A collection of good things
Here are some books, essays, music, and other artifacts. This isn't meant to be exhaustive or a list of "the best", but I only put items on here that I have really enjoyed.
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For Whom the Bell Tolls
- Ernest Hemingway
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The Mom Test
- Rob Fitzpatrick
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Picaresque
- The Decemberists
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Philosophy and the Real World
- Bryan Magee
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In Rainbows
- Radiohead
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7 Powers
- Hamilton Helmer
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Goldberg Variations (Glenn Gould)
- Bach
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Meditations
- Marcus Aurelius
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East of Eden
- John Steinbeck
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Understanding Variation
- Donald J. Wheeler
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Ender's Game
- Orson Scott Card
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The Goal
- Eliyahu Goldratt
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Kid A
- Radiohead
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Good Strategy / Bad Strategy
- Richard Rumelt
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On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense
- Friedrich Nietzsche
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Stories of Your Life and Others
- Ted Chiang
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
- Robert Pirsig
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The Three-Body Problem
- Liu Cixin
Other people's places online
A non-exhaustive list of people who inspire and impress me, and their places online.
- Dan Wang - annual letters are incredible
- Matt Levine - perhaps, one of the best newsletters of all time
- Kevin Lynagh - builds for the sake of it
- Patrick McKenzie - writing about finance
- Cedric Chin - writing about how to thoughtfully do business
- Craig Mod - writing & walking, thoughtful observer
- Jungwon Byun - actively building tools to improve research and thought
- Andy Matuschak - researching how to learn better
- Linus Lee - working on tools to help write to think
- Bret Victor - the one and only
- Casey Handmer - physicist, building things to fix the world
- Geoffrey Litt - improving computing
- Michael Nielsen - physicist, thinking about learning and research acceleration
- Amelia Wattenberger - design, computing, representation
- Ed Yong - science journalist, which undersells him greatly
- Kanjun Qiu - studies people, institutions, and cultures
- Ralph Ammer - illustrator, essayist, creativity and philosophy
- Patrick Collison - cofounder Stripe, thoughtful technologist, helping others build the future
- Jason Crawford - establishing a new philosophy of progress
- Nat Friedman - cofounder GitHub, thoughtful technologist and writer
- Milan Cvitkovic - FRO innovator, now working on brain science
- Greg Gundersen - writing to learn math online, PhD making the complex profitable
- Ben Kuhn - thoughtful engineer and writer about learning and understanding
- Will Larson - thoughtful technology manager and writer on topics of organizations and management
- Maxim Zaslavsky - PhD at the intersection of computers and immunology
Great shelves on the internet
A list of others' lists.