​Books
 Scivias - Hildegard von Bingen 
  • ​Cum Processit Factura Digiti Dei
How to Win Friends & Influence People - Dale Carnegie
  • Speech increased to 100
Game Theory - Brian Clegg
  • The Vickrey Auction is one of the fairest pricing methods. Even used to price mechanical keyboards.
Once Upon a Prime - Sarah Hart, Ph.D.
  • Examples of prevalent symbolism of mathematics in literature.
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself - Joe Dispenza, Ph.D.
  • There is no need to dwell on why you were. Only to think of what you need to be.
Black Wave - Kim Ghattas
  • Rivetingly nuanced commentary on middle east politics, especially focused on 1979.
Dune - Frank Herbert
  • "Sad? Nonsense! Parting with friends is a sadness. A place is only a place. And [          ] is just another place."
Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid - Douglas Hofstadter, Ph.D.
  • This is the book on recursion of All Time
A Wrinkle in Time - Madeline L'Engle
  • In the third grade I read this book because the cover terrified me. Imagine my brain trying to visualize a tesseract.
Japanese Fashion Cultures: Dress and Gender in Contemporary Japan - Masafumi Monden, Ph.D.
  • Yes, the very foundation of corpcore e-boy. Not a single Patagonia vest in sight.
Lovely Sweet Dream - Hiroko Nishikawa
  • Inspired my own. In Lament, the Strained Dream
Videogame Atlas: Mapping Interactive Worlds​ - Luke Caspar Pearson, Sandra Youkhana
  • Phenomenal coffee table book for a monastery, perhaps?
Hello World: Where Design Meets Life - Alice Rawsthorn OBE
  • A great piece on design appreciation, without the actual expectation to design anything. Just appreciate it.
Introducing Fashion Theory - Andrew Reilly, Ph.D. Drive to Win, The Essential Guide to Race Driving - Carroll Smith
  • Yes, I read a real life book on motorsport to better improve in virtual reality racing simulators. 
Mathematics for Human Flourishing - Francis Su, Ph.D.
  • "And when we struggle, and at last succeed, we build self confidence." I might as well just quote the whole book.
Incerto - Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Ph.D.
  • ​Quant but make it esoteric avant garde liberal arts. Enter the quantiverse.
Escape from Model Land - Erica Thompson, Ph.D.
  • ​How do we p-hack that which has no correlation?
A Divine Language - Alec Wilkinson
  • Prof. Maceo, I no longer play phone games during class. Prof. Baker, I now get the heat equation, QED.
Books I tell myself to read later
Games People Play  - Eric Berne, M.D.
The Charisma Myth - Olivia Fox Cabane
​The Myth of Sisyphus, and other essays - Albert Camus
The Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch FRS, Ph.D.
Superforecasting - Philip E. Tetlock, Ph.D. and Dan Gardner
The Organized Mind - Daniel Levitin, Ph.D.
Big Data, Big Design - Helen Armstrong
Feck Perfuction - James Victore