Here are some of my favourite books, movies, blogs, etc. I’ll try to keep them coming.

All Time

• Walden and Civil Disobedience
• Fahrenheit 451
• The Dispossessed
• I, Claudius
• Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman
• The 80/20 Principle

Fiction

• Fahrenheit 451
• The Picture of Dorian Gray
• The Dispossessed
• I, Claudius
• Neuromancer
• Brave New World
• 1984
• Emma
• Crime and Punishment
• Grapes of Wrath
• East of Eden
• Of Mice and Men
• Great Expectations
• Foundation series
• Dune
• The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy
• Hyperion book 1
• The Forever War
• Discworld, Terry Pratchett (still reading)
• Game of Thrones
• Nausea
• The Outsider
• Master and Margarita
• A Clockwork Orange
• On the Road
• The Hobbit
• Charles Bukowski - The Most Beautiful Women in Town and Other Stories

Non-fiction

• Walden and Civil Disobedience
• Surely You’re Joking Mr. Feynman
• Ordinary Men
• Masters of Doom
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
• Affective Neuroscience (might finish one day)
• How to Read (Nonfiction) - Paul Edwards (article)

Programming & Technical

General:

• The C++ Programming Language
• The C Programming Language
• Expert C Programming
• Code Complete (still reading)

Game Programming:

• Game Engine Architecture
• Various Game Programming Gems (still reading)
• Mike Acton’s talk on C++ data-oriented design
• Casey Muratori’s articles on Compression-Oriented Programming
• Casey Muratori’s video on API design
• TODO: Real-time Collision Detection

Networking:

• Multiplayer Game Programming: Architecting Networked Games
• Gaffer on Games articles
• Unix Network Programming
• TCP/IP Illustrated Volume 1
• Serious Cryptography

More Networking:

• Code of Honor articles
• Fabien Sanglard’s Quake Network Model articles

Operating Systems & Hardware:

• Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment
• The Linux Programming Interface
• Beginner’s Guide to Linkers
• Computer Organization and Design, Hennesy

Other:

• Git user’s manual
• Vim user’s manual
• Debian user’s manual

Business

I have been reading some of the recommendations here: PersonalMBA best books. I’ve found them to be good.

• The 80/20 Principle
• Rework
• The 22 Immutable Laws of Marketing
• Permission Marketing
• Go It Alone
• Getting Things Done
• Your Money or Your Life
• JL Collins’ Stock Series
• Canadian Legal Guide for Small Business

Health

Fitness:

• Bigger, Leaner, Stronger
• Infinite Intensity, Never Gymless
• Starting Strength

Relaxation:

• Breath. The New Science of a Lost Art
• Breathe, You Are Alive
• Light on Yoga
• The Wim Hof breathing technique, see free mini-course

Other:

• The Conquest of Happiness, Bertrand Russell

Art

I’ve been learning some art for my upcoming game Warp Tango (devlog). I’ve liked these.

• Draw A Box website
• Perspective Drawing Handbook
• How to Draw - Scott Robertson
• Pen and Ink - Alphonso Dunn

Young Adult Fiction

My favourite series from when I was younger.

• Silverwing Kenneth Oppel
• Airborne Kenneth Oppel
• Arthur Pendragon
• Guardians of Gaholee (owls)
• Mistmantle Chronicles (squirrels)
• Artemis Fowl
• Alex Rider
• Sabriel Garth Nix
• The Seventh Tower Garth Nix
• The Keys to the Kingdom Garth Nix
• Leviathan Series Scott Westerfield
• Hunger Games
• Red Rising
• Unwind series
• Perseus Jackson
• Septimus Heap
• Harry Potter
• Bridge to Terabithia
• City of Amber series
• Mortal Instruments
• Infernal Devices

Movies

• Fightclub
• Kill Bill
• Reservoir Dogs
• Pulp Fiction
• Jackie Brown
• Oldboy
• Lady Vengeance
• Mr. Vengeance
• Stoker
• Thirst
• Burning
• Peppermint Candy
• On the Beach At Night, Alone
• Three Colors series
• The Good, the Bad, and the Weird
• Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
• I Saw the Devil
• Parasite
• Ip Man
• Memories of Murder
• Monty Python and the Holy Grail
• A Bittersweet Life

Video Games

Here are some old favourites.

All-time favs:

1. Pokemon Ruby
2. Legend of Zelda Minish Cap
3. Legend of Zelda Wind Waker

Unordered favourites:

• Pokemon Ruby
• Pokemon Leaf Green
• Pokemon XD: Gale of Darkness
• Pokemon Emerald
• Pokemon Diamond
• Pokemon Ranger
• Pokemon Mystery Dungeon
• Legend of Zelda Minish Cap
• Legend of Zelda Link to the Past
• Legend of Zelda Wind Waker
• Legend of Zelda Phantom Hourglass
• Legend of Zelda Spirit Tracks
• Super Mario Sunshine
• Starfox Assault (awesome local multiplayer)
• World of Warcraft
• Starcraft 2
• Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance
• Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn
• Super Smash Bros Melee
• Super Smash Bros Brawl
• Starwars Battlefront 2
• Spectrobes
• Spectrobes: Beyond the Portals
• Adventure Quest
• Boxhead (played way too much two-player coop with a friend)
• Various games on miniclip, nitrome, addictinggames (Ice Breakers, Black Knight, this one car fighting game I forget, Bubble Trouble, Raft Wars, etc.)
• Worms
• Territory Wars
• Guitar Hero
• Super Mario Kart

Podcasts

• Michael Bazzell’s The Privacy, Security, and OSINT Show (esp. Privacy Crash Course 1-5)

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Know some books, articles, movies you think I’d like? Would love to chat, my email is mgriley97@gmail.com.