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Diary of an Early American Boy - Eric Sloane. This book spoke to my heart in a deep and profound way. The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill - Everything
by mikewarot 3y ago
Diary of an Early American Boy - Eric Sloane. This book spoke to my heart in a deep and profound way.
The Art of Electronics by Horowitz and Hill - Everything you want to know about the practice of electronics, as opposed to theory, once you're going to design electronics.
The Programmers Stone - https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r0/index.html https://www.datapacrat.com/Opinion/Reciprocality/r0/index.ht... - Teaches the concept of Mappers and Packers, I'm a mapper, and I've worked with packers, once I knew this, and used it to help bridge the gap.
Flatland - Edwin A. Abbott - A bridge towards higher dimensional thinking from back in elementary school.
The Boy's Second Book of Radio and Electronics - Morgan, 1957. - https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/The-Boys-Second-Book-of-Radio-and-Electronics-Morgan-1957.pdf https://www.worldradiohistory.com/BOOKSHELF-ARH/Technology/T... - This is the book that cold started me into electronics in 1973, in 4th Grade.
The Engineer's Notebook series - Forest Mims III - Once I was in electronics, gave a ton of useful tips.
What do you care what other people think - Richard Feynman, a good set of lessons about expectations and motivations of others, as told by one the folks on the Manhattan project.
Computer Lib / Dream Machines - Ted Nelson - A great exposition of what computers could be used to do, We're nowhere near catching up yet.
George Gilder: When Bandwidth Is Free - Interview in Wired Magazine - https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gilder-4/ https://www.wired.com/1993/04/gilder-4/ - It was here (I think) that I first heard his call to waste transistors in pursuit of performance, that the BitGrid came into mind as a viable idea.
The Cluetrain Manifesto - Levine, Locke, Searls, Weinberger - Changed the way I view the internet and advertising.