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<h2>My Personal Canon</h2>
<p>
    Things that I felt had a deep impact on me, at one time or another. 
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    Inspired by <a href="http://www.davidcole.me/#canon">David Cole's Personal Canon</a>
</p>

<h3>Videos</h3>
<ul>
    <li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IrBlmpqh8T0'>Onism</a> & <a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ftDjebw8aA'>Vemodalen</a>, The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows</li>
    <li><a href='https://youtu.be/QWVElQ6NfcE?t=188'>Hitting upper limits, Ze Frank</a></li>
    <li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khOaAHK7efc'>What if money were no object? Alan Watts</a></li>
    <li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4'>The Future of Programming, Bret Victor</a></li>
    <li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfytHvgHybA'>Stop Drawing Dead Fish, Bret Victor</a></li>
    <li><a href='https://vimeo.com/60735314'>Hello World! Processing</a></li>
    <li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS1a5TBya14'>Different Ways of Looking, Jonathan Harris</a></li>
    <li><a href='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LoJZ-wtH6c'>You vs. Them, Versus Channel</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>Articles</h3>
<ul>
    <li><a href='http://wiki.secretgeek.net/istigkeit'>Istigkeit</a></li>
    <li><a href='http://web.mit.edu/jmorzins/www/C-H-speech.html'>Some thoughts on the real world by one who glimpsed it and fled, Bill Watterson</a></li>
    <li><a href='http://genius.cat-v.org/richard-feynman/writtings/letters/problems'>What problems to solve, Richard Feynman</a></li>
    <li><a href='http://youarenotsosmart.com/2013/05/23/survivorship-bias/'>Survivorship bias, YANSS</a></li>
    <li><a href='https://al3x.net/2013/05/23/letter-to-a-young-programmer.html'>Letter to a young programmer considering a startup, Alex Payne</a></li>
    <li><a href='http://blissbat.net/balzac.html'>The Pleasures and Pains of Coffee, Honore de Balzac</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>Books</h3>
<ul>
    <li><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/87804.Yes_Man">Yes Man</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://classics.mit.edu/Epictetus/discourses.html">The Discourses, Epictetus</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Asterios-Polyp-David-Mazzucchelli/dp/0307377326">Asterios Polyp, David Mazzucchelli</a></li>
    <li><a href="http://www.amazon.com/New-Earth-Awakening-Purpose-Selection/dp/0452289963">A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle</a></li>
</ul>

<h3>Poems</h3>
<ul>
  <li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_Innocence_and_of_Experience">Songs of Innocence and Experience</a></li>
  <li><a href="https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/43656">The Divine Image</a></li>
  <li><a href="http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_if.htm">If, Rudyard Kipling</a></li>
</ul>

<p>What's in your canon? <a>Send me recommendations!</a></p>

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