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Is the prerequisite of this book SICP? Thanks.

Beginning of Infinity - David Deutsch Personal Knowledge - Michael Polanyi

Beginning of Infinity

RIP, Gerald Weinberg

There's a less know book written by him: Weinberg on Writing: The Fieldstone Method

It's the only book I've found that teaches you how to steal like an writer, which the book Steal Like an Artist advocates but doesn't get into how to actually do it.

"Obstacle is the Way": Basically a collection of motivational stories that pretends to be related to stoicism.

A better books is: "A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy"

Hand made hero https://handmadehero.org

Ken Thompson wrote Unix in a month.

Become an independent scholar.

Travel and meet top researchers I admire and learn from them.

Solve real human problems.

Coding the Matrix: Linear Algebra through Applications to Computer Science

for more theoretical I'm planning to read: Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach

Damien Katz - CouchDB and Me: https://www.infoq.com/presentations/katz-couchdb-and-me

The talk is about how Damien quit his job to hack on open source software. It shows his struggle and doubt while embarking on the project and then finally invented CouchDB. It's a passionate and human account of the process of creating something significant. I recommend every hacker watch this.

leading a team of people doing machine learning has nothing to do with an MBA.

Thanks for sharing. Would you mind telling specifically how do you go deep in a topic?

Etherpad. By the way, it seems like an interesting project.