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I hope you have a good time here. Thanks for dropping by.
Background
Education and Certificates
B.S. Computer Engineering from UC San Diego (2016)
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Favorite
Music
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.)
- “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
- Game Programming Patterns by Bob Nystrom (Notes on building maintainable software.)
- Logical Chess by Irving Chenev (Teaches the consequences of small changes.)
- Math for Programmers by Paul Orland (Pre-requisite to serious projects.)
- 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.)
- 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
Buddha by Osamu Tezuka
Maus by Art Spiegelman
The Sculptor by Scott McCloud
Animal Man by Grant Morrison
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