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Desktop Software

• “LibreOffice” by The Document Foundation (Open-source Microsoft Office replacement.)
• “OBS Studio” by Hugh Bailey (Screen recording tool.)
• “Scoop” by Luke Sampson (Windows command-line installer.)
• “ScreenToGif” by Nicke Manarin (Animated screenshots.)
• “Video Screenshot” by Martin Strauss (Generate desktop wallpapers from streaming sites.)
• “Vimium” by Phil Crosby (Mouse-less browsing.)
• “youtube-dl” by Ricardo García (Download YouTube videos.)

Blog Posts

• “The Gervais Principle” by Venkatesh Rao (Organizational politics demystified.)
• “How to Send and Reply to Email” by Matt Might (Professional etiquette.)
• “A Mathematician’s Lament” by Paul Lockhart (All children should read this.)
• “Story Structure 101” by Dan Harmon (Narrative-writing for humans.)
• “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years” by Peter Norvig (No royal road to geometry.)

Programming Books

• Coders at Work by Peter Seibel (Giants to walk in the footsteps of.)
• Game Programming Patterns by Bob Nystrom (Notes on building maintainable software.)
• Logical Chess by Irving Chenev (Teaches the consequences of small changes.)
• Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (Understand working programmers.)

(For more fun, check out this list by the Free Ebook Foundation.)

History Books

• Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (How economies work.)
• Destiny Disrupted by Tamim Ansary (Islam through the ages.)
• Has China Won? by Kishore Mahbubani (Post-COVID, the argument’s even stronger.)
• Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis (50 million forgotten murders.)
• A Most Holy War by Mark Pegg (Modern civilization’s roots.)
• Reconstruction by Eric Foner (Ongoing ripples of Lincoln’s murder.)

(For more, check out the World History Association’s list of Bentley Book Prize winners.)

Autobiographies

• Disciplined Minds by Jeff Schmidt (Thriving in the white-collar workplace.)
• Four Star Reviews, 1967-2007 by Roger Ebert (Forty years at the movies.)
• Nickel and Dimed by Barbara Ehrenreich (Poverty is expensive.)
• Revolutionary Suicide by Huey Newton (Black Panther before it was cool.)

Short Stories

• “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin (Human beings, vegetables, or cosmic dust.)
• “Frost and Fire” by Ray Bradbury (Man that is born of a woman is of few days.)
• “A Full Life” by Paolo Bacigalupi (Enjoy it while you can.)
• “Golden” by Nick Bostrom (Transhumanists beware.)

Comic Books

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