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My Bookshelf

  1. The Epic of Gilgamesh
  2. Homer – The Iliad
  3. Homer – The Odyssey
  4. Hesiod – Theogony and Works and Days
  5. The Bhagavad Gita
  6. The Dhammapada
  7. Lao Tzu – Tao Te Ching
  8. Confucius – The Analects
  9. Early Greek Philosophy
  10. Heraclitus – Fragments
  11. Sophocles – The Three Theban Plays
  12. Sappho – Stung with Love: Poems and Fragments
  13. Aeschylus – The Oresteia
  14. Euripides – Medea, Hecabe, Electra, and Heracles
  15. Aristophanes – Lysistrata and Other Plays
  16. Plato – Complete Works
  17. Aristotle – Poetics
  18. Aristotle – De Anima (On the Soul)
  19. Aristotle – The Metaphysics
  20. Aristotle – The Politics
  21. Aristotle – The Nicomachean Ethics
  22. Epicurus – Letters, Principal Doctrines, Vatican Sayings, and Fragments
  23. Xenophon – The Economist
  24. Publius Syrus – The Moral Sayings of A Roman Slave
  25. Ovid – Metamorphoses
  26. Virgil – The Aeneid
  27. Plutarch – Essays
  28. Plutarch – On Sparta
  29. Marcus Aurelius – Meditations
  30. Seneca – Letters from a Stoic
  31. Epictetus – Discourses and Selected Writings
  32. Horace and Persius – Satires and Epistles
  33. Dante Alighieri – The Divine Comedy and Vita Nuova
  34. Saint Augustine – City of God
  35. Teresa of Ávila – The Interior Castle
  36. St. John of the Cross – The Dark Night of the Soul
  37. Goethe – Faust
  38. John Milton – Paradise Lost
  39. Friedrich Nietzsche – The Will to Power
  40. Friedrich Nietzsche – Human, All Too Human
  41. Friedrich Nietzsche – The Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
  42. Friedrich Nietzsche – The Birth of Tragedy and The Case of Wagner
  43. Friedrich Nietzsche – The Gay Science
  44. Friedrich Nietzsche – Thus Spoke Zarathustra
  45. Friedrich Nietzsche – Beyond Good and Evil
  46. Friedrich Nietzsche – On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
  47. Friedrich Nietzsche – Twilight of the Idols and The Anti-Christ
  48. Friedrich Nietzsche – On Truth and Untruth
  49. George Orwell – 1984
  50. Diogenes – The Dangerous Life and Ideas of Diogenes the Cynic
  51. Yukio Mishima – Sun and Steel
  52. Henri Cartier-Bresson – The Mind’s Eye: Writings on Photography and Photographers
  53. Søren Kierkegaard – Fear and Trembling
  54. Śrī K. Pattabhi Jois – Aṣṭāṅga Yoga
  55. Daido Moriyama – How I Take Photographs
  56. Fyodor Dostoevsky – Notes from Underground
  57. Leo Tolstoy – The Kingdom of God Is Within You
  58. Saifedean Ammous – The Bitcoin Standard
  59. Saifedean Ammous – The Fiat Standard
  60. Saifedean Ammous – Principles of Economics
  61. Matthew Lysiak – Fiat Food

