My personal canon
An encapsulation, in list form, of things that have most shaped me.1
These are things that I continue to return to, things that have influenced how I think about myself, people, life, and the world around me.
Books
- Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
- Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- 1984 by George Orwell
- Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
- The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott
Writings
- How to be perfectly unhappy by The Oatmeal
- Chanel Miller's victim impact statement
- The MacPhersons: Week 53 — Deceived? by Malcom MacPherson
- J.S. Park's writings on mental health, forgiveness, grief, and faith
- kfwyre's comment on intellectual curiosity and empathy
- On a technicality by Eevee
- Deimos' comment on giving less time to internet things that make us unhappy
- Bogleheads® investment philosophy
- Romans 14, the New Testament
- My product is my garden by Herman, on puttering
Films
- Arrival, 2016
- Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, 2004
- Inside Out, 2015
- Don't Look Up, 2021
Videos
- Survivor bias by 2Veritaseum
- The price of admission, Q&A with Dan Savage
- Why you will marry the wrong person, presentation by Alain de Botton
- Forget the pecking order at work, TED Talk by Margaret Heffernan
TV series
- The Good Place, 2016-2020
Games
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