the aspiration is to read a 'significant work' a day for 3 months
realistically with a travel schedule that takes me to 5 conferences across 3 continents in the next 2 months i expect to read 2 books/week.
Reasons and Persons by Parfit
The Glass Bead Game by Hesse (This post on metaphilosophy asks:
What are the most important similarities and differences between philosophy and the Glass Bead Game?)
Ishmael by Quinn
Axiomatic by Greg Egan
Chaos by Gleick
Invisible Cities by Calvino
On Self Respect, by Didion
Interior States by Meghan O'Gieblyn
Fleishman is in Trouble by Taffy Brodesser-Akner
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
The White Album by Joan Didion
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
Soul Mountain by Gao Xinggian
Buying a Fishing Rod for my Grandfather by Gao Xinggian
Who Do You Think You Are? by Alice Munro
Humboldt's Gift by Saul Bellow
Nobel Prize Lecture, “Japan, The Beautiful and Myself” by Kawabata
The Old Man and the Sea by Hemingway
Swann's Way by Proust
The Cybernetic Hypothesis by Tiqqun
Hacking Life: Systematized Living and its Discontents by Reagle
Why Men Fight by Bertrand Russell
The Arrival by Shaun Tan
Life and Death are Wearing Me Out by Mo Yan
Big Breasts & Wide Hips by Mo Yan
The Good Earth by Pearl Buck
Metaphors We Live By by Lakoff
The Chinese Pleasure Book by Nylan
I am a Strange Loop
Ideology and Utopia by Karl Mannheim
Automation and Utopia by John Danaher
Anarchy, State, and Utopia by Nozick
Philosophy as a Science: Its Matter and Its Method
Textbooks:
Reinforcement Learning by Sutton
Category Theory for the Sciences by Spivak
The Atlas of Economic Complexity: Mapping Paths to Prosperity
a thought:
a book per place?
China: I Ching
France: A Moveable Feast
2020:
Construction Site for Possible Worlds
on reading:
“Study hard what interests you the most in the most undisciplined, irreverent and original manner possible.” - Feynman
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