Library
Some favorite books sorted by rough subject. All books with ratings on goodreads and here as list.
List with different books recommendations of interesting people or indexes
- Great Libraries & Reading Lists by Jeremy Nixon
- Goodbooks: Top 100 most recommended books from interesting people they listed
- Recommendations from Lex Fridman Guests
- Goodbooks: Book recommendations from a range of interesting people
- The Index by Jeremy Nixon
Other bookshelves I particularly enjoyed:
- Laura Deming recommends some great books to start in longevity
- Patrick Collisons bookshelf and recommendations
- Steve Jobs
- Paul Graham
- Marc Andreessens Book Recommendations
- Book reviews by Derek Sivers
- David Deutsch book recommendations
- Book reviews by Gwern
- Sam Altman
- Demis Hassabis
- Elon Musk
- Balaji S. Srinivasan
- Naval Ravikant (more)
- Chris Dixon
- Joe Rogan
- Ana Fabrega
- Matthew McAteer Bookshelf
- Sheryl Sandberg
- Eric Weinstein
- Lex Friedman
- Larry Page
- Bill Gates
- Charlie Munger
- Bryan Johnson
- Jeff Bezos
- John Carmack
- Dan Wang
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Life, Spiritual etc.
- How to live by Sivers
- Hell yes or no by Sivers
- The Awakening of Intelligence
- Total Freedom
- 10 Perfections
- Art & Fear
Science, Epistemology
- Beginning of Infinity
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Thinking in Systems
- LessWrong: A Map That Reflects the Territory (2018)
- LessWrong: The Engines of Cognition: Trust, Modularity, Incentives, Failure (2019)
- LessWrong: The Carving of Reality (2020)
Bio
- Molecular Biology of the Cell (6th)
- Deep Learning for the Life Sciences
- Intro to Bioninformatics (5th)
- Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease
Tech
- AI: A Modern Approach (4th)
- Technology and the Virtues
- Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn & TensorFlow
- Architects of Intelligence
- Marc Andreessen Essays
- Brain Computer Interfacing
- Elon Musk Biography
- Buckminster Fullers Universe
- Physics of the future
- How the World Really Works: How Science Can Set Us Straight on Our Past, Present and Future by Vaclav Smil
Startups, Business
- The Great CEO Within (if u read one book on startups, read this)
- Zero to One
- A dozen lessons for entrepreneurs
- Turning the flywheel
- Positioning
- High Output Management
- Inspired
- Platform Scale
- The 5 Elements of Effective Thinking
Design
- Designing Design
- Designing Brand Identity
- The Brand Flip
- Luminous Ground: The Book of Life The Nature of Order
Investing
- One up on Wall Street
- The most important things illuminated
- 100 Baggers
- Common Stocks and Uncommon Profits
- Poor Charlies Almanack
- The Outsiders
Architecture
- A Pattern Language by Christopher Alexander
- The Timeless Way of Building
Novels
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Man’s search for Meaning
- Alchemist
Politics
- Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio
- Sovereign Individual
- The Divide by Hickel
- The Network State by Balaji
Other Non-Fiction
- The Green Imperative
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Links
Some pointers to favorite links
Startups
- Startup Playbook by Sam Altman
- Paul Graham’s Essays
- Marc Andreessen’s Essays
- YC Startup School Library
- YC Library
Aging
Effective Altruism
AI Safety
Favorite Podcasts and Episodes
- AI Podcast by Lex Fridman
- 80.000 Hours Podcast
- Alignment Newsletter
- Venture Stories by Village Global
- Invest like the best
- Econ Talk
- The Knowledge Project
- How to get rich by Naval
- How to angel invest by Naval (Spearhead)
- https://foundersfund.com/anatomy-of-next/
- https://www.notion.so/blog/topic/podcast
My Twitter Lists by Topic
My twitter hack is adding people to specific lists organized by category. This leads to a more intentional experience and interestingly lists are free of any ads. You can follow my lists and people will keep getting added to them.