Table of contents
📚 Books that inspired me
✍️ Quotes that inspired me
📺 Videos that inspired me
🎵 Music that inspired me
Books that inspired me
Favourites (2024)
- The Price of Time by Edward Chancellor
- Meine Schwester by Bettina Flitner
- The Worst Journey in the World by Apsley Cherry-Garrard
Favourites (2023)
- A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean
- Kruso by Lutz Seiler
- Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey
Favourites (2022)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Drifters by James A. Michener
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Favourites (2021)
- Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
- The Sojourn by Andrew Krivak
- The Bear by Andrew Krivak
Focus, Personal Growth, Strategy
- The Book of Beautiful Questions by Warren Berger
- Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World by Cal Newport
- The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn by Richard Hamming
- Good Strategy Bad Strategy: The Difference and Why It Matters by Richard P. Rumelt
- The Five Invitations: Discovering What Death Can Teach Us About Living Fully by Frank Ostaseski
- Toward a Psychology of Being by Abraham H. Maslow
- How to Win Friends & Influence People by Dale Carnegie
Writing
- Draft No. 4: On the Writing Process by John McPhee
- On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft by Stephen King
- Clear and Simple as the Truth: Writing Classic Prose by Francis-Noel Thomas & Mark Turner
Life, Science, Anthropology & Biology
- The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber &David Wengrow
- A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence by Jeff Hawkins
- The Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph A. Tainter
- The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark by Carl Sagan
- Wonderful Life: The Burgess Shale and the Nature of History by Stephen Jay Gould
- The Problems of Biology by John Maynard Smith
- The Vital Question: Energy, Evolution, and the Origins of Complex Life by Nick Lane
- The Triple Helix: Gene, Organism, and Environment by Richard C. Lewontin
- Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst by Robert M. Sapolsky
- The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
Quotes that inspired me
It is better to do the right problem the wrong way than the wrong problem the right way. - Richard Hamming
Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe. - Abraham Lincoln
Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the right things. - Peter Drucker
A good marriage is one in which each spouse secretly thinks he or she got the better deal. - Anne Lamott
Videos that inspired me
- The Craft of Writing Effectively by Larry McEnerney:
- How to Speak by Patrick Winston:
- TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time:
- Nulli und Priesemut