My Personal Canon

Things that I felt had a deep impact on me, at one time or another.
Inspired by David Cole's Personal Canon

Videos

• Onism & Vemodalen, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows
• Hitting upper limits, Ze Frank
• What if money were no object? Alan Watts
• The Future of Programming, Bret Victor
• Stop Drawing Dead Fish, Bret Victor
• Hello World! Processing
• Different Ways of Looking, Jonathan Harris
• You vs. Them, Versus Channel

Articles

• Istigkeit
• Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled, Bill Watterson
• What problems to solve, Richard Feynman
• Survivorship bias, YANSS
• Letter to a young programmer considering a startup, Alex Payne
• The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee, Honore de Balzac

Books

• Yes Man
• The Discourses, Epictetus
• Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli
• A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle

Poems

• Songs of Innocence and Experience
• The Divine Image
• If, Rudyard Kipling

What's in your canon? Send me recommendations!

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