Books

Below is a list of books and essays that have impacted me deeply:

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History

• History by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Ancient Greece

• The Life of Greece by Will Durant

Ancient Rome

• Caesar and Christ by Will Durant
• Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

America

• John Adams by David McCullough
• Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
• Hamilton by Ron Chernow
• Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power by Jon Meacham

Russia

• The Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

Medicine

• Awakenings by Oliver Sacks

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Biography

• Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! by Richard Feynman

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Philosophy

• Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Politics

• The Open Society and its Enemies by Karl Popper
• Beauty by Roger Scruton

Roman

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• On the Shortness of Life by Seneca
• On Friendship by Cicero
• On Duties by Cicero

Christian

• A Confession by Lev Tolstoy
• Fear and Trembling by Kierkegaard
• Answer to Job by Carl Jung

Cognition

• Gödel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

Morality

• Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
• The Genealogy of Morals by Friedrich Nietzsche

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Novels

• The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky
• Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

Technology

• The Sovereign Individual by James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg

Software

• The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond
• Rework by Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson

Bitcoin

• Mastering the Lightning Network by Andreas Antonopoulos
• Programming Bitcoin by Jimmy Song
• Mastering Bitcoin by Andreas Antonopoulos

Privacy

• Extreme Privacy by Michael Bazzell

Psychology

• Modern Man in Search of a Soul by Carl Jung