What books have had the biggest influence on your life?
Discussion
Women are from Venus men from Mars. Still remember key themes that make me sane... and happily married for 27 years.
The Prophet by Kalil Gibran. Lots of wisdom in a very short book.
It's a blank slate that's being written on every day.
The Bitcoin standard
Check your financial privilege by Alex gladstein
Atlas Shrugged, Dune, Starship Troopers, The Sovereign Individual, The Hand Made House, 1984, Brave New World, Fahrenheit 411, Animal Farm, LOTR, The Road, ...
Bitcoin standard and Marcus Arelius’s Meditations
Winnie-the-Pooh
- Bible
- Machen, Christianity and [Modernism]
- Kline, Kingdom Prologue
- Bastiat, The Law
- Hayek, Road to Serfdom
- Denson, Cost of War
- Lewis, [all]
- Milton, Paradise Lost
The Richest Man In Babylon
The Very Hungry Caterpillar
Electronics Notebooks by Forest Mims III
The Hobbit and Platos' allegory of the cave.
The Holographic Universe
The Sovereign Individual
The Price of Tomorrow
The Alchemist
Bitcoin is Venice
The Fiat Standard
The Biology of Belief
The Alchemist
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Fiction:
1) Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
2) Against the Day by Thomas Pynchon
3) Jerusalem by Alan Moore
Non Fiction:
1) Rationality, from AI to Zombies by Eliezer Yudkowsky
2) Many others, but they don't come close to the first in the way it taught me how to think.
The purpose driven life.
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius