Currently Reading

India's Undeclared Emergency: Constitutionalism and the Politics of Resistance by Arvind Narrain

Status: Currently Reading

Books I Want to Read

Secrets of Sand Hill Road by Scott Kupor

Status: To Read

Summary: An insider's guide to venture capital, revealing how VCs think, operate, and make investment decisions in the startup ecosystem.

Books I've Read

The Stranger by Albert Camus

Status: Completed

Summary: This was a short read, but was very intense to follow through. Camus's style of writing paints scenes in the story so vividly in my head despite it being written in first person in the eyes of nihilistic Meursault. Meursault is also inherently absurdist, and it was a perspective I have never really thought about in the eyes of the beholder. To me what was most gut clenching was his apathetic consistency towards his [Spoiler - click to reveal].

The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho

Status: Completed

Summary: I initially read this book when I was a sophomore in high school and I didn't really think much of it. Probably my thoughts at the time were that it thought too dramatically about life. I've started to think more about my life in terms of how I value meaning in everything. This book really emphasizes how important everything is, and how much I don't choose to ignore my own heart + gut feelings. I would highly recommend this book to anyone at any point in their life. It really made me rethink a lot of how I view my goals, love etc. When I felt overly stressed out, reading it was one of the few things that would help me reground myself in my environment. It helped me view my daily life as how it is, and allowed me to romanticize it too. I hope that my words can fully express just how much this book means to me.

Designing Machine Learning Systems by Chip Huyen

Status: Completed

Summary: The book discusses the various challenges that you encounter when deploying ML systems to prod, starting from data collection all the way down to deployment.

Mindset by C. Dweck

Status: Read halfway

Summary: Your effort = your intelligence

The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism by Arun Sundararajan

Status: Completed

Summary: We are literally optimizing society like a CPU. I learned a lot about the sharing economy in that it takes advantage of underutilized assets to make productive gains. There is a lot more that goes on to platforms like Uber, Airbnb, Etsy, etc. than I thought there were.

Engines That Move Markets by Alasdair Nairn

Status: Completed

Summary: I learned a lot about major technological innovations, and how the markets reacted to them.

Technological Republic by Alex Karp

Status: Completed

Summary: Extremely captivating, changed my thought process on what constitutes meaningful innovation. There should be a reconnect between engineers and government. Furthermore we should rethink about why it is we, as engineers, outright oppose military work, and whether we hold any biases in this view.

Online Investing by John D Markman

Status: Completed

Summary: I would only recommend the chapter talking about different portfolio models.

TCP/IP Illustrated by Kevin R. Fall

Status: Mostly Completed

Summary: Helped me gain a very good fundamental understanding of how networking works. Ultimately did not finish the last few chapters of the book but was overall very useful.

Spring Start Here by Laurentiu Spilca

Status: Partially Read

Summary: Read half of this book, should probably read the rest when it is necessary but am not focusing on other stuff.