YURUI'S FAVOURITES

YURUI'S FAVOURITES

The top 1% of content I’ve consumed.

My favourite quotes, books, articles, blogs, newsletters, speeches, videos, 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

  • The Surrender Experiment by Michael SInger

  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

  • Dune by Frank Herbert

  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

  • All Quiet On the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

  • Invisible Cities, The Nonexistent Knight by Italo Calvino

  • Virgil’s Aeneid

  • Gilgamesh

  • Dante’s Divine Comedy

  • 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

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

  • Catullus 7, 8, 23, 46, 63, 64, 76, 96, 99, 101

  • Death Be Not Proud, John Donne

  • Preludes by TS Eliot

  • Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy

  • If by Rudyard Kipling

  • Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope

Movies

  • To Live

  • 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

  • It’s Such a Beautiful Day

  • Soul

  • The Polar Express

Blogs/Newsletters

I always read these guys’ newsletters:

Articles

Speeches

Videos