I like HackerNews, I feel like there are a lot of smart people on here and I find it a creditable source for knowledge and information.
Anyways lately I'm bored and have time to do stuff
I want to read stuff that makes me smarter. Anything interesting about life, religion preferably Buddhism. But anything that's life changing and eye opening I'm willing to read. Plus I like to know what other folks are reading to stay sharp and on edge. Or the top most popular or must read or whatever works.
just throw some suggestions at me.
Easily my most favorite non-fiction book. Even though there are some flaws in the treatment of some philosophers (and their models) here and there (esp. 19th Century ones – but it might just be that I'm more familiar with these myself), it's a great read: Well written, thorough, and never shy with his own opinion. The chapter on scholastic philosophy was an eye-opener for me, as was the part about the 11th-Century church reforms.
Before I read this book, I rarely cared about pre-Kantian philosophy, as I thought it to be outdated and not really relevant anymore. Russel encouraged me to re-discover the philosophical models from a cultural-historical point of view – something that sounds obvious to me now, but at the time I discovered the book (in my early twenties) it was not.