Reading, Learning Shares
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Author: Dr. Mattanaw, Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh,
Retired
Interdisciplinarian with Immeasurable Intelligence. Lifetime Member
of the High Intelligence Community.6
- Masters Business & Economics, Harvard University (In
Progress)
- Attorney, Pro Se, Litigation, Trial, Depositions, Contracts (E.g.
State of Alaska v. Pugh, et. al., Alaska Superior and Supreme Courts)4
- B.S. Psychology, University of Maryland, 4.0, Summa Cum Laude1
- B.S. Computer & Information Science, University of Maryland,
3.91, Magna Cum Laude2
- B.A. Philosophy, University of Maryland.3
- G.E.D., State of Maryland, Montgomery County, 1999.
Former Chief Architect, Adobe Systems
Current President/Advisor, Social Architects and Economists
International.
Contact:
Resumé
- Updated: Sunday, May 21st, 2023, at 1:26 PM Dodges
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- Updated: Tuesday, November 29th, 2022, at 3:45 PM
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- Created: Sunday, September 18th, 2022, at 4:45 PM
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A living autobiography trending towards completeness would need to
include the author’s history of reading and learning. Here you’ll find
an increasingly comprehensive list of all the learning experiences of
the author, particularly, and initially, reading experiences.
As stated elsewhere, the living autobiography has the intention of
providing, as live progresses, more information, and recent postings,
regarding each category that relates to the total experience of a
person. This page is focused on learning, but clearly, learning events
are also related to other experiences and ways of interacting with the
world, including productions on the rest of the website. Here are the
key categories in the living
autobiography which do a good job of covering the ways in which the
author would be sharing his experiences:
The author uses this website as his primary way of learning. The site
includes his own writings which he finds to be of a quality of greater
interest than what is found elsewhere, for his goals and purposes. As he
writes he learns, but also, he reads and listens to what he has written.
Likewise, his productions on scenic natural experiences, are for use in
experiencing higher quality life-moments. Increasingly this website is
for replacing media stimulation, with stimulation from his own mind,
creations, and experiences.
Creating this list, and revising this list, is expected, and has,
stimulated additional reading and desire to learn. My digital library includes digital
books which are in progress or are intended to be started soon. This
resource provides free books to interested readers, that directly relate
to this writing, but also relate to the author’s intended future and
present learning experiences. The Bibliography provides
references to the author’s writings which the author has learned from
and intends to self-reference in writings wherever relevant. The
author’s resumé includes his prior education
and work history, which culminated in his being a consultant guiding
large enterprises globally as a business and digital strategist, and his
work as former Chief Architect at Adobe Systems. This information can
also be found on his linkedin profile. His
brief bio includes some summary
information about his education, successes, and background in giftedness
and the high intelligence community. His personal form includes his data
collections on his own behavior which served to provide needed
self-learning and self-help over a period of several years, which is
still in usage without taking records today.
More will be added as additional learning experiences are had.
U+2010 Mattanaw
November 28th, 2022, Cairns, Australia.
Below is a list of some books I’ve read, to give the reader some
understanding of my reading history. This list is not complete, but
provides what I’ve shared previously on Facebook to others, and includes
those volumes I can easily recall.
It should not be considered an exhaustive list of my readings, and
does not include many readings from my successful career in technology.
While working, in retrospect, I cannot recall any other colleagues
having books on their desks, not to call them out, or to say they did
not read! However, my reading was very obvious and open, and I really
did depend on technical books to advance my career and would advocate
greatly for reading to enable improvement in career growth. It also does
not include textbooks I’ve purchased for the many classes I’ve had in my
extensive education, that I also read with care and interest, preferring
textbooks to instructors. Textbooks are typically written by very
knowledgeable teachers from better universities, which is a reason,
considering the choices and situations of others, I don’t advocate for
attending the very best universities, but those that are most
appropriate to conditions and the details about the person. Reading
material will come from good instructors, very likely, and if one
actually reads it, one has gotten and education partly from other
universities.
If you really read a textbook completely from a university professor
at Oxford, you have done what that instructors students at Oxford won’t
do.
I would read while working out too, which is a cause of being able to
complete as many books as I have.
While I’ve read extensively, I would argue that in comparison to what
others claim regarding their reading, I have not read that much;
however, there is an easy explanation for that. People don’t read as
much as they say they do.
I’m an advocate of slow and careful reading, with interaction with
works. Going by my own reading rate, and observations of the reading
behavior of others (which is absent, at work, at the gym, where I also
read, at coffee houses, and pretty much everywhere else I can think of,
except maybe in private at home, which is conveniently unobservable), I
know that a very small number of books can actually be completed, even
with considerable time investment.
