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A roadmap of interesting books
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START HERE: You are not so smart

I recomend reading at least two of the above.

If you feel like you know enough about how your mind is fucked-up miscalibrated, you can move on to the lists below. Each one has a few sublists. The order of the sublists does not matter. For each sublist, the first link is the one I see as a good starting point, but the order does not matter too much, either.

Trying to do better

Trying to understand

Why is it so hard

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Trying to do better

A little hope of getting better on a personal level

(But if you find yourself feeling too optimistic, go back and read more about how you are not so smart)

How to do better with other people

(But keep your expectations low by reading about how coordination is hard)

How science can do better

How design can help

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Trying to understand

How computers work

A little about the Brain

Filling the toolbox

How the underlying structure of meaning and the universe can possibly make sense

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