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Quotes I like

On growth

"True intuitive expertise is learned from prolonged experience with good feedback on mistakes." — Daniel Kahneman

"Anyone who isn't embarrassed of who they were last year probably isn't learning enough." — Alain de Botton

"To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often." — Winston S. Churchill

"Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning." — Benjamin Franklin

Philosophy

• Philosophical Investigations by Wittgenstein
• Various Platonic dialogues, especially Alcibiades
• The Antichrist by Nietzsche
• G. K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy
• Minima Moralia

Psychology & Self-Development

• Jung’s Aion, Red Book, Mandala Symbolism, Man and His Symbols
• Psycho-Cybernetics by Maxwell Maltz
• Guilt by Donald Carveth
• The Spirituality of the Body by Alexander Lowen
• How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie
• Influence by Robert Cialdini
• Maps of Meaning by Jordan Peterson

History & Biography

• Biographies by Edmund Morris and Walter Isaacson
• The House of Rothschild by Niall Ferguson
• Born Red, Gulag Archipelago, Dostoyevsky
• On War by Carl von Clausewitz

Finance & Business

• How to Make a Few Billion Dollars by Brad Jacobs
• The Smartest Guys in the Room by Bethany McLean (Enron)
• When Genius Failed by Roger Lowenstein (LTCM)
• The Great Crash 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith
• When Money Dies by Adam Fergusson
• Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements
• Reminiscences of a Stock Operator
• Soros’ Theory of Reflexivity writings
• Paul Graham, Venkatesh Rao, A Smart Bear

Social Commentary

• The Closing of the American Mind by Allan Bloom
• Christopher Lasch’s The Culture of Narcissism and Women and the Common Life
• Theory of the Leisure Class by Thorstein Veblen
• Propaganda by Jacques Ellul
• De Beauvoir’s Second Sex

Science

• Darwin’s Descent of Man
• Julian Jaynes’ Bicameral Mind
• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• Manuel DeLanda’s War in the Age of Intelligent Machines
• The Web That Has No Weaver by Ted Kaptchuk

Fiction & Literature

• Pessoa’s Book of Disquiet
• Murakami’s 1Q84
• Houellebecq’s Particules Elementaires
• _why’s CLOSURE