What I'm Reading, What I've Read

• The Conscious Mind: In Search of a Fundamental Theory by David Chalmers
• The Gods Themselves by Isaac Asimov
• The Experience of Insight: A Simple & Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation by Joseph Goldstein

• Consciousness Explained by Daniel Dennet
• Echopraxia by Peter Watt
• Flatland by Edwin Abbott
• House of Suns by Alastair Reynolds
• I Am a Strange Loop by Douglas Hofstadter
• Seveneves by Neal Stephenson
• The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan
• The Ego Tunnel: The Science of the Mind and the Myth of the Self by Thomas Metzinger

2024

• Being You: A New Science of Consciousness by Anil Seth
• 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 Ministry For The Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
• The Only IP Book You Will Ever Need!: Unraveling the mysteries of IPv4 & IPv6 by Lazaro (Laz) J. Diaz
• 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 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+