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Never Split the Difference: Because you have to negotiate in life. Nothing feels worse than realising you made a bad deal with an ugly institution/individual. T
by kwant_kiddo 3y ago
Never Split the Difference: Because you have to negotiate in life. Nothing feels worse than realising you made a bad deal with an ugly institution/individual. The book shows how to use your leverage in negotiations, and you can easily scim through it in a weekend.
Operating Systems: Three Easy Pieces + Linux Device Drivers 3rd:
All the cool tech in my opinion is made with systems-programming. Game-engines, Risk/Pricing Engines, Radar/GPS, Compilers, VM's, OS's, probably also Apples AR goggles are made with systems languages, so likely/sadly C and C++.
These two books are real and practical. The Linux one is outdated, but it worked for me.
Oppenheimers books on Signals and Systems: Because signal-processing. And the Fourier-Transformation is the most unintuitive AND useful piece of mathematics I have used/seen. (Stochastic Integrals is a close second)
Differential Equations. ODE's, SDE's, PDE's. I don't really have a good book here sadly, but Differential Equations describe the world.
- mejutoco 3y agoNever Split the Difference was definitely interesting, but I was shocked the author was giving advice considering some of the situations explained in the book. In one of them, involving hostages, IIRC the negotiations went bad and people died as a result. I get the "I made the mistake and learned form it" angle, but still feels wrong when you read that part.