A list of books, articles and other material that intrigued and inspired me.

Books

  • Skin in the Game: Hidden Asymmetries in Daily Life :: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorde :: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable :: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets :: Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives :: Leonard Mlodinow
  • Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance :: Robert M. Pirsig
  • The Deep Learning textbook :: Ian Goodfellow and Yoshua Bengio and Aaron Courville
  • Thinking in Systems: A Primer :: Donella H.Meadows
  • Bayesian Statistics the Fun Way :: Will Kurt
  • White Heat :: Marco Pierre White
  • The Devil in the Kitchen :: Marco Pierre White
  • Kitchen Confidential :: Antony Bourdain
  • The Letters of Vincent van Gogh :: Vincent van Gogh
  • Mythos: The Greek Myths Retold :: Stephen Fry
  • Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe :: Laurence Bergreen
  • A Hacker Manifesto :: McKenzie Wark
  • The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business :: Clayton M. Christensen
  • Phantoms in the Brain: Probing the Mysteries of the Human Mind :: V.S. Ramachandran
  • Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture :: David Kushner
  • 101 Things to Learn in Art School :: Kit White
  • Meditations :: Marcus Aurelius
  • Statistics Done Wrong: The Woefully Complete Guide :: Alex Reinhart

Other

  • Benoit B. Mandelbrot's personal online library :: link
  • Probabilistic Programming & Bayesian Methods for Hackers :: link
  • The Center for Bits and Atoms, MIT :: link