Reading List

I love reading, particularly books that take a cherished view of mine and rip it out of my hands with rigorous and logical argumentation.

Here I keep a list of books I've particularly loved and regularly cite in other articles and interviews.

Technology and futurism

• Where Is My Flying Car by J. Storrs Hall

Ethics (in the classical sense)

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Naval Ravikant.
• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy by William B. Irvine

Worldview solvents

Incerto by Nassim Nicholas Taleb. Five volumes and 1872 pages of absolute brain-busting epistemic gold (at least for someone, like me, who came from a background in the social sciences, where a naive faith in quantitative modeling and the Normal Distribution pervaded everything).

Straw Dogs by John Gray

Civilized to Death by Christopher Ryan

Love and human connection

Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Novelization) by Gene Roddenberry.

Gene Roddenberry: The Last Conversation (Portraits of American Genius) by Yvonne Fern.

Sex at Dawn: How We Mate, Why We Stray, and What It Means for Modern Relationships by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha.

A Billion Wicked Thoughts: What the World's Largest Experiment Reveals About Human Desire by Ogi Ogas and Sai Gaddam