Things I've Enjoyed
A list of works I’ve enjoyed.
Books
- The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power
- Chaos Monkeys
- Infinite Yest
- Deep Work
- The Master and Margarita
- Pnin
- Man’s Search for Meaning
- Motocikls
- Chip War
- The Most Important Thing
- Behave
- Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion
- The Language Instinct
- Logicomix
- Maus
- Here
- Probabilistic language understanding: An introduction to the Rational Speech Act framework
- The Mom Test
Short writing
- The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas
- A Mathematician’s Lament (particularly recommended to schoolchildren and their parents)
- How to Think For Yourself and most other PG’s essays
- Sleeping Through the Technical Interview
- How Do Taoists Quit Smoking?
- How To Become a Hacker
- Password Rules Are Bullshit
- The correct response to uncertainty is not half-speed
- Please Commit More Blatant Academic Fraud
- Donald Trump is a better storyteller than Ernest Hemingway