A small list:
Lengthy Reading:
| War and Peace ( 1 night to read. 5 months to write, using Tolstoy's hacker way ), |
| The Brothers Karamazov, |
| Crime and Punishment, |
| Journey to the West, |
| Romance of the Three Kingdoms, |
| Water Margin, |
| Dreams of Red Chambers, |
| Golden Lotus( 4 Volumes ), Lord of Perfect Satisfaction, The Carnal Prayer Mat, |
| Musashi( Novel ), |
| Bible ( Old/New Testament ), |
| Digha Nikaya, |
| Majjhima Nikaya, |
| Samyutta Nikaya |
Science Reading:
| Einstein's Fridge, |
| Einstein's Boss, |
| Beyond Weird, |
| Hawking Hawking, |
| Fear of a Black Universe, |
| The Upright Thinkers: The Human Journey from Living in Trees to Understanding the Cosmos, |
| Classic Feynman: All the Adventures of a Curious Character, |
| Nature ( magazine ), |
| New Scientist( magazine ) |
Tech Reading:
| AI a Modern Approach( Stuart Russell and Peter Norvig ), |
| Deep Learning with Python ( Chollet ), |
| Daily Coding Problems, |
| Coders at Work, |
| Extreme Programming( Kent Beck ), |
| Refactoring( Martin Fowler ), |
| MongoDB Fundamentals, |
| The Art of Doing Science and Engineering( Richard R. Hamming ), |
| Ideas and Information: Managing in a High-Tech World( Arno Penzias ), |
| Innovating: A Doer's Manifesto for Starting from a Hunch, Prototyping Problems, Scaling Up, and Learning to Be Productively Wrong ( Luis Perez-Breva ), |
| Genius Makers: The Mavericks Who Brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the World, |
Deep Reading:
| Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance( Robert M. Pirsig ), |
| Art of War ( Sun Tzu, Sun Bin )( Has anyone summarized Sun Tzu in 4 words? ) |
| On War ( Clausewitz ), ( We increase the book's value 10 times by renaming it "How to Organize Knowledge for Decision-Making in Stressful Situations." For details of such attention-directing devices, read Edward de Bono. ) |
| I Ching, |
| Tao Te Ching, |
| Book of Five Rings, |
| A Discourse on Winning and Losing ( Boyd ), |
| Mao's Invisible Hand, |
| Yiddishe Kop |
Wide Reading:
| Unlimited Warfare, |
| The Savior Generals, |
| Defensive Shield, |
| Startup Nation, |
| Unstoppable Startup, |
| Chutzpah: Why Israel Is a Hub of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, |
| Grapes of Wrath, |
| Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, |
| Tenali Rama stories, |
| Jataka stories, |
| One Thousand and One Nights, |
| The Elements of Eloquence ( Now go write new Shakespeare plays, using 1 or 2 dozens of simple formulas! ), |
| Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment |
| Influence |
Silicon (Valley) Reading:
| Wide Lens, |
| Becoming Steve Jobs, |
| Steve Jobs( Walter Isaacson ), |
| Judo Strategy, |
| Blue Ocean Strategy |
| Innovator's Dilemma, |
| Only the Paranoid Survive, |
| Ask Your Developer, |
| Effective Executive ( Peter Drucker ), |
| Innovation and Entrepreneurship ( Peter Drucker ), |
| Growth Hacker Marketing, |
| Hacking Growth, |
| Brain vs Capital, |
| Unscale, |
| Not for Bread Alone ( Matsushita ), |
| Matsushita Leadership, |
| Hackers & Painters: Big Ideas from the Computer Age, |
| Zero to One, |
| The Everything Store: Jeff Bezos and the Age of Amazon |