“If I have seen further than others, it is by standing upon the shoulders of giants,” said Sir Isaac Newton.

I too have simply remixed memes of those before and around me. Here's a list of my dealers and supply.

Muses

These contemporaries have been invaluable sources of inspiration. They kindle my brain, reveal hidden dots and help me find the right words.

• https://twitter.com/6529
• https://twitter.com/balajis
• https://twitter.com/jackbutcher
• https://twitter.com/js_horne
• https://twitter.com/Omakasea_
• https://twitter.com/ryder_ripps

Reading list

1. Split In Two

• The Denial Of Death by Ernest Becker
• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
• A Brief History Of Everything by Ken Wilber
• The Book: On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are by Alan Watts

2. Survival Of The Catchiest

• The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
• The Lessons Of History by Will and Ariel Durant

3. Memechanics

• Why Information Grows by César Hidalgo
• The Lessons Of History by Will & Ariel Durant
• The Medium Is The Massage by Marshall McLuhan

4. Mind LEGOs

• Why Information Grows by César Hidalgo
• Seven and a Half Lessons About The Brain by Lisa Feldman-Barrett

5. We are our memes

• Seven and a Half Lessons About The Brain by Lisa Feldman-Barrett
• How Emotions Are Made by Lisa Feldman-Barrett
• Active Inference: The Free Energy Principle in Mind, Brain and Behavior by Karl Friston, Thomas Parr & Giovanni Pezzulo
• Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
• The Denial Of Death by Ernest Becker

6. Attention wars

• The Denial Of Death by Ernest Becker
• Memories, Dreams, Reflections by Carl Jung

Interlude: Death by Press

• The Gay Science by Friedrich Nietzsche

7. Copy function

• How to Visualize Value by Jack Butcher
• The Da Vinci Legacy by Jean-Pierre Isbouts and Christopher Heath Brown

8. Meme capitalism (I)

• Forms of Capital by Pierre Bourdieu
• Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life by Rory Sutherland
• The Wealth Of Nations by Adam Smith
• The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham

9. Meme capitalism (II)

• Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgment of Taste by Pierre Bourdieu
• Status Anxiety by Alain de Botton
• The Denial Of Death by Ernest Becker
• 33bits by Arvind Narayanan
• The Almanack of Naval Ravikant by Eric Jorgenson
• On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder

To be updated as Parts release.