Recommendations you can check.
by William Braxton Irvine, 2008
Who uses, recommends or left A Guide to the Good Life, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.
2 people
My favorite books so far: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel, The Guide to the Good Life by William Braxton, and the Philosophize This! podcast.
From a footnote to “The Stoic of Open Source”, listing his favourite philosophy reading so far. The post gives the author as “William Braxton”; the book is by William B. Irvine.
2016-01-13·amasad.me ↗
Podcast (Part 2). A modern, approachable guide to Stoicism — a philosophy of life whose goal is to maximize the experience of tranquility. This is a seriously useful bag of psychological tricks.
On his public list of books he has read, with his notes.
2017-01-01·radex.io ↗
Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.
The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.
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What counts as old depends on the thing. A laptop praised four years ago has been replaced twice; a book loved twenty years ago is probably still loved. The shading is gone after about:
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