Books that inspired me
Fiction Favourites (2022)
- One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez
- The Drifters by James A. Michener
- The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Fiction 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: The Powerful Questions That Will Help You Decide, Create, Connect, and Lead by Warren Berger, https://amorebeautifulquestion.com
- 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
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
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