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Book List.
Books that shaped how I understand people, systems, civilization, business, endurance, and the examined life. This is a living list, ordered from my strongest recommendation downward — the ranking will keep changing as the archive grows.
How the ranking works: every volume holds a single continuous rank, strongest first. When a duplicate is retired the numbering re-flows, so there are never gaps. The full archive is below; the first few are set apart as a curator's shelf.
Curator's shelf
The strongest recommendations.
The full archive
The complete ranked collection.
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