Books read

Cosmos-level

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A Brief History of Time

Stephen Hawking

Classical Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

Leonard Susskind & George Hrabovsky

Life 3.0

Max Tegmark

Superintelligence

Nick Bostrom

Mostly speculatory, but concrete.

The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

Everyone must read it, or at least the philosophy of it.

Stories of Your Life and Others

Ted Chiang

Bhagavad Gita

Krishna

Society-level

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Zero to One

Peter Thiel

Startup Bible, can also be read as a motivational or a book on philosophy.

Steve Jobs

Walter Isaacson

Elon Musk

Walter Isaacson

The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing And The Future Of The Human Race

Walter Isaacson

The Technological Republic

Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska

The Art of War

Sun Tzu

Storm of Steel

Ernst Jünger

Sapiens

Yuval Noah Harari

Good summary of humans.

Hit Refresh

Satya Nadella

The Lessons of History

Will and Ariel Durant

A brief history of civilisations.

The Prince

Niccolo Machiavelli

Gold.

The structure of scientific revolutions

Thomas Kuhn

1984

George Orwell

The Richest Man in Babylon

George S.Clason

The Mill On The Floss

George Eliot

Read it in childhood, really loved it.

The Book of Clarity

Paras Chopra

I have a signed copy!

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

Keith Johnstone

Learnt about story-telling and improvisation.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J K Rowling

Human-level

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Beyond Order

Jordan B Peterson

King, Warrior, Magician, Lover

Douglas Gillette and Robert L. Moore

How to Create A Mind

Ray Kurzweil

Deep Learning

Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville

Logic: A Graphic Guide

Dan Cryan, Sharon Shatil, Bill Mayblin

Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Friedrich Nietzsche

The Practicing Mind

Thomas M. Sterner

Deep Medicine

Eric Topol

Mastery

Robert Greene

Be Here Now

Ram Dass

Book from the hippie culture of 60s California.

Emotional Design

Don Norman

Lessons on designing; useful for HCI.

The Psychology of Money

Morgan Housel

Take Charge of your life

Dr. William Glasser, MD

Concepts in this book must be incorporated into all school syllabuses.

Algorithms to Live By

Brian Christian, Thomas L. Griffiths, and Tom Griffiths

Explains several algorithms in a non-technical way, connecting them to everyday life.

The Monk Who Sold his Ferrari

Robin Sharma

Siddhartha

Hermann Hesse

Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are?

Frans de Waal

Natural General Intelligence

Christopher Summerfield

Micro-level

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The Vital Question

Nick Lane

Note

This page does not imply agreement with every idea in every book listed. Thank you.

Algorithm for selecting what to read.

I choose the book, if one or more of these are true: 1) It's a high quality book that is aligned to my goal. 2) It is recommended by people I follow (friends/famous people). 3) or it just caught my attention or something.