Favorite
Books
Biography
- The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
- Total Recall, Arnold Schwarzenegger
- iWoz, Steve Wozniak
Creativity
- How to Take Smart Notes, Sönke Ahrens
- How to Read a Book, Mortimer J. Adler
Philosophy
- What is this thing called science? Alan Chalmers
- A Conflict of Visions, Thomas Sowell
- How to live, Derek Sivers
- Language in thought and action, Hayakawa S.I.
- Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Psychology
- Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
- Man’s Search for Meaning, Viktor E. Frankl
- The Courage to Be Disliked, Ichiro Kishimi
- Cognitive science: an introduction to the science of the mind, Bermúdez José Luis
Self-help
- The Slight Edge, Jeff Olson
- Anything You Want, Derek Sivers
- Hell Yeah or No: what’s worth doing, Derek Sivers
- Models, Mark Manson
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey
History
- The Lessons of History, Will Durant
- Sapiens, Yuval Harari
Fiction
- The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Suzanne Collins
- Animal Farm, George Orwell
- Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Programming
- Clean Architecture, Robert Martin
- Clean Code, Robert Martin
- How Javascript Works, Douglas Crockford
Computer Science
- Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos
- Distributed Systems for Fun and Profit, Mikito Takada
Cryptography
- Intuitive Advanced Cryptography, Quan Thoi Minh Nguyen, 2019
- A pragmatic introduction to secure multi-party computation, Evans, D., Kolesnikov, V., & Rosulek, M. (2018)
- Lecture notes on cryptography, Goldwasser & Bellare
Business
- The E-Myth Revisited, Michael E. Gerber
See also my book notes or Bookshelf (goodreads)
Quotes
Most people do not listen with the intent to understand; they listen with the intent to reply.
~Stephen R. Covey
Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.
~Benjamin Franklin
So the conservative who resists change is as valuable as the radical who proposes it -perhaps as much more valuable as roots are more vital than grafts.
~Will Durant, The Lessons of History
Men must be taught as if you taught them not, And things unknown propos’d as things forgot.
~Alexander Pope, An Essay On Criticism.
I listen to everybody, but most of the time I learn not to do.
~Abraham Lincoln
Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.
~Albert Einstein.
A lecture has been well described as the process whereby the notes of the teacher become the notes of the student without passing through the mind of either.
~Mortimer J. Adler, How to Read a Book
Only the man who is below the average in economic ability desires equality; those who are conscious of superior ability desire freedom.
~Will Durant, The Lessons of History
It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
~Leon C. Megginson
History reports that the men who can manage men manage the men who can manage only things, and the men who can manage money manage all.
~Will Durant, The Lessons of History
It is unit tests that keep our code flexible, maintainable, and reusable. The reason is simple. If you have tests, you do not fear making changes to the code! Without tests every change is a possible bug.
~Robert C. Martin, Clean Code.
Activity and reflection should ideally complement and support each other. Action by itself is blind, reflection impotent.
~Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi, Flow