Photo Books

  1. Eugene Atget – The World of Atget
  2. Walker Evans – American Photographs
  3. Walker Evans – Subways and Streets
  4. Henri Cartier-Bresson – Photographer
  5. Robert Frank – The Americans
  6. Ray Metzker – Monograph
  7. Ray Metzker – Sand Creatures
  8. Ray Metzker – Unknown Territory
  9. Ray Metzker – Light Lines
  10. Josef Koudelka – Gypsies
  11. Josef Koudelka – Exiles
  12. Helen Levitt – One, Two, Three, More
  13. Susan Meiselas – Nicaragua
  14. William Klein – Celebration
  15. Tod Papageorge – Passing Through Eden
  16. Bruce Davidson – Subway
  17. Bruce Gilden – Haiti
  18. Larry Towell – The Mennonites
  19. Frank Horvat – Side Walk
  20. Daido Moriyama – Dear Mr. Niépce
  21. Daido Moriyama – Phaidon
  22. Daido Moriyama – Record 2
  23. Vivian Maier – Retrospective
  24. Jason Eskenazi – Wonderland
  25. Mark Cohen – Grim Street
  26. Mark Cohen – Frame
  27. Alex Webb – Istanbul, City of a Hundred Names
  28. Alex Webb – The Suffering of Light
  29. Alex Webb – La Calle
  30. Alex Webb – Brooklyn, The City Within
  31. PROVOKE
  32. Women Street Photographers
  33. Magnum Streetwise
  34. Reclaim the Street
  35. Harry Gruyaert – Between Worlds
  36. Raúl Cañibano – Absolut Cuba
  37. Sam Ferris – In Visible Light
  38. Daniel Arnold – Pickpocket
  39. Brian Karlsson – Book
  40. Gianni Berengo Gardin
  41. Trent Parke – Monument

Lecture Notes:

Nutrition

  1. Introduction to Nutrition
  2. The Fundamentals of Healthy Eating
  3. Nutrition Standards
  4. Nutrition Timing
  5. Dietary Tailoring
  6. Nutrition Controversies
  7. Achieving Antifragility
  8. Microbiome Mastery

Nietzsche

  1. Philosophical foundations
  2. Overview of Nietzschean thought
  3. Questioning truth
  4. Challenging morality
  5. The will to power
  6. Courageous trust
  7. Free spirits and modern society
  8. Views on Christianity

Theology

  1. God beyond being
  2. Right praise and sacrifice
  3. Law and true freedom
  4. Grace and mission
  5. Contrasting powers
  6. God’s transformative word

Symbolism and Christianity

  1. Symbolic Unities
  2. Hidden Patterns
  3. Heaven and Earth
  4. Christmas Symbols
  5. Fractal Narratives
  6. Timeless Patterns

The Sermon on the Mount

  1. Journey to Meaning
  2. Virtues of the Beatitudes
  3. Discipline and Freedom
  4. Courage and Goodwill
  5. Aligning With the Divine
  6. Aiming for the Highest Good
  7. Ask, See, Knock
  8. Path to Resilience

The Greatest Leaders in History

  1. Pericles
  2. Julius Caesar
  3. Napoleon Bonaparte
  4. Horatio Nelson
  5. Winston Churchill
  6. George C. Marshall
  7. Dwight D. Eisenhower
  8. Margaret Thatcher

The History of Western Music

  1. Musical Horizons
  2. Musical Evolution
  3. Musical Parameters
  4. Bach’s Mastery
  5. Shaping Classical Music
  6. Romantic Transition
  7. Redefining Music
  8. Musical Evolution
  9. Music Today

Political Ideologies

  1. Ideologies
  2. Liberalism
  3. Conservatism
  4. Socialism
  5. Fascism
  6. Nationalism
  7. Feminism
  8. Anti-Racism

Evolutionary Inference

  1. Curiosity in Evolution
  2. Macroevolution
  3. Evolutionary Ingenuity
  4. Adaptive Evolution
  5. Ant Farms and Poison Frogs
  6. Tactics and Trade-Offs
  7. Adaptive Organisms
  8. Omega Principle

Ancient Philosophy

  1. The Ionian School
  2. The Eleatic School
  3. Plato’s Perspective
  4. Aristotle’s Approach
  5. Stoicism
  6. Epicureanism

Personality and Its Transformations

  1. Bridging Psychology’s Foundations
  2. Beyond Comfort Zones
  3. Navigating the Unconscious
  4. Integrating the Shadow
  5. Dialogue as Transformation
  6. The Human Experience
  7. Personality at Play
  8. Traits and Transformation

