Here are some books and films that have influenced me. Your local public library might have some of these titles (often times, you can request they order a title). Also, many titles can be downloaded or streamed online.
I shouldn’t have to say it, but I will. The inclusion of a title on this list does not mean that I agree with each statement spoken or expressed within. It is on this list as an influence, not as a factory mold.
Futurism
- Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think, by Peter Diamandis
- The Singularity is Near: When Humans Transcend Biology, by Ray Kurzweil
Philosophy: Objectivism
- Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
- Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand, by Leonard Piekoff
- The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z, Edited by Harry Binswanger
- Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life (biographical film)
- Loving Life: The Morality of Self-Interest and the Facts that Support It, by Craig Biddle
Philosophy: Stoicism
- The Meditations, by Marcus Aurelius
Science
- Cosmos, by Carl Sagan