Library

A collection of my favourite books, blog posts, and news articles.

Books

• Albert Camus, The Stranger
• Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
• Anderson, Seppäläinen, & Valkó, Introduction to Probability
• Friedrich Nietzsche, Twilight of the Idols
• Ivan Illich, Deschooling Society
• James Ellis, Exiting Modernity
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Fooled by Randomness
• Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Skin in the Game

Links

Philosophy, Society & Economics

• alkjash, Is Success the Enemy of Freedom?
• alkjash, Pain is not the unit of Effort
• Derek Thompson, The Anti-Social Century
• Ran Prieur, Techjudge
• Scott Alexander, The Colors Of Her Coat
• Scott Alexander, The Parable of The Talents

Technical

• Ben Kuhn, In Defense of Blub Studies
• Jim Dennis, Your problem with Vim is that you don’t grok vi.
• Nikhil Suresh, Reverence for the Craft, Business, and Your Immortal Soul
• Nikita Prokopov, Software disenchantment
• Wesley Aptekar-Cassels, Consider SQLite