Best book I've read in [2015].

As with most non-fiction, the meat was in the beginning.

One of my favorite books of all time.

Fine book but it didn’t need to be an entire book. A blog post would have gotten the point across.

Fundamental and had a lot to teach.

Cialdini's 'Influence.'

So good that it may as well be non-fiction.

Siddhartha by Herman Hesse. Enjoy!

I'm reading Tools of Titans, Tim Ferriss' book of what he learned from a lot of great performers.

I always recommend [this book] as my top business book.

Best cyberpunk novel ever written. Slightly dated but very prescient.

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A fantastic book.

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The most brilliant and enlightening book I've read in years.

David Deutsch, 'The Beginning of Infinity.' Matt Ridley, 'The Rational Optimist.' Nassim Taleb, 'Skin in the Game.' Richard Feynman, 'Six Easy Pieces.'

Learn about the inner mindset and external state of someone who was absolutely brilliant.

The best book I've read in 2018, I highly recommend it. Lots of great ideas in there. Lots of good mental models and constructs. He has a bit of an attitude, but he has that because he's brilliant, and it's okay. So just look past the attitude and read the book, learn the concepts. It's one of the best business books I've ever read. And luckily, it doesn't masquerade as a business book.

Taleb's Skin in the Game doesn't mean identity / incentive. It means suffering downside risk if you are wrong. AI scientists have the opposite situation. They get personal benefits if they're right and socialize the losses if they're wrong.

David Deutsch, 'The Beginning of Infinity.' Matt Ridley, 'The Rational Optimist.' Nassim Taleb, 'Skin in the Game.' Richard Feynman, 'Six Easy Pieces.'

Worth reading.

Interesting, not because of its content necessarily, but because it’s good for me to always keep on top of mind how powerful my habits are.

Classic. I love [this book].

Worth reading.

My favorite recent discovery.

My favorite recent discovery is 'The Beginning of Infinity,' but resist the urge to go through it too quickly.

David Deutsch, 'The Beginning of Infinity.' Matt Ridley, 'The Rational Optimist.' Nassim Taleb, 'Skin in the Game.' Richard Feynman, 'Six Easy Pieces.'

Haven't read Bacon, huge fan of Deutsch - one of the most important books that I've ever re-read.

The Beginning of Infinity, Chapter 15. Better yet, read the whole book (slowly and carefully).

If I had to do it over again, I would shelve every other book and just read The Beginning of Infinity as slowly as possible, and listen to @ToKTeacher's podcast alongside. Start with a solid foundation.

Didn't finish it. Good book but not as seminal as Sapiens.

Worth reading.

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The Wealth of Nations.

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Great book. Required reading.

A beautiful book.

Amazing book, but good luck finishing it.

[This book] is the OG.

The future convergence of networks and governments, from one of the most brilliant thinkers alive.

I wouldn’t just read [this book] breathless and wide-eyed and believe everything.

Best book I've read since Sapiens (far less mainstream, though).

Love [this book].

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Good but closer to a single-themed book.

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Great book.

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One of my top 3 books of all time.

Drop everything and read [Understand].

'Understand' by Ted Chiang. It's in his collection 'The Story of Your Life' and others.

Everything by [this author] is worth reading.

Everything by [this author] is worth reading.

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That’s what I read [by Seneca].

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One of my all time favorite books. I quote it all the time.

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Loved [this book].

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The Fabric of Reality, Real-World Cryptography, Atmamun, The Ten Books of Architecture, Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, Hsin Hsin Ming - The Book of Nothing, Self-Reliance, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, The Mahageeta Vol 1, Jed Talks #3.

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It was entertaining, but I sort of gave up after a bit.

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My brother wrote it, so I'm biased. But it's brilliantly written.

This is his collection of ancient wisdom.

They complement James Fadiman's book very well.

The way of Zen is just awesome because Zen is beautiful in so many ways and it's just a joy to read that book.

Explains all these very complicated concepts, [but] only using the 1000 most common words in the English language.

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Fantastic read.

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Good if you liked the first one.

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Everything by [this author] is worth reading.

Everything by [this author] is worth reading.

A fun, light read.

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[The author]'s very dry but full of great ideas.

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Buy [this book].

The only sci-fi novel that I know of where the protagonist is a Buddha.

Genius, a cogent defense of anarchy.

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If I'm going to read fiction, might as well start at the top.

The first thing I would do is start meditating, and then I would read, concurrently I would read Objective Knowledge by Karl Popper.

The last meditations of Anthony DeMello.

Alan Watts beautifully describes wu-wei which is do nothing and no mind which is mu-shin.

Snow Crash, Ted Chiang, Greg Egan, Three Body Problem...

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Without judgment, he just lays down how con men work.

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Decades ago, it didn’t make sense. Years ago, it changed my life, but I felt late.

Best book I've read in [2017]. Physics, poetry, philosophy and history packaged in a very accessible form.

A very difficult read, but once you see it, you can't unsee it.

He's not an easy read. 'The Book of Life' is the least unapproachable.

I love [this book].

