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It is time! Let’s look back at 2020

.. learned from some serious material on software engineering

• “Building Microservices: Designing Fine-Grained Systems”, O’Reilly
• “Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production Systems”, O’Reilly
• “Introducing Go: Build Reliable, Scalable Programs”, O’Reilly
• “I Heart Logs: Event Data, Stream Processing, and Data Integration”, O’Reilly
• “Cloud Native Infrastructure: Patterns for Scalable Infrastructure..”, O’Reilly
• “Designing Distributed Systems: Patterns and Paradigms for Scalable, Reliable Services”, O’Reilly
• ⭐️ “The Go Programming Language”, Addison-Wesley
• ⭐️ “Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software”, Addison-Wesley
• ⭐️ “Advanced Programming in the UNIX Environment”, Addison-Wesley
• ⭐️ “The Art of UNIX Programming”, Addison-Wesley
• “BPF Performance Tools”, Addison-Wesley
• “Modern Data Mining Algorithms in C++ and Cuda C..”, Apress
• “http2 explained”, “HTTP/3 explained”, Daniel Stenberg
• “Mastering PostgreSQL 12”, Packt

.. followed historical accounts on computing

• ⭐️ 2000, “Dealers of Lightning: Xerox PARC and the Dawn of the Computer Age”, Michael A. Hiltzik
• ⭐️ 2001, “The Dream Machine”, M. Mitchell Waldrop, Stripe Press

.. which inspired me to check famous works on computing from 20th century

• 1945, “As We May Think”, Vannevar Bush
• 1948, “Cybernetics: Or the Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine”, Norbert Wiener
• 1951, “The General and Logical Theory of Automata”, John von Neumann
• 1960, “Man-Computer Symbiosis”, J.C.R. Licklider,

.. dived deep into neuroscience

• “Translational Neuroscience”, Strüngmann Forum 2015, MIT Press
• ⭐️ “Emergent Brain Dynamics: Prebirth to Adolescence”, Strüngmann Forum 2017, MIT Press
• ⭐️ “The Neocortex”, Strüngmann Forum 2019, MIT Press
• ⭐️ “Neuroscience of Mathematical Cognitive Development: From Infancy Through Emerging Adulthood”, Springer
• “Chasing Men on Fire: The Story of the Search for a Pain Gene”, MIT Press
• “Cannabinoids and the Brain”, MIT Press

.. enjoyed some good science fiction

• “To Build a Fire”, Jack London
• ⭐️ “The Last Question”, Isaac Asimov
• ⭐️ “Cryptonomicon”, Neal Stephenson
• ⭐️ “Rendezvous with Rama”, Arthur C. Clarke
• ⭐️ “We are Bob”, #2, #3, #4 Dennis E. Taylor
• “Sleeping Giants”, Sylvain Neuvel
• “Artemis”, Andy Weir

.. got inspired from few biographies

• ⭐️ “A Man for All Markets”, Edward O. Thorp
• ⭐️ “What It Takes: Lessons in the Pursuit of Excellence”, Stephen A. Schwarzman
• “Greenlights”, Matthew McConaughey

.. some popular science

• “The End of Everything (Astrophysically Speaking)”, Katie Mack
• ⭐️ “The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat”, Oliver Sacks
• “The River of Consciousness”, Oliver Sacks
• “Felt Time: The Psychology of How We Perceive Time”, MIT Press
• “Is the Universe a Hologram?: Scientists Answer the Most Provocative Questions”, MIT Press
• “How to Grow a Robot: Developing Human-Friendly, Social AI”, MIT Press

.. few unusual essays

• ⭐️ “In the Beginning was the Command Line”, Neal Stephenson
• “The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist”, Richard P. Feynman

.. finished recommendation from one of the smartest people I knew

• ⭐️ “Managing Humans: Biting and Humorous Tales of a Software Engineering Manager”, Michael Lopp

.. something for piece of mind

• ✨ “Ikigai: The Japanese secret to a long and happy life”
• “Ego Is the Enemy”, Ryan Holiday
• “Zen-Brain Horizons: Toward a Living Zen”, MIT Press
• “The Courage to Be Disliked..”

.. most powerful things I ever seen

• 🔥 “The Art of War”, Sun Tzu
• 🔥 “Can’t Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds”, David Goggins

54 in total, 24 planned, longest 1,139p., avg 300p.