Fun links and books, approximately in reverse chronological order by time of reading. Recently I’ve started to track books I’ve read on Goodreads which is probably more up-to-date than this.
Dan Wang’s Blog - I particularly resonate with the areas where he advocates that physical-world progress > digital innovation.
Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces
How to make friends over the internet
Instilling Novel Thought Patterns and Making Your Long-Term Memory Accountable with Anki
An Elegant Puzzle, Systems of Engineering Management
The Art of Doing Science and Engineering
The Revolt of the Public and the Crisis of Authority in the New Millennium
The Case Against Education - provides very convincing evidence for the strength of the signalling model of education
An Outsider’s Tour of Reinforcement Learning - perspectives on the current RL landscape from the perspective of robust control
Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China
Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control
Stratechery - insightful analysis of the strategy of technology.
Quantum Country - if you want to understand what Quantum Computing is about quickly, and recall what you’ve learned, this is the book for you.
Quantum Computation and Quantum Information
Zero to One - insightful thoughts about startups and business.
Genetic Algorithms in Plain English
Neural Networks and Deep Learning
Sustainable Energy - without the hot air - first-principles analysis of sustainable energy (especially on the technical section), which really helped me to get to grips with the nature of this issue.
See also: some links to robotics resources, my take on how to learn things.