YURUI'S FAVOURITES

YURUI'S FAVOURITES

The top 1% of content I’ve consumed.

My favourite quotes, books, articles, blogs, newsletters, speeches, videos, podcasts, movies, and poems.

Before you dive in: Treat your to-read pile like a river.

Quotes

  • “To do the useful thing, to say the courageous thing, to contemplate the beautiful thing: that is enough for one man’s life.” - T.S. Eliot

  • “Many will influence and impact your life. But never let others tell you how to live your life. You have the power to be who you want to be. To do whatever it is you want to do.” - Anon

  • “I think, therefore I am.” - Rene Descartes

  • “It is because he is thus free from striving that therefore no one in the world is able to strive with him.” - Laozi

  • “If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will experience a success unimagined in common hours.” - Henry David Thoreau

  • “Don't fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail.” - Bruce Lee

  • “A life poorly lived only serves to amplify, or even create the horrors of death entirely. The answer to death is not what happens after, during death, or even why we must die. But instead, how we live.” - Anon

  • “What’s meant for you will reach you even if it’s beneath two mountains, and what’s not meant for you won’t reach you even if it’s between your lips.” - Umar Ibn Al Khatab

  • “Regrets won’t change yesterday. Anxiety won’t change tomorrow. Even the darkest nights will end, and the sun will rise again. Find peace in the imperfect present.” - Anon

  • “A man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor.” - Alexis Carrel

  • “Change has become a constant; managing it has become an expanding discipline. The way we embrace it defines our future.” - Queen Elizabeth II

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Books

  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (must-read for anyone curious enough to stumble onto this page)

  • Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

  • Man’s Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl

  • Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Letters from a Stoic by Seneca and The Dao De Jing by Laozi

  • Zero To One by Peter Thiel

  • When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi

  • Meditations on First Philosophy by Rene Descartes

  • The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

Fiction

  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

  • Karla and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

  • Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu

  • Dune by Frank Herbert

  • Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

  • 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

  • W;t by Margaret Edson

(Non) Fiction:

  • Virgil’s Aeneid

  • Homer’s Iliad + Odyssey, Aeschylus’ Orestia, Sophocles’ Oedipus series

Blogs/Newsletters

I always read these guys’ newsletters:

Articles (all these are amazing)

Speeches

Videos

Podcasts

  • The Joe Rogan Experience - David Goggins and Naval episodes were favourites

  • Huberman Lab podcast

  • Diary of a CEO - Mo Gawdat, Jordan Peterson episodes excellent

  • Lex Fridman’s podcast

  • A View from the Top - Stanford GSB

Movies

  • Everything, Everywhere, All At Once

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  • Perfect Days

  • How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

  • Triangle of Sadness

  • To Live

  • Kung Fu Panda 1-4

  • Blade Runner

  • It’s Such a Beautiful Day

  • Interstellar

  • Forrest Gump

  • Soul

  • The Polar Express

Poems

  • The Aeneid by Virgil

  • Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy

  • Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babington Macaulay

  • So Many Books, So Little Time by Haki R. Madhubuti

  • If by Rudyard Kipling

  • Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope