Bookshelf

I like Patrick Collison's idea of always reading the best possible book any given time, which results in frequent switching.

Currently reading:
Title Rating
Natural Right and History 4/5
On Exactitude in Science 4/5
The Republic 4/5
Ender's Game 5/5
Cicero: The Life and Times of Rome's Greatest Politician 4/5
The Soul of the First Amendment 3/5
The Forgotten Revolution 3/5
Foundation 4/5
The Will to Believe 4/5
The Use of Knowledge in Society 4/5
Economic Calculation in the Socialist Commonwealth 4/5
Hyperion 5/5
Fall of Hyperion 3/5
Discourse on the Origin of Inequality 3/5
Memoirs on Pauperism and Other Writings 3/5
The Doors of Perception 4/5
An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations 3/5
What is Political Philosophy? 4/5
The Machiavellians: Defenders of Freedom 4/5
Spacefarers 4/5
SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome 4/5
The Prince N/A
Are Prisons Obsolete? 3/5
The Trial N/A
The Contrarian 2/5
Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance 4/5
Why Information Grows 1/5
Educated 4/5
The Philosophy of Action 3/5
Exhalation 4/5
Kafka on the Shore 5/5
Digital Cash 1/5
Ready Player One 3/5
Hillbilly Elegy 3/5
The Anatomy of the Swipe 4/5
The Poet's Guide to Life 4/5
Uncanny Valley 3/5
Achieving Our Country 5/5
Apology 5/5
Phaedo 4/5
Laches 3/5
The Nicomachean Ethics 4/5
Posterior Analytics 3/5
The Categories 4/5
On Liberty 5/5
The Social Contract 3/5
Open Democracy 5/5
On Tyranny 3/5
Benjamin Franklin: An American Life 3/5
Democratic Reason N/A
The Righteous Mind 3/5
Fever Pitch 5/5
Children of the Mind N/A
Speaker for the Dead N/A
Ender's Shadow N/A
Xenocide N/A
Behind the Beautiful Forevers 3/5
The Signal and the Noise 2/5
Outliers 3/5
What If? 4/5
The Black Swan 3/5
A Brief History of Time N/A
Man's Search for Meaning 5/5
A Short History of Nearly Everything 5/5
The Giver N/A
The Hobbit 5/5
At the Existentialist Café 3/5
Winners Take All 3/5
The Garden of Forking Paths N/A
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World 4/5
The Origins of Totalitarianism N/A
Between Past and Future N/A
The Human Condition N/A
Crime and Punishment 5/5
Sapiens 4/5
When Breath Becomes Air 5/5
In the Penal Colony 5/5
The Earthquake in Chile 5/5
Death in Venice 5/5
Atlas Shrugged 3/5
Zero to One 4/5
Steve Jobs 4/5
What Tech Calls Thinking N/A
The Diary of a Young Girl 5/5
Homegoing 4/5
Elon Musk 3/5
Salvage the Bones 3/5
Hamlet 5/5
Animal Farm 3/5
The Story of My Life 4/5
The Catcher in the Rye 4/5
Romeo and Juliet 3/5
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text N/A
Journey to the Center of the Earth N/A
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea 4/5
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy 4/5
To Sell is Human N/A
The Founders 3/5
The Ride of a Lifetime 2/5
Speech Police 4/5
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance 4/5

Coursework

Course syllabi are amazing sources of good books. These readings — and the professors that brought them to life — have fundamentally enriched my worldviews. All courses are from Stanford.