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A "quake book" is a text that radically perturbs how one thinks about and acts within the world. The shift is experienced, individually and ideally societally, as positive (as opposed to the negative shifts associated with ideological or epistemological info hazards. A quake book may make an existing belief, value or stance especially legible to oneself, or provide irrefutable evidence for something felt at a deep level. It may catalyse a novel perspective or insight, or provoke new questions because it's wrong in a particularly interesting or sacrilegious way. No matter how it happens, a quake book terraforms one's existence upon engagement. I first heard of them via Ryan Holiday sometime in the mid-2010s. He heard of them via Tyler Cowen. What are your quake books? https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/information-hazards https://marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2007/11/view-quake-read.html
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There are so many books that changed the way I feel, think or act over the past 40 years, as if each of them fed me, shaped my thoughts, my dreams and soul. When I close my eyes I see a cosy living room, with walls covered by book shelves… This is what’s inside me. Picking just a few, the most transformative ones, is hard. Let me have a try… 1. L’usage du Monde (the Way of the World) - Nicolas Bouvier 2. Dune - Frank Herbert 3. Les cavaliers (The Horsemen)- Joseph Kessel 4. On the Road - Jack Kerouac Those four infused my 20s, instilling a love for travels and a fascination for deserts, mountains, dusty roads and nights under the stars…
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