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Recommendations

Reading Books, listening to Podcasts and watching Documentaries is a big part of my learning process. It is impossible to list everything I've read or watched here but this is a brief list of my top recommendations (some of which are just standards but are important). Enjoy!

* Currently reading

Books and Authors

• Biography

  • The Cuckoo's Egg - Clifford Stoll
  • My Inventions - Nikola Tesla
  • iWoz - Steve Wozniak
  • Permanent Record - Edward Snowden
  • Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future - Ashlee Vance
  • Leonardo da Vinci* - Walter Isaacson

• Sci-Fi

  • The Foundation Series - Isaac Asimov
  • The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy - Douglas Adams
  • Snow Crash - Neal Stephenson
  • 20000 Leagues Under The Sea - Jules Verne

• CS and Software Development

  • The Jargon File
  • Structure and Implementation of Computer Programs* - Harold Abelson, Gerald Jay Sussman, Julie Sussman
  • The Pragmatic Programmer - Andrew Hunt, Davis Thomas
  • Code Complete* - Steve McConnell
  • The Mythical Man-Month* - Fred Brooks
  • The Cathedral And The Bazaar - Eric S. Raymond

• Non-fiction

  • Science

    • Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies - Nick Bostrom
    • The God Delusion - Richard Dawkins
    • Just Six Numbers - Martin Rees
    • The Character of Physical Law - Richard Feynman
    • Prof. Stephen Hawking
    • Neil deGrasse Tyson
    • Michio Kaku
    • Carl Sagan
    • Leonard Susskind
    • Briane Greene

  • Mathematics

    • Secrets of Mental Math* - Arthur Benjamin
    • Fermat's Enigma - Simon Singh
    • The Code Book - Simon Singh
    • Martin Gardner

  • Entrepreurship

    • Outliers - Malcolm Gladwell
    • Zero to One - Peter Thiel

Podcasts

• Programming

  • Syntax - Web Bos, Scott Tolinski
  • Talk Python - Michael Kennedy

• Miscellaneous

  • Artificial Intelligence Podcast - Lex Fridman
  • The Joe Rogan Experience - Joe Rogan
  • The Numberphile Podcast - Brady Haran
  • Sean Caroll's Mindscape - Sean Caroll
  • Making Sense with Sam Harris - Sam Harris (I also completed his Waking Up Course. Highly Recommended.)
  • Darknet Diaries - Jack Rhysider
  • Recode Decode - Kara Swisher
  • Naval - Naval Ravikant

Documentaries

• The Triumph of the Nerds: The Rise of Accidental Empires
• CitizenFour
• Particle Fever
• The Internet's Own Boy
• TPB AFK

Websites I Visit

• Daily

  • HackerNews
  • Lobste.rs

• Weekly

  • n-gate.com

Software

• Arch Linux
• suckless
• Mozilla Firefox
• ProtonMail / Tutanota
• VLC
• youtube-dl
• Anki
• Standard Notes
• Zeal / Dash - offline documentation browsers.
• Syncthing
• Termux (Android)
• Libretorrent (Android)
• Librera Reader (Android)

Browser Extensions

• Vimium for hardcore Vim users.
• uBlock Origin
• Privacy Badger
• markdown-here - write Email in Markdown. Hasn't been updated in a while but still very useful.
• Dark Reader
• Refined GitHub
• Octotree

See Movies and TV Shows that I like here.

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