A set of unordered lists including my favorite thinkers and books.

Note: I do not necessarily agree with everything listed here. I sometimes consume someone’s content precisely because I don’t agree with them and find their opposing opinion interesting.

Favorite contemporary thinkers:

• Christopher Alexander
• Karl Popper
• F. A. Hayek
• David Deutsch

Great books:

Favorite books in bold, with all-time favorite books underlined.

• A History of Private Life, Volume I - Paul Veyne
• A Tour of C++ - Bjarne Stroustrup
• The Timeless Way of Building - Christopher Alexander
• Awareness - Anthony De Mello
• Discourses and Selected Writings - Epictetus
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant - Eric Jorgenson
• Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
• The Man from the Future - Ananyo Bhattacharya
• Influence - Robert B. Cialdini
• Le Comte De Monte-Cristo - Alexandre Dumas (in French)
• Skin in the Game - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• Mastering Ethereum - Andreas M. Antonopoulos
• Spiritual Enlightenment - Jed McKenna
• The Brand Gap - Marty Neumeier
• The Road to Serfdom - F. A. Hayek
• The C Programming Language - Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Edmund Morris
• The Princeton Companion to Mathematics - Timothy Gowers et al.
• The Sovereign Individual - James Dale Davidson and Lord William Rees-Mogg
• Letters from a Stoic - Seneca
• Pitching Hacks - Venture Hacks
• With Consent - Jane Fortune-Wood
• Zero to One - Peter Thiel
• The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch
• A Pattern Language - Christopher Alexander
• Guests of the Sheik - Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
• The Most Important Thing - Howard Marks
• Animal Farm - George Orwell