Learning List
My collection of learning material from everywhere.
Currently in progress,
- Thinking in Systems: A Primer (Donella H. Meadows, 2008)
- Designing Data Intensive Applications, Martin Kleppman
- German A1/A2 for Beginners
Next up,
Someday,
- On Writing Well, William Zinsner
- Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
- We the living, Ayn Rand
- Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies, Nick Bostrom
- What Is Life? with Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches by Schrödinger, Erwin
- Godel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid, Douglas R Hofstadter
- Hit Refresh, Satya Nadella
- What’s the future and why it’s up to us, Tim O’Reilly
- Whatcha gonna do with that duck, Seth Godin
- Design Patterns, Gamma, Helm, Johnson, Vlissides
- Code Complete, McConnel
- The Art of Computer Programming, Donald Knuth
- The Pragmatic Programmer, Hunt
- Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions by Christian Brian
- The Startup Way, Eric Ries
- The Critique of Pure Reason, Immanuel Kant
- Thinking Fast and Slow, Daniel Kahneman
- The Intelligent Investor, Benjamin Graham
- Warren Buffett and the Interpretation of Financial Statements: The Search for the Company with a Durable Competitive Advantage by Mary Buffet
- Programming Pearls, Bentley
- Introduction to Algorithms, CLRS
- The Bezos Blueprint, Carmine Gallo
- See, Solve, Scale, Danny Warshay
- The Art of the Start, Guy Kawasaki
- The Design of Everyday Things, Dan Norman
- Zero to One, Peter Thiel
- The Startup Owner’s Manual, Steve Blank
- How to Mind Works by Steven Pinker
- The Future of the Mind: The Scientific Quest to Understand, Enhance, and Empower the Mind by Michio Kaku
- The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
- The Society of Minds (Marvin Minsky, 1986)
- Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Nassim Taleb, 2001)
- The Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
- The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (Rebecca Skloot, 2011)
- From Third World to First: The Singapore Story: 1965-2000 by Lee Kuan Yew
- Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankel
- Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari
- Animal Farm or 1984 by George Orwell
- Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies by Jared Diamond
- When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing by Daniel Pink
- Noise by Daniel Kahneman
- The Republic by Plato
- Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World by Weatherford, Jack
- Principles: Life and Work by Ray Dalio
- Fads and Fallacies in the Name of Science (Martin Gardner, 1952)
- 2001: A Space Odyssey, Arthur C Clarke
- Profiles of the Future : An Inquiry into the Limits of the Possible (Arthur C. Clarke, 1962)
- Chaos: Making a New Science (James Gleick, 1987)
- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
- Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Money, Medicine, and Mysteries of Blood, George Rose
- Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu
- Astrophysics for People in a Hurry by Neil DeGrasse
- From One to Zero: A Universal History of Numbers (Georges Ifrah, 1985)
- McKinsey Technology Insights
- Feynman’s Lectures.
- The Internet of Money by Antonopoulos, Andreas M.
- Business Adventures: Twelve Classic Tales from the World of Wall Street
- 7 Lessons Growing a Bootstrapped SaaS to $50K MRR - Bannerbear
- From the Transistor to the Web Browser, a rough outline for a 12 week course
- The Crypto Compendium
- The Soul of a New Machine, Tracy Kidder
- Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software, Charles Petzold
- The Chip: How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution, TR Reid
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, Steven Levy
- The Network State: How To Start a New Country by Balaji S
- The Codebreakers: The Comprehensive History of Secret Communication from Ancient Times to the Internet (David Kahn, 1996)
- The Cathedral & the Bazaar: Musings on Linux and Open Source by an Accidental Revolutionary by Eric Raymond
- Codes, Ciphers and Secret Writing by Martin Gardener
- Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming by Peter Siebel
- Prime Obsession: Bernhard Riemann and the Greatest Unsolved Problem in Mathematics by Derbyshire, John
- Pattern Language, Christopher Alexander
- About Face by Alan Cooper
- Hackers and Painters by Paul Graham
- The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies
- The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution, Walter Isaacson
- The Road Ahead, Bill Gates
- The Cluetrain Manifesto
- The Golden Age of Video Games: The Birth of a Multibillion Dollar Industry, Roberto Dillon
- The New New Thing: A Silicon Valley Story
- Alan Turing: The Enigma
- Smartcuts: How Hackers, Innovators, and Icons Accelerate Success, Shane Snow
- Disrupted: My Misadventure in the Start-Up Bubble
- Microcosm: The Quantum Revolution in Economics and Technology, George Gilder
- The Singularity is Near, Ray Kurzweil
- The Annotated Turing: A Guided Tour Through Alan Turing’s Historic Paper on Computability and the Turing Machine, Charles Petzold
- The Computer Boys Take Over: Computers, Programmers, and the Politics of Technical Expertise, Nathan Ensmenger
- Andy Grove: The Life and Times of an American, Richard S. Tedlow
- Dreaming in Code: Two Dozen Programmers, Three Years, 4,732 Bugs, and One Quest for Transcendent Software, Scott Rosenberg (Creator of Lotus 1-2-3)
- Love & Math: The Heart of Hidden Reality.
- Uncommon Genius: How Great Ideas are Born (Denise Shekerjian, 1991)
- Just My Type: A Book About Fonts (Simon Garfield, 2010)
- [fiction] The Idiot by Dostoevsky
- [fiction] The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- Zero Knowledge Proofs
- Successful blockchain experiments unlock potential of tokenisation, Swift
- Coffee Can Investing
Stuff that I’ve enjoyed consistently,
- Lex Fridman
- Huberman Lab
- Paul Graham’s Essays
- Vitalik Buterin’s blog
- Startup School
- Crypto Startup School
- Indie Hackers
- Hacker News
- Papers With Code
- Depth First Learning
- Pragmatic Engineer
- Casey Muratori, Computers Enhance
- Web technology for developers, MDN
- Martin Fowler
- Lenny’s Newsletter
- ByteByteGo
- Stratechery
All done,
- How we implemented serverless full-text search in Rust – Grafbase
- Ultralearning, Scott Young