Read	Essay	Author	Url	Themes
	Creating the Kingdom of Ends	Christine M. Korsgaard	www.people.fas.harvard.edu	Moral PhilosophyPhilosophyEthics
	On the Suffering of the World	Arthur Schopenhauer	www.sophia-project.org	PhilosophyGood and EvilSuffering
	Nietzsche’s Eternal Return	Alex Ross	www.newyorker.com	PhilosophyPolitics
	The Absurd	Thomas Nagel	philosophy.as.uky.edu	PhilosophyAnti-absurdityMeaning
	Existentialism Is a Humanism	Jean-Paul Sartre	homepages.wmich.edu	PhilosophyExistentialismAbandonment
	The Revival of Philosophy – Why?	G.K. Chesterton	www3.nd.edu	PhilosophyEducation
	One Man’s Modus Ponens	Gwern Branwen	www.gwern.net	PhilosophyBayesian Updating
	The Narrowing Circle	Gwern Branwen	www.gwern.net	PhilosophyCharityEthics
	Consider the Lobster Article	David Foster Wallace	www.columbia.edu	EthicsCulinary
	Walking	Henry David Thoreau	www.gutenberg.org	TranscendentalismSelf-ReflectionExploration
	Self-Reliance	Ralph Waldo Emerson	archive.vcu.edu	TranscendentalismSpiritualitySolitude
	Hindu View of Life	S. Radhakrishnan	ia801603.us.archive.org	SpiritualityHinduismPractical Philosophy
	Letter from a Region in My Mind	James Baldwin	www.newyorker.com	Spirituality
	Letter from a Birmingham Jail	Martin Luther King Jr.	swap.stanford.edu	SpiritualityRaceFreedom
	Solitude and Leadership	William Deresiewicz	theamericanscholar.org	SolitudeLeadershipSelf-Reflection
	Katha Upanishad	Multiple Translations	universaltheosophy.com	Self-KnowledgeSpiritualityHinduism
	Personal Renewal	John Gardner	www.pbs.org	Self-KnowledgeSelf-ReflectionEducation
	Twitching With Twight	Mark Twight	equipesolitaire.com	Self-KnowledgeMotivationSuccess
	No Silver Bullet	Fred Brooks	worrydream.com	Software EngineeringComplexity
	Literary Machines	Ted Nelson	owd.tcnj.edu	Software EngineeringHyperlinksWeb
	Big Ball of Mud	Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder	www.laputan.org	Design Anti-PatternSystemsSoftware Engineering
	Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System	Donella Meadows	donellameadows.org	SystemsParadigmsComplexity
	How Complex Systems Fail	Richard Cook	web.mit.edu	SystemsComplexity
	Destruction and Creation	John Boyd	www.goalsys.com	SystemsComplexityWarPhysics
	This is Water	David Foster Wallace	fs.blog	EducationFreedomPerceptionEmpathy
	A Lesson on Elementary, Worldly Wisdom	Charlie Munger	fs.blog	EducationGeneralistInvestingFinance
	What Is College For?	William Deresiewicz	www.youtube.com	Education
	School vs. Education	Russell Baker	www.nytimes.com	EducationKnowledge
	Of the Education of Children	Michel de Montaigne	essays.quotidiana.org	EducationKnowledge
	What You'll Wish You'd Known	Paul Graham	www.paulgraham.com	EducationKnowledgeResponsibility
	Bus Ticket Theory of Genius	Paul Graham	paulgraham.com	ObsessionEducationSuccess
	How to Do What You Love	Paul Graham	www.paulgraham.com	ObsessionSuccessFreedom
	How to be Successful	Sam Altman	blog.samaltman.com	SuccessConfidenceDetermination
	Air and Light and Time and Space	Charles Bukowski	airlighttimespace.com	SuccessDetermination
	Growth Without Goals	Patrick O’Shaughnessy	investorfieldguide.com	SuccessSystems
	The Paradox of Skill: Why Greater Skill Leads to More Luck	Michael J. Mauboussin	ceo801mstro0h2uinte.blob.core.windows.net	SuccessLuckSports
	Money is the Megaphone of Identity	Lawrence Yeo	moretothat.com	WealthFreedomFear
	Richest Man in Babylon	George S. Clason	thebudgetnistablog.com	WealthEducationFreedom
	Turning $2 Million Into $2 Trillion	Charlie Munger	mungerisms.blogspot.com	WealthPsychologyFinance
	1000 True Fans	Kevin Kelly	kk.org	WealthSuccess
	How to Make Wealth	Paul Graham	paulgraham.com	WealthSoftware EngineeringTechnology
	Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose	Ben Hunt	www.epsilontheory.com	FreedomSocietyHonesty
	The View from Mrs. Thompson's	David Foster Wallace	www.rollingstone.com	FearHistorySociety9/11
	Three Big Things	Morgan Housel	www.collaborativefund.com	HistoryEconomyInequality
	Losing the War	Less Sandlin	www.leesandlin.com	HistoryWW2LanguageWar
	The Uses of Great Men	Ralph Waldo Emerson	emersoncentral.com	HistorySuccess
	I, Pencil	Leonard Read	fee.org	EconomySociety
	Parable of The Broken Window	Frédéric Bastiat	fee.org	EconomyUnintended Consequences
	The Thought of Limits in a Prodigal Age	Wendell Berry	www.sierraclub.org	EconomyNatureSociety
	The Use of Knowledge in Society	F. A. Hayek	fee.org	EconomyDecentralized
	The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking	Peter Kaufman	latticeworkinvesting.com	LeadershipConfidenceWealth
	Investing in the Unknown and Unknowable	Richard Zeckhauser	papers.ssrn.com	InvestingUncertaintyDecision MakingFinance
	A Game of Sentiment	Ben Hunt	www.epsilontheory.com	InvestingDecision MakingBayesian UpdatingFinance
	Tying too Hard	Dean Williams	csinvesting.org	InvestingDecision Making
	The Superinvestors of Graham-and-Doddsville	Warren Buffett	www8.gsb.columbia.edu	InvestingBusinessFinance
	The Psychology of Human Misjudgment	Charlie Munger	fs.blog	PsychologyDecision MakingBehavioral Finance
	The Weirdest People in the World?	Joseph Henrich, Steven J. Heine, and Ara Norenzayan	www2.psych.ubc.ca	PsychologyBehaviorSocietyWesternizationEducation
	General Theory of Reflexivity	George Soros	www.ft.com	Practical PhilosophyEconomyKarl Popper
	Speculation as a Fine Art	Dickson G. Watts	www.trendfollowing.com	DeterminationDecision MakingInvestingFinance
	God in the Dock	C. S. Lewis	just84465.weebly.com	TheologyEthicsScience and Religion
	The Religious Life of Theological Students	Benjamin B. Warfield	www.tms.edu	TheologyKnowledgeSpirituality
	The Wreck of Time	Annie Dillard	www.midwayisd.org	DeathSufferingTheology
	Wait But Why	Tim Urban	waitbutwhy.com	DeathRelationships
	You May Want to Marry my Husband	Amy Krouse Rosenthal	www.nytimes.com	DeathRelationships
	Once More to the Lake	E. B. White	fd.valenciacollege.edu	DeathAdolescenceTechnology
	In Defense of Sanity (Collection)	G.K. Chesterton	www.amazon.com	Everything
	Of Parties in General	David Hume	human.libretexts.org	PoliticsPhilosophy
	Politics and the English Language	George Orwell	www.orwell.ru	PoliticsProseLatinization
	Anthem	Ayn Rand	www.gutenberg.org	PoliticsIndividualismDystopian
	I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup	Scott Alexander	web.archive.org	PoliticsSpiritualityRace
	The Coronation	Charles Eisenstein	charleseisenstein.org	SocietyPandemicCompassion
	Meditations On Moloch	Scott Alexander	web.archive.org	SocietyPoliticsScienceEducation
	On Liberty	John Stuart Mill	socialsciences.mcmaster.ca	IndividualismEconomyPolitics
	Make Your Bed	William H. McRaven	jamesclear.com	MotivationSuccess
	The Referendum	Tim Kreider	opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com	InsecurityRegretMidlife
	Don't Eat Before Reading This	Anthony Bourdain	www.newyorker.com	Culinary
	How Tracy Austin Broke My Heart	David Foster Wallace	www.scribd.com	SportsSuccess
	I Made a Deal in a Bike Race—And It Haunted Me for 15 Years	Ian Dille	www.bicycling.com	SportsRegret
	Triple Crown Teachings: Three Takeaways from the Quest for the Elusive Feat	Michael J. Mauboussin	plus.credit-suisse.com	SportsBehavioral FinanceDecision Making
	Shitty First Drafts	Anne Lamott	wrd.as.uky.edu	WritingSystems
