surfing
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books
- A Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl
- Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid by Douglas Hofstadter
- The Almanack of Naval Ravikant: A Guide to Wealth and Happiness by Eric Jorgenson
- Anything by Eliyahu Goldratt, Charlie Munger, Nassim Taleb, Jorge Luis Borges, or Garcia Marquez
- What Is Life? by Erwin Schrödinger
- High Output Management by Andy Grove
- Benjamin Franklin: An American Life by Walter Isaacson
- The Beginning of Infinity by David Deutsch
- A Mind at Play: How Claude Shannon Invented the Information Age by Jimmy Soni
software
- Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
- Code That Fits in Your Head: Heuristics for Software Engineering by Mark Seemann
- Working Effectively with Legacy Code by Michael C. Feathers
- The Art of UNIX Programming by Eric S. Raymond
- Software Engineering at Google: Lessons Learned from Programming Over Time
sci-fi
- Last Question by Asimov
- Bobiverse series by Dennis Taylor
- 3 Body Problem by Liu Cixin
- Anything by Ted Chiang, Ken Liu, or Greg Egan
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- "Crystal Nights" by GE
- "Story of your Life" and "Anxiety Is the Dizziness of Freedom" by TC
- "Pantheon" (animated series based on some of KL stories)
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investing
- The Intelligent Investor by Benjamin Graham
- Margin of Safety by Seth A. Klarman
music
Genre | Artists |
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Synthwave | Hotel Pools, A.L.I.S.O.N, Home, Emil Rottmayer, Djo |
Lofi | Saib, The Deli, Nohidea, Purrple Cat |
Other | Phoenix, The Dodos, The Naked And Famous, Kings Of Convenience, SBTRKT, ODESZA, Flume, Natiruts, Bossacucanova, João Gilberto, Jorge Ben Jor |
Geniuses | JS Bach, Koji Kondo, Hans Zimmer, Jacob Collier |