Learning Archives

Books

Note: Some books I'm still in the progess of reading (*) or have it enqueued (**). Some books I might have read cover to cover or just explored certain sections. However, if it's listed here, I vouch for it nonetheless.

Personal Enjoyment, Development, & Exploration

• Superforecasting: The Art and Science of Prediction by Philip E. Tetlock and Dan Gardner *
• Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Theodor Geisel (all-time favorite)
• The Millionaire Next Door by Thomas J. Stanley
• The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell by John Crawford
• How to Read A Book by Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
• The Intellectual Life by Antonin Sertillanges **

CS

• Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces by Andrea and Remzi Arpaci-Dusseau
• Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools by Alfred Aho et al.
• Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann
• Database Internals by Alex Petrov
• Crafting Interpreters by Robert Nystrom
• Inside the Machine by Jon Stokes
• C Programming: A Modern Approach by K.N. King
• C++ Concurrency in Action by Anthony Williams
• CPython Internals by Anthony Shaw and Real Python
• The Competitive Programmer’s Handbook by Antti Laaksonen
• Elements of Programming Interviews by Adnan Aziz et al (C++ version)

Finance & Trading

• Option Volatility & Pricing by Sheldon Natenberg *
• A Random Walk Down Wall Street by Burton Gordon Malkiel **
• Option Market Making by Allen Jan Baird **
• Advances in Active Portfolio Management by Richard C. Grinold and Ronald Kahn **
• Quantitative Trading by Ernest P. Chan
• Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

Math & STEM

• Game Theory: An Introduction by Steven Tadelis
• Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way by Will Kurt
• A First Course in Probability by Sheldon M. Ross
• Secrets of Mental Math by Arthur Benjamin and Michael Shermer