Fun Stuff!

You will find on this page some of the things I find interesting, informative or enjoy. 

Travel
Books
Science Publications


Travel:

Chicago

 






Japan







Books

    Computers & Math:

  • Algorithms to Live by by Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
  • The Complete Software Developer's Career Guide by John Sonmez
  • The Signal and the Noise by Nate Silver
  • How Numbers Work by New Scientist
  • The Book of Why by Judea Pearl, Dana Mackenzie
  • Naked Statistics by Charles Wheelan
  • A Most Elegant Equation by David Stipp

    Social Sciences:

  • The Righteous Mind Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion by Jonathan Haidt
  • Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman
  • The Undercover Economist Strikes Back by Tim Harford
  • The Worldly Philosophers by Robert Heilbroner
  • Economics in One Lesson by Henry Hazlitt

    Humanities:

  • Drawing On The Right Side Of The Brain by Betty Edwards

    Business:

  • Never Split The Difference Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on it by Chris Voss with Tahl Raz
  • Think and Grow Rich by Napoleon Hill
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

    Philosophy:

  • As a Man Thinketh by James Allen

    Politics:
  • The Prince by Niccolo Machiavelli

    Fiction:

  • Dune: House Atreides: House Trilogy, Book 1 by Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert
  • House Harkonnen: House Trilogy, Book 2 by Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert
  • Dune: House Corrino by Kevin J. Anderson, Brian Herbert
  • Dune by Frank Herbert
  • Dune Messiah  by Frank Herbert
  • Lost Years of Merlin Series By T.A. Barron
  • Mistborn Series by Brandon Sanderson


Science (Journal Publications to Read)

Networking:

     The Price of Anarchy is Independent of the Network Topology
     https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-0000(03)00044-8

     The Controller Placement Problem
     https://doi.org/10.1145/2342441.2342444


Cyber Security:

     On the anatomy of social engineering attacks--A literature-based dissection of successful attacks


Economics:

     The Moral Narratives of Economists


Sociology: (Please excuse the provocative title, it discusses methodology)

     Fuck Nuance

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