Learning queue

Reminder:

• Don’t learn in advance. For a new technology, only get an overview. (Clear out basics though.)
• Don’t do many things at once. Actually, just pick up 1 in addition to work.
• Why even learn? Build something instead.

Learning candidates #

Check this on why the following list is so lean now.

Technical books that will help me learn new skills (something I am not too keen on doing right now):

• Crafting Interpreters.
• Rust programming language.
• Fundamentals of Software Architecture: An Engineering Approach. Might be good if and when I change companies at principal/staff level.
• MIT 6.824 Distributed Systems (Spring 2020) - hopefully, it makes me implement the core algorithms.
• Teach Yourself Computer Science.
• Database Internals.
• Google SRE.
• Kafka: The Definitive Guide: Real-Time Data and Stream Processing at Scale.

Note that O’Reilly books are available here for free.

Books on leadership:

• Thinking in Systems.

Discarded ideas #

• https://www.nand2tetris.org. (Best way to go through this seems to be through Coursera - 1 and 2.)
  • This might be a cool course but don’t think how it aligns with my goals.
• Streaming SQL - some hands on stuff.
• Create a programming language.
• Photo-editing.
• Quantum physics - probably not a good idea unless there is a way to apply this knowledge.
  • https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUl4u3cNGP61-9PEhRognw5vryrSEVLPr
• Statistics:
  • https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/mathematics/18-05-introduction-to-probability-and-statistics-spring-2014/
• Distributed systems: I’ll go through this when I need to for a specific problem.
  • Services wiki inside Amazon.
  • https://github.com/donnemartin/system-design-primer/blob/master/README.md
• A functional programming language. Haskell is a pure one, so might be a good idea. Clojure is another.
• Courses:
  • Learning How to Learn.
  • Machine Learning.
  • Financial Markets.
  • Statistics with Python Specialization.
  • Programming Languages.
• Kotlin in more details. (This will be beneficial for external company interviews. I don’t have to go crazy though - I can selectively choose what to learn based on what my current gaps are and what I may be asked in the interviews.)
• Artificial Intelligence.
• Spanish language.
• Scuba diving.
• Java Concurrency in Practice book.