Miranda Waite on Smart People

Truly intelligent people don’t try to make others feel stupid. They don’t need to.

— Miranda Waite

Read (2024):

Learning How to Learn - Idries Shah (review)
The Demon-Haunted World - Carl Sagan (review)
The Abolition of Man - C.S. Lewis
To Build a Castle - Vladimir Bukovsky
The Jefferson Bible - Thomas Jefferson (ed.)
The Cyropaedia - Xenophon (review)
The Crowd - Gustave le Bon (review)
Heaven On Earth: The Rise and Fall of Socialism - Joshua Muravchik (review)
Red Color News Soldier - Li Zhensheng
The Bitcoin Standard - Saifedean Ammous
Not Even Trying - Bruce G. Charlton (review)
The Psychology of Revolution - Gustave le Bon
The Ghost of the Executed Engineer - Loren Graham
Life at the Bottom - Theodore Dalrymple
The Pursuit of the Millennium - Norman Cohn

Read (2025):

Parallel Lives - Plutarch
Range - David Epstein
Elon Musk - Walter Isaacson
The Aeneid - Virgil
The Pilgrim's Progress - John Bunyan
The Moulding of Communists - Frank S. Meyer
The Arabian Nights
Sapiens - Yuval Noah Harari
Two Years Before the Mast - R.H. Dana Jr.
The Partnership Charter - David Gage

Read (2026):

Broken Money - Lyn Alden
Autobiography - J.S. Mill
Tales of Known Space - Larry Niven (re-read)
Playgrounds of the Mind - Larry Niven (re-read)
Earth Abides - George R. Stewart
More Than Human - Theodore Sturgeon

Reading (2026):

The Master and His Emissary - Iain McGilchrist
On Liberty - J.S. Mill
Inside the Box - David Epstein
How Big Things Get Done - Flyvberg and Gardner
Subtract - Leidy Klotz