Intelligence, Rationality, Wisdom, and Spirituality

  1. Cognitive Agency
  2. Intelligence and Predictive Processing
  3. Meaning and Bias
  4. The Context of Rationality
  5. Rationality and Transformation
  6. Rituals for Wisdom

The Art of Storytelling

  1. Mythology and Passion
  2. Crafting Stories
  3. Mimesis in Fiction
  4. Compelling Fiction
  5. Suspenseful Writing
  6. Narrative Mastery

Cosmology

  1. Cosmology and Its Instruments
  2. Measuring the Universe
  3. Expansion and Origin
  4. Forces and Fate
  5. Cosmic Fossils
  6. Unseen Universe and Galactic Motions
  7. Dark Energy and Destiny
  8. Cosmic Comprehension

Basics of Biology

  1. The Cell: Life’s Basic Unit
  2. Crossing the Cell Wall
  3. Biomolecules as Building Blocks
  4. The Central Dogma
  5. The Cell Cycle
  6. Metabolic Mechanisms

The Economics of Human Flourishing

  1. Ingenious Economics
  2. Abundance Mindset
  3. Price Perspective
  4. Personal Abundance
  5. Resource Abundance
  6. Capitals of Innovation
  7. Intellectual Revolution
  8. Eco-Anxiety
  9. Enduring Superabundance

Psychology of Social Status

  1. Status Psychology
  2. Status Dynamics
  3. Status Evolution
  4. Envy Explored
  5. Status Games
  6. Luxury Beliefs

Brain Plasticity

  1. The Malleable Mind
  2. Maps in the Brain
  3. New Sensory Frontiers
  4. Motor Mastery
  5. The Science of Skill
  6. Prediction Potentials
  7. Adapting with Age
  8. Learning and Memory

Intro to Neuroscience

  1. The Brain
  2. Brain and Self
  3. Principles of Neuroplasticity
  4. Neuroplasticity and Therapy
  5. Memory and Genius
  6. Brain, Body, and Belief
  7. Sleep and Reality
  8. Dreams and Beyond

The Nature of Capitalism

  1. The Case for Capitalism
  2. From Poverty to Prosperity
  3. Why Some Nations Thrive
  4. The Mechanism of Capitalism
  5. Economic Freedom or Control?
  6. Challenging Common Objections
  7. The Moral Conflict
  8. The Freedom to Prosper

Plato: The Dawn of Thought

  1. Plato’s World
  2. Plato’s Dialogues
  3. Plato’s Theories
  4. Plato on Politics
  5. Plato’s Afterlives
  6. Plato Today

The Primacy of Beauty

  1. The Decline of Beauty
  2. The Return to Beauty
  3. Beauty and Understanding
  4. Beauty and Meaning
  5. Beauty and Perception
  6. Beauty and Knowledge
  7. Beauty and Transcendence
  8. Beauty and Life

Intro to Psychology

  1. Roots of Psychology
  2. Mental Models and Sense-Making
  3. Psychology Throughout Life
  4. Motivation and Maslow
  5. The Self
  6. Love and Attraction
  7. Mental Health
  8. Social Navigation

How To Plan Your Life

  1. Between Order and Chaos
  2. The Walled Garden
  3. Desire and Discipline
  4. Fear as a Catalyst
  5. Faith in Tragedy
  6. A Higher Vision

Astronomy 101

  1. Looking Upward
  2. The Astronomer’s Toolkit
  3. Measurements and Mysteries
  4. The Life of Stars
  5. Galaxies and Gravity
  6. Distance and Dark Matter
  7. Beginning to End
  8. Beyond Earth

The Morality and Practice of Finance

  1. Why Finance Matters
  2. The Origins of Money
  3. The Birth of Banking
  4. The Business of Banking
  5. The Business of Capital
  6. Stocks and Strategy
  7. Risk and Return
  8. The Future of Finance

Maps of Meaning

  1. What Is, What Should Be
  2. Pathways and Obstacles
  3. Sacred Balance
  4. Conceptualizing Reality
  5. Hierarchies of Being
  6. Agents of Transformation

