Reading List
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Introduction
Being an avid reader myself I always like it when I find trustworthy sources (books, articles, websites) with lists of material to read. I figured that my knack for losing the wonderful reading suggestions in depths of oblivion (my zotero collection :P),and my confidence in that I sometimes find stuff I would like my siblings and friends to read, were good enough reasons for me to create a special page here, just for that:
I have opted against tedious categorization: ctrl+f might be one’s
best tool
Every time I visit this page I can not help but feel a certain kind of sadness, around the suggestions I have not made so far. There are much more books and articles I would like there to be here, many of which perhaps should have been the first to be placed here. The list will never be adequately updated.
Books
- [Free Online] Almanack of Naval Ravikant
- [Free Online] Poor Charlie’s Almanack
- Bruce Schneier’s Books:
- Having added his blog in the next section, I realized that I had not properly added his books here (at least the ones I have spent some time studying):
- Applied Cryptography
- Liars and Outliars
- Menn’s Cult Of the Dead Cow
- There’s something inspiring there.
- The Lord of the Rings trilogy
Blogs / Articles
- https://two-wrongs.com/ I really like Chris’ blog, offering a unique look on a plethora of different subjects. Pleasant, yet not always relaxed, reading.
Crypto-Gram: Schneier’s influence can not be overstated, and many of his are exceptionally mindblowing to me, mainly for 2 distinct reasons:
- He either uses a completely different approach than the one I have seen/thought of, allowing for increased understanding through that perspective or
- He states something that one might have come up with themselves but more eloquently also allowing for new insight.
Thus, I can not help, but include it here.
- phrack: Potentially the only http site here but… One should read at least some bits of it.
Courses
- Strang’s Linear Algebra
- This course might in fact have been the reason I started this blog: Being so fascinated, I just kept taking notes in LaTeX and building my workflow so that I could one day proud myself on not only knowing the material covered but …
- Thermodynamics lectures by Prof. David Miller