Library

Some favorite books sorted by rough subject. All books with ratings on goodreads and here as list.

Math, Science, Engineering, Epistemology

• Princeton Companion to Mathematics
• Princeton Companion to Applied Mathematics
• Physics by Giancoli
• Beginning of Infinity
• Fabric of Reality
• 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)
• Nanosystems
• Metamathematics

Bio

• Molecular Biology of the Cell (6th)
• Physical Biology of the Cell
• Intro to Bioninformatics (5th)
• Robbins & Cotran Pathologic Basis of Disease
• Deep Learning for the Life Sciences

Tech

• AI: A Modern Approach (4th)
• Code by Petzold
• Introduction to algorithms
• Technology and the Virtues
• Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn & TensorFlow
• Architects of Intelligence
• Marc Andreessen Essays
• Brain Computer Interfacing
• Elon Musk Bio
• 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

Life, Spiritual etc.

• How to live by Sivers
• Hell yes or no by Sivers
• The Awakening of Intelligence
• Total Freedom
• 10 Perfections
• Art & Fear
• The Creative Act

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

Progress

• Works in progress

Aging

• ldeming.com
• nintil.com
• celinehh.com

Effective Altruism

• forum.effectivealtruism.org
• 80000hours.com
• ourworldindata.org

AI Safety

alignmentforum.org

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.

• Original Thinkers
• Machine Learning + Biology
• Machine Learning
• AI Safety
• Longevity
• Investing
• Effective Altruism
• Data
• Crypto
• Aesthethics

Thoughts on “Beginning of Infinity, by David Deutsch”

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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
• A Public Library by Will Zeng
• Dating Without Kundera
• Ben Kuhns blogroll

Other bookshelves I particularly enjoyed:

• Laura Deming recommends some great books to start in longevity
• Patrick Collisons bookshelf and recommendations
• Joanne Peng’s list
• 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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