A running list of books, articles, blogs, and ideas that have shaped my thinking.
Books
- Man's Search for Meaning — Viktor Frankl
- Fooled by Randomness — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- The Black Swan — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Zero to One — Peter Thiel
- Sapiens — Yuval Noah Harari
- The Second Machine Age — Erik Brynjolfsson & Andrew McAfee
- Scale — Geoffrey West
- Superforecasting — Philip Tetlock
- Thinking in Systems — Donella Meadows
- Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
- The Lessons of History — Will & Ariel Durant
- When Breath Becomes Air — Paul Kalanithi
- The Decadent Society — Ross Douthat
- Breakneck — Dan Wang
Blogs & Writers
- Construction Physics — Brian Potter
- Kyla Scanlon
- Dwarkesh Patel
- Gwern
- Marginal Revolution — Tyler Cowen
- The Money Illusion — Scott Sumner
- The Grumpy Economist — John Cochrane
- One Useful Thing — Ethan Mollick
- Andrej Karpathy
- Not Boring — Packy McCormick
Articles
Mental Models
- Skin in the Game — People should bear the consequences of their decisions
- Lindy Effect — The longer something has survived, the longer it's likely to survive
- Second-Order Thinking — Consider the consequences of the consequences
- Opportunity Cost — Every choice forecloses other choices
- Compounding — Small consistent improvements accumulate dramatically
Movies
- [Add your favorite movies]