I believe since I’ve had so much time observing, that it is pretty
certain people have completed very few books, and I’m not any kind of
advocate of completion either. I should better say, that I don’t think
people’s reading rates and reading behavior really substantiates any
claims to quantity of text read and comprehended. I’ll stop reading a
book if I’m not satisfying my reading objectives, since books are for
me, for learning, and not for having a completion tally, to show off to
others. Yet, here, I am showing off a little perhaps, on both
completion, since I complete books, but also, total quantity
comprehended.
I have also included some works that I’m reading now, slowly and
surely, to a stopping point which might include no longer benefiting, if
not finishing, which is the norm, but not the only way of stopping.
- 1984, George Orwell
- 48 Laws of Power, Robert Greene
- Dangerous Places, Robert Young Felton
- Culture Shock, South Korea
- Culture Shock, China (requires confirmation)
- Culture Shock, Egypt
- Egypt (travel book, title requires confirmation)
- Bolivia (travel book, title requires confirmation)
- China (travel book, title requires confirmation)
- South Korea (travel book, title requires confirmation)
- Ireland (travel book, title requires confirmation)
- Europe on a Shoestring, Lonely Planet (partial read)
- An Encyclopedia of Modern Bodybuilding, First Edition, Arnold
Schwarzenneger
- American Heritage Collegiate Dictionary (read directly, referenced,
and underlined much of the book).
- A Buddhist Bible, Dwight Goddard (half, skipped some peripheral
Buddhist material)
- A Grief Observed, C.S. Lewis
- A History of Mathematics, Uta C. Merzback and Carl Boyer
(partial)
- A History of Modern Computing, Ceruzzi (partial)
- A History of Western Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
- A Practical Guide to Off-grid Living in Alaska, Jon Crocker.
- Why I am not a Christian, Bertrand Russell
- Philosophical Essays, Bertrand Russell
- The Philosophy of Logical Atomism, Bertrand Russell
- My Philosophical Development
- Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, Bertrand Russell
- An Analysis of Mind, Bertrand Russell
- Marriage and Morals, Bertrand Russell
- Skeptical Essays, Bertrand Russell
- Why I am not a Christian, Bertrand Russell
- In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays, Bertrand Russell
- The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
- A Theory of Determinism, Ted Honderich (partial, very little)
- A Treatise on Human Nature, David Hume (partial)
- An Introduction to Zen Buddism, D. T. Suzuki
- An Outline of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell
- Animal Liberation, Peter Singer
- Hegel: A Very Short Introduction, Peter Singer
- Marx: A Very Short Introduction, Peter Singer
- The Puzzle of Ethics, Peter Vardy
- Apology (4 Related Dialogues of Socrates), Plato
- Be Here Now, Ram Dass
- Beyond Good and Evil, Friedrich Nietzsche (partial)
- Blink, Malcolm Gladwell
- Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon, Daniel
Dennett
- Buddhist Scriptures, Donald Lopez, Jr.
- Cairo Trilogy, Naguib Mahfouz
- Catechism of the Catholic Church, Catholic Church
- Century (partial).
- Civilization and Its Discontents, Sigmund Freud
- Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
- Critique of Pure Reason, Immanual Kant (partial, very little).
- Critique of Religion and Philosophy, Walter Kaufman
- De Rerum Natura, Seneca (partial)
- Dictionary of Philosophy, Ted Honderich
- Dialogs Concerning Natural Religion, David Hume
- Dialogue on Determinism, ADDAUTHOR
- Discourse on Method, René Descartes
- Dream of the Red Chamber, Cao Xueqin
- Einstein: Philosopher-Scientist, Albert Einstein (Read his
autobiography within, entire)
- Enchiridion, Epictetus
- The Epicurus Reader, Epicurus
- Ethics: Inventing Right and Wrong, J. L. Mackie
- Faust, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (partial)
- Fear and Trembling, Søren Kierkergaard
- Gestalt Therapy Verbatim, Fritz Perls
- Groundwork of the Metaphisics of Morals, Immanual Kant
- Heidegger: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press,
Michael Inwood
- In and Out of the Garbage Pail, Fritz Perls
- Jeet Kun Do, Bruce Lee
- John Stuart Mill, Autobiography. John Stuart Mill
- Lanugage, Truth and Logic, A. J. Ayer
- Logic, Language and Meaning, Volume 1, LTF Gamut (partial)
- Logic: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, Graham
Priest
- Marriage and Morals, Bertrand Russell
- Mastery, Robert Greene
- Mathematical Logic, W.V.O Quine (partial)
- May it Please the Court, Peter Irons
- Meditations for the Humanist ADDAUTHOR
- Meditations on First Philosophy, René Descartes
- Meditations, Marcus Aurelius
- Mein Kampf, Adolf Hitler
- Mere Christianity, C.S. Lewis
- Minds, Brains, and Science, John Searle
- Miracles, C.S. Lewis
- Monadology, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (partial).
