussion on Metaphysics - Sheldrake, Dennett, Dyson, Toulmin, Sacks, Gould and Kayzer
- Krishnamurti and Boehm Discussion Series - J. Krishnamurti, D. Boehm
- The Uncarved Block, Unbleached Silk - A. Watts
- Take Charge of Your Life - J. Rohn