Some of my favorite media and resources.
Books
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications
- Endurance
- How Buildings Learn
- Lonesome Dove
- Poor Charlie's Almanack
- Red Rising (series)
- Sapiens
- The Count of Monte Cristo
- The Dream Machine
- The Hobbit (narrated by Andy Serkis)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Selfish Gene
Podcasts
- Acquired
- Dan Carlin's Hardcore History
- Dwarkesh Podcast
- Fall of Civilizations Podcast
- Lex Fridman Podcast
- Matt and Shane's Secret Podcast
- Ones and Tooze
- The History of Rome
- The Real Eisman Playbook
- The Tim Dillon Show
Youtubers
- Alt Shift X
- Andrej Karpathy
- Coffeezilla
- Defiant Gatekeeper
- Fredrik Knudsen
- Gary's Economics
- Historia Civilis
- Perun
- Settled
- Then & Now
Courses
- CMU 15-445: Intro to Database Systems (by Andy Pavlo)
- MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems (by Robert Morris)
- nand2tetris (by Noam Nisan and Shimon Schocken)
- Wealth & Poverty (by Robert Reich)
Talks
- Simple Made Easy (Rich Hickey)
- The Craft of Writing Effectively (Larry McEnerney)
- You and Your Research (Richard Hamming)