2023
- Red Blob Games: Interactive visual explanations of math and algorithms, Amit Patel
- A Hackers’ Guide to Language Models, Jeremy Howard
- A guide for finding product-market fit in B2B, Lenny Rachitsky
- How to Communicate When Trust Is Low, Charity Majors
- Last Lecture: Really Achieving Your Childhood Dreams (2007), Randy Pausch
- Graceful behavior at capacity, Nelson Elhage
- How Modernity Made Us Allergic, Theresa MacPhail
- Writing Python like it’s Rust, Jakub Beránek
- Write Python like Rust (2020), Chris Oates
- A Collection of Quant Riddles With Answers, Nigel Coldwell
- How a startup loses its spark, John Qian
- Every time you click this link, it will send you to a random Web 1.0 website
- How a single line of code brought down a half-billion euro rocket launch, Dani Grant
- Why you should teach at a Community College, Timo Zander
- Stop saying “technical debt”, Chelsea Troy
- Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don’t Know, Adam Grant
- (Anti-)Application Video for YC120 (2019), Bryan Cantrill
2022
2021
2020
- Talking to Strangers, Malcolm Gladwell
- Mindf*ck: Cambridge Analytica and the Plot to Break America, Christopher Wylie
- Dear Google Cloud: Your Deprecation Policy is Killing You, Steve Yegge
- The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss
- Digital Minimalism, Cal Newport
- It’s Time to Start Writing, Alex Nixon
- The Tail End, Tim Urban
- 3K, 60fps, 130ms: achieving it with Rust, Jake McGinty (Tonari)
- Radical Candor, Kim Scott
- Deep Work, Cal Newport
- How Jeff Bezos Turned Narrative into Amazon’s Competitive Advantage, Ben Bashaw
- Startup Playbook, Sam Altman
- Atomic Habits, James Clear
- It’s Time to Build, Marc Andreessen
- The H.264 Advanced Video Compression Standard (Second Edition), Iain E. Richardson
- CS Unplugged: Computer Science without a computer, Tim Bell, Ian Witten, and Mike Fellows
- Software Folklore: A collection of weird bug stories, Andreas Zwinkau
- The Missing Semester of CS Education, MIT
- Hours, Anne Ogborn
Pre-2020
- Ian’s Shoelace Site, Ian Fieggen
- How Will You Measure Your Life?, Clayton M. Christensen
- The Innovator’s Dilemma, Clayton M. Christensen
- Git from the inside out, Mary Rose Cook
- A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring, Daniele Procida
- The Rust Programming Language, Steve Klabnik and Carol Nichols
- Expecting Better, Emily Oster
- The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo
- Cracking the Coding Interview, Gayle Laakmann McDowell
- Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future, Peter Thiel
- The World is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century, Thomas L. Friedman
- The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen R. Covey
- Rich Dad, Poor Dad, Robert Kiyosaki
- How to Think Like an MIT Media Lab Inventor, Ramesh Raskar
TODO Reading
- Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams, Matthew Walker
- Designing Your Life, Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
- Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don’t, Jim Collins
- The Age of Surveillance Capitalism, Shoshana Zuboff
- Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, Passion, and Purpose, Tony Hsieh
- Never Split the Difference: Negotiating As If Your Life Depended On It, Chris Voss and Tahl Raz
- So Good They Can’t Ignore You, Cal Newport
- Getting Things Done, David Allen
- The Design of Everyday Things, Don Normam
- The Mythical Man-Month, Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
- Creativity, Inc, Ed Catmull
- Steal Like an Artist, Austin Kleon
- Work Rules!, Laszlo Bock
- The Lean Startup, Eric Ries
- How to Win Friends and Influence People, Dale Carnegie
- Raving Fans, Kenneth Blanchard and Sheldon Bowles
- Teach Yourself Computer Science, Bradfield School of Computer Science