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Background
Education and Certificates
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Favorite
Music
Consumer Goods
- Bowflex SelectTech Adjustable Dumbbells (Doubles as a conversation starter.)
- iBUYPOWER Pre-Built Gaming PC (For work and play.)
- Redify Jump Rope (Rainy-day cardio.)
- TeamMe Computer Desk (Maximum productivity.)
- Vive Wrist Brace (Type for ten hours a day.)
Desktop Software
- “LibreOffice” by The Document Foundation (Open-source Microsoft Office replacement.)
- “NoVote” by Dan Lovelace (Makes Reddit usable.)
- “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.)
- “The Stack Overflow Age” by Joel Spolsky (Recollections of the Internet gold rush.)
- “Stevey’s Google Platforms Rant” by Steve Yegge (Amazon’s secret to world domination.)
- “Story Structure 101” by Dan Harmon (Narrative-writing for humans.)
- “Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years” by Peter Norvig (No royal road to geometry.)
- “What if You Only Invested at Market Peaks?” by Ben Carlson (Slow and steady.)
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.)
- Learn OpenGL by Joey de Vries (Graphics from scratch.)
- Microserfs by Douglas Coupland (Understand working programmers.)
(For more fun, check out this list by the Free Ebook Foundation.)
Hobbyist Books
- The Bogleheads’ Guide to Investing by Mel Lindauer (You are not smarter than the market.)
- Logical Chess by Irving Chenev (Teaches the consequences of small changes.)
- The Photographer’s Eye by Michael Freeman (Our civilization is starving for new images.)
- Practical Programming for Strength Training by Mark Rippetoe (Mens sana in corpore sano.)
Economics Books
- The Boy Crisis by Warren Farrell (Are men obsolete?)
- The Case Against Education by Bryan Caplan (We waste a third of our lives social signaling.)
- The India Way by Subrahmanyam Jaishankar (Moving up in the world as a middle power.)
- Untrue: Women, Lust, and Infidelity by Wednesday Martin (Primate sexual market dynamics.)
Philosophy Books
- The Analects of Confucius by Kong Fuzi (Building a society that works starts from the bottom.)
- The Complete Works by Arthur Schopenhauer (Ancient wisdom in a modern context.)
- Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali by B.K.S. Iyengar (Exerting control over the mind.)
- Straw Dogs by John Gray (Breaking free of monotheistic orthodoxy.)
History Books
- The Book of Islamic Dynasties by Luqman Nagy (Eurasia’s past, present, and future.)
- Debt: The First 5,000 Years by David Graeber (How we got here.)
- Late Victorian Holocausts by Mike Davis (50 million forgotten murders.)
- A Most Holy War by Mark Pegg (Western civilization’s roots.)
- Reconstruction by Eric Foner (Ongoing ripples of Lincoln’s murder.)
- Stalin by Domenico Losurdo (Perhaps the 20th century’s most influential person.)
- Vladimir Putin and Russian Statecraft by Allen Lynch (From failed state to superpower.)
(For more, check out the World History Association’s list of Bentley Book Prize winners.)
Historical Documents
- “Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization” by Samuel Alito (Prelude to Balkanization.)
- “Modernize and Never Seek Hegemony” by Deng Xiaoping (Father of globalization.)
- “On the Historical Unity of Russians and Ukrainians” by Vladimir Putin (Tsardom reborn.)
Autobiographies
- Adventures in the Screen Trade by William Goldman (Hollywood at its zenith.)
- Championship Fighting by Jack Dempsey (Learning to throw a punch takes a lifetime.)
- 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 (Revolutionaries are doomed men.)
Novels
- A Clash of Kings by George R. R. Martin (Living history is written in blood.)
- The Long Walk by Stephen King (Works as a metaphor for pretty much everything.)
- Submission by Michel Houellebecq (Excellent satire of the “end of history”.)
- Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe (Surreal reflections on Western imperialism.)
Short Stories
- “Coding Machines” by Lawrence Kesteloot (Debugging meets cosmic horror.)
- “The Cold Equations” by Tom Godwin (Time and tide wait for no man.)
- “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.)
- “A Hunger Artist” by Franz Kafka (The best gifts find the fewest admirers.)
Comic Books
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