	Persecution and the Art of Writing	Leo Strauss	newschoolhistories.org	WritingPhilosophyPersecution
	On Keeping a Notebook	Joan Didion	accessinghigherground.org	WritingDesireEgoSelf-Knowledge
	Make Good Art	Neil Gaiman	jamesclear.com	WritingObstaclesOriginalityMistakes
	Sanderson's 3 Laws of Magic	Brandon Sanderson	www.brandonsanderson.com	WritingFantasyLiterature
	Window of the World	Cal Fussman	www.esquire.com	9/11DeathWine
	A Mathematician's Apology	G.H. Hardy	www.math.ualberta.ca	MathematicsAestheticsYouth
	How to Solve It	G. Polya	math.hawaii.edu	MathematicsProblem Solving
	The Ergodicity Problem in Economics	Ole Peters	www.nature.com	MathematicsPhysicsEconomyStatisticsFinance
	A Mathematical Theory of Communication	Claude Shannon	people.math.harvard.edu	MathematicsInformation TheoryScience
	In Praise of Shadows	Jun'ichirō Tanizaki	pdf-objects.com	AestheticsSabiArchitecture
	You and Your Research	Richard Hamming	www.cs.virginia.edu	KnowledgeScience
	How to Defend Society Against Science	Paul Feyerabend	web.calpoly.edu	ScienceIdeology
	Cargo Cult Science	Richard Feynman	calteches.library.caltech.edu	ScienceTruthSelf-KnowledgeFreedom
	Is the Moon There When Nobody Looks?	N. David Mermin	maltoni.web.cern.ch	SciencePhysics
	More Is Different	P. W. Anderson	robotics.cs.tamu.edu	SciencePhilosophySystems
	The Importance of Stupidity in Scientific Research	Martin A. Schwartz	jcs.biologists.org	ScienceKnowledgeSelf-Reflection
	The Meaning of It All	Richard Feynman	pdfs.semanticscholar.org	ScienceSocietyScience and Religion
	Drugging of the American Boy	Ryan D'Agostino	www.esquire.com	ADHDMedicineSociety
	The Unabomber Manifesto	Theodore Kaczynski	archive.nytimes.com	TechnologySocietyFear
	Against Edenism	Peter Thiel	www.firstthings.com	TechnologyOptimism
	Could a Neuroscientist Understand a Microprocessor?	Eric Jonas and Konrad Paul Kording	www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov	TechnologyNeuroscienceAnalytic Approaches
	Can a Biologist Fix a Radio?	Yuri Lazebnik	protein.bio.msu.ru	TechnologyBiologyAnalytic Approaches
	Is Google Making Us Stupid	Nicholas Carr	www.theatlantic.com	TechnologyKnowledgeWeb
	Stevey's Google Platforms Rant	Steve Yegge	gist.github.com	TechnologyPlatforms
	The Cathedral and the Bazaar	Eric Steven Raymond	www.catb.org	TechnologySoftware EngineeringOpen Source
	Man-Computer Symbiosis	J.C.R. Licklider	groups.csail.mit.edu	TechnologySoftware EngineeringSocietyProblem Solving
	The Ballot or the Bullet	Malcolm X	www.edchange.org	RaceFreedom
	Stranger In The Village	James Baldwin	blogs.baruch.cuny.edu	RaceSocietyIdentity
	Keep Your Identity Small	Paul Graham	www.paulgraham.com	IdentityPolitics
	Anxiety of Influence	Harold Bloom	www.sas.upenn.edu	PoetryOriginality
	Tradition and the Individual Talent	T. S. Elliot	www.poetryfoundation.org	PoetryClassic LiteratureOriginality
	If—	Rudyard Kipling	www.poetryfoundation.org	PoetrySuccess
	Ideas That Changed My Life	Morgan Housel	www.collaborativefund.com	OriginalityGeneralistSelf-KnowledgeSuccess
	Shakespearean Tragedy	A. C. Bradley	www.gutenberg.org	LiteratureExplanation
	The Hedgehog and the Fox: An Essay on Tolstoy’s View of History	Isaiah Berlin	www.blogs.hss.ed.ac.uk	LiteratureHistoryTruthBelief
	Why Bother? / Perchance to Dream	Jonathan Frazen	extrafilespace.wordpress.com	LiteratureWritingReadingTechnology
	A Room of One's Own	Virginia Woolf	seas3.elte.hu	FeminismWealth
	The Tyranny of Structurelessness	Jo Freeman	www.jofreeman.com	FeminismLeadership
	On the Shortness of Life	Seneca	archive.org	PresenceDeathMoral Philosophy
	Truth is a Pathless Land	Jiddu Krishnamurti	jkrishnamurti.org	BeliefSpiritualityFreedom
