YURUI'S FAVOURITES

YURUI'S FAVOURITES

The top 1% of content I’ve consumed.

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

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

“There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag – and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.” - Doris Lessing.

Books

  • The Almanack of Naval Ravikant

  • Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hofstadter

  • The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche

  • Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

  • The Stranger, Camus

  • Invisible Cities, Italo Calvino

  • Virgil’s Aeneid

  • Dante’s Divine Comedy

  • King Lear by William Shakespeare

  • Moby Dick by Herman Melville

  • The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

Poems

  • Walt Whitman: Song of the Open Road, Song of Joys

  • Horace, Odes 1.11, 1.37, 2.3, 3.9, 4.7, 4.15

  • Catullus 7, 8, 23, 46, 63, 64, 76, 96, 99, 101

  • Death Be Not Proud, John Donne

  • Preludes by TS Eliot

  • Ode by Arthur O’Shaughnessy

  • If by Rudyard Kipling

  • Eloisa to Abelard by Alexander Pope

Movies

  • To Live

  • Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

  • Perfect Days

  • Dead Poets Society

  • About Time

  • How to Make Millions Before Grandma Dies

  • Triangle of Sadness

  • Kung Fu Panda 1-4

  • It’s Such a Beautiful Day

  • Soul

  • The Polar Express

Blogs/Newsletters

I always read these guys’ newsletters:

Articles

Speeches

Videos