What I'm Reading

• Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
• Peak Mind: Find Your Focus, Own Your Attention by Amishi P. Jha

2025

• Echo Praxia by Peter Watts
• Enough by Patrick Rhone
• I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison (short story)
• Life 3.0: Being Human in the Age of Artificial Intelligence by Max Tegmark 🔊
• Lights On: How Understanding Consciousness Helps Us Understand the Universe by Annaka Harris 🔊
• Starry Messenger: Cosmic Perspectives on Civilization by Neil deGrasse Tyson
• The Attention Revolution: Unlocking the Power of the Focused Mind by B. Alan Wallace 🔊
• The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli 🔊
• The Machine Stops by E.M. Forster (short story)

2024

• Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
• A Stitch In Time by Andrew J. Robinson 🔊
• Chip Wars: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology by Chris Miller 🔊
• House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds ⭐
• How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness... by Michael Pollen 🔊
• Know Thyself: The Science of Self Awareness by Stephen M. Fleming
• Losing the Signal: The Untold Story Behind the Extraordinary Rise and Spectacular Fall of Blackberry by Jacquie Mcnish & Sean Silcoff 🔊
• Psych: The Story of the Human Mind by Paul Bloom ⭐
• The Experience of Insight: A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation by Joseph Goldstein ⭐
• The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
• The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation by Jon Gertner 🔊
• The Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Puppet Masters by Robert Heinlein 🔊
• The Status Game: On Social Position and How We Use It by Will Storr ⭐

2023

• Amusing Ourselves to Death by Neil Postman ⭐
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• Blindsight by Peter Watts ⭐
• Conscious: A Brief Guide to the Fundamental Mystery of the Mind by Annika Harris ⭐
• Death's End by Liu Cixin 刘慈欣 (tranlsated by Ken Liu) ⭐
• Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer
• How To Sit by Thích Nhất Hạnh
• Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
• Map and Territory (Rationality: From AI to Zombies) by Eliezer Yudkowsky
• Meditations on Violence by Rory Miller ⭐
• Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
• On Having No Head by Douglas Harding
• Stolen Focus: Why You Can't Pay Attention by Johann Hari
• The Time Machine by H.G. Wells
• The Dark Forest by Liu Cixin 刘慈欣 (tranlsated by Joel Martinsen) ⭐
• You Are Not A Gadget by Jaron Lanier
The Expanse Series by James S.A. Corey 🔊
• The Expanse: Drive (short story) 🕪
• The Expanse: The Churn (novella) 🕪
• The Expanse: The Butcher of Anderson Station (short story) 🕪
• The Expanse: Leviathan Wakes 🕪
• The Expanse: The Last Flight of the Cassandra 🕪
• The Expanse: Caliban's War 🕪
• The Expanse: Gods of Risk (novella) 🕪
• The Expanse: Abaddon's Gate 🕪
• The Expanse: The Vital Abyss (novella) 🕪
• The Expanse: Cibola Burn 🕪
• The Expanse: Nemesis Games 🕪
• The Expanse: Babylon's Ashes 🕪
• The Expanse: Strange Dogs (novella) 🕪
• The Expanse: Persepolis Rising 🕪
• The Expanse: Auberon (novella) 🕪
• The Expanse: Tiamat's Wrath 🕪
• The Expanse: Leviathan Falls 🕪
• The Expanse: The Sins of Our Fathers (novella) 🕪

2022

• A Universe From Nothing: Why there is Something Rather than Nothing by Lawrence Krauss
• Digital Vegan by Andy Farnell ⭐
• Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander
• Foward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• In the Beginning... was the Command Line by Neal Stephenson
• Letter to a Christian Nation by Sam Harris
• Prelude to Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 🔊 ⭐
• Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
• The Currents of Space by Isaac Asimov
• The Last Question (short story) by Isaac Asimov ⭐
• The Martian by Andy Weir 🔊 ⭐
• The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 刘慈欣 (tranlsated by Ken Liu) ⭐
• The Way Home - Tales From a Life Without Technology by Mark Boyle

2021

• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg Mckowen
• Foundation by Isaac Asimov ⭐
• Foundation and Earth by Isaac Asimov ⭐
• Foundation and Empire by Isaac Asimov ⭐
• Foundations Edge by Isaac Asimov
• Opt Out by Rory Price
• Pale Blue Dot by Carl Sagon ⭐
• Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
• Second Foundation by Isaac Asimov ⭐
• Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now by Jaron Lanier
• The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov ⭐
• The Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Job by William Irvine ⭐

2020

• 21 Lessons for the 21st Century by Yuval Noah Harari
• 4 Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss 🔊
• Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
• Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport 🔊
• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World by Cal Newport 🔊
• Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund ⭐
• Free Will by Sam Harris ⭐
• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari
• Industrial Society and It's Future (essay) by Theodore Kaczynski (PDF)
• Liberal Eugenics: In Defense of Human Enhancement by Nicholas Agar
• Lying by Sam Harris
• Neuromancer by William Gibson
• Permanent Record by Edward Snowden
• Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion by Sam Harris ⭐
• Vagabonding by Rolf Potts

2019

• 10% Happier by Dan Harris 🔊
• Buddha's Brain by Rick Hanson
• Goodbye Things: On Minimalist Living by Fumio Sasaki
• Minimalism: Essential Essays by Nicodemus & Millburn
• Rich Dad Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
• Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari ⭐
• Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock
• The Total Money Makeover by Dave Ramsey 🔊
• Transcend: Nine Steps to Living Well Forever by Grossman & Kurzweil

Pre-2019

• 1984 by George Orwell
• Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep by Philip K Dick
• Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
• Models by Mark Manson
• The Book on the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts
• The God Delusion by Richard Dawkins ⭐
• The Stranger by Albert Camus
• The Transhumanist Wager by Zoltan Istvan
• The Way of Men by Jack Donovan
• What Is Transhumanism by Humanity+