I used to have a really old version of this blogpost that was tattered and patchy, until eventually I got sick of it and decided to start from scratch. Books were a big part of my life growing up. I think it’s accurate to think of me as a library nerd.

What are the books I like and recommend? What books make up the core of my personal OS?

Alan Watts
The User Illusion
Lost Illusions
Sideways look at Time
Lives of a Cell
Surely you’re joking Mr Feynman
Foucault
Seneca
Seth Godin
Sagan
Animal Farm
Antifragile
Ogilvy
Randy Pausch
WaitButWhy
bill wurtz
Russell Brand
Derek Sivers
pg’s essays
Ribbonfarm
48 Laws of Power

Thread of books I'm reading in 2018. Deciding that I'm going to focus on optimizing for "books started" (which is fun and interesting) rather than "books finished" (which for me has a sort of masochistic, completionist connotation I'd like to be free of).

— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) January 23, 2018

Oddballs:

Satan Burger, Carlton Mellick
A Sideways Look At Time, Jay Griffiths
The Glass Castle, Jeannette Walls
The User Illusion, Tor Norretranders
Soul Made Flesh, Carl Zimmer
Confessions of an Advertising Man, David Ogilvy
The Chocolate War, Robert Cormier

There are a books that people recommend because it makes them look smart, and then there are a books that people in the trenches share with each other because it saved their asses. I am very curious about the latter group. Eg: easyway to quit smoking, body keeps the score, …?

— Visakan Veerasamy (@visakanv) October 6, 2018