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Searching for the secrets to the world. My favourite pieces of writing/content.

• The War of Art

  Steven Pressfield

  An anthropomorphic way of describing struggles in the creative process. "If you were the last person on earth, would you still do it?".

• How to Read a Book

  Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren

  I think everybody should read this haha.

• Teardrop

  Massive Attack

  Song lyrics are melancholic, and the beat mimics a heartbeat. But, I feel hopeful, and empowered. There is a challenge ahead, that awaits. "Fearless on my, breath".

• Zeroth-Principles Thinking

  Bryan Johnson

  If everything which you desired disappeared and all your needs were met, what would you do?

• The Scaling Hypothesis

  Gwern

  "All problems in computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" (layers of software)

• Man's Search for Meaning

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Very deep introspectional book, coming from a person to which the world took everything away from him. "Those who have a 'why' to live, can bear with almost any 'how"

• reactive agency

  Claire Wang

  Guilty of reactive agency. Figuring out your values is difficult!

• Design is the practice of seeing through the surface of things to understand their underlying structure, then rearranging those elements into new forms that didn't exist before

  Ryo Lu

  Break things, then build them back up.

• Vagabond

  Takehiko Inoue

  Journey of a young samurai as he finds his purpose killing people with his sword.

• Make Something Wonderful

  Steve Jobs

  Put something back into the pool of human experience.

• Final Performance

  Whiplash

  What is greatness like behind closed doors?

• I'm Coming Back for Everything

  The Social Network

  You can feel the betrayal through the present/past storytelling, and music timing.

• The Complete Mathematics of Neural Networks and Deep Learning

  Adam Dhalla

  Rabbithole into machine learning started here.