Working library
Reading
Books shaping my work across engineering, science, fiction, philosophy, and the study of mind.
Technical
Engineering, systems, and craft.
Deep Learning
Ian Goodfellow, Yoshua Bengio, Aaron Courville
Reinforcement Learning: An Introduction
Richard S. Sutton, Andrew G. Barto
Machine Learning with PyTorch and Scikit-Learn
Sebastian Raschka
Dive into Deep Learning
Aston Zhang, Zachary C. Lipton, Mu Li, Alexander J. Smola
Programming Massively Parallel Processors
David B. Kirk, Wen-mei W. Hwu
Data-Driven Science and Engineering
Steven L. Brunton, J. Nathan Kutz
Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach
James F. Kurose, Keith W. Ross
Data Science from Scratch
Joel Grus
Academia
Mathematics, science, and theory.
A Course of Pure Mathematics
G. H. Hardy
Love and Math
Edward Frenkel
Weird Math
David Darling, Agnijo Banerjee
What is Life?
Erwin Schrödinger
Wholeness and the Implicate Order
David Bohm
Fiction
Novels and short stories.
The Brothers Karamazov
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
The Trial
Franz Kafka
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
Lord of the Flies
William Golding
Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen
Great Expectations
Charles Dickens
Recursion
Blake Crouch
The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
Stuart Turton
No Longer Human
Osamu Dazai
Philosophy & Essays
Ideas, criticism, and long-form thinking.
Meditations
Marcus Aurelius
Beyond Good and Evil
Friedrich Nietzsche
The Republic
Plato
Letters from a Stoic
Seneca
Pensées
Blaise Pascal
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
Robert M. Sapolsky
Deep Work
Cal Newport
Why We Sleep
Matthew Walker
How to Change Your Mind
Michael Pollan
The Creative Act: A Way of Being
Rick Rubin
The Road Less Traveled
M. Scott Peck
Breaking the Habit of Being Yourself
Joe Dispenza
The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck
Mark Manson
Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective
Kenneth O. Stanley, Joel Lehman
Critique of Pure Reason
Immanuel Kant
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
Psychology & Neuroscience
The mind, behaviour, and the brain.
How Minds Change
David McRaney
You Are Now Less Dumb
David McRaney
You Can Beat Your Brain
David McRaney
The Strange Order of Things
Antonio Damasio
The Cognitive Neuroscience of Working Memory
Naoyuki Osaka, Robert H. Logie, Mark D'Esposito
Predictably Irrational
Dan Ariely
Dopamine Nation
Anna Lembke
The Social Leap
William von Hippel
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud
The Psychopathology of Everyday Life
Sigmund Freud
Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality
Sigmund Freud
Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious
Sigmund Freud
Psychological Types
Carl Gustav Jung
Psychology and the Occult
Carl Gustav Jung
Sampling Normal and Schizophrenic Inner Experience
Russell T. Hurlburt
Sampling Inner Experience in Disturbed Affect
Russell T. Hurlburt
Exploring Inner Experience: The Descriptive Experience Sampling Method
Russell T. Hurlburt, Christopher L. Heavey
Describing Inner Experience? Proponent Meets Skeptic
Russell T. Hurlburt, Eric Schwitzgebel
Investigating Pristine Inner Experience: Moments of Truth
Russell T. Hurlburt