Mediashelf

Books and other forms of media that ideally I remember consuming.

I've highlighted particularly life-changing works in green and above-average ones in blue. This list is continuously evolving as I discover new works.

Books

• The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran
• The Culture Series by Iain M. Banks
• Mind Children by Hans Moravec
• Information Rules by Hal Varian
• Engines that Move Markets by Alasdair Nairn
• Lao Tzu: The Tao Te Ching by Ursula K. Le Guin
• The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
• Warriors and Worriers by Joyce Benenson
• Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
• Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows
• Elephant and the Brain by Robin Hanson
• Age of Em by Robin Hanson
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
• Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman
• Zero to One by Peter Thiel
• Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life by Alan Watts
• On White by Kenya Hara
• Art as Therapy by Alain de Botton and John Armstrong
• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running by Haruki Murakami
• Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami
• The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

Essays

• Situational Awareness by Leopold Aschenbrenner
• Machines of Loving Grace by Dario Amodei
• The Coming Technological Singularity by Vernor Vinge
• Road Kill on the Information Highway by Nathan Myhrvold
• User Interface, a Personal View by Alan Kay
• Keep Your Identity Small by Paul Graham

Film and Other Media

• The Lobster by Yorgos Lanthimos
• Lectures: Life and Music by Alan Watts
• Everything Everywhere All at Once by Dan Kwan and Daniel Scheinert
• Arcane by Pascal Charrue and Arnaud Delord