Below is an collection of some of my favourite books and essays. I hope you find something interesting!
Textbooks
Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos by Steven H. Strogatz
Vibrations and Waves by George C. King
Books
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari
Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson
Leonardo da Vinci by Walter Isaacson
The Art of Gathering by Priya Parker
Finite and Infinite Games by James P. Carse
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward R. Tufte
Deep Work by Cal Newport
The Life You Can Save by Peter Singer
Show Your Work! by Austin Kleon
The Elephant in the Brain by Kevin Simler & Robin Hanson
Grid systems in graphic design by Josef Müller-Brockmann
Make It Stick by Peter C. Brown, Henry L. Roediger III & Mark A. McDaniel
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Essays
What is good mathematics? by Terence Tao
Computers and Creativity by Molly Mielke McCarthy
Measure: a mental model for decision-making by Taimur Abdaal
Design Principles Behind Smalltalk by Daniel H. H. Ingalls
Thinking at the right level of abstraction by Taimur Abdaal
How to understand things by Nabeel S. Qureshi