Books

Currently Reading

• Contact (Carl Sagan)

• Moby-Dick or, the Whale (Melville)

• Brain-Computer Interfacing (Rao)

• Electrophysical Agents: Evidence-Based Practice (eds. Watson and Nussbaum)

Read

Fiction, Literature, Short Story Collections

• The Revelations (Erik Hoel)

• Death’s End (Liu Cixin)

• The Dark Forest (Liu Cixin)

• The Three-Body Problem (Liu Cixin)

• Exhalation (Ted Chiang)

• The Ramayana: A Shortened Modern Prose Version of the Indian Epic (R.K. Narayan Translation)

• The Circle (Dave Eggers)

• The Cyberiad (Stanislaw Lem)

• A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L’Engle)

• Lord of the Flies (William Golding)

• The Harry Potter Series

• Percy Jackson and the Olympians: Full Series

• Technologies of the Self (Haris Durrani)

• Phoenix Rising (Colleen Farrelly)

• The Kite Runner (Khaled Hosseini)

• The Inferno (Dante Alighieri)

• The Epic of Gilgamesh (Anonymous)

• Hadji Murat (Leo Tolstoy)

• The Gambler (Fyodor Dostoevsky)

• Romance of the Three Kingdoms / San Guo Yan Yi (Luo Gaunzhong)

Biology and Medicine

• Biodesign (Yock et al)

  • Fantastic resource for my career interests. Something you come back to frequently if you work in this area.

• The Secret Language of Cells: What Biological XConversations Tell Us About the Brain-Body Connection, the Future of Medicine, and Life Itself (Jon Lieff)

• The Exposome: A Primer (Gary W. Miller)

• Hippocratic Writings (Hippocrates)

• Discovering Precision Health: Predict, Prevent, and Cure to Advance Health and Well-Being (Llyod B Minor)

• Projections: A Story of Human Emotions (Karl Deisseroth)

  • More of a memoir

• Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder (Gabor Mate)

• The Patient Will See You Now: The Future of Medicine is in your Hands (Eric Topol)

• Deep Medicine: How Artificial Intelligence Can Make Healthcare Human Again (Eric Topol)

• The Checklist Manifesto (Atul Gawande)

• Proving Darwin: Making Biology Mathematical (Gregory Chaitin)

• Lifespan: Why We Age – and Why We Don’t Have To (David Sinclair)

• Advice for a Young Investigator (Santiago Ramón y Cajal)

• The Effective Scientist (Corey Bradshaw)

History of Science and Technology; Technology and Society

• The Victorian Internet (Tom Standage)

• How the World Really Works: A Scientist’s Guide to Our Past, Present and Future (Vaclav Smil)

• Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech (Sally Smith Hughes)

• The Idea of the Brain: The Past and Future of Neuroscience (Matthew Cobb)

• The Social Transformation of American Medicine: The Rise of a Sovereign Profession and the Making of a Vast Industry (Paul Starr)

• Technopoly: The Surrender of Culture to Technology (Neil Postman)

• Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World (Jack Goldsmith)

• The Curse of Bigness: Antitrust in the New Gilded Age (Tim Wu)

• You Are Not a Gadget (Jaron Lanier)

• Energy and Civilization: A History (Vaclav Smil)

• The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity, and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (David Graeber)

• Debt: The First 5,000 Years (David Graeber)

• The Tyranny of Metrics (Jerry Muller)

• Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science (Michael Nielsen)

• The Secret Life of Science: How it Really Works and Why it Matters (Jeremy Baumberg)

Philosophy, Religion, etc.

