Library

Here are some books, essays and websites I (partially) read. Shoot me a message if you have any recommendations!

Non-fiction

• Thinking fast and slow
• Sapiens
• Zero to one
• Code
• Incerto: Fooled by randomness, The black swan, Antifragile, The bed of procrustes
• Doing good better
• Rework
• Waking up
• Radical markets
• Inadequate equilibria
• The hard thing about hard things
• Man's search for meaning
• The elephant in the brain
• The mind illuminated
• Finite and Infinite Games
• The Worldly Philosophers
• Homo deus
• The power of habit
• Retorische Kritiek (Rhetoric)
• Freakonomics
• The World is Flat
• The Sense of Style
• World systems analysis
• This changes everything
• Distributed Systems
• Red blooded risk
• Modern Romance
• Capital in the twenty-first century
• The economics of inequality
• Elon Musk
• Games people play
• Good and real
• Influence
• Elements of Style
• The 4-hour workweek
• Utopia for realists
• Gödel, Escher, Bach
• Singularity is near
• Adapt
• Bad samaritans
• Understanding power
• Charisma Myth
• History of western philosophy
• Debt
• The 7 habits of highly effective people
• Think and grow rich
• The limits to growth
• Outliers
• Screw business as usual
• Skin in the game
• Verslaafd aan liefde
• Radical candor
• Overcoming gravity
• The mind is flat
• Lying
• The playbook :D
• Algorithms to live by
• The moral landscape
• Never split the difference
• Justice
• Seeing like a state
• Founders at work
• The Google way
• How Google works
• In the plex
• The slight edge
• Collapse
• The pmarca blog archives
• My inventions
• Winners Take All
• Rationality: From AI to Zombies
• Courage: The Joy of Living Dangerously
• The Founder's Dilemma's
• The Scramble for Africa
• Dancing in the Glory of Monsters
• The World Is Flat
• 10% Less Democracy
• Atomic Habits
• It Doesn't Have To Be Crazy At Work
• The Course of Love
• Startup Playbook
• The Upside of Stress
• Mastering Bitcoin
• SRE books
• An Introduction To Mathematical Reasoning
• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction
• The Outer Limits of Reason: What Science, Mathematics, and Logic Cannot Tell Us
• The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon
• The Moral Animal
• Rules for a flat world
• Principles
• An Elegant Puzzle: Systems of Engineering Management
• Disciplined Entrepreneurship
• The Origins of You
• The State in the Third Millennium
• Fast progress requires strong gradients
• What on earth happened
• We are our brain
• Great founder theory
• Diversity and Complexity
• Chernobyl Prayer
• The Stories We Live By
• This can't be true
• Hope
• Mind of Napoleon
• Het Water Komt
• When The People Speak
• Noise: A Flaw in Human Judgment
• Crisis of Parliamentary Democracy
• Strangers Drowning
• How to Solve it
• Knowledge and Decisions
• Noise a flaw in human judgement
• Internal Family Systems Therapy
• The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics
• China in ten words
• Rebellion, Rascals, and Revenue: Tax Follies and Wisdom through the Ages
• Anthropic Bias
• Where is my flying car?
• Amp it up
• Kleur bekennen
• The Power Law
• European Founders at Work
• The Alignment Problem
• Talent
• Creativity
• The Rise and Decline of Nations
• Against the Grain
• Far from the tree
• What We Owe the Future
• Scaling People
• The age of em
• Creativity Inc
• The Beginning of Infinity

Favorite fiction

• Thomasina
• Pillars of the Earth
• His dark materials
• Kinderen van moeder aarde
• The hobbit
• Life of pi
• The hitchhikers guide to the galaxy series
• The egg
• That alien message
• Permutation City
• Timelapse of the Future: A Journey to the End of Time
• Zenosyne: The Sense That Time Keeps Going Faster
• Cloud Atlas
• Project Hail Mary
• Siddhartha

Favorite scope sensitivity commentary

• What happens on an average day?
• If all of humanity or all living being were seen as a single human's life, what happens each day?

Favorite movies

• The Truman Show
• Triangle of sadness & The Square
• Everything everywhere all at once
• Parasite
• Cloud atlas
• 3000 years of longing
• Benjamin Button
• What Dreams May Come
• Shutter Island & A Beautiful Mind
• V for Vendetta
• The matrix
• The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie - truly brilliant

Discovering more

• Hacker news
• Less wrong
• Marginal revolution
• Essays by Paul Graham
• Ribbonfarm
• A Venture Capitalist
• A Guide to MIRI’s Research
• The History of Economic Thought
• Watch Your Hack
• Anki spaced repetition app
• Simple and secure note taking app
• Inoreader
• Find a book which you're unlikely to read
• James Somers Reading list
• Alan Kay Reading list
• Stripe Press
• Marc Andreessen's blog