Inspired by some other internet bookshelfs, this is a list of books, articles, and videos that I’ve really enjoyed or learned a lot from. I’ll continue to update this as I consume more media (undoubtedly hastened by quarantine). I’ve written short blurbs about some, which you can read by hovering over the titles.
Nonfiction
- Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China – Evan Osnos
- Good Economics for Hard Times – Abhijit Banerjee and Esther Duflo
- The Idea Factory – Jon Gertner
- The Dream Machine – M. Mitchell Waldrop
- Zero to One – Peter Thiel
- Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow – Yuval Noah Harari
Fiction
- Dune – Frank Herbert
- The Orphan Master’s Son – Adam Johnson
- The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
- Infinite Jest – David Foster Wallace
- How Much of These Hills is Gold - C. Pam Zhang
Articles
- Pmarca Guide to Personal Productivity – Marc Andreessen
- 68 Bits of Unsolicited Advice – Kevin Kelly
- You and Your Research – Richard Hamming
Technical Stuff
- How We’ve Scaled Dropbox (2012) – Kevin Modzelewski
- Effective ML – Yaron Minksy
- Google File System (2003) – Ghemawat et al.
- Effective Java – Josh Bloch
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications – Martin Kleppmann
Blogs
- Made of Bugs - great posts on a variety of software engineering topics
- Brandur’s blog - a beautiful blog with beautiful technical content