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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.