If you would like to know more, specifically I highly recommend Atlas Shrugged and The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand, due to the unbelievable quantity and quality of philosophical content she was able to concretize in fictional format, and just because they are awesome novels in their own right. Following that, "Philosophy: Who Needs It", "The Virtue of Selfishness", "Objectivism: The Philosophy of Ayn Rand", and the Ayn Rand Lexicon (available online) are all great non-fiction sources (although I strongly recommend the fiction first!).
This is a rather unconditional endorsement for something a lot of people seem to be finding problematic.
How much philosophical writing other than Rand have you read?
Hello all,
I'm working on a top-level post about how Stoicism is an instrumentally useful philosophy to adopt, and figured I should give other philosophies a fair shake as well. Does anyone know of any other philosophies out there that seem to be practically useful or otherwise provide strategies and thought patterns that have practical value? A solid grounding in experimental research is of course desirable.