• The Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)

• The Theory of Knowledge: Classic and Contemporary Readings (Louis Pojman)

• Philosophical Dialectics: An Essay on Metaphilosophy (Nicholas Rescher)

• The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (Thomas Kuhn)

• Ethics (Spinoza)

• Meditations on First Philosophy (Descartes)

• Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies (Raymond Smullyan)

• Striking Thoughts: Bruce Lee’s Wisdom for Daily Living (Bruce Lee)

• The Intellectual Life: Its Spirit, Conditions, Methods (Antonin Sertillanges)

• Beyond Analytic Philosophy: Doing Justice to What We Know (Hao Wang)

• The Religion of Small Societies (Ninian Smart)

• The Case for God (Karen Armstrong)

• Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)

• Philosophy of Mathematics (Øystein Linnebo)

• All Things Shining: Reading the Western Classics to Find Meaning in a Secular Age (Hubert Dreyfus)

• Enchiridion (Epiectetus)

• Meditations (Marcus Aurelius)

• Things a Computer Scientist Rarely Talks About (Donald Knuth)

• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid (Douglas Hofstadter)

• Gödel’s Proof (Ernest Nagel)

• Our Mathematical Universe (Max Tegmark)

• The Five Dialogues – Euthyphro, Apology, Crito, Meno, Phaedo (Plato)

• Dao De Jing (Le Guin translation)

Engineering, Computer Science

• Sensors: An Introductory (Kourosh Kalantar-Zadeh)

• The Elements of Statistical Learning (Jerome Friedman et al)

  • Selected Chapters

• Conceptual Wavelets in Digital Signal Processing: An In-Depth, Practical Approach for the Non-Mathematician (D. Lee Fugal)

• Interpretable Machine Learning (Christoph Molnar)

• Digital Image Processing (Rafael C. Gonzalez)

• Deep Learning for Vision Systems (Mohamed Elgendy)

• Computability: Turing, Godel, Church, and Beyond (Jack Copeland)

• Deep Learning Textbook (Ian Goodfellow et al)

  • Selected Chapters

Running

• Faster Road Racing: 5K to Half Marathon (Pete Pfitzinger)

• Daniels’ Running Formula (Jack Daniels)

• 80/20 Running: Run Stronger and Race Faster by Training (Matt Fitzgerald)

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami)

  • (More of a memoir)

Mathematics

• Trefethen’s Index Cards: Forty Years of Notes about People, Words and Mathematics (Llyod Tefethen)

• Linear Algebra Done Right (Sheldon Axler)

• Applied Combinatorics (Alan Tucker)

• Algorithmic Information Theory (Gregory Chaitin)

• Meta-Math! (Gregory Chaitin)

• Logics for Computer Science (Anita Wasilewska)

  • I served as an editor for this book.

• Category Theory (Steve Awodey)

• Elementary Applied Topology (Robert Ghrist)

Psychology, Personal Development, etc.

• The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Bessel van der Kolk)

• Crucial Conversations: Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High (Kerry Patterson)

• Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Jon Kabat-Zinn)

• Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less (Greg McKeown)

• The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Marie Kondo)

• Digital Minimalism: Choosing a Focused Life in a Noisy World (Cal Newport)

• Deep Work (Cal Newport)

• Atomic Habits (James Clear)

• Ultralearning (Scott Young)

• Nonviolent Communication (Marshall Rosenberg)

• Resilience: The Science of Masting Life’s Greatest Challenges (Steven M. Southwick and Dennis Charney)

Academia / Career

• Next Gen PhD: A Guide to Career Paths in Science (Melanie V. Sinche)

• A PhD Is Not Enough: A Guide To Survival In Science (Peter J. Feibelman)

• Letters to a Young Scientist (EO Wilson)

• Make it Clear (Patrick Henry Winston)

Biography / Memoir

• What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Haruki Murakami)

• Projections: A Story of Human Emotions (Karl Deisseroth)

• Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (David Goggins)

• Seal Team Six: Memoirs of an Elite Nacvy Seal Sniper (Howard Wasdin)

• The Art of Learning (Josh Waitzkin)

• The Glass Castle (Jeanette Walls)

• The Ph.D. Grind (Philip Guo)

• Birth of Theorem (Cedric Villani)

Writing

• Several Short Sentences About Writing (Verlyan Klinkenborg)

Misc

• Launching Your Art Career: A Practical Guide for Artists (Alix Sloan)

• The (Mis)Behavior of Markets (Benoit Mandelbrot)

• Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (Nassim Taleb)

• Skin in the Game (Nassim Taleb)

• The Black Swan (Nassim Taleb)

• The Art of War (Sun Tzu)

• Mastering the Art of War (Zhuge Liang and Ji Liu)

• Letters to a Young Scientist (EO Wilson)