A few books I keep coming back to.
The Nature of Explanation
Kenneth Craik · 1943
The Experience Machine
Andy Clark · 2023
The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
Thomas S. Kuhn · 1962
The Usefulness of Useless Knowledge
Abraham Flexner · 1939
Elements of Information Theory
Thomas M. Cover & Joy A. Thomas · 1991
Convex Optimization
Stephen Boyd & Lieven Vandenberghe · 2004
Lectures on Convex Optimization
Yurii Nesterov · 2018
Networks
Mark Newman · 2010
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money
John Maynard Keynes · 1936
The Great Transformation
Karl Polanyi · 1944
Brave New World Revisited
Aldous Huxley · 1958
The Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas
Machado de Assis · 1881
Angústia
Graciliano Ramos · 1936
Utopia
Thomas More · 1516
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley · 1932
Faust
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 1808
Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert · 1856
The House of the Dead
Fyodor Dostoevsky · 1862
The Steppe
Anton Chekhov · 1888
The Duel
Anton Chekhov · 1891
