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FILE — THE SHELF

Reading.

The company my thinking keeps. Each book here left one idea behind — hover or tap a title to read what it was.

These are the books read since the start of 2025, when the habit properly stuck. There were many more in the years before — I’ve been a reader a long time — but this is the shelf kept on record from here. The same signal keeps arriving through different transmitters until you hear it in your own voice.

29 ON RECORDSINCE JAN 2025CURRENTLY 3NEXT 2Hover a title for its key teachings.

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The Elegant Universe

Brian Greene

Reality at the smallest scale is vibration, not substance. String theory as a lens on what "matter" actually is.

The Truth

Neil Strauss

The follow-up to The Game, written by the man who had to unlearn it. A study of why intimacy frightens the people who most want it, and what a real relationship asks of someone who has spent years avoiding one.

My Secret Garden

Nancy Friday

Hundreds of women describing their own fantasies, collected when nobody had asked. Read slowly, and sideways — a document of what the mind does when it is not being watched.

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The Secret Teachings of All Ages

Manly P. Hall

The encyclopaedia of the Western mystery traditions — Hermetica, Pythagoras, alchemy, the tarot, the ancient schools — written by a twenty-seven-year-old, read as a map of what humanity kept trying to say.

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The first anti-hero. A man arguing with himself in a basement, and winning nothing. Bought, not yet opened.