Articles that resonate with me:
Talks I enjoyed watching:
Blogs I find interesting:
Any book worth banning is a book worth reading.
—Isaac Asimov
- (Russian: Атака теней), by Alex Orlov
- (Russian: Записки невесты программиста), by Alex Exler
- (Russian: Полный root), by Sanych
- (Russian: Прогулки по Донецку 2), by E. Yasenov
- (Russian: Хакер), by Andrei Zhitkov
- (Russian: Часовой Армагеддона), by Sergey Scheglov
- (Russian: Я такой как все), by Olev Tinkov
- 1984, by George Orwell
- The 80/20 Principle, by Richard Koch ⭐
- A. A. Gill Is Further Away, by A.A. Gill
- The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho
- All Systems Red: The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells
- The Art of Deception, by Kevin Mitnick and William L. Simon
- The Art of Intrusion, by Kevin Mitnick
- Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand 🤯
- Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup, by John Carreyrou
- Boundaries: How to Draw the Line in Your Head, Heart and Home, by Jennie Miller and Victoria Lambert 🔈
- The Casual Vacancy, by J. K. Rowling
- Coders: The Making of a New Tribe and the Remaking of the World, by Clive Thompson 👍
- Cyberpunk: Outlaws and Hackers on the Computer Frontier, by Katie Hafner and John Markoff
- Dandelion Wine, by Ray Bradbury
- Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick
- The Empire of the Angels, by Bernard Werber
- The End of Eternity (Russian: Конец вечности), by Isaac Asimov
- Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less, by Greg McKeown ⭐
- Fahrenheit 451, by Ray Bradbury
- A Farewell to Arms, by Ernest Hemingway
- Flowers for Algernon (novel), by Daniel Keyes
- The Fountainhead, by Ayn Rand
- Four Ways to Click: Rewire Your Brain for Stronger, More Rewarding Relationships, by Amy Banks and Leigh Ann Hirschman
- The Google Story, by David A. Vise
- Hackers: Heroes of the Computer Revolution, by Steven Levy
- Hatching Twitter: A True Story of Money, Power, Friendship, and Betrayal, by Nick Bilton
- Heaven Has No Favorites (Russian: Жизнь взаймы, или У неба любимчиков нет), by Erich Maria Remarque
- How to Turn Down a Billion Dollars: The Snapchat Story, by Billy Gallagher
- Hyperion Cantos, by Dan Simmons
- The Inverted World, by Christopher Priest
- Johnny Mnemonic, by William Gibson
- Just for Fun: The Story of an Accidental Revolutionary, by Linus Torvalds
- Kod Durova (Russian: Код Дурова. Реальная история “ВКонтакте” и её создателя), by Nikolay Kononov
- Little Golden America (Russian: Одноэтажная Америка), by Ilya Ilf and Eugene Petrov
- Loneliness on the Net, by Janusz Leon Wiśniewski
- Lord of the Flies, by William Golding
- A Man Called Ove (Swedish: En man som heter Ove), by Fredrik Backman
- The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales, by Oliver Sacks
- Mister God, This Is Anna, by Fynn
- Monday Begins on Saturday (Russian: Понедельник начинается в субботу), by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- Needful Things, by Stephen King
- Neuromancer, by William Gibson
- Never Eat Alone, by Keith Ferrazzi
- Night Shift, by Stephen King
- No Filter: The Inside Story of Instagram, by Sarah Frier
- Notes from Underground, by Fyodor Dostoevsky
- Nous les Dieux, by Bernard Werber
- Orphans of the Sky, by Robert A. Heinlein
- Oscar and the Lady in Pink, by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt
- The Phoenix Project: A Novel about IT, DevOps, and Helping Your Business Win, by Gene Kim, George Spafford, and Kevin Behr
- The Pursuit of Perfect: How to Stop Chasing Perfection and Start Living a Richer, Happier Life, by Tal Ben-Shahar
- Ready Player One, by Ernest Cline
- Roadside Picnic (Russian: Пикник на обочине), by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
- The Rosie Project, by Graeme Simsion
- Rublevka. Player’s Handbook (Russian: Рублёвка. Player’s handbook), by Valeriy Panyushkin
- Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers, by Andy Greenberg
- Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, by Yuval Noah Harari 🤯
- Schismatrix, by Bruce Sterling
- Screw It, Let’s Do It, by Richard Branson
- Sharkes in the North Woods, by Jane Zaring
- The Sketchnote Handbook: The Illustrated Guide to Visual Note Taking, by Mike Rohde
- Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
- Strikebreaker (short story, Russian: Штрейкбрехер), by Isaac Asimov
- A Thousand Splendid Suns, by Khaled Hosseini
- Three Cups of Tea, by Greg Mortenson
- True Love (Russian: Истинная любовь), by Isaac Asimov
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being, by Milan Kundera
- The Unicorn Project: A Novel about Developers, Digital Disruption, and Thriving in the Age of Data, by Gene Kim
- We (Russian: Мы), by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- The Year Without Pants: WordPress.com and the Future of Work, by Scott Berkun
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