Readings

August 17, 2023  •  2 min  • 383 words  •

What I’m Reading

Currently Reading

• Pilot’s Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge
• Burn the Boats: Toss Plan B Overboard and Unleash Your Full Potential

On Hold

• Thinking, Fast and Slow
• Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams
• What Is Mathematics?: An Elementary Approach to Ideas and Methods
• The Brain That Changes Itself
• Irrational Exuberance
• The Road to Character
• Bone
• No Longer Human
• The Black Swan

My Recommendations and Reading List

Mindfulness

• The Headspace Guide to Meditation & Mindfulness
• The Upward Spiral Workbook
• The Book of Joy
• The Four Agreements
• Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
• Atomic Habits: Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results
• Be Here Now

Privacy

• Why Privacy Matters
• The Fight for Privacy
• Industry Unbound
• Privacy as Contextual Integrity
• Communication Privacy Management Theory
• Privacy is Hard and Seven Other Myths: Achieving Privacy through Careful Design
• The Fight for Privacy

Computer Science

• Understanding Machine Learning: From Theory to Algorithms
• Cracking the Coding Interview
• Black Software

Entrepreneurship

• The 4-Hour Workweek
• Zero to One
• The Ride of a Lifetime: Lessons Learned from 15 Years as CEO of the Walt Disney Company

Life

• Crying in H Mart
• Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want to Come
• Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat
• Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
• Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood
• Tuesdays with Morrie
• Born a Crime
• Brave New World

Science Fiction

• A Psalm for the Wild-Built
• The Three-Body Problem
• The Dark Forest
• Death’s End
• Zima Blue
• The Martian
• What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions

Fantasy

• The Hobbit

Manga/Comics

• Calvin and Hobbes
• Wonder Cat Kyuu-chan
• Mob Psycho 100
• Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End
• Chainsaw Man
• Sasaki and Miyano

Paper Recommendations

• Set-of-Mark Prompting Unleashes Extraordinary Visual Grounding in GPT-4V
• Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4
• A Path Towards Autonomous Machine Intelligence
• Dream to Control: Learning Behaviors by Latent Imagination
• You only look once: Unified, real-time object detection
• Explaining and Harnessing Adversarial Examples
• Robust Physical-World Attacks on Deep Learning Models
• Gender Shades: Intersectional Accuracy Disparities in Commercial Gender Classification
• Polisis: Automated Analysis and Presentation of Privacy Policies Using Deep Learning
• Ask the Experts: What Should Be on an IoT Privacy and Security Label?
• The Dark (Patterns) Side of UX Design
• Usable and Useful Privacy Interfaces Download Usable and Useful Privacy Interfaces, An Introduction to Privacy for Technology Professional