Here is a list of books and essays which have proved increasingly gratifying, and have influenced my thinking on different matters:

  • Chiang, Understand

  • Thiel, Zero to One

  • Taleb, Antifragile (Incerto)

  • Feynman, Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!

  • Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow

  • Haidt, The Righteous Mind

  • Harari, Sapiens

  • Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach

  • Bostrom, Superintelligence

  • Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

  • Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings

  • Graham, Essays

  • Urban, Elon Musk: The World’s Raddest Man