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recommended reading
Below are some books that have expanded my mind significantly. I will definitely update this as I go. if you have any additional recommendations for me, I am all ears.
Books:
- Metamagical Themas, by Douglas Hofstadter
- Genome, by Matt Ridley
- Guns, Germs, and Steel, by Jared Diamond
- Cradle to Cradle, by William McDonough and Michael Braungart
- Mining the Sky, by John S. Lewis
- Cosmos, by Carl Sagan
- Tao Te Ching, by Lao Tzu
- Capital in the Twenty-First Century, by Thomas Piketty
- The High Frontier, by Gerard K. O'Neill
- Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth, by Buckminster Fuller
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar, by Eric S. Raymond
Fiction:
- Blood Meridian, by Cormac McCarthy
- Cloud Atlas, by David Mitchell
- Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole
- Neuromancer, by William Gibson
- Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
- Siddhartha, by Herman Hesse
- The Stand, by Stephen King
- Snowcrash, by Neil Stephenson
Articles:
- DNA seen through the eyes of a coder, by Bert Hubert
- Why Software is Eating the World, by Marc Andreessen
- The Geopolitics of the United States, by Stratfor
- As We May Think, by Vannevar Bush
- Leverage Points: Places to Intervene In a System, by Donella Meadows
- Starship is still not understood, by Casey Handmer