Hey all,
I'm 3 years out of college from a Physics Master's, I went into finance and feel like I haven't kept up with anything since I left.
What are your favourite tech based books that I can read on my upcoming holiday.
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#2Some general recommendations (these are not new books):
- The Phoenix Project. An easy read that is a good introduction to modern Dev Ops culture [1].
- Designing Data Intensive Applications. A technical introduction to distributed systems.
[1] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17255186-the-phoenix-pro...
[2] https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/23463279-designing-data-...
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#3- Smart Machines and Service Work, Jason E. Smith
- The Cybernetic Hypothesis, Tiqqun
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#4A recent thread on this topic is at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27628296
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#5Re: Ask HN: Book Recommendations
#6Not tech, but How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler is something I really enjoyed - it put the reading of books in a different context and actually changed the way I read. 10/10 would read again.
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#7Apart from Designing Data-Intensive Applications by Martin Kleppmann, which is already suggested here, my other favorites are -
- Designing Distributed Systems by Brendan Burns
- The Art of PostgreSQL by Dimitri Fontaine
- The Algorithm Design Manual by Steven S. Skiena
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#9Dying every day, it's an account of how Nero mentally tortured Seneca and made him kill himself, it's excellent. I hope you get back to physics, finance is beneath you.
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#10Antifragile - Nassim Nicholas Taleb