Problem: With so many books and topics I would like to learn, it often becomes a difficult juggling act of choosing which book to read at any given time. Focusing on one over the others inevitably leads to a case where I worry about prioritizing some things over others and improperly allocating my focus. Generally, this is not a huge issue since I believe that my spontaneous interests are trustworthy in their capacity to lead me towards productive uses of my time. However, I notice that I am often paralyzed by choice where a lot of times my intuition defaults to inaction, which I am dissatisfied with.
Therefore, I will create a “book rotation” here for which, at any point, I can say, “Okay I’m going to go on rotation” to short-circuit this paralysis. Here are some rules:
- I will only read the next book in the rotation. If I am not enjoying it after a few flips or however long reading, I will move onto the next book in the list.
- If I would like to jump to a book that is 2-3 books beyond my current book in the list, I can but my “current book” should not change. That would just be counted as doing a “specific reading of a book” as opposed to “going on rotation.”
There is little intention in ordering these books, aside from some arbitrary topic clustering to minimize context-switching while rotating.
Also, I will include books that are not really on my radar right now because why not?
So, with that, the list:
- Halmos
- Axler
- Cummings
- Aluffi
- Zorich
- Wasserman
- Munkres
- Vickers
- Sipser
- Skiena
- SICP
- Nystrom
- Systems
- Neurobiology
- Phil of Neuroscience
- Keenan
- Lambda Calculus
- Pearl
- Goldrei
- Barak
- HoTT
- Kreyszig
- Algebraic Statistics
- University Physics
- Electrodynamics
- Biology Tome
- Zumdahl
- Electronics Tome
- Computer Architecture
- Gardenfors
Books I would like to include:
- Awodey
- Nelson Biophysics
- Murphy ML
- More physics.
- But eh, lots of things I would like to add…