Kingpin
Kingpin tells the story of an elite hacker who stole tons of credit card numbers online and became the center of the cybercrime community. It exposes some of the wild antics of the fraudsters and the efforts of law enforcement officials to put an end to the crimes. The story is pretty interesting, but I […]
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Test Driven Development: By Example
Test-driven development is a systematic way of producing robust code. The idea is to write a test before you start writing the code that the test is meant for. This will ensure that almost all of your code has tests and it helps keep you focused on making small increments of progress that you lock […]
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Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code
The interesting aspect of this book is that it attempts to break down the process of refactoring code into a set of refactoring operations that each consist of a sequence of mechanical steps that are guaranteed to preserve the semantics of the program. This is really interesting because it means that you can teach the […]
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Founders at Work
This is a collection of interviews with founders of technology companies. There are a few interviews that are extremely interesting and enlightening. The founders mostly discuss the issues they encountered and how they became successful from a high-level perspective. One of the interesting points that came out in several interviews is that it isn’t necessary […]
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Investment Valuation
This book took me a year to read because it was very difficult to focus on. It was very long-winded and dry, in the usual college textbook fashion, but this is just the price that must be paid for covering all of the material in full detail. The book covers a lot of good topics […]
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Buffettology
Despite being written for general audiences, Buffettology provides some really good investing advice. It emphasizes a few key principles including: price determines your rate of return, you should aim to maximize your rate of return and maintain it for as long as possible, look for companies with stable return on equity, and look for companies […]
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Liar’s Poker
Liar’s Poker tells the story of Salomon Brothers during its heyday as Wall Street’s leading bond firm in the 1980s. The author was a new-hire who became extremely successful during his first two years, but nevertheless decided to quit. During his short period of employment at Salomon Brothers, he saw a lot of crazy things […]
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The Complete Guide to Capital Markets for Quantitative Professionals
This is not a book about options pricing and risk analysis as the title may indicate. It is more like an orientation manual for software developers entering a financial firm. It starts out with a great introduction to the important aspects of the financial markets, including the history of the Federal Reserve, how a stock […]
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The Road to Serfdom
Hayek is a legendary figure in the debate over economic policy. In The Road to Serfdom, Hayek provides extensive arguments in favor of what he calls “liberalism”, which he notes has become to mean the opposite of what it originally meant. His definition of liberalism is based on the same root as “liberty”, which is […]
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Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind
I think this book is one of the better introductions to Zen. It doesn’t spend much time talking about the mystical aspects of Buddhism, instead focusing on conveying a sense of what Zen means to a Zen practitioner. He doesn’t hype it up, he almost makes it seem boring and de-emphasizes the significance of philosophical […]
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