Brandon Lucas
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Build a complete static site generator in Lux that faithfully clones blu.cx (elmstatic). Generates 14 post pages, section indexes, tag pages, and a home page with snippets grid from markdown content. ISSUES.md documents 15 Lux language limitations found during the project. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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title: Books
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tags: journal
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# **Books**
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Below is a list of books and essays that have impacted me deeply:
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## **History**
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- _History_ by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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### Ancient Greece
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- _The Life of Greece_ by Will Durant
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### Ancient Rome
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- _Caesar and Christ_ by Will Durant
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- _Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire_ by Edward Gibbon
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### America
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- _John Adams_ by David McCullough
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- _Washington: A Life_ by Ron Chernow
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- _Hamilton_ by Ron Chernow
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- _Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power_ by Jon Meacham
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### Russia
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- _The Gulag Archipelago_ by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
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### Medicine
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- _Awakenings_ by Oliver Sacks
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## **Biography**
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- _Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman!_ by Richard Feynman
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## **Philosophy**
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- _Self-Reliance_ by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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### Politics
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- _The Open Society and its Enemies_ by Karl Popper
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- _Beauty_ by Roger Scruton
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### Roman
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- _Meditations_ by Marcus Aurelius
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- _On the Shortness of Life_ by Seneca
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- _On Friendship_ by Cicero
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### Christian
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- _A Confession_ by Lev Tolstoy
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- _Fear and Trembling_ by Kierkegaard
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- _Answer to Job_ by Carl Jung
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### Cognition
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- _Gödel, Escher, Bach_ by Douglas Hofstadter
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### Morality
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- _Beyond Good and Evil_ by Friedrich Nietzsche
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- _Man’s Search for Meaning_ by Viktor Frankl
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- _The Genealogy of Morals_ by Friedrich Nietzsche
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## **Novels**
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- _The Brothers Karamazov_ by Dostoevsky
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- _Crime and Punishment_ by Fyodor Dostoevsky
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## **Technology**
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- _The Sovereign Individual_ by James Dale Davidson & William Rees-Mogg
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### Bitcoin
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- _Mastering the Lightning Network_ by Andreas Antonopoulos
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- _Programming Bitcoin_ by Jimmy Song
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- _Mastering Bitcoin_ by Andreas Antonopoulos
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### Privacy
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- _Extreme Privacy_ by Michael Bazzell
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## **Psychology**
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- _Modern Man in Search of a Soul_ by Carl Jung
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