Notes

An unassuming place to accumulate knowledge.

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."

— Ben Franklin

Contents

• Meta
• Articles
• Books
• Conferences
• Courses
• Essays
• Magazines
• Meetups
• Podcasts
• Videos
• Related

Meta

Motivation

I want to remember more of what I read, so I take notes to share compressed wisdom.

Purpose

This project serves a few purposes:

• log what I'm learning from reading books and articles, listening to conference talks and podcasts, etc
• consider how ideas from various sources connect to others
• keep placeholders for what to read / listen / watch in the future
• explore topics for immediate pragmatic value to purely intellectual curiosity

Workflow

I read articles on Instapaper and books mostly on Kindle or Safari Books Online. I read nonlinearly and often not cover to cover (blank spots == not yet read). I skim Hacker News and Techmeme weekly.

I recommend two macOS apps for working with Markdown: FoldingText and Marked.

Articles

Books

• Algorithms to Live By
• Building Microservices
• Deep Work
• Digital Minimalism
• Django By Example
• Effective Python
• Expert Python Programming
• Flask Web Development
• Fluent Python
• Founders at Work
• Getting Real
• Hackers & Painters
• How Google Works
• Idiot's Guides: Zen Living
• Introduction to Machine Learning with Python
• It Doesn't Have to Be Crazy at Work
• Lightweight Django
• MAKE
• Out of Office
• Practical Django Projects
• Pragmatic Thinking & Learning
• Pro Django
• Pro Python
• Python in a Nutshell
• Remote
• Remote Pairing
• Rework
• Risk/Reward
• Shoe Dog
• Show Your Work!
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Startup Playbook
• The 4-Hour Work Week
• The 50th Law
• The Diagrams Book
• The Dip
• The Elements of Investing
• The Hard Thing About Hard Things
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python
• The Intelligent Investor
• The Launch Pad
• The Personal MBA
• The Power of Less
• The Pragmatic Programmer
• Tools of Titans
• Two Scoops of Django 1.8
• Unsubscribe
• Vagabonding
• Warren Buffet on Business
• You Have Too Much Shit
• Your Money: The Missing Manual
• Zen Habits
• Zero to One

Conferences

• DEF CON 23
• DEF CON 24
• DEF CON 25
• DjangoCon US 2016
• DjangoCon US 2018
• Female Founders Conference 2016
• Fluent 2016
• Git Merge 2015
• Git Merge 2016
• Google Cloud Next '18
• JupyterCon 2017
• JupyterCon 2018
• PyBay 2018
• PyCon 2015
• PyCon 2016
• PyCon 2017
• PyCon 2018
• PyOhio 2016
• PyOhio 2018
• Startup School SV 2014
• Startup School 2016
• Velocity 2017 - San Jose
• Velocity 2018 - San Jose

Courses

• How to Start a Startup
• Startup School MOOC
  • 18 - How to Raise Money, and How to Succeed Long-Term
• The Art of Grinding Coffee

Essays

• Cities and Ambition
• Walking

Magazines

• Drift
• Increment
• Logic Magazine
• Offscreen

Meetups

• Bay Area Apache Airflow
• Pyninsula

Podcasts

• a16z
• Python Bytes
  • 12 - Expanding your Python mental model and serving millions of requests per second with Python
  • 21 - Python has a new star framework for RESTful APIs
  • 23 - Can you grok the GIL?
• Simplify by Blinkist
• StartUp
• Startup School Radio
  • 24 - Sam Altman and Aarjav Trivedi
  • 33 - Y Combinator on Formation and Fundraising
  • 35 - Paul Graham
• StartupCTO.io
• Talk Python to Me
• The Lively Show
  • 18 - Intentions, Values, and Meaning with Noah Kagan
• The Minimalists
  • 13 - Career
• The Pitch
  • S2E2 - Sudden Coffee
• Y Combinator

Videos

• Computerphile
  • Indie App Developer - Marco Arment Interview
• TIME 100 - Kanye West by Elon Musk
• Y Combinator - How to Build the Future

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• Derek Sivers — Books I've Read - A collection of detailed notes from entrepreneur and writer Derek Sivers.
• GTD in 15 minutes - An illustrated & annotated summary of David Allen's popular book.
• tldr.io - Interesting content summarized in a few bullet points by people (see mine at tldr.io/tedmiston).