Authors I keep coming back to

Simone Weil, Albert Camus, David Foster Wallace, Cixin Liu, Scott Alexander, Henrik Karlsson.

Essays

Read:

• “When Facing a Complicated Problem, Don’t Try to Solve It, Try to Understand It” by Henrik & Johanna Karlsson
• “Rest in Motion” by Nate Soares
• “This Is Water” by David Foster Wallace
• “Attention and Will” by Simone Weil
• “The Shortness of Life” by Seneca
• Susan Sontag’s “Against Interpretation” (1964) · 💭 my thoughts

Want to read:

• “Meditations on Moloch” by Scott Alexander
• “Trapped Priors As A Basic Problem Of Rationality” by Scott Alexander
• “The Categories Were Made For Man, Not Man For The Categories” by Scott Alexander
• “Slack” by Zvi Mowshowitz
• Meaningness by David Chapman
• “On Self-Respect” by Joan Didion
• “Joy” by Zadie Smith
• “The Myth of Sisyphus” (opening essay) by Albert Camus