The History of Financial Crises

  1. The Anatomy of a Crisis
  2. Shaping Financial Systems
  3. The US and Canada
  4. US Banking Evolution
  5. Bank Risk Management
  6. Crash and Depression
  7. Subsidies and Bailouts
  8. Need for Reform

Modern Philosophy

  1. Birth of the Modern
  2. Radical Doubt
  3. The Promise of Individual Empiricism
  4. The French Enlightenment
  5. Counter-Enlightenment
  6. Awakening from the Dogmatic Slumber
  7. Resurgent Collectivism
  8. Liberal or Anti-Liberal?

The Renaissance Period

The Renaissance was a transformative period from the 14th to the 17th century that redefined art, science, politics, and education in Europe. This collection of essays explores various facets of the Renaissance, including the pivotal role of patronage in shaping artistic culture, the impact of the Protestant Reformation on religious thought, the achievements of the Northern Renaissance, and the groundbreaking advancements of the Scientific Revolution. Additionally, the essays highlight the evolution of Renaissance education, the Age of Exploration’s global implications, and Machiavelli’s insights on power and governance. Together, they illustrate how the Renaissance laid the foundation for modern Western thought and the interconnectedness of human creativity and inquiry.

PDF: Download All Essays
YouTube Documentary: Part 1 – Part 2

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Artists

  1. Leonardo da Vinci
  2. Michelangelo Buonarroti
  3. Raffaello Sanzio da Urbino
  4. Sandro Botticelli

History

  1. The Rise of Humanism and Its Impact on Renaissance Thought
  2. Florence: The Cradle of the Renaissance
  3. The Printing Press and the Spread of Ideas
  4. Renaissance Architecture: A Return to Classical Ideals
  5. Renaissance Art Techniques: Mastering Perspective, Light, and Form
  6. Renaissance Literature: The Human Condition in Poetry and Prose
  7. Renaissance Music: The Birth of Polyphony and Secular Music
  8. The Role of Patronage in the Renaissance: Art, Politics, and Power
  9. The Protestant Reformation: A Religious Revolution Rooted in Renaissance Ideals
  10. Northern Renaissance: Artistic and Intellectual Achievements Beyond Italy
  11. The Scientific Revolution: How Renaissance Thinkers Changed the World
  12. Renaissance Education: The Emergence of Liberal Arts and Classical Learning
  13. The Legacy of Renaissance Medicine and Anatomy
  14. Women in the Renaissance: The Role of Women in Art, Society, and Literature
  15. The Age of Exploration: Renaissance Curiosity Meets Global Expansion
  16. The Art of War: Renaissance Military Innovations and Machiavellian Politics
  17. Machiavelli and Renaissance Political Thought
  18. The Intersection of Art and Science: Leonardo da Vinci’s Visionary Work

Bitcoin

Bitcoin Resources

Notes

  1. Bitcoin White Paper
  2. The Bitcoin Standard
  3. The Digital Gold Rush
  4. Michael Saylor: Why MicroStrategy’s Bitcoin funding is NOT a glitch
  5. The Bitcoin revolution & risks with Michael Saylor (Part Two)
  6. Michael Saylor – Pursuit of Bitcoin Yield
  7. Michael Saylor Masterclass
  8. God Bless Bitcoin
  9. Bitcoin, The Red Wave, and The Crypto Renaissance
  10. The Philosophy of Bitcoin: Insights from Michael Saylor
  11. Michael Saylor on Bitcoin, the Red Wave, the Future of Crypto, and Building Wealth
  12. Michael Saylor on BTC at $100K and the Future of MicroStrategy
  13. Strategic Bitcoin Reserve and U.S. Digital Asset Stockpile
  14. Why the Bitcoin Standard Matters
  15. The Power of 21: Bitcoin, Time, and the Engineering of Generational Wealth

My Thoughts on Bitcoin

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