Syllabus

I’ve long been interested in the idea of a “personal syllabus” — a collection of works that have influenced me over the years. Here are some of them:

Technology:

The Law of Accelerating Returns – Ray Kurzweil

Taste for Makers – Paul Graham

Instructive:

Why Man Creates – Saul Bass

Skillful Means – Tarthuang Tulku

Never Split the Difference – Chris Voss

Fiction:

Tortilla Flat – John Steinbeck 

Siddhartha – Herman Hesse

The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber – Ernest Hemingway

Bonjour Tristesse – Françoise Sagan

Portnoy’s Compliant – Phillip Roth

100 Years of Solitude – Gabriel García Márquez

Philosophy:

Republic – Plato

Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche

Meditations – Marcus Aurelius

A New Refutation of Time – Jorge Luis Borges

Man Is Not Alone – Abraham Joshua Heschel