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Swedish programmer with degrees in engineering and psychology, author of Your Code as a Crime Scene and founder of CodeScene.

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  The Nature of Code

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  This book is a beautiful introduction to simulations of natural systems. We get concise prose, clear illustrations, and carefully chosen systems with a guided tour through the math. All done in the Processing language, which is fun and easy to pick up. The reason I like this book so much is probably due to timing. In 2013, I was on the verge of abandoning software development. I was fed up. (That's a story for another time.) Instead, I planned to go into cognitive psychology full-time as a researcher. This book brought back the joy in programming for me. Sometimes, a good book is the book that motivated you.

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Co-founder of NVIDIA and, as of 2026, its chief executive; the company designs the GPUs most large AI models are trained on.

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  Coding agents already do coarse-grained recursive self-improvement, because every use rewrites their instruction files and their long-term memory.

  coding agents

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  we we kind of have coarse level uh recursive self-improvement already. And the fact that every time you use it, it improves the markdown files. Uh every time you use it, it updates its uh long-term memory.

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Investing columnist for The Wall Street Journal and editor of the revised edition of Benjamin Graham's The Intelligent Investor.

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  Glorious Country

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  I loved this historical biography of America's greatest landscape painter, and not just because I have an intense personal interest in Church. Johnson's writing is luminously beautiful, her assiduous research never impedes the narrative, and the illustrations are spectacular.

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Writer and artist, author of Steal Like an Artist; publishes a weekly newsletter and an annual list of the books he read.

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  The Grammar of Fantasy: An Introduction to the Art of Inventing Stories

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  One of the most gorgeously-produced books I read, with illustrations by Matthew Forsythe.

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Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

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  Richie Doodles: The Brilliance of a Young Richard Feynman

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  In summary, the illustrations are awesome, the explanations aren't.

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Programmer on the Dart language at Google and author of Game Programming Patterns and Crafting Interpreters; previously a game developer at EA.

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  Pilot Precise V5

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  The illustrations in my book are hand-drawn on an old graph paper notebook I found in a closet using a Pilot Precise V5 pen.

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Software developer and entrepreneur; co-founder of Heroku, author of The Twelve-Factor App, and a researcher at Ink & Switch.

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  Inkscape

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  For vector illustrations, like the cover of this album, I find Inkscape to be far more useable than Adobe Illustrator.

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