Library
Resources
A record of what actually changed how I think. Annotated and permanently unfinished.
01
Books
The shelf I return to. Start anywhere.
I Am That
Dialogues, transcribed. Repetitive by design — the repetition is the method.
The Upanishads
The most readable English entry point to the source texts.
Freedom From the Known
A sustained argument against borrowing anyone else's conclusions, including his.
Meditations
A working emperor talking himself down. Stoicism as maintenance, not doctrine.
02
Vedanta
For going deeper into the tradition itself.
Vivekachudamani
The classical systematic statement of Advaita.
Bhagavad Gita
Read as philosophy rather than scripture and it opens up.
Ashtavakra Gita
Short, uncompromising, and almost aggressively direct.
03
Attention & Meditation
Practice, without the packaging.
The Mind Illuminated
The most technically precise manual on concentration in English.
Why Buddhism Is True
Meditation examined through evolutionary psychology.
04
Technology & the Attention Economy
On what is being done to your attention, and by whom.
Stolen Focus
Journalistic, wide-ranging, occasionally overstated — still worth it.
The Shallows
The early argument about what reading online does to reading.
Digital Minimalism
Practical, unsentimental, and actually actionable.