books

books | Suriya Ganesh - Technical Writing

to read

The clockwork muse - Eviator Zerubavel
The mythical man month
Behave - Robert Sapolsky
Why zebras don’t get ulcer - Sapolsky
Public Opinion - Lippman
The man who mistook his wife for a hat
The Code breakers
Images of Organization - Morgan
The Organization man - whyte
Six not so easy pieces - Richard Feynman
The extended phenotype - Richard Dawkins

have read

Barbarians at the gate - Bryan Burroughs
Curious incident of dog in the night time
Thinking in bets
- Everything is a bet on some future event. Every decision that is made. from a decision to buy that donut to predicting how the market will perform
Communist Manifesto - Karl Marx
What got you here won’t get you there
Cuckoo’s egg -
Mamba mentality - Kobe bryant 2022-11-20
Six Easy Pieces - Richard Feynman
System Design: An insider’s guide - Alex xu - 2022-12-07
Blink
Educated - Tara Westover
Zero to one
Almanack of Naval Ravikant
uncertain glory - amartya sen

2023

Essays on skepticism - Bertrand Russell - 2023-01-08
The Art of making money - PT. Barnum - 2023-01-20
- Live, well under your means.
- Location matters a lot.
- Dedicate yourself to your work.
- Generally a good book with a lot of generic advices.
Accidental Empires - Robert Cringely - 2023-01-15
- Good book on the history of computing.
- Showed a lot of the underbelly of the tech ecosystem
Only the Paranoid survive - Andrew Grove - 2023-02-3 21:12
- Nice book, couldn’t relate to a lot of it.
- But, That is only because the book is aimed at high level management ideas
- I might have to come back to this one.
lost Focus - Johann Hari - 2023-02-15 22:16
- The book was good, but not great.
- the middle chapters from simplistic Optimism were pretty interesting.
- Could’ve skipped the initial chapter with the authors’ story of trying to be less distracted. I suppose, it adds for a good narrative. But, didn’t enlighten me as much as it could have.
Waiting for a Visa - BR Ambedkar - 2023-02-15 23:25
- The stories are very moving and clarified a lot of misconception I had about Ambedkar’s life.
flatlands, A romance of many dimensions (1884)- Edwin A Abbot - 2023-02-19 22:7
- Incredible book with great content
- The idea of 2 dimensional and 1 dimensional and 0 dimensional worlds were very interesting. each representing a metaphor of peoples lives and worlds.
Long walk to Freedom - Nelson Mandela - 2023-02-26 17:58
- Being a law man and a freedom fighter is a combination that is very much a necessity, if one is about to stand up against law.
- Being solid about ones resolve is very important to go through the struggle.
- Leader’s source is people’s trust over their decisions and their willingness to participate in it. Overpromisisng and not achieving goals erodes that trust. So, leader’s have a dilemma of aggressively setting goals vs delivering the goals.
Designing Data Intensive Application - Martin Kleppman - 2023-02-25 17:58
- notes are here