Library

This started out as a place for me to note down exceptional or otherwise interesting things I’ve read, but has since expanded to a place for aggregating cool stuff I find on the internet.


Personal Websites, Blogs, and other texts #

colah’s blog

Paul Graham’s essays

Folding

The Curse of the Traveler

Section 5 of Thomas Jefferson’s letter to Peter Carr

The Hunt for the Death Valley Germans

The forbidden railway: Vienna - Pyongyang

General Websites #

Seeing Theory

0x40 Hues

itazuraneko kana training tool

The Man in Seat 61

Academic Texts #

Meditations on First Philosophy - René Descartes

Epiphenomenal Qualia - Frank Jackson

Science and Human Behavior - B.F. Skinner

Capital in the Twenty-First Century - Thomas Piketty

A Theory of Justice - John Rawls

French Liaison - Marie-Hélène Côté

Aspects of the Theory of Syntax - Noam Chomsky

Does language shape thought? Mandarin and English speakers’ conceptions of time - Lera Boroditsky

What’s the difference between Schwa (/ə/) and Wedge (/ʌ/)? - Will Styler

Books and Short Stories #

Between the World and Me - Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood

East of Eden - John Steinbeck

Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter

You Can’t Go Home Again - Thomas Wolfe

The Death and Life of Great American Cities - Jane Jacobs

Forever Overhead - David Foster Wallace

This is Water - David Foster Wallace

The Pale King - David Foster Wallace

Story of Your Life - Ted Chiang

Exit West - Mohsin Hamid

Kokoro - Natsume Sōseki

Blindness - José Saramago

We, The Drowned - Carsten Jensen