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