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Below are the books that shape my thinking…so far. I like everything included here.

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The Internet + Humans

Test here *The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg

*World Without Mind by Franklin Foer

Rapt by Winfred Gallagher (notes)

Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman

Human as Media by Andrey Miroshnichenko

The Shallows by Nicholas Carr (notes)

*The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg
*World Without Mind by Franklin Foer
Rapt by Winfred Gallagher (notes)
Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman
Human as Media by Andrey Miroshnichenko
The Shallows by Nicholas Carr (notes)
Magic and Loss by Virginia Heffernan (notes)
Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport (quick hitters) (full notes)
*Trick Mirror by Jia Tolentino
The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr (notes)
Shop Class as Soulcraft by Matthew Crawford (notes)
The World Beyond Your Head by Matthew Crawford
The Signals are Talking by Amy Webb

Novels

*On The Road by Jack Kerouac (notes)
*The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
*The Razor’s Edge by William Somerset Maugham (Tweetstorm)
*All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (notes)
*The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

The Road by Cormac McCarthy

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy
My Antonia by Willa Cather
Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Ask the Dust by John Fante
Big Sur by Jack Kerouac
The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac
The Stranger by Albert Camus
The Plague by Albert Camus
Siddartha by Herman Hesse
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Hippie by Paulo Coelho

Biographies/Memoirs

*Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life by William Finnegan
*Four Seasons in Rome by Anthony Doerr (notes)
*The Return by Hisham Matar (notes)
*A Life of My Own by Claire Tomalin (Tweetstorm)
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
Emerson: The Mind on Fire by Robert D. Richardson
Theodore Roosevelt: An Autobiography by Theodore Roosevelt
Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman by Richard Feynman
Not Fade Away by Peter Barton and Laurence Shames
The Everything Store by Brad Stone
Pour Your Heart Into It by Howard Schultz
His Excellency (George Washington) by Joseph J. Ellis
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
A Good Life by Ben Bradlee
Can’t Hurt Me by David Goggins
The Third Door by Alex Banayan

Philosophy

*Notes from the End of Everything by Robert Pantano
*Anam Cara by John O’Donohue (quick hitters)
All Things Shining by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Dorance Kelly
At the Existentialist Cafe by Sarah Bakewell
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Walking by Henry David Thoreau
The Wisdom of Insecurity by Alan Watts

On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (Tweetstorm)

The Untethered Soul by Michael Singer
As One Is by Jiddu Krishnamurti
American Philosophy by John Kaag (notes)
Hiking with Nietzsche by John Kaag (notes)
Travels with Epicurus by Daniel Klein
Every Time I Find the Meaning of Life, They Change It by Daniel Klein
Meditations by Jiddu Krishnamurti
A Little History of Philosophy by Nigel Warburton

Mind-Benders

Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
God’s Debris by Scott Adams
The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli (quick-hitters)

The Island of Knowledge by Marcelo Gleiser

The Power of Now by Eckhart Tolle
But What If We’re Wrong? by Chuck Klosterman

Figuring Out Life

*Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson (notes) (Tweetstorm)
*Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big by Scott Adams
Anything You Want by Derek Sivers
The Defining Decade by Meg Jay
The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
Who Moved My Cheese by Spencer Johnson
The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz

Personal Development

Flow by Mikhail Csikszentmihalyi (Note - this is the best non-fiction book I’ve read, so far)
Willpower Doesn’t Work by Ben Hardy (quick hitters) (full notes)
The Inner Game of Tennis by W. Timothy Gallwey
The Practicing Mind by Thomas Sterner
Everything is F*cked: A Book About Hope by Mark Manson
The Pocket Guide to Action by Kyle Eschenroeder
Atomic Habits by James Clear
12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson
Mastery by George Leonard
Stillness is the Key by Ryan Holiday
The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
How Adam Smith Can Change Your Life by Russ Roberts
So Good They Can’t Ignore You by Cal Newport
Deep Work by Cal Newport
Grit by Angela Duckworth
Fully Engaged by Thomas Sterner
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson
The Art of Learning by Josh Waitzkin
Don’t Sweat the Small Stuff by Richard Carlson
The Power of Habit by Charles Duhigg
Make Your Bed by William McRaven
The One Thing by Gary Keller

Psychology

The Happiness Hypothesis by Jonathan Haidt
You Can Read Anyone by David J. Lieberman
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Stumbling On Happiness by Dan Gilbert
Capture by David A. Kessler
The Righteous Mind by Jonathan Haidt

Writing

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield (notes) (Tweetstorm)
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t by Steven Pressfield