SRIVASTAVA
science-er/engineer-ist
Reading has always been an enormous part of my life (perhaps, the biggest part of my life) and if you're looking for something to read, I am maintaining this dynamic list of great books. I highly recommend these and hopefully they will be of some help to you.
If you have any recommendations or comments, don't hesitate to reach out!
[The list lacks any particular order.]
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Exhalations -- Ted Chiang
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The Systems Bible -- John Gall
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The Great Mental Models (multiple volumes) -- Shane Parrish
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Sustainable Energy - without the hot air -- David MacKay (read/buy it here)
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Thinking in Systems -- Donella Meadows
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The Righteous Mind -- Jonathan Haidt
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The Clock of Long Now -- Stewart Brand
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A Fuller View -- Steven Sieden
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The Beginning of Infinity -- David Deutsch
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Whole Earth Discipline -- Stewart Brand
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How Buildings Learn -- Stewart Brand
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How to Solve it -- G. Polya
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Letters to a Young Contrarian -- Christopher Hitchens
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On Writing -- Stephen King
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The Lessons of History -- Will and Ariel Durant
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The Model Thinker -- Scott E. Page
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Seeking Wisdom: From Darwin to Munger -- Peter Bevelin
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Human Compatible: Artificial Intelligence and the Problem of Control -- Stuart Russell
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How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big -- Scott Adams
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The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and The Great Age of American Innovation -- Jon Gertner
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Recursion -- Blake Crouch
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Zero to One -- Peter Thiel
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Hackers and Painters -- Paul Graham
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How Innovation Works -- Matt Ridley
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To Pixar and Beyond: My Unlikely Journey with Steve Jobs to Make Entertainment History -- Lawrence Levy
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Finite and Infinite Games -- James P. Carse
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The Princeton Companion to Mathematics -- Timothy Gowers, June Barrow–Green, and Imre Leader
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Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned: The Myth of the Objective -- Kenneth O. Stanley and Joel Lehman
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Rationality: From AI to Zombies -- Eliezer Yudkowsky (Read it here)
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The Outsiders : Eight Unconventional CEOs and Their Radically Rational Blueprint for Success -- William Thorndike
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When Breath Becomes Air -- Paul Kalanithi
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Thinking in Bets: Making Smarter Decisions When You Don't Have All the Facts -- Annie Duke
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Quantum Computing Since Democritus -- Scott Aaronson
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Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies -- Nick Bostrom
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Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors -- Carl Sagan and Ann Druyan
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Flowers for Algernon -- Daniel Keyes
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Quantum Mechanics and Experience -- David Z Albert
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A New Kind of Science -- Stephen Wolfram
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The Demon--Haunted World -- Ann Druyan and Carl Sagan
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Swipe to Unlock -- Aditya Agashe, Neel Mehta, and Parth Detroja
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The Gene -- Siddhartha Mukherjee
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The Big Ones: How Natural Disasters Have Shaped Us (And What We Can Do About Them) -- Dr. Lucy Jones
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Science(ish) -- Michael Brooks and Rick Edwards
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"Surely you're joking, Mr. Feynman!": Adventures of a Curious Character -- Richard Feynman
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Reality is not what it seems -- Carlo Rovelli
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Euclid's Window -- Leonard Mlodinow
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The Feynman Lectures on Physics
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Alex's Adventures in Numberland -- Alex Bellos
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Alex Through the Looking Glass -- Alex Bellos
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Sapiens -- Yuval Noah Harari
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Homo Deus -- Yuval Noah Harari
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How to create a mind -- Ray Kurzweil
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Things to make and do in the fourth dimension -- Matt Parker
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Enlightenment Now -- Stephen Pinker
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The Order of Time -- Carlo Rovelli
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The Master Algorithm -- Pedro Domingos
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Benjamin Franklin -- Walter Isaacson
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The Innovators -- Walter Isaacson
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Chaos: Making a new science -- James Gleick
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The Information -- James Gleick
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Structures: or why things don't fall down -- J.E. Gordon
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The Zero Marginal Cost Society -- Jeremy Rifkin
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Algorithms to live by -- Brian Christian, Tom Griffiths
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Hello World: Being human in the age of Artificial Intelligence -- Hannah Fry
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A Mind for Numbers -- Barbara Oakley
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An Astronaut's Guide to Life on Earth -- Chris Hadfield
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The Inevitable -- Kevin Kelly
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Deep Work -- Cal Newport
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Profiles of the Future -- Arthur C. Clarke
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The Universe in Zero Words -- Dana Mackenzie
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The Wisdom of Psychopaths -- Kevin Dutton
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The Innovator's Dilemma -- Clayton M. Christensen
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Rework -- David Heinemeier Hansson and Jason Fried
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Brief Answers to the Big Questions -- Stephen Hawking
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In Search of Schrodinger's Cat -- John Gribbins
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance -- Robert M. Pirsig
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Hit Refresh -- Satya Nadella
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Change by Design -- Tim Brown
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Energy: A Beginner's Guide -- Vaclav Smil
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Measure what matters -- John Doerr
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Capitalism and Freedom -- Milton Friedman
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Seven brief lessons on Physics -- Carlo Rovelli
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The Physics of Everyday Things -- James Kaklios
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Life 3.0 -- Max Tegmark
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A Short History of Nearly Everything -- Bill Bryson
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Phantoms in the Brain -- V.S. Ramachandran
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Shoe Dog -- Phil Knight
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We have no idea -- Jorge Cham and Daniel Whiteson
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Air -- Dean Spears
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The Economic Naturalist -- Robert H. Frank
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Thinking, Fast and Slow -- Daniel Kahneman
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I do what I do -- Raghuram Rajan
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Factfulness -- Anna Rosling Ronnlund, Hans Rosling, Ola Rosling
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Misbehaving: The Making of Behavioral Economics -- Richard Thaler