Favorites

Favorite publications

• Ethereum: a secure decentralised generalised transaction ledger, Wood, G, 2014.
• ZEXE: Enabling Decentralized Private Computation, Bowe, Sean, et al., 2020.
• IPFS - Content Addressed, Versioned, P2P File System, Benet, J, 2014.
• Fuck nuance, Healy, K, 2017.
• MINIONN: Oblivious neural network predictions via minionn transformations, Liu, Jian, et al., 2017
• The Byzantine generals problem, Lamport, L., Shostak, R. and Pease, M., 1982.
• How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children, Quisquater, Jean-Jacques, et al., 1989.

Favorite books

Philosophy

• How to live, Sivers, Derek
• The Courage to Be Disliked, Kishimi, Ichiro
• A Conflict of Visions, Sowell, Thomas

Psychology

• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience, Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly
• Man’s Search for Meaning, Frankl, Viktor E

Self-help

• The Slight Edge, Olson, Jeff
• Models, Manson, Mark
• Anything You Want, Sivers, Derek
• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Covey, Stephen

History

• The Lessons of History, Durant, Will
• Sapiens, Harari, Yuval

Biography

• Total Recall, Schwarzenegger, Arnold
• The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
• iWoz, Wozniak, Steve

Creativity

• How to Take Smart Notes, Ahrens, Sönke
• How to Read a Book, Adler, Mortimer J.

Programming

• Clean Architecture, Martin, Robert
• Clean Code, Martin, Robert
• Mastering Bitcoin, Antonopoulos, Andreas M.

Business

• The E-Myth Revisited, Gerber, Michael E.

Fiction

• The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, Collins, Suzanne
• Animal Farm, Orwell, George
• Brave New World, Huxley, Aldous

Bookshelf (goodreads)

Favorite 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
• 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
• 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
• “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.
• Everything in people is cry for love. Notice it and you will forgive more. ~Daniela Stilger

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