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wisecrack

• Beyond Fear: Thinking Sensibly about Security in an Uncertain World
• Electronic Communities: Global Village or Cyberbalkans?
• The Immortals - Borges
• Death - Todd May

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vox / carlos mazza

• Presidential Power: The Politics of Leadership
• It impressed JFK when he read it– idea of operating effectively within a
• beaurocracy
• Mean World Syndrome and the American Media
• The End of Policing

medium: 5 books that rocked my world and soothed my soul in 2019

medium 5 books that rocked my mind and soothed my soul in 2019

1. Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Word - Robert M Sapolsky
2. The Other End of the Leash: Why We Do What We Do Around Dogs - Patricia B. McConnell
3. Man’s search for meaning - Viktor E. Franlk
4. Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind - Yuval Noah Harari
5. Midnight in Chernobyl - The untold story of the world’s greatest nuclear disaster

Mindhack book sources

Robert Anton Wilson “Stupidynamics (John Dillinger Cabal, Position Paper 23),” The Illuminati Papers (Berkely, CA, USA 1980)

“Reading RAW is like smoking herb or ingesting low grade acid: a pleasant rush as your higher circuits begin to open. RAW’s optimism is infectious and uplifting. I need more of this positivity and intellectual stimulation in my life.” - Amazon Review

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biography

• All the Great Prizes - Taliaferro
• Asylum - Seabrook
• Boyd - Coram
• Cyrus the Great - Xenophes
• Eisenhower in War and Peace - Smith
• Empire State of Mind - Greenburg
• Napoleon - Johnson
• No Hiding Place - Seabrook
• Plato - Johnson
• Sherman - Hart
• Socrates - Johnson
• The Fish That Ate the Whale - Cohen
• The Power Broker - Caro
• The Rise of Theodore Roosevelt - Morris
• Titan: The Life of John D Rockefeller - Chornow
• Ulyses S Grant Memoirs and Selected Letters - Grant
• Washington: A Life - Chornow
• Where Men Win Glory - Krakaser

economics and business

• Economics in One Lesson - Henry Hazlitt
• The Innovator’s Dilemma

engineering

• Scientific Instrument Building Book
• The Machinist’s Handbook

genre fiction

literature

• Infinite Jest - David Foster Wallace
• Ulyssles

language

• Braille
• Greg Shorthand
• Morse Code
• latin
  • collar and daniels latin
  • the latin language taught through itself
• Intermediate Spanish
• Elementary Japanese

hard science

philosophy

• A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
• Essays and Aphorisms - Schopenhaur
• How to Read a Book - Mortimer Adler
• How to Win Friends and Influence People - Dale Carnegie
• Infinite Reality
• Letters From A Stoic - Seneca
• Man’s Search For Meaning - Frankl
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelious
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• Moral Sayings of Publius Syrus - Seneca
• Nature and Selected Essays - Emerson
• Plutarch’s Lives I and II - Plutarch
• The Dictator’s Handbook - Ian
• The Righteous Mind - Jonathan Haidt
• The Wisdom of Insecurity - Alan Watts

spirituality and pseudoscience

soft science

how-to

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running - Haruki Murakami
• Complete Calisthenics
• How To Cook Everything Vegetarian: Sauces
• Mind Performance Hacks
• Mindhacker
• Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel