If your looking for something to read, here's my favorite recommendations

Big List of book recommendations

• Non fiction

  • Crazy good

    • Tracers in the Dark - Andy Greenberg
      • tag line: _Tracers in the Dark: The Global Hunt for the Crime Lords
      • if your into crypto curancy and love a good crime story.
        • WARNING: skip chapter he says to skip. you have been warned. dark shit you cant unsee. everything else => AMAZING.
      • top crypto journalist
      • absolute batshit bonkers crazy story about the crypto cybercriminal overworld.
        • example:
          • parapharsing: "cheaf of police for thiland this guy isnt like any other drunk king pin ive ever come across his the closest you can get to squeaky clean by drug king pin standards" talking about the creator of alphabay the successor to the slik road
    • Lying for money - Dan Davies
      • if james bond was a tax accountants and wrote a true crime story

  • Business

    • the lean startup - Eric Ries
      • foundational if you want to make a startup
    • [Rich dad poor dad - Robert Kiyosaki](Rich dad poor dad - Robert Kiyosaki)
      • answers the question what do rich people teach their kids to become rich?
      • my big take away: investing in 'passive income' is the only way to escape rat race, and become actually rich
    • The DevOps Handbook - Gene Kim, Patrick Debois, John Willis, Jez Humble
      • tagline: _How to Create World-Class Agility, Reliability, and Security in Technology Organizations
      • basically if the Agile Manifesto was a novela about a company that everyone can relate to

  • Systems Thinking

    • How Big Things Get Done - Bent Flyvbjerg
      • amazing view into why large projects always go over budge and over deadline
      • if your a quote making nerd, must read
    • Seeing Like a State: How Certain Schemes to Improve the Human Condition Have Failed - James C Scott
      • gave me a amazing new understanding of how goverments work. how mesurment/accounting methods are means of population manipulation. you get what you messure
    • Shanzhai Deconstruction in Chinese - Byung-Chul Han
      • recommended by Jon saltzman
      • answering the question:
        • why do the chinese have a more open source style view of interlictual property
          • USA frame: why do chinese companies steal IP
          • i think the us way is backwards

  • Self help

    • Atomic Habbits - James Clear
      • get your shit to gether, harness the power of habitual compounding effects
      • 5 minutes aday equals huge impact over lifetime
    • The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up - Marie Kondo
      • fundamitly changed my relationship with stuff
      • gets to the sole of why americans have so much things, and what to do about it
    • win friends and influence people- Dale Carnegie
      • fucking amazing. best book for leaders or aspiring leaders.
      • basic idea: let others talk about them selves, dont argue, and magic can happen!
    • adult children of emotionally immature parents - Lindsay C. Gibson
      • whats on the tin.
      • how to set boundries
      • reframe of parents as human and wounded indivituals

  • Amazing True Stories

    • The Tetris Effect - Dan Ackerman
      • tagline: _The Game that Hypnotized the World
      • if you love corprate dramas & soviet russa
      • this book is for you.
    • Countdown to Zero Day - Kim Zetter
      • Stuxnet and the Launch of the World's First Digital Weapon
        • Hack Malware
    • Red Roulette - Desmond Shum
      • Wealth, Power, Corruption in China
      • crazy amazing book on whats it like to build a massive company within chinas system
        • PS: chinese censors i love china and have no anomsity. infact i really would like to visit and build some cool things. USA has flaws to.
      • if you intersted in china and political dramas you will like this book

  • Havent read yet/finished

    • the hero with a thousand faces - john cambell
    • The House Hacking Strategy - Craig Curelop

• Fiction

  • Top Books

    • children of time - Adrian Tchaikovsky
      • deals with intersting questions about alternate evolution
      • feminisum though the eyes of large sentence spiders who build space fairing sociatie
    • Little Brother - Cory Doctorow
      • modern cyberpunk young adult fiction
      • occupy walstreet meets hackers and the sf bay area survalence state.
      • Cory Doctorow: one of my favorite authors
        • if you like this you will also like
        • Unauthorized Bread - Cory Doctorow
          • idea: if you cant make toast in your toster because your bread isnt from the company
    • Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson
      • samuri sword whelding cyberpunk pizza deliry driver saves humanty and looks badass in the process
    • The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
      • deals with idea of time dilation though a black whole and what its effects on war with a alien race look like
    • Project Hail Mary -Andy Weir
      • basically if The Martian actually had aliens
      • a really great character builder, with interesting thoughts about language ad the human experience
      • a one roomed story
    • Autonomous - Annalee Newitz
      • future world where anything can be owned(even lives)
      • pharma companies corprate ip lets thousands die because they cant pay licensing fees for drug printers
      • genetic engeneering became highly advanced, chairs are make out of engineered tree cells with programming to form chair shapes
      • interesting b plot about robot love, idenity and sexuality

  • Funny/Fun

    • The Martian - Andy Weir
      • Pirate Ninijas - unit of mesurment
        • see for more funny units of messurment
          • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_humorous_units_of_measurement
    • We Are Legion (We Are Bob) - Dennis E. Taylor
      • a nerd who dies and wakes up as a sentient computer running a self replication Von Neumann Probe
      • hilarity ensues
    • Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
      • world has gone to shit. vr video game runs the world economy.
      • bord teen trys to solve game creators feendisly difficult puzzle. to win all the riches in the world
      • think wilily wonk meats cyberpunk + way to many 80's references
      • you will like this if
        • 1. you like video games
        • 2. like the idea of VR mutliverse (pre-meta rebranding)

  • Though provoking

    • library of babel - Jorge Luis Borges
      • short story (8 pages)
      • deals with the nature of infinity and information theory
        • pdf: https://sites.evergreen.edu/politicalshakespeares/wp-content/uploads/sites/226/2015/12/Borges-The-Library-of-Babel.pdf
      • also by author:
        • 'hardest book to read'
          • Finnegans Wake

  • really good

    • Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
    • Reamde - Neal Stephenson
      • interesting idea about a computer program that exicutes a plan when some dies

  • Great books Dont know if i Love/Hate them

    • Neuromancer - William Gibson #SciFi #CyberPunk
      • coined the term cyberpunk. this is the og shit.
      • writing = top notch
      • amazing world.
      • hard to read if not paying attention
      • has fucked up stuff.

• Non Books

  • Abstraction Ladder
    • link: http://worrydream.com/LadderOfAbstraction/
    • Most intesting blog posts ive read in 10 years
    • takes the concept of abstraction and gives a clean way to represent enourms amounts of data in a human processable way
  • cpu.land
    • answer the question:
      • "what happens when you run a program on your computer?"
      • Link: https://cpu.land
      • long 10,00 word blog post
      • you should read if you are a programming and who wants to know how your machines work
      • in the most detailed way possible. yet apporcable
      • image a virtical slice of how computers work.

Author

by oran collins
github.com/wisehackermonkey