Canon
I originally tried to organize this list into categories like “economics”, “philosophy”, etc. But I realized that so many of these exist on the border of categories or in multiple. In fact, a high signal of deserving to be on this list is that a piece of work should be so impactful, it fundamentally changes my worldview in many categories of life, not just one. So therefore, here is a random assorted list of my personal canon.
- Zero to One
- 12 Against the Gods
- Minimum Viable Superorganism
- Thrive Survive Theory of the Political Spectrum
- Chapters 1 & 2 of “How Dawkins got Pwned”
- Networks on the Political Compass
- Black Mirror S03E01: Nosedive
- Imagined Communities
- Player of Games (Put a Num On It)
- On [there being more than] liberty
- Meditations on Moloch
- Right is the New Left - Countersignalling
- Schrumpeter’s Theories of Creative Destruction
- Sapiens
- Economics of Money and Banking
- Live versus Dead Players
- SlateStarCodex Review of 12 Rules for Life
- A Big Little Idea called Legibility
- Circles UBI Whitepaper
- Swarmwise
- War on Different Scales
- The 17th Amendment Killed Federalism
- The categories were made for man, not man for the categories
- Innovation through Economic States of Exception
- Naval Podcast: Season 1
- Hamilton Musical
- The Memecoin Thesis