This contains list of: Movies worth watching, books that have shape me in one way or another and those I have yet to read and one day I would get to reading them.

There is never enough time to do everything but there is always enough time to do the most important things

Reading list

  • A calendar of wisdom. Leo Tolstoy
  • Letters to a young scientist. Edward Osborne Wilson
  • The Success of Open Source. Steven Weber
  • Quantum country
  • La era del diamante. Neal Stephenson
  • The Martian. Andy Weir
  • The man in the high castle. Philip K. Dick
  • Masters of Doom. David Kushner
  • Meditations. Marcus Aurelius
  • Spare parts. Joshua Davis
  • My Philosophy of Industry. Henry Ford
  • Bloc by Bloc: How to Organize a Global Enterprise for the New Regional Order. Steven Weber
  • The MIT Rad Lab Series.
  • China 2185. liu cixin internet version
  • Baumgartner & Momsen Detective Stories for German Learners
  • El límite de las mentiras: La polémica vida del Perito Francisco Pascasio Moreno 1852-1919. Gerardo Bartolomé
  • Emilio o de la educación. Rousseau.
  • Historia social del conocimiento. Peter Burke
  • Seveneves. Neal Stephenson
  • It’s Been a Good Life. Isaac Asimov
  • Before i Leave You: A Memoir on Suicide, Addiction and Healing. Robert Imbeault
  • Johnny Got His Gun. Dalton Trumbo
  • El proceso. Franz Kafka
  • The Software Engineering at Google. Tom Manshreck
  • The road to reality. Roger Penrose
  • The Feynman Lectures on Physics
  • This is how they tell me the world ends. Nicole Perlroth
  • Self-Reliance. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Where wizards stay up late. Katie Hafner
  • Hard drive bill gates and the making of the microsoft empire
  • Pale Blue Dot. Carl Sagan
  • Fish is Fish. Leo Lionni. Children’s book
  • The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night. Burton
  • The reluctant dragon
  • The walking drum. Louis L. Amoun
  • Introduction to quantum mechanics. David Griffiths
  • The time machine. H.G wells
  • How to solve it. George Poyla
  • Los años de aprendizaje de Wilhelm Meister. Wolfgang Goethe
  • En busca del tiempo perdido. Marcel Proust
  • How we learn. Benedic Carey
  • Armas de instrucción masiva. John Taylor Gatto
  • The pig that wants to be eaten. Julian Baggani
  • La Revolución Historiográfica Francesa. Peter Burke
  • Por las grutas y selvas del Indostán. Helena Blavatsky
  • Diagnosing the System for Organizations. Stafford Beer
  • Social Commitments in a Depersonalized World. Shane R. Thye
  • Computers as theatre. Brenda Laurel
  • Modern Operating Systems. Stuart Tanenbaum
  • Computer networks. Stuart Tanenbaum
  • Oryx and crake. Margaret Atwood
  • The Dragon Book. Compilers: Principles, Techniques, and Tools
  • The Machine Stops. E. M.Forster
  • The Evolution of Cooperation. Robert Axelrod
  • The Historian’s Craft. Marc Bloch
  • How to read and why. Harold Bloom
  • Paradise Lost. John Milton
  • UNIX: A History and a Memoir. Brian W Kernighan
  • Robot modeling and control. Mark W. Spong , Seth Hutchinson, M. Vidyasagar.
  • Robotics vision and control. Peter Corke
  • Introduction to autonomous mobile robots. Reza Nourbakhsh ans Roland Siegwart
  • Modern Control Engineering. Katsuhiko Ogata
  • The structure of scientific revolutions. Thomas kuhn
  • Flow My Tears, the Policeman Said. Philip K. Dick
  • Smoke Gets in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons From the Crematorium. Caitlin Doughty
  • Invitation To Contemporary Physics
  • Seeing voices. Oliver sacks
  • A river runs through it. Norman Maclean
  • La insoportable levedad del ser. Milan Kundera
  • The Joke. Milan Kundera
  • Havel: A Life. Michael Zantovsky
  • Do androids dream of electric sheep. Philip K. Dick
  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. John Berendt