Naval Ravikant's answer to "physics book for grade school or graduate students?

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There's a particular book titled Thermoinfocomplexity, which frustratingly, remains unpublished.

Very good.

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Amazing.

Terrific.

[This book] led me into tech!

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David Deutsch, 'The Beginning of Infinity.' Matt Ridley, 'The Rational Optimist.' Nassim Taleb, 'Skin in the Game.' Richard Feynman, 'Six Easy Pieces.'

Formative books for me. Read and re-read them over the years.

Another masterpiece of SciFi by [this author].

It’s more of an overview book because I couldn’t make it through his actual writings.

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I liked it. But these kinds of books aren't quick reads, they're inspiration to self reflect.

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Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many many others.

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The Order of Time.

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An important book.

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[The author] is doing the behind the scenes work to support entrepreneurship in America.

On a lighter but still very educational note, check out [this book].

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Autobiography of a Spiritually Incorrect Mystic.

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Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many many others.

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Has a bit of the Siddhartha flavor.

'Illusions' by Richard Bach has a bit of the Siddhartha flavor.

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Everything by [this author] is worth reading.

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Just as good [as Think on These Things].

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Everything by [this author] is worth reading.

Really fun, most egotistical author of all time.

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'The Book of Life.' He is a hard read. Osho is much easier, can try 'The Great Challenge.'

The Great Challenge.

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I’ve read it a long time ago. Time for a re-read.

Bought the book, will try it.

Everything by [this author] is worth reading.

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For historical fiction, I like [this book].

Favorite childhood comic.

Naval Ravikant's recommendation for "good humourous fiction.

Recommended.

Bit mystical but he’s not wrong.

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Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many many others.

Fantastic.

I would give my kids a copy of Richard Feynman's Six Easy Pieces and Six Not-So-Easy Pieces: Einstein's Relativity, Symmetry, and Space. Richard Feynman is a famous physicist. I love both his demeanor as well as his understanding of physics.

Everything by Kapil Gupta, MD. Kapil recently became a personal advisor and coach to me, and this comes from a person who doesn't believe in coaches.

Everything by Kapil Gupta, MD. Kapil recently became a personal advisor and coach to me, and this comes from a person who doesn't believe in coaches.

The Fabric of Reality, Real-World Cryptography, Atmamun, The Ten Books of Architecture, Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, Hsin Hsin Ming - The Book of Nothing, Self-Reliance, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, The Mahageeta Vol 1, Jed Talks #3.

If you want to run through a bunch of meditation techniques, you can pick up a book called The Book of Secrets by Osho. It's actually a translation of an old Sanskrit book with 112 different meditations. You can try each one, and see which one works for you.

My most listened-to audiobook. The most important audiobook I've ever heard.

Two more books, kind of introducing you to the idea of psychedelics and altered state of consciousness is Doors of Perception by Aldous Huxley and How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan. Two great books, kind of give you an idea of what you could be facing in your psychedelic trips.

This is the best book on spirituality I've ever read by far.

I would recommend anything by Alan Watts, but two books in specific are The Book: The taboo against knowing who you are. That's a great book.

I quote The Last Question all of the time. I loved it as a kid.

Everything by Jed McKenna. Jed spits raw truth. His style may be off-putting but the dedication to truth is unparalleled.

Everything by Jed McKenna. Jed spits raw truth. His style may be off-putting but the dedication to truth is unparalleled.

Everything by Jed McKenna. Jed spits raw truth. His style may be off-putting but the dedication to truth is unparalleled.

The Fabric of Reality, Real-World Cryptography, Atmamun, The Ten Books of Architecture, Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, Hsin Hsin Ming - The Book of Nothing, Self-Reliance, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, The Mahageeta Vol 1, Jed Talks #3.

The Fabric of Reality, Real-World Cryptography, Atmamun, The Ten Books of Architecture, Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, Hsin Hsin Ming - The Book of Nothing, Self-Reliance, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, The Mahageeta Vol 1, Jed Talks #3.

The Fabric of Reality, Real-World Cryptography, Atmamun, The Ten Books of Architecture, Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, Hsin Hsin Ming - The Book of Nothing, Self-Reliance, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, The Mahageeta Vol 1, Jed Talks #3.

The Fabric of Reality, Real-World Cryptography, Atmamun, The Ten Books of Architecture, Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, Hsin Hsin Ming - The Book of Nothing, Self-Reliance, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, The Mahageeta Vol 1, Jed Talks #3.

The Fabric of Reality, Real-World Cryptography, Atmamun, The Ten Books of Architecture, Collected Essays of Arthur Schopenhauer, Hsin Hsin Ming - The Book of Nothing, Self-Reliance, A Symbolic Analysis of Relay and Switching Circuits, The Mahageeta Vol 1, Jed Talks #3.

I don't know about 'study' but I liked his book Raja Yoga.

Jed McKenna is to spirituality what Rick and Morty is to children's cartoons.

If you liked that, read more Borges. 'The God's Script,' 'Library of Babel,' etc. He's unmatched.

The Sun Rises in the Evening.