- Principles of Human Knowledge, George Berkely.
- Nausea, Jean Paul Sartre
- Nichomachean Ethics, Aristotle (approximately half)
- Nietzche, Walter Kaufman (half)
- Old and New Testaments of the Bible (half of each
approximately).
- On Formerly Undecided Propositions of Principia Mathematica and
Related Systems, Kurt Godel
- One World: The Ethics of Globalization, Peter Singer.
- Origin of the Spiecies, First and Sixth Editions, Charles Darwin
(partial)
- Plutarch’s Lives, Vol I, Plutarch
- Plutarch’s Lives, Volume II (half), Plutarch
- Plutarch’s Morals, Plutarch
- Political Ideals, Bertrand Russell
- Power, A New Social Analysis, Bertrand Russell
- Power, Robert Greene
- Practical Ethics, Peter Singer
- Principia Ethica, G.E Moore (partial)
- Principia Mathematica, Bertrand Russell (partial)
- Quran, Koran (one third approximately).
- Rhetoric, Aristotle
- Russell: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, A. C.
Grayling
- Socates, Buddha, Confucius, Jesus: from the Great Philosophers,
Volume I. Carl Jaspers
- Syntactic Structures, Noam Chomsky (partial)
- Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu (Just another name for “Old Men”)
- The Aim and Structure of Physical Theory, Pierre Duhem
(partial)
- The Analects, Confucius
- The Antichrist, Friedrich Nietzsche
- The Art of Computer Programming, Donald Knuth (Volume one,
approximately half, and Volume two partial)
- The Art of War, Sun Tzu
- The Basic Works of Aristotle (partial)
- The Case for Animal Rights, Tom Regan
- The Columbia Encyclopedia (partial, still aiming to read most or all
of it)
- The Concept of Time, Martin Heidegger
- The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell
- The Consolation of Philosophy, Boethius
- The Egyptian Book of the Dead (partial)
- The Epicurus Reader, Brad Inwood, et. al.
- The European Philosophers from Descartes to Nietzsche, Monroe
Beardsley
- The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
- The Great Divorce, C.S. Lewis
- The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development (half,
what was useful), Carl Boyer
- The Illusion of the Conscious Will (partial)
- The Like Switch: An Ex-FBI Agent’s Guide to Influencing, Attracting,
and Winning People Over, Jack Schafer
- The Methods of Ethics, Henry Sidgewick (half or two thirds)
- The Natural History of Religion, David Hume
- The New History of the World, J. M. Roberts (two thirds)
- The Oxford Illustrated History of Western Philosophy, Anthony
Kenny
- The Problem of Pain, C.S. Lewis
- The Scientific Outlook, Bertrand Russell
- The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, Thomas Kuhn
- The Structure of Evolutionary Theory, Stephen Jay Gould
(approxmately half).
- Systems Architecture, Morris Mano
- The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James (approximately
half)
- Three Dialogues, George Berekely
- Theology: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, David
Ford
- Thus Spoke Zarathustra, Friedrich Nietzsche (partial)
- Tractatus, Logico-Philosophicus, Ludwig Wittgenstein
- Travels of Marco Polo, Marco Polo (partial)
- Two Lives of Charlemagne, Einhard and Notkr the Stammerer (Einhard’s
in entirety, Notker the Stammerer parital)
- The Puzzle of Ethics, Peter Vardy
- Ulysses, James Joyce (partial read only)
- Unpopular Essays, Bertrand Russell
- Utilitarianism, For and Against, Bernard Williams
- Utilitarianism, John Stuart Mill
- On Liberty, John Stuart Mill (partial)
- Walden Two, B.F. Skinner
- War Without Mercy, John Dower (partial)
- Wikipedia (partial obviously, but I’m a big supporter, and think it
is a high quality resource)
- Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith (partial, in progress)
- Wittgenstein: A Very Short Introduction, Oxford University Press, A.
C. Grayling
- Zen Mind, Beginners Mind, Shunryu Suzuki
- Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, Robert Pirsig (all but
ending)
- The Mouse and the Motorcycle (Read for a book report in sixth grade)
This list does not contain those works used specifically for
developing my career in technology and software architecture, and does
not include works read specifically for my college degrees, or all works
of great interest for reference.
Author: Mattanaw, Christopher Matthew Cavanaugh
- Masters Business & Economics, Harvard University (In
Progress)
- B.S. Psychology, University of Maryland,
- B.S. Computer & Information Science, University of Maryland,
- B.A. Philosophy (Nearly Completed, 2003), University of
Maryland.
Former Chief Architect, Adobe Systems
Current President/Advisor, Social Architects and Economists
International.
Contact:
Newly in progress, to add the works soon.