From Stocking Groceries to Reading Philosophy for a Living — Stephen West of Philosophize This!

Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel

Rolf Potts

“Vagabonding by Rolf Potts which had a huge impact on me, an uncommon guide to the art of long-term world travel.”— Tim Ferriss

Self-Reliance

Ralph Waldo Emerson (inferred)

“I'd say self-reliance and on nature are the two that you absolutely have to read.”— Steven West

Nature

Ralph Waldo Emerson (inferred)

“I'd say self-reliance and on nature are the two that you absolutely have to read.”— Steven West

The Way

Henry Shukman (inferred)

“There's an app called The Way. Henry Shukman is the teacher. It is Sambo Zen focused.”— Tim Ferriss

The Obstacle Is the Way

Ryan Holiday (inferred)

“An example of that for stoicism would be certainly Ryan Holiday's work. He's right here nearby. Obstacle is the way and so on.”— Tim Ferriss

A Guide to the Good Life

William B. Irvine (inferred)

“On the I think it's just called on the good life, William Irvine, I believe it is ... which then comments on Epictetus and so on.”— Tim Ferriss

Gorgias

Plato (inferred)

“And one of Plato's dialogues, Gorgias, came up there and it talked about this guy Socrates. He's harassing people in the Athenian Agora.”— Steven West

Walden

Henry David Thoreau (inferred)

“Walden very aspirational at the time although the backstory on Walden's pretty funny or Thoreau sneaking off to have fancy dinners with Emerson.”— Tim Ferriss

Letters from a Stoic (Moral Letters to Lucilius)

Seneca

“The third was the I suppose technically the moral letters to Lucilius but letters from a stoic, Seneca.”— Tim Ferriss

Hardcore History

Dan Carlin (inferred)

“You remind me in some ways of Dan Carlin and Hardcore History. That's the literal guy that I used to listen to at the warehouse all the time.”— Tim Ferriss

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

Peter Adamson (inferred)

“Peter Adamson, history of philosophy without any gaps, partially examined life at the time was huge.”— Steven West

The Partially Examined Life

“Peter Adamson, history of philosophy without any gaps, partially examined life at the time was huge.”— Steven West

Think

Simon Blackburn

“Simon Blackburn, famous philosopher, wrote a book called Think and he describes philosophy as conceptual engineering.”— Steven West

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

Ludwig Wittgenstein (inferred)

“There's a famous thing from the end of the tractatus by a philosopher named Wittgenstein where he talks about how all these arguments have led us to this point.”— Tim Ferriss

The God Delusion

Richard Dawkins

“What kind of got me thinking about philosophy was the god delusion by Richard Dawkins and the moral landscape by Sam Harris.”— Steven West

The Moral Landscape

Sam Harris

“What kind of got me thinking about philosophy was the god delusion by Richard Dawkins and the moral landscape by Sam Harris.”— Steven West

Letter to a Christian Nation

Sam Harris (inferred)

“I think at that time was letters to a Christian nation. It's this whole like new atheism sort of thing that was going on at the time.”— Steven West