Best Things I've Read

This is a list of the best things I've ever read on various topics. The criteria for inclusion in this list are simple:

1. Simple. It has to be approchable without a deep background on the subject material. Most of us don't have time to become experts before we read a great work.
2. Engaging. There is plenty of worthy material in the world that I will never be able to plow my way through. I won't include anything on my list that I haven't read completely.
3. Provokes Change. The greatest things I have read irrecovably change the way I think and the way I see the world. Often they provide me with new tools and approaches as I try to understand the world and to create new things.

Sorry that I haven't provided detailed descriptions at this time. I hope to come back and flesh this out with what each book/article covers, why it is profound, and what you will get out of reading it. In the meantime, trust me I guess? These are all great.

Software Engineering

• README from the original commit of git (Text File)
• Git Book, Chapter 10: Git Internals (Online Book)
• The Log: What every software engineer should know about real-time data's unifying abstraction (Article)
• Machine Learning recommendation: Python Machine Learning by Raschka and Mirjalili (Buy from Packt)
• Machine Learning recommendation: Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras and TensorFlow by Aurélien Géron (Buy from [O'Reilly])(https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/hands-on-machine-learning/9781491962282/)
• Feynman's Appendix to the Rogers Commission Report on the Challenger Disaster (PDF)
• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering by Fred Brooks ([Wikipedia Page])(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mythical_Man-Month)
• I would love to be able to include Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs by Abelson and Sussman on this list, but unfortunately I've never read it. I did watch their excellent MIT lecture series of the same material. (YouTube.
• Numerical Recipes in C++)

Economics

• The End of the World is Just the Beginning by Peter Zeihan (Author's Homepage)
• Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail by Ray Dalio (Author's Homepage)
• Goliath by Matt Stoller (Publisher's Page)
• The Fourth Turning by William Strauss and Neil Howe
• Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
• Factfulness by Hans Rosling (Author's Foundation's Page)

How to Live

• A Guide to the Good Life: The Ancient Art of Stoic Joy (Barnes & Noble)
• Deep Work by Cal Newport (Author's Page)

Biographies

• A Man for All Markets - Autobiography by Edward O.Thorp (Author's Page)

Math

• The Pleasures of Counting by T.W. Körner (Cambridge University Press)
• Algebra Volume 1 by P.M. Cohn (PDF)
• Elementary Probability by Stirzaker (Cambridge University Press)
• Stochastic Differential Equations by Øksendal (Springer)
• Gaussian Processes for Machine Learning by Rasmussen and Williams (Book's Website)

Business

http://www2.csudh.edu/ccauthen/576f12/frankfurt__harry_-_on_bullshit.pdf)) * The Competitive Strategy: Techniques for Analyzing Industries and Competitors (HBS)

Miscellaneous

• On Bull*** by Harry G. Frankfurt (Princeton University Press) ([PDF](