Reading List

Part of this whole reading thing is doing your research upfront and then being ready to pick up a book as you find it. books that you've read blips of, heard reviews for, seen your friends read. part of collecting is knowing what to collect

Interested In

• Godel, Escher, Bach
• Gravity's Rainbow
• Zero to One
• The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
• why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby
• Essays by Paul Graham
• Dragon Book (Compilers)
• The Corrections by Jon Franzen
• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance
• Operating Systems in 3 Easy Steps
• Dune

Currently

• CS:APP
• The C Programming Language
• A Brief History Of Time

Read

• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Blood Meridian
• The Sun Also Rises
• Understanding Comics
• No Country For Old Men
• The Grapes of Wrath
• White Noise - Don DeLillo
• The Stranger - Albert Camus
• The Old Man and The Sea - Ernest Hemmingway
• Fight Club
• Infinite Jest
• A Clockwork Orange
• Life of Pi
• Consider the Lobster - DFW
• Bukowski
• D is for Digital
• Crafting Interpreters
• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (Wizard Book)
• Spelunky - Boss Fight Books
• HPMOR
• Paper Belt on Fire
• Build - Tony Fadell
• Chaos Monkeys - AGM
• Liar's Poker
• Friendly Ambitious Nerds

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• You and Your Research - Richard Hamming
• How To Work Hard http://paulgraham.com/hwh.html
• Eulogy to _why https://johnresig.com/blog/eulogy-to-_why/
• Grub Brain Developer
• Poetry And Ambition https://poets.org/text/poetry-and-ambition?utm_source=pocket_reader
• Culture Creep https://nicheless.blog/post/creep
• https://scale.com/blog/text-universal-interface
• Always Bet on Text https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html
• https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
• https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2011/02/14/the-information
• The Case for Bad Coffee https://www.seriouseats.com/the-case-for-bad-coffee
• https://simonsarris.substack.com/p/the-most-precious-resource-is-agency
• Teaching Is A Slow Process of Becoming Everything You Hate https://dynomight.net/teaching/
• 14 hours in queue to see Queen Elizabeth's coffin https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/politics/article/the-queue-queen-elizabeth
• https://www.booritney.com/writing/well-placed-effort
• The Bitter Lesson - Rich Sutton http://www.incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/BitterLesson.html
• https://hypertext.joodaloop.com/
• https://www.thefp.com/p/the-case-for-american-seriousness

Watched

• Arrival
• The End of The Tour
• Baby Driver
• Superbad
• Napolean Dynamite
• Dead Poet's Society
• The Queen's Gambit
• Taxi Driver
• Groundhog day
• Lilo and Stitch
• Good Will Hunting
• The Wolf of Wall Street
• Seinfeld
• Studio Ghibli
• Castle in the Sky
• Princess Mononoki
• Keke's Delivery Service
• Howl's Moving Castle
• Everything Everywhere All At Once
• Indie Game the Movie
• Metal Lords
• Samurai Champloo
• Ping Pong the Animation
• Joker
• Road to El Dorado
• Prince of Egypt
• How To Train Your Dragon
• Puss in Boots
• Black Swan
• Whiplash
• Avatar Way of Water
• Top Gun
• Planes Trains and Automobiles
• Wednesday
• Die Hard
• 2001 a Space Odyssey
• Ford Vs. Ferrari
• Parasite
• The Grand Budapest Hotel
• The Prestige
• The End of the Tour
• Memento
• Oppenhiemer
• Barbie
• DUNE
• Fargo
• Your Name
• Good Time
• One Cut of the Dead
• Hunger Games
• Spiderverse
• The Devil Wears Prada

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• [This is Phil Fish](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmTUW-owa2w)
• [Jonathon Blow - Truth in Game Design](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C5FUtrmO7gI)
• geohot
• [Kaytranada Boiler Room]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5EQIiabJvk