My Favorite Links

If you are looking for my blog posts, you can find them here.

I will keep this list updated on an ongoing basis with a curated set of my favorite books and blog authors. Here's my initial list to get this started:

Learning

• Learning How to Learn: Book, Coursera course

Writing

• How to take smart notes: This introduces the Zettelkasten approach for note taking. I have been following this for the last few weeks. I find it truly transformational. I use this to capture my learnings as I read through a topic. The best part though is the associations between the topics this enables along with the sparking of new ideas.
• On Writing well
• David Perell

Self Improvement

• Tiny Habits
• Rejection Proof (TED talk)
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

Health

• Why we sleep

Problem Solving

• What's your Problem : To Solve Your Toughest Problems, Change the Problems You Solve?

Productivity

• Deep Work

Finance

• Sahil Bloom
• Morgan Housel

Operating Systems

• Three Easy Pieces Book
• The Linux Programming Interface

Algorithms

• Grokking Algorithms: This is particularly great for kids / young audiences due to the illustrations and the simple explanations.

Architecture and Design

• Designing Data-Intensive Applications
• Azure Architecture Center
• AWS Builders' Library

Board Games

• Modern Art: An excellent auction game by the acclaimed game designer Reiner Knizia.
• Istanbul
• 7 Wonders
• Pandemic Legacy Season 1: A co-operative board game.