Favorite Reads of 2021

- Debt, David Graeber - Challenges your preconceived ideas on where money came from.

- Ordinary Men, Christopher Browning - Few books I’ve read in 2021 were more worthwhile than this one. You need to understand the evil that people can do to understand the evil that you can do. We are still the same people, with the same psychology, as we were in the 20th century. And we are very much capable of repeating any of humanity's atrocities.

- Siddhartha, Hermann Hesse - beautiful story, poetic writing (in German), and reassuring if you ever have to start from 0 again

- Antifragile, Nassim Taleb (re-read) - not a business book, but the best book on business in my opinion. Lessons apply to much more than business: politics, economy, personal life, etc.

- Skin in the Game, Nassim Taleb (re-read) - first book I ever read by NNT and the one that made me fall in love with him. for me, it's a book on honor

- Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand - I enjoyed it. I like the ideals that the main characters represent. Francisco d'Anconia resonates with me

- Crime & Punishment, Dostoyevsky - Dostoyevsky is half the reason why I wanna learn Russian eventually. For me, the book is an exploration of conscience and nihilism for me.

- The Hobbit (re-read) - A classic. Also re-read a bunch of Raymond Feist's Riftwar Cycle

- Of Human Freedom, Epictetus - They are part of Epictetus's Discourses. An ancient philosophy for a more tranquil, honorable life.

- Animal Farm, George Orwell - Short and powerful. A lecture on the Marxist slogan and its consequences. Orwell's essay on "Why I Write" is a great companion.

- Endurance, Shackleton's Incredible Journey - Shackleton is just one of those characters you wanna read about.

- A New Kind of Science, Stephen Wolfram - Shouldn't put this on here because I only read 1/4th so far, but for such a dense textbook, I found it quite enjoyable. Teaches you new intuitions about the science of computation.