Lila

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1. 2colorMay 2025
   Fun read and great reference to Zen and The Art of Motorcycle Maintenance.

   I highly recommend reading Lila, by Pirsig too!

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2. xkcd-sucksOct 2024
   Moby Dick, Herman Melville

   VALIS, Philip K Dick

   Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance + also Lila, Robert Pirsig

   Naked Lunch, William Burroughs

   Immortality, Milan Kundera

   Catch-22, Joseph Heller (pair with The Deserters, Charles Glass -- In fact a lot of the stuff in Catch-22 is actually toned down from reality)

   Mastering the Core Teachings of Buddha, Daniel Ingram (but ignore 80% of it)

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3. ssivarkMay 2024
   Off the top of my head: (less career and more personal development)

   1. Finite & Infinite Games, by James Carse

   2. Flow, by Czikszentmihalyi

   3. The evolving self, by Robert Kegan

   4. Man's search for meaning, by Victor Frankl

   5. A fine balance, by Rohinton Mistry (fiction)

   6. Lila, by Robert Pirsig (fiction)

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4. svilen_dobrevJul 2021
   i you haven't yet, check MoQ (metaphisics of quality), starting with Pirsig's Zen&art.. and Lila . The www.moq.org seems functional again.
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5. skilesareMay 2020
   All the things by Christopher Alexander(Start with timeless way...explore the pattern language...move on to Nature of order...then others.)

   Zen and Lila by Pirsig

   Beginning of Infinity by Deutsch.

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6. temnyMar 2020
   Hermann Hesse: The Glass Bead Game

   Robert M. Pirsig: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

   Robert M. Pirsig: Lila - An Inquiry Into Morals

   Eliezer Yudkowsky: Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

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