	Stalking the Billion-Footed Beast	Tom Wolfe	harpers.org	Literary RealismLiterature
	Newcomb’s Problem and Two Principles of Choice	Robert Nozick	faculty.arts.ubc.ca	ParadoxFree WillDecision Making
	Do Things that Don't Scale	Paul Graham	paulgraham.com	BusinessEfficiencyCustomer Acquisition
	Increasing Returns and the New World of Business	Brian Arthur	hbr.org	BusinessEconomyTechnology
	All Revenue is Not Created Equal: The Keys to the 10X Revenue Club	Bill Gurley	abovethecrowd.com	BusinessTechnologyFinance
	Value of Voluntary Simplicity	Richard Gregg	www.soilandhealth.org	SimplicityPurposeRelationshipsTechnology
	Finding the 9th Path	Hunter S. Thompson	fs.blog	PurposeSuccessSociety
	Operating Manual For Spaceship Earth	Richard Buckminster Fuller	designsciencelab.com	AutomationIndividualismSpaceSustainability
	In the Penal Colony	Franz Kafka	www.kafka-online.info	Due ProcessSocietyExecution
	Society Against the State	Pierre Clastres	www.burmalibrary.org	AnthropologyPhilosophyWesternization
	Junkspace	Rem Koolhaas	www.johnstuartarchitecture.com	ArchitectureModernismUrbanism
	The Age of the Essay	Paul Graham	www.paulgraham.com	WebWriting
	Is Justified True Belief Knowledge?	Edmund Gettier	fitelson.org	EpistemologyPhilosophy
	Honesty and The Human Body	Kevin Simler	meltingasphalt.com	HonestyEconomyBiologyConsciousnessSpirituality
	A New Theory of the Universe	Robert Lanza	theamericanscholar.org	PhysicsConsciousness
	A Piece of Chalk	G.K. Chesterton	www.chesterton.org	DesirePurpose
	Of Cannibals	Michel de Montaigne	web2.qatar.cmu.edu	Cultural Relativism
	On Bullshit	Harry Frankfurt	www2.csudh.edu	LanguagePersuasion
	The Lives of a Cell (Collection)	Lewis Thomas	www.arvindguptatoys.com	BiologyHumanityLanguagePoetry
	Book of Lamentations	Sam Kriss	thenewinquiry.com	DystopianSatirePsychology
	A Modest Proposal	Jonathan Swift	www.gutenberg.org	SatirePoliticsHistory
	The Prophet (Collection)	Kahlil Gibran	gutenberg.net.au	LoveRelationshipsGivingChildren
	Upon Some Verses of Virgil	Michel de Montaigne	oll.libertyfund.org	LoveRelationshipsSex
	In Praise of Idleness	Bertrand Russell	libcom.org	WorkaholismHappinessFreedomEconomy
	Notes On Camp	Susan Sontag	monoskop.org	SexLGBTQ
	Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation	Gwern Branwen	www.gwern.net	StatisticsPhilosophyBayesian UpdatingCausality
	The Parable Of The Talents	Scott Alexander	perma.cc	DepressionKnowledgeSuccess
	Burdens	Scott Alexander	perma.cc	DepressionTherapy
	Studying Studies: Parts 1-5	Peter Attia	peterattiamd.com	EpidemiologyScienceStatisticsNutrition
	What Matters More Than Your Talents	Jeff Bezos	jamesclear.com	KindnessSuccessDecision Making
	The Fringe Benefits of Failure	J.K. Rowling	jamesclear.com	ObstaclesSelf-ReflectionGood and Evil
	Creative Thinking	Claude Shannon	www1.ece.neu.edu	InversionGeneralistProblem SolvingSimplicity
	Such, Such Were The Joys	George Orwell	www.orwell.ru	AdolescenceClass ConflictPsychology
	13 Life-Learnings from 13 Years of Brain Pickings	Maria Popova	www.brainpickings.org	GenerousityPresenceDeterminationForgivenessSelf-Knowledge
	The Financial Instability Hypothesis	Hyman P. Minsky	www.levyinstitute.org	FinanceEconomyInvesting
	Buffett's Alpha	Andrea Frazzini, David Kabiller, and Lasse Heje Pedersen	docs.lhpedersen.com	FinanceQuantInvestingDecision Making
	Father Forgets	W. Livingston Larned	jonsuh.com	ParentingRelationships
	Tails, You Win	Morgan Housel	www.collaborativefund.com	FailureSuccessBusiness
	A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings - Gabriel Garcia Marquez	Gabriel Garcia Marquez	www.ndsu.edu	FantasySpirituality
	On Self Respect	Joan Didon	www.vogue.com