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Books I read

Influences on my life

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

Prince Era

I plan to spend the spring and summer in Europe, reading and writing. I finally give myself permission to read philosophy now that I've got some seasoning, and I'm excited to see what I can learn from the lense of my own life.

  • Nausea by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Being and Nothingness by Jean-Paul Sartre
  • The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera
  • The Stranger by Albert Camus
  • Burnout Society by Byung Chul Han

Highlights

  • Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
  • The Book of Tea by Kakuzō Okakura
  • In Praise of Shadows by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki
  • Centering in Pottery, Poetry, and the Person by M.C. Richards
  • The Will to Change by bell hooks
  • Psychopolitics by Byung Chul Han
  • Existentialism is a Humanism by Sartre
  • China in Ten Words by Yu Hua
  • More than Human by Dazai
  • The Three-Body Problem Series by Liu Cixin
  • Exhalation by Ted Chiang
  • Paper Menagerie by Ken Liu
  • Vagabond by Takehiko Inoue
  • Works of Rumi, Ren Hang, and Basho

Business Stuff

  • First break all the rules by Mark Caine
  • 100M Offers / 100M Leads by Alex Hormozi
  • Principles by Ray Dalio
  • Consulting Bible by Alan Weiss
  • 1 Page Marketing Plan by Allan Dib

Recommendation from others I have not yet read

  • The Three Cornered World by Natsume Soseki
  • Mans' Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
  • Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo