Found this older post by Tim O’Reilly on Books That Have Shaped How I Think. Several quotes in there which resonate, especially:
Wilson also shaped my relationship to books. So many critics write about literature and philosophy as a dead thing, an artifact. Wilson writes about it as a conversation with another mind about what is true.
Blogs are only snippets of that conversation… still nothing like a book.
I’ve only read two of the books he cites, Dune and The Innovator’s Dilemma, so some ideas for the future, although not all are of interest. Poetry doesn’t reward my mental time invested, for example. I do think about other books; maybe I’ll compile the life list sometime.