Books I’ve read (Non exhaustive)

Non-exhaustive. And excludes most trivial books.

I think books are a form of entertainment.

Table of contents

The age of EM by Robin Hanson

A book imagining a future where it’s possible to download a human brain into electrical circuits. Goes into technical depth about how cooling systems would work and such. Explores the idea of self-cloning,in which you create another instance of yourself and can do two separate tasks in pararel with your other self. Also interesting, the smarter individuals would live in city centers with fast communications and more CPU. Less privileged ppl would live in the peripheries and struggle to even think fast enough to be able to talk to the central CPU dwellers.

Novacene by James Lovelock

The idea of Gaia makes sense.

Geneology of morality by frederich nietzche

Studied in UChicago. Basic idea: In the beginning, there were the rlave masters. They were happy and they perceived themselves and their traits as being good. Then the slaves, who were oppessed by the masters, came along and defined the masters as being evil. Then they said that whoever is least similar to the masters are good, since the oppressors are bad. In this way, there is slave morality and master morality.

Nietzche says master morality is better. First of all, it’s the less biased one. It’s not based on resentment. Second, it’s in the masters’ nature to subdue the weak.

Nietzche says the lack of vitality in his era was due to slave morality. Can a socyety’s sense of morality be the cause? He says yes.

Hoot - Carl Hiaasen

I don’t even remember. Some book I remember reading when I was very young.

6 easy pieces by richard feynman

Surely you’re joking, Mr. Feynman

Lockpicking

The Da vinci code - Dan Brown

Digital Fortress - Dan Brown

Outliers - Malcom Gladwell

The hockey players example is all I remember.

The Chronicles of Narnia - S. C. Lewis

I am number 4 (all books)

The ride of a lifetime - Robert Iger

Like a virgin - Richard Branson

The foundation series (all books)

That’ll never work (netflix book) - Marc Randolph

Alex rider (all books)

Physics of the Future - Michio kaku

Storyworthy - Mathew dicks

Techniques to make boring stories engaging to listen to. Should of course combine storytelling skills with living a life where you get stories actually worth telling.

How to make friends and influence people

Sapiens - Yuval Harari

Homo deus - Yuval Harari

Permanent Record - Edward Snowden

Maus - Art Spiegelman

LEGO Heavy weapons - Jack Street

Hunger games Mockingjay

Lord of the flies

The golden compass (His dark materials, 1)

Psychology of money

I forgot what I read. Either I wasn’t paying attention or this book was full of bullshit.

The house of Gucci - Sara Gay Forden

The collected writings of Ted Kaczynski - Ted K.

I read the Industrial Society and Its Future about 3 times. Most terrorists merely commit acts of terror, but Ted accompanied it with a 35,000 word manifesto. His terror had a sense of style, a true villian.

His ideology has a certain resemblance to Ayn Rand’s. They are both INTJ (side note: I am, also). Note the striking similarity between ISAIF and Ayn Rand’s ‘Return of the Primitive / The New Left: The Anti-Industrial Revolution’

His reasoning is cogent. But I don’t oppose technologization because I, unlike him, don’t think we can change it. I’m more selfish in that regard.

A brief history of time - Stephen Hawking

Billion Dollar Loser (wework) - Reeves Wiedman

The Once and Future King - T. H. White

4 Hour work week - Tim Ferris

The four - Scott Galloway

Shoe dog - Phil Knight

The Status Game - Will Stor

1984 - George Orwell

Reosseuo

Leviathan - Thomas Hobbes

The Giver

A brief history of the future - Stephen Hawking

Meditations - Descartes

The teachings of sayno (새이노의 가르침)

Still reading

Gun, germs and steel - Jared diamond

Blueprint - Nicholas A. Christakis

Why we sleep - Matthew Walker

American kingpin - Nick Bilton

As a man thinketh - James allen

The mind is the man’s entirity. Ming determines your fate 100%. Mind is like a garden. If left unattended, weeds will grow. Must strive to think rationally and masterfully so that the garden is maintained.

Shackleton, a biography - Ranulph fiennes

It’s not luck - Eliyahu M. Goldratt

And then there were none - Agatha Christie

Red Team development and operations - Joe vest & james tubberville

High Output Management - Andrew S. Grove

Anthem - Ayn Rand

Simelar to 1984 book (but was written before it, I found). Key idea: Freedom from other people is true freedom.

The Virtue of Selfishness - Ayn Rand

  • The right to healthcare is essentially the right to enslave, because someone must be tasked with providing that healthcare.
  • Voluntary

Wisdom of Mike Mentzer - John Little

A bodybuilding bible for me.

The Fountainhead - Ayn Rand

The most beautiful book I’ve read. I underlined almost every page of this 700 page long novel.

Fooled by Randomness - N. N. Taleb

Chip Wars - Chris Miller

Zero to One - Peter Thiel

Donnie Brasco - Joe Pistone

This book instilled within me a sense of respect for Mafia guys. They pay a lot of attention to their surroundings and they are solely dedicated to money. They talk about money 24/7. I wish my friends did too.

The Way of the Wiseguy

Teaches you the proper etiquette

  • Reading: On China - Henry Kissinger
  • World Order - Henry Kissinger
  • On China - Henry Kissinger
  • Obama
  • How Asia works