This page is a place for me to drop names and links to books, documentaries, movies etc that I liked and recommend.

Reading List

Some books I’ve read and liked

• The Grand Design – Leonard Mlodinow
• Relativity: The Special and the General Theory – Albert Einstein
• A Brief History of Time – Stephen Hawking
• The God Delusion – Richard Dawkins
• And Then I thought I Was A Fish – Peter Welch
• The Alchemist – Paulo Coelho (thank you, Abhinav & Shivangi)
• How To Win Friends And Influence People – Dale Carnegie (thank you, Dhananjay)
• The Third Wave – Steve Case (thanks, Abhishek)
• Siddhartha – Hermann Hesse
• Deep Work – Cal Newport
• Into Thin Air – Jon Krakauer
• Sapiens – Yuval Noah Harari (thanks, Yatris!)
• Predictably Irrational – Dan Ariely (thanks, Ayush!)
• 1984 – George Orwell (thanks, Ayush & Ram) – Completed: 20/6/18
• Animal Farm – George Orwell – Completed: 25/6/18
• Rich Dad Poor Dad – Robert Kiyosaki (thanks Kunal) – Completed: 30/6/18
• Zero to One – Peter Thiel – Completed: 15/8/18
• Politics and the English Language – George Orwell – Completed 16/8/18
• Wings of Fire – APJ Abdul Kalam – Completed 11/10/18
• The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck – Mark Manson – Completed 11/11/18
• The Selfish Gene – Richard Dawkins
• Tools of Titans – Tim Ferris
• Essentialism – Greg McKeown
• A Short History of Nearly Everything – Bill Bryson – Completed 7/11/19 (thanks Ayush, Ram)
• Atomic Habits – James Clear (thanks Megan!)
• Why the Germans do it better – John Kampfner (thanks Ed!)
• Man’s Search for Meaning – Victor Frankl
• When Breath Becomes Air – Paul Kalanithi
• How to make the world add up – Tim Harford
• How to be miserable in your twenties – Randy Paterson
• Infinite Powers – Steven Strogatz
• Ignited Minds – A P J Abdul Kalam
• Emotional First Aid – Guy Winch
• Understanding Exposure – Bryan Peterson (thanks Kunal)
• The first 90 days – Michael Watkins

Technical-ish

• The Mythical Man-Month – Fred Brooks (good useful insights about software development methodologies for programmers and programming managers alike)
• The C Programming Language – Brian Kernighan and Dennis Ritchie (I read it recently, and it was enlightening. I understood why this book is recommended to aspiring programmers)
• Serious Cryptography – Jean-Philippe Aumasson (a very practical book to applied cryptography written from an implementer’s POV)
• Responsive Web Design – Ethan Marcotte (read this book before starting to work professionally as a frontend engineer, very clean; fun to read)
• Philip Roberts: What the heck is the event loop anyway?
• Javascript: Understanding the weird parts
• Learn Python The Hard Way – Zed Shaw (one of the best resource to start learning Python or programming in general)
• Cryptography 1 by Stanford on Coursera (taught me a lot about cryptography with formal methods)
• Hacking – The Art Of Exploitation (touches the topic beautifully)
• Cracking the Coding Interview (helped a lot with technical interview prep)
• The Pragmatic Programmer – A great book on effective software engineering, practical tips on how to focus on the problem and not get lost in the meta.
• Design of Everyday Things – Don Norman (general tips on human psychology that can be used to build great UXs)
• Don’t Make Me Think – Steve Krug
• Soft Skills: The Software Developer’s Life Manual – John Sonmez
• Automate the Boring Stuff with Python
• How To Write A Joke That Will Still Be Funny In Two Thousand Years – Ramsey Nasser

Movies

I get obsessed with certain movies from time to time.

• Wall-E
• Emperor’s New Groove
• Kung Fu Panda
• Before Sunrise/Sunset/Midnight
• The secret life of Walter Mitty
• The Shawshank Redemption
• How to train your Dragon
• My neighbor Totoro
• Lunch box
• 3 idiots
• The imitation game
• Rang de basanti
• Munna bhai MBBS

Misc

I’ll paste here any random piece of internet content that I liked at some point in time.

• Little Dieter Needs To Fly – Werner Herzog (1997)
• Hypernormalization