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Books

Influences

Books that changed how I see the world:

  • Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
  • Book of Disquiet - Fernando Pessoa
  • In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
  • Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person - M.C. Richards
  • The Three-Body Problem Series - Liu Cixin
  • Vagabond - Takehiko Inoue

Philosophy

Reading philosophy now that I have some life experience to bring to it:

  • Nausea - Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Being and Nothingness - Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Existentialism is a Humanism - Jean-Paul Sartre
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera
  • The Stranger - Albert Camus
  • Burnout Society - Byung Chul Han
  • Psychopolitics - Byung Chul Han
  • The Will to Change - bell hooks

Fiction & Poetry

  • The Three-Body Problem Series - Liu Cixin
  • Exhalation - Ted Chiang
  • Paper Menagerie - Ken Liu
  • More than Human - Osamu Dazai
  • China in Ten Words - Yu Hua
  • Vagabond - Takehiko Inoue
  • Works of Rumi, Ren Hang, and Basho

Eastern Aesthetics

  • Tao Te Ching - Lao Tzu
  • The Book of Tea - Kakuzo Okakura
  • In Praise of Shadows - Jun'ichiro Tanizaki
  • Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person - M.C. Richards

Business

  • 100M Offers / 100M Leads - Alex Hormozi
  • Principles - Ray Dalio
  • Consulting Bible - Alan Weiss
  • 1 Page Marketing Plan - Allan Dib
  • First Break All the Rules - Marcus Buckingham

To Read

Recommendations I haven't gotten to yet:

  • The Three Cornered World - Natsume Soseki
  • Man's Search for Meaning - Viktor Frankl
  • Pedro Paramo - Juan Rulfo