Reading
What I'm reading, what's next, and the few things I keep going back to. Notes are for future me, so they are short.
On the desk
The Hero with a Thousand Faces
Joseph Campbell. The monomyth and the hero's journey.
Designing Data-Intensive Applications
Martin Kleppmann. How databases and distributed systems store, replicate, partition and process data, and the trade-offs behind each choice.
Next
The Interpretation of Dreams
Sigmund Freud. Dreams read as disguised wish fulfilment, and the method of interpretation that became the basis of psychoanalysis.
The Pragmatic Programmer
Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. Habits of a working programmer, from not repeating yourself to tracer bullets and owning your craft.
Keep returning to
Asura: Tale of the Vanquished
Anand Neelakantan. The Ramayana retold from the side of Ravana and the Asuras, the people the epic calls its villains.