Citations for my thoughts
Because I'm not that original.
Books I've Finished
James Gleick, Chaos: Making a New Science
How there is coherence in chaos. The secret divine pattern to the universe.
Herman Hesse, Siddhartha
How to find instead of search.
Daniel Goleman, Emotional Intelligence
How important emotional health is to physical health.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from the Underground
How you can live like you are dead.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot
How doing the right thing can break you.
Sabine Hossenfelder, Existential Physics: A Scientist's Guide to Life's Biggest Questions
How to explore the existential with a scientific frame.
Frank Herbert, Dune
How emotional mastery can aid in navigating conflict
Franz Kafka, The Metamorphosis
How to value yourself, even if you turn into a bug.
Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning
How finding your 'why' leads to finding 'how'.
Daniel Quinn, Ishmael
What it means to be a civilized human as part of mother culture.
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment
How betraying your humanity will destroy you.
Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
How the game of power is played by everyone. So learn it.
Iain Banks, Surface Detail
What it means to exist in more than one reality.
Franz Kafka, Struggle
How the struggle is moment to moment and ever shifting.
Frederick Nietzsche, God is Dead. God Remains Dead. And We Have Killed Him
How a society without higher purpose and meaning collapses.
Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist
How going after your dreams is the purpose to your life.
Marshall Rosenberg, Nonviolent Communication
How to speak openly with empathy and understanding.
Books I'm in the middle of
Neil Howe and William Strauss, The Fourth Turning: An American Prophecy - What the Cycles of History Tell Us About America's Next Rendezvous with Destiny
Verne Harnish, Scaling Up
Frederick Nietzsche, Beyond Good and Evil
David C. Krakauer, The Complex World: An Introduction to the Foundations of Complexity Science
Other Articles and Essays I loved
Marko Simic, Magic in the Age of Machines
https://www.simicvm.com/magic-in-the-age-of-machines
Scott Alexander, I Can Tolerate Anything Except the Outgroup
https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/09/30/i-can-tolerate-anything-except-the-outgroup/