The top 1% of content I’ve consumed.

My favourite quotes, books, articles, blogs, newsletters, speeches, videos, podcasts, movies, and poems.

Before you dive in: Treat your to-read pile like a river.

“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.” - Doris Lessing.

Books

Best are in Bold

• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

• Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

• Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Letters from a Stoic by Seneca, and the Dao De Jing by Laozi

• Zero To One by Peter Thiel

• When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

Fiction

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

• Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

• Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

• Dune by Frank Herbert

• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

• All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

• W;t by Margaret Edson

• Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino

(Non) Fiction:

• Virgil’s Aeneid

• Dante’s Divine Comedy

• Homer’s Odyssey, Aeschylus’ Orestia

• Hamlet and King Lear by William Shakespeare

• Moby Dick by Herman Melville

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Poems

• Walt Whitman: Song of the Open Road, Song of Joys, O Captain! My Captain!

• Horace, Odes 1.11, 1.37, 2.3, 3.9, 4.7, 4.15

• Death Be Not Proud, John Donne

• Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy

• Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay

• So Many Books, So Little Time by Haki R. Madhubuti

• If by Rudyard Kipling

• Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope

Movies

• To Live

• Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

• Perfect Days

• Dead Poets Society

• About Time

• How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

• Triangle of Sadness

• Kung Fu Panda 1-4

• Blade Runner

• It’s Such a Beautiful Day

• Interstellar

• Forrest Gump

• Soul

• The Polar Express

Blogs/Newsletters

• More To That (I love this site)

• Wait But Why

• Paul Graham (the classic)

• Sam Altman

• Mark Manson

• Financial Samurai (came across this very recently and absolutely love it)

I always read these guys’ newsletters:

• Alex Brogan

• Tyger Cho

• James Clear

• The Daily Stoic

• Tim Ferriss

• Farnam Street

Articles (all these are amazing)

• How Will You Measure Your Life? - Clayton Christensen

• Why Time Flies - Maximilian Kiener

• How People Think - Morgan Housel

• The Struggle - Ben Horowitz (wow)

• Advice from Patrick Collison

• The Inner Scorecard - Shane Parrish

• The Last Question - Isaac Asimov (best 5 min fiction read ever)

• My death is close at hand. But I do not think of myself as dying. - Paul Woodruff (my fav article on death)

• The Finality of Everything - More To That

• The Nothingness of Money - More To That

• How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) - Wait But Why (long but great)

• How To Be Successful - Sam Altman

• The Days Are Long But The Decades Are Short - Sam Altman

• What You'll Wish You'd Known - Paul Graham

• How To Figure Out What To Do With Your Life - Julian Shapiro

• The Tail End - Wait But Why

• Career Advice

• The Five Regrets of the Dying

• Your Real Biological Clock is You’re Going to Die

• The Egg - Andy Weir (prime matter - all of a common conscience).

• Advice for Ambitious Teenagers

• Philosophy Has Lost Its Way - More To That

• The Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu

• On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning - Haruki Murakami (yes, this is the odd one out but also an amazing read)

Speeches

• Steve Jobs’ 2005 Commencement Speech (whenever ur cooked)

• Admiral McRaven’s 2014 Commencement Speech

• Competition is for Losers - Peter Thiel

• Citizenship in a Republic

• This is Water - David Foster Wallace

• You and Your Research - Richard Hamming

Videos

• In The Fall by Steve Cutts. 11/10 watch. From the guy that did the happiness rat-race animation

• Some Rough Advice for the "Real World" by Vlog Brothers

• Andrew Huberman’s Non Sleep Deep Rest (NSDR) Protocol -Trust me, you’ll love it.

• Feeling Through by Omeleto (must watch)

• Instructions for a Happy Life by exurb1a

• How To Lie Without Lying

• Happiness by Steve Cutts

• Digital Hygiene: How We Might've Fucked Our Attention Spans by exurb1a

• What I Learned From 100 Days of Rejection by Jia Jiang

• Why You Will Fail to Have a Great Career by Larry Smith

• You (Probably) Don’t Exist by exurb1a

• Sleep is Just Death Being Shy by exurb1a

• Deepak Chopra’s Finest Moments

Podcasts

• The Joe Rogan Experience - David Goggins and Naval episodes were favourites

• Huberman Lab podcast

• Diary of a CEO - Mo Gawdat, Jordan Peterson episodes excellent

• Lex Fridman’s podcast

• A View from the Top - Stanford GSB