bookshelf
Here are some of the books I have read lately.
The list is also mirrored at goodreads.com/3005
2021
Exhalation
Ted Chiang
† A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence
Jeff Hawkins
† The Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect
Roger Williams
Snow Crash
Neal Stephenson
TRANSHUMANISM INC.
Victor Pelevin
Anathem
Neal Stephenson
Peak: Secrets from the New Science of Expertise
K. Anders Ericsson
The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing's Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine
Charles Petzold
Beyond Order: 12 More Rules For Life
Jordan B. Peterson
† The Beginning of Infinity: Explanations That Transform the World
David Deutsch
Singularity Sky (Eschaton, #1)
Charles Stross
The Glass Bead Game
Hermann Hesse
The Hacker Ethic: and the Spirit of the Information Age
Pekka Himanen
† The Listening Society: A Metamodern Guide to Politics, Book One (Metamodern Guides 1)
Hanzi Freinacht
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke
The Story of the Mongols Whom We Call the Tartars
Giovanni da Pian del Carpine
Cryptonomicon
Neal Stephenson
2020
† Ralph Waldo Emerson on Self Reliance
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Good Gut: Taking Control of Your Weight, Your Mood, and Your Long-term Health
Justin Sonnenburg
Continuity of Parks
Julio Cortázar
Permutation City (Subjective Cosmology #2)
Greg Egan
† Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation
Bruce Tift
† Gnomon
Nick Harkaway
AI Superpowers: China, Silicon Valley, and the New World Order
Kai-Fu Lee
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch
Terry Pratchett
Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age
Paul Graham
Modern Romance
Aziz Ansari
† The Fifth Science
Exurb1a
Something Deeply Hidden: Quantum Worlds and the Emergence of Spacetime
Sean Carroll
† Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Catching the Big Fish: Meditation, Consciousness, and Creativity
David Lynch
Generative Design: Visualize, Program, and Create with JavaScript in p5.js
Benedikt Groa
† No Boundary: Eastern and Western Approaches to Personal Growth
Ken Wilber
Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers
Robert M. Sapolsky
The Simpsons and Their Mathematical Secrets
Simon Singh
Fiasco
Stanislaw Lem
† The Yellow Arrow
Victor Pelevin
† Summa technologiae
Stanislaw Lem
