#mind
#knowledge
#epistemology
#philosophy
# [[Epistemic status]]
#godel-uncertain
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# Book
Books allow you to let someone else think for you.
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>A room without books is like a body without a soul. ~ [[Cicero]]
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*Reading is faster than listening* ~[[Naval Ravikant]]
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>With printed books had come a new metaphor for the world’s organization. The book was a container for information, designed in orderly patterns, encoding the real in symbols; so, perhaps, was nature itself.
> ~ [[Newton]]
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## read many times the best books rather than many books
>The mass of books burdens the student without instructing him, and it is far better to devote yourself to a few authors than to get lost among many.
>~ [[Seneca]]
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>I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times
>~ [[Bruce Lee]]
## Recommended books (for nonfiction noobs)
Books that will make you fall in love with reading (if you don't like a book, put it down).
### Recent books
- Atomic Habits ([[James Clear]])
- Everything from [[Yuval Noah Harari]] (mostly Sapiens, Homo Deus)
- The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature ([[Biology/Matt Ridley]])
- Striking thoughts ([[Bruce Lee]])
- Biographies from [[Walter Isaacson]] ([[Leonardo Da Vinci]], [[Steve Jobs]], [[Benjamin Franklin]]...)
### Philosophy/Rationality:
- Stoicism ([[Epictetus]], [[Seneca]], [[Marcus Aurelius]])
- Zen ([[Lao Tze]])
- Everything from [[Confucius]]
- Everything from [[Benjamin Franklin]]
- Freedom from the known (and everything from [[Krishnamurti]])
- Living Dangerously ([[Osho]])
- 1984 ([[George Orwell]])
- Siddhartha ([[Hermann Hesse]])
### Science
- Selfish gene ([[Richard Dawkins]])
- Cosmos ([[Sagan]])
- Everything from [[Feynman]]
## Recommended books (for the courageous)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/103091881-louis?ref=nav_mybooks&shelf=read&sort=rating
### Recent books
- [[Max Tegmark]] - [[The Map is not the Territory|the map of the territory]]
- [[Brian Greene]] - [[The Map is not the Territory|the map of the territory]]
- Everything from [[Nassim Taleb]] - not getting fooled by numbers, [[Rationality|rationality]]
### Philosophy/Rationality
- [[Karl Popper]] - [[The Map is not the Territory|the map of the territory]] - most fundamental understanding of everything
- Everything from [[Eliezer Yudkowsky]] - [[Rationality|rationality]], [[Alignment]] - better explained than Popper
- Boring stuff, not sure I recommend, but probably needed fundamental to understand the rest ([[Bertrand Russell]], [[Kant]], [[Descartes]], [[Plato]], [[Artistotle]]) - [[Philosophy|philosophy]]
- [[Poincare]] - good philosopher - physics + philosophy
### Science
## Don't read
Most likely, I didn't understand the book, or didn't read it at the proper time:
- [[Nietzsche]] - useless but fun?
- [[Cal Newport - Deep Work_ Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World]] - most obvious thing on earth, read a summary
- Sun Tzu - boring as hell - obvious stuff
- Other books from [[Richard Dawkins]] - too much hate on theology, not really useful imho
- [[Peter Phiel]] books - useless imho - obvious
- [[Sigmund Freud]] - currently considered as useless - maybe I missed something
- [[Darwin]] - you better read a book written by a cow
- Caldini psychology book - too boring as hell
- [[Ray Kurzweil - The Singularity Is Near_ When Humans Transcend Biology-Viking Adult]] - no words, quite boring and not [[Compound Knowledge]]
## Alternating focus
Audiobook X2 for discovery x1
Audiobook X1 for discovery x2
Ebook for notes and discovery x3
Physical book for discovery x4
It's all about focus oscillation
Good content requires strong focus
## Lists
https://www.navalmanack.com/navals-recommended-reading
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/xg3hXCYQPJkwHyik2/the-best-textbooks-on-every-subject
https://www.kevinrooke.com/book-recommendations
https://personalmba.com/best-business-books/
https://lexfridmanlibrary.com/
https://lindybook.com/list