Sapiens
Yuval Noah Harari
How one unremarkable ape came to run the planet through shared fictions: money, nations, and rights. It reframes what we call natural.
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Ideas worth returning to.
Books on evolution, cognition, systems, philosophy, and practice, with the note I kept from each one.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
A map of fast intuition, slow deliberation, and the biases that quietly shape ordinary decisions.
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Thinking in Systems
Donella Meadows
The clearest primer I know on stocks, flows, feedback loops, and the leverage points that change a system.
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The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
A gene-centred view of life that changes the scale at which cooperation, competition, and survival make sense.
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The Almanack of Naval Ravikant
Eric Jorgenson
Specific knowledge, leverage, long games, and a compact set of ideas about building wealth without losing a life to it.
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Behave
Robert Sapolsky
A single behaviour traced backward through seconds, years, and evolutionary time. The fullest tour of why humans do what they do.
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Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Private notes on duty, mortality, and staying steady. Two thousand years later, the advice still survives a hard Monday.
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The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
Patanjali
Yoga as a disciplined study of the mind, and the source I return to while writing my sutra essays.