Free-time Learning & Reading Plan

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A post that will get updated over time listing my readings/learning goals starting from about 2023, hopefully correctly divided by subject.

Structure

I will try to divide the article by subjects:

Academic

My current “academic”-style learning goals are focused at the intersection between Physics & Computer Engineering.

After a classic Electromagnetism course and some maths refresher, the paths start to diverge.

Common start

Physics

Choose:

  • Quantum Computing
  • Non-linear Dynamics & Chaos

Computing

  • Circuits & Electronics - MIT OCW Lecture 7: Incremental Analysis
  • Computation Structures - MIT OCW
  • Software Construction - MIT OCW
  • Computer Networking: A Top-Down Approach - Kurose & Ross
  • Computer Systems Engineering - MIT
  • Database Internals Chapter 5 -> Concurrency Control
  • Databases - CMU
  • Operating Systems - Three easy pieces book
  • Distributed Systems
  • Intro to theoretical computer science by Boaz Barak

Compilers

  • Writing an interpreter in Go Chapter 2 - Parsing

Misc (to organize):

Maths

  • Hubbard & Hubbard - Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms Chapter 2.8
  • Analysis 1 (OCW + Abbot?)
  • Topology (Munkres?)
  • Abstract/Modern Algebra
  • Analysis II

Professional

Software Development

Rust

Product Management & Startups

Free-time

  • Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
  • The Big Fat surprise
  • Dune 1 audiobook
  • Dune Messiah audiobook
  • Children of Dune audiobook
  • God Emperor of Dune audiobook
  • The Hobbit
  • The Fellowship of the Ring
  • Two Towers
  • Return of the King
  • Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned book Chapter 8
  • Open Source, Software Libero e altre libertà by Carlo Piana
  • The Three-Body Problem audiobook
  • The Dark Forest audiobook
  • Death’s End audiobook
  • Hyperion audiobook
  • Fall of Hyperion audiobook
  • Foundation audiobook
  • Foundation and Empire audiobook
  • Second Foundation audiobook
  • Foundation’s Edge audiobook
  • The End Of Eternity audiobook
  • The Complete Robot audiobook
  • The Caves of Steel audiobook
  • The Naked Sun audiobook
  • The Robots of Dawn audiobook Chapter 1 - Baley