My List of Recommendations

The following is my non-exhaustive list of recommendations.

Table of contents

Philosophy

I never finished any philosophy books because I find them hard to read (lengthy and boring to be honest). However, I do believe conclusions from philosophers are useful to help me understand big problems.

• Albert Camus

  In general, I agree with Absurdism that the universe is meaningless. We should accept the meaninglessness of existence and find joy in our daily lives.

• Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

  I read the Chinese version. Cannot comprehend. Interesting way of presenting arguments.

  Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.

• Philosophical Investigations

  Language-games

Health & Wellbeing

• Dr. Matthew Walker’s Why We Sleep

• Dr. Andrew Huberman

  • Neural Network Newsletter: compact and actionable protocols.
  • Affiliated with some non-trustworth products

• Dr. Peter Attia

  • Book Outlive: The Science and Art of Longevity

    • Provides an overview of conclusions from current science on achieving optimal health.
    • Counterpoint: A Skeptic’s Review of Peter Attia’s “Outlive”

  • Newsletter: frontier health science discoveries.

• Dr. Rhonda Patrick

  • Detailed scientific evidences
  • YouTube Channel

• Dr. Andy Galpin

  • The Body of Knowledge
  • 7 Variables To Create Better Training Programs

• Matt Kaeberlein

  • The Optispan Podcast with Matt Kaeberlein

• Dr Brad Stanfield

  • Compact youtube videos

• Bryan Johnson

  • a rich dude who doesn’t wanna die.
  • has credible data-driven approaches and lack-of-evidence approaches, be skeptical.

• Physionic

  • YouTube channel, paper reading, evidence presenting.

• Nutrition Made Simple!

  Nutrition is nuanced; no single “best” diet exists. Whole foods are generally beneficial, while highly processed and high-sodium foods should be avoided.

• Conquer Aging Or Die Trying!, YouTube channel, hardcore, data.

  • Longivity topic YouTuber
  • Financially feasible way of approaching optimal health.

• Siim Land

  • Longivity topic YouTuber
  • Financially feasible way of approaching optimal health.

News

• Wikipedia: Reliable sources/Perennial sources

Tech & Coding

• Hacker News
• Programming Digest
  • Weekly newsletter for software engineers
• Pointers
  • Newsletter for Engineering Leaders
• 科技爱好者周刊
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (SICP)
  • book, a masterpiece.
• 当然我在扯淡
  • Chinese blog, thinking about programming from first principle
  • Programming Philosophy
  • Design patterns
  • Dry
  • Program correctness
• Hyperplexed, YouTube Channel, UI.

Other Interesting Books

• A Thousand Brains
  • Book, Brain theory.

Tools

• XMonad, Dynamic Tiling Window Manager, my config
• Learning hotkeys will increase efficiency for any computer tasks.
• rga search PDFs, E-Books, etc.
• kagi better google.
• perplexity LLM with references.
• Phind LLM for developers.