A list of works I’ve enjoyed.

Books

  1. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
  2. Chaos Monkeys
  3. Infinite Yest
  4. Deep Work
  5. The Master and Margarita
  6. Pnin
  7. Man’s Search for Meaning
  8. Motocikls
  9. Chip War
  10. The Most Important Thing
  11. Behave
  12. Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
  13. The Language Instinct
  14. Logicomix
  15. Maus
  16. Here
  17. Probabilistic language understanding: An introduction to the Rational Speech Act framework
  18. The Mom Test

Short writing

  1. The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
  2. A Mathematician’s Lament (particularly recommended to schoolchildren and their parents)
  3. How to Think For Yourself and most other PG’s essays
  4. Sleeping Through the Technical Interview
  5. How Do Taoists Quit Smoking?
  6. How To Become a Hacker
  7. Password Rules Are Bullshit
  8. The correct response to uncertainty is not half-speed
  9. Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud
  10. Donald Trump is a better storyteller than Ernest Hemingway