Reading

I realized a few years after college that I had almost completely stopped reading for pleasure, and then made a resolution to start doing so. I always loved it when I was young, and find that when I stop reading my brain starts to stagnate a bit. I’m also always looking for recommendations, so send me yours!

Below is a collection of things I’ve read that have been impactful or inspiring for me.

• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond

• The Rational Optimist by Matt Ridley

• The Information by James Gleick

• Creativity Inc. by Ed Catmull

• Technological Revolutions and Financial Capital by Carlota Perez

• Birches by Robert Frost

• Travels With Charley by John Steinbeck

• The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

• Perelandra by CS Lewis

• If– by Rudyard Kipling

• Foundation by Isaac Asimov, as well as the next two in the series, Foundation and Empire and Second Foundation

• Any of the Calvin & Hobbes canon, though my favorites are There’s Treasure Everywhere and Homicidal Psycho Jungle Cat

• The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

• This one is cheating a little bit because it’s a lecture, not something to read, but Feynman’s Computer Heuristics Lecture should be required watching for just about everyone I know!