Like KK, I recommend Gandhi's book. Hell, I recommend the title. The Story of My Experiments with Truth Gandhi didn't outsource the pursuit of truth. He thoug

Like KK, I recommend Gandhi's book. Hell, I recommend the title. The Story of My Experiments with Truth Gandhi didn't outsource the pursuit of truth. He thought it was too important. It was a job that would be poorly done if left to the authorities religious, political, or scientific. Just like good hackers know software is too important to leave to someone else. Gandhi also made it obvious that I could apply a rigid filter to books. Read authors who, 1. Reason soundly with the reader, and 2. Have led significantly, uncommonly, fruitful lives. The sample size of humanity seems to have gotten large enough to where you can find someone who meets both criteria so I'm done settling for less. I like the brand of epistemology that says, variously, that the more true things you believe, the better you can harmonize with, hack, pwn, reality. So I perk up now when I find someone peacefully liberating a country or figuring out how to do a startup while 'being good,' and hope that they've written about it. So if you'd like to read a book by a social, physical, and metaphysical scientist, who (judging from what he accomplished) collected a lot of knowledge and hacked the system good, read this book. But don't take my word for it.