(Book)shelf

Welcome to my online (book)shelf, of sorts. They include informationalish resources I’ve found use in consuming, including books, blogs, podcasts, and videos. I’ve consumed most, but not all, of these – to varying degrees of thoroughness. I neither agree with nor endorse every item in this list. I commit to maintaining this list in no particular order. I’ll add more in time…

* Flagged as particularly worthy.

Text

• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• The Visual Display of Quantitative Information* by Edward Tufte
• See How It Flies
• Poor Charlie’s Almanack*
• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering* by Richard Hamming
• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!: a bit fun, a bit braggy
• Principles by Ray Dalio
• Lying* by Sam Harris
• Studies in the Way of Words* by Paul Grice
• Speech and Language Processing by Daniel Jurafsky
• Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Elon Musk by Walter Isaacson
• Going Infinite by Michael Lewis
• L’Étranger by Albert Camus
• Le Petit Prince* by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
• Cien años de soledad by Gabriel García Márquez
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
• Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
• As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
• Two Arms and a Head by Clayton Atreus: trigger warning
• The Precipice: Existential Risk and the Future of Humanity by Toby Ord
• Inside the Black Box: A Simple Guide to Quantitative and HFT
• Money Stuff* by Matt Levine: my *favorite* blog
• A Mathematical Theory of Communication by C. E. Shannon
• The Annotated Transformer: to better understand GPT
• How to Not Die Alone by Logan Ury: skim
• The Strategy of Conflict by Tomas Schelling
• The Elephant in the Brain by Simler and Hanson: skim
• The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef: skim
• The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli
• Lectures on Conditioned Reflexes by Ivan Pavlov
• NYT US Dialect Quiz
• NYT British-Irish Dialect Quiz
• Bartosz Ciechanowski*
• Cremieux Recueil
• Astral Codex Ten (ACX) by Scott Alexander
• The Story of Philosophy by Will Durant
• On Writing by Stephen King
• Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss
• How to Win Friends & Influence People* by Dale Carnegie
• Strength Training Anatomy* by Frédéric Delavier
• Women’s Strength Training Anatomy Workouts by Frédéric Delavier
• Qur’an
• Bible

Audio

• Acquired: Costco*
• Acquired: Nike
• Acquired: Meta*
• Acquired: IKEA
• Edward O. Thorp: A Man For All Markets
• Derek Sivers: The Joys of an Un-Optimized Life
• Brian Chesky on the Jay Shetty Podcast
• David Buss: Sex, Dating, Relationships, and Sex Differences
• Ray Dalio: Money, Power, and the Collapse of Empires
• Volodymyr Zelenskyy: Ukraine, War, Peace, Putin, Trump, NATO, and Freedom
• Joe Rogan Experience #2221 - JD Vance
• Satya Nadella: Microsoft’s AGI Plan & Quantum Breakthrough
• Lisa Feldman Barrett: How to Understand Emotions
• The 3 Types of Failure (And How to Learn From Each)
• Clara Shih: What No One Tells You About Entrepreneurship
• Matthew Dicks: The Storytelling Expert

Video

• Barack Obama’s speech at the 2004 DNC Convention
• Randy Pausch: The Last Lecture - Achieving Your Childhood Dreams
• Roger Federer: Dartmouth Commencement Address
• Steve Jobs speaking
• Tacit Knowledge Videos: useful collection
• Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
• Gossip Girl
• White Collar
• Criminal Minds
• The Most Extreme
• You
• Emily in Paris
• Home Alone
• The Shining
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (Play)* with Sarah Snook
• Emotions (Mariah Carey Cover) by Ariana Grande
• My Humps + New World Symphony Remix
• Girl’s Club by Marc Rebillet
• Idiocracy Opening Scene

_{Last update: February 25, 2025}