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Talks

• A Little Bit of Slope Makes Up For a Lot of Y-Intercept - John Ousterhout
• The Dangerous Illusion of AI Coding? - Jeremy Howard

Posts

• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years - Peter Norvig
• No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering - Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
• Impact of AI Productivity - Is it really making us productive?
• The Bitter Lesson - Rich Sutton
• Advice on Technical Writing - Rich Sutton
• https://github.com/codecrafters-io/build-your-own-x

Communication

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8_BIamLESg
• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Unzc731iCUY

Newsletters

Books

Technical

• The Elements of Computing Systems: Building a Modern Computer from First Principles
• Crafting Interpreters
• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications, 2nd Edition
• Database Internals
• The Software Engineer’s Guidebook
• Designing Machine Learning Systems
• Software Engineering at Google
• Hypermedia Systems
• A Philosophy of Software Design
• Tidy First?
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• 14 Habits of Highly Productive Developer

Generic

• The Art of Doing Science and Engineering - Richard W. Hamming
• Talent is Overrated: What Really Separates World-class Performers from Everybody Else by Geoffrey Colvin
• On Writing Well: The Essential Guide to Mastering Nonfiction Writing and Effective Communication
• The First 90 Days: Proven Strategies for Getting Up to Speed Faster and Smarter, Updated and Expanded
• Meditations - Marcus Aurelius
• Katha Upanishad
• Prashna Upanishad
• Mundaka Upanishad
• Thirukural - Thiruvalluvar
• முதற்கனல் - ஜெயமோகன்
• Siddhartha - Herman Hesse
• The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse - Charlie Mackesy
• The Artist’s Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity - Julia Cameron