Currently Reading

1. [Sci-Fi] Foundation by Isaac Asimov
• Reading this classic to understand the history of popular sci-fi.
2. [Sci-Fi] Scythe by Neal Schusterman
   • A dystopian look on a utopian world.
3. [Economics] The Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith
• Just started. Classical Economics is always either your fav or your enemy. I'll find out in a while.
4. [Math] Linear Algebra and its Applications
• Learning linear algebra to get a deeper and clearer understanding of ML concepts. Also, realized halfway through the concepts of linear algebra are even more useful in Physics specifically in Quantum Mechanics and QC.
5. [Finance] Principles of Corporate Finance
• Part of my coursework. Necessary to gain a fundamental financial understanding about running a company.
6. [Biography] Never at rest: Biography of Sir Isaac Newton
• This book is so difficult to understand at times probably because it was written in the 70s. I'm reading this because Isaac Newton has always been my fav physicist because he ushered humanity into a generation of innovation and discovery. I view him as an entrepreneur in the sense of innovation.

Finished Reading

Biographies

Indulging in biographies offers me the ultimate relaxation. Hand me a book that talks about the life of a genius in the middle of the night and I can stay awake all night long reading it.

My strategy for reading a biography is to read the parts that parallel my life and are applicable to me right now. I read about the protagonist's childhood, school and especially college years (although sometimes the info provided is very low in terms of quanitity but I make the most out of it.) IO also go ahead and read about their early work years and struggles they had. If I find it very interesting, (as I did with Elon, Steve and Ford) I end up reading the whole thing up until the end.
Most biography have major inconsistencies if you read closely so you need to be careful sometimes. But I try to find the similarities between all these great entreprenerus and I find that almost all of them had the same characteristics of success just different methods of implementation.

1. Elon Musk by Ashlee Vance
• All time favorite book. I have notes on every single page of this book. Fav chapter is "PayPal mafia boss."
2. Elon Musk by Micheal Vilsmis
• I prefer this book even more over Ashelee's to learn about Elon's early life. Really goes deep about his childhood, high school and college life. Fav chapter is the "American Dream."
3. Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
• Super detailed into Jobs' life both early childhood and working years. If I had to pick Isaacson's best work, it would be this book.
4. Einstein by Walter Isaacson
• Read only about his childhood and teen years. Learnt a lot about his inquisitive nature as a kid and how he preserved it as he grew up.
5. The accidental billionaires by Ben Mezrich
• Watched OG The Social Network first and its one of my fav movie of all time so had to read the book as well.
6. The epic Life of Cornelius Vanderbilt by T. J. Stiles
• He had immense respect for his mother. His mother taught him to be a shrewd businessman. He also knew how to play with "power." He had a powerful mentor so in the beginning he didn't compete with him otherwise he would get crushed but once his mentor died of old age, he immediately went competing on all fronts.
7. The Wizard of Menlo Park: How Thomas Alva Edison Invented The Modern World by Randall Stross
8. Henry Ford
• My fav part in this book was actuallly the relationship b/w Ford and Edison. Despite the fact that ford was building a literal rival gasoline-powered car company, Edison didn't shy away from complimenting Ford's passion and deication.
Want to read (soon): Founders by Jimmy Soni; The Idea Factory; Hard Drive Bill Gates; The everything store by Jeff Bezos; Andrew carneigie; Rockefller; Isaac newton; Wright brothers; jamie dimon; Benjamin Franklin

Science Fiction

1. The Martian by Andy Weir
2. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
3. Ready player One by Ernest Cline
4. The Kill Order by James Dashner
5. The Maze Runner trilogy by James Dashner

Academic

1. [Physics] Principles of Physics
2. [Physics] Introduction to Quantum Mechanics
3. [Physics/CS] Quantum Computing Qiskit Textbook
4. [CS] HTML & CSS for dummies
5. [Math] Calculus I and II
6. [Math] Black book SAT prep

Self-help/Nonfiction

1. 48 Laws of Power by Robert Greene
2. Atomic Habits by James Clear
3. Second Brain by Tiago Forte
4. Don't trust everything that you think
5. Zero to One by Peter Thiel

Reading Journal

Trying to summarize the books I read and leave my comments about it. "For if you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough"
Reference: my latest log comes at the top

• October 29, 2023 - Started reading The Everything Store (Jeff Bezos/Amazon Biography.) Again found a similar set of traits that you would find across successful founders (and me as well) like interested in biographies, natural talent optimization, always passioante about stuff they love, etc. Have to copy my notes from the hardcopy to OneNote because this book is something I borrowed from the library. The guy who will be reading this after me is getting access to my notes for free haha.
• October 18, 2023 - Haven't updated this list ina while ever since I have started university. People were in fact right when they said time flies by much more quickly than at any point in your life. I have bought a lot of books and now I would love to finish reading them all. Will keep myself updated again.

• August 27, 2023 - I don't know but I struggle to listen to audibooks. The only audiobbok I've ever succesfully listened to is "48 laws of power" by Robert Greene. I've read multiple articles specifying how you can listen to an audiobook either while doing your chores or workibng out but neither works for me. When I tried listening to an audiobook while working out, I missed half the points mentioned and I just don't feel like listening to it while doing my chores. I honestly don't know how people listen to it. Someone share that ability with me please.

• August 19, 2023 - TTT took me roughly 4 days to complete but now I feel like reading even more fun romcom novels revolving around healthy competition, frenemies, etc. Bought Tweet Cute on audible and yeah I guess I'll listen it.

• August 16, 2023 - After reading multiple Biographies and Sci-fi novels back to back, I needed a quick break, a book I could finish in a day or two, which perfectly satisfied my propositions. => Fun read explores the relationship between two graduating high school seniors who have been enemies all their life, but there have always been soft emotions of love between them.