Honorable mention

don’t quite made the cut but worth to keep an eye on if I change my mind:

  • The Design of Everyday Things. Donald Norman
  • The Invisible Computer. Donald Norman
  • Turn Signals Are The Facial Expressions Of Automobiles. Donald Norman
  • My grandmother asked me tell you she’s sorry. Fredrik Backman
  • The archaeology of knowledge. Michael Foucautl
  • Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science. Michael Nielsen
  • singularity
  • The End of History and the Last Man. Francis Fukuyama
  • How can we develop transformative tools for thought?
  • Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman
  • Organizational Communication: Balancing Creativity and Constraint. Eric M. Eisenberg
  • Site Reliability Engineering: How Google Runs Production. Niall Richard Murphy
  • Dynamics: the Geometry of Behavior. Ralph Abraham
  • Shop management. Frederick taylor
  • The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. Edward Gibbon. Inspiration for Isaac Asimov’s foundation series
  • punkt und linie zu fläche. kandinsky
  • history of control engineering. Bennett
  • Infamous Scribblers: The Founding Fathers and the Rowdy Beginnings of American Journalism. Eric Burns
  • Thread Of The Silkworm. Iris Chang (Qian Xuesen biography)
  • A Canticle for Leibowitz. Walter Michael Miller
  • Softwares para la visualización estadística. Camila Acosta Ramirez
  • How to Draw: drawing and sketching objects and environments from your imagination. Scott Robertson and Thomas Bertling
  • Parable of the talents. Octavia E. Butler
  • Working in Public: The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software. Nadia Eghbal
  • Roads and Bridges: The Unseen Labor Behind Our Digital Infrastructure. Nadia Eghbal
  • La Historia de Nintendo. Florent Gorges
  • El arte de ver. Aldous Huxley
  • El país de los ciegos. H. G. wells
  • El concepto de derecho. H. L. A. Hart
  • Of Molecules and Men. Francis Crick
  • Industrial history lectures. Olaf Stapledon
  • UBIK. Philip K. Dick
  • The moon is a harsh mistress. Robert A Heilein
  • Rossumovi Univerzální Roboti (R.U.R.). Karel Capek
  • Horacio kalinbang o los autómatas. Eduardo Ladislao Holmberg
  • Viajes interplanetarios en zepelines que tendrán lugar el año 2009 (1936)
  • Show your work. Austin Kleon
  • Aion. Carl Jung
  • Man and His Symbol. Carl Jung
  • Starting Point: 1979-1996. Hayao Miyazaki
  • Bogotá en el año de 2000: Una pesadilla. Soledad Acosta De Samper
  • Sobre hormigas y dinosaurios. Cixin Liu
  • La invención de la naturaleza. Andrea wulf
  • Butterfly Kills: A Stonechild and Rouleau Mystery. Brenda Chapman
  • alias Grace. Margaret Atwood
  • Sprint: How to Solve big Problems and Test new Ideas in Just Five Days. Jake Knapp
  • The Perfectionists: How Precision Engineers Created the Modern. Simon Winchester
  • Cuerpos luminares y de otras dimensiones. Rodrigo Bastidas
  • Nunca te quise dar en la jeta javier. Juan Alvarez
  • Gödel, Escher, Bach: un Eterno y Grácil Bucle. Douglas Hofstadter
  • PoC || GTFO
  • 2600: The Hacker Quarterly
  • Spaceman of Bohemia. Jaroslav Kalfar
  • War of the newts. Karel Capek
  • The Politics Industry. Katherine Gehl y Michael Porter
  • A Civic Technologist’s Practice Guide. Cyd Harrell
  • West’s Business Law: Text, Cases, Legal, Ethical, Regulatory, and International Environment. Kenneth W. Clarkson
  • “Business Law: Text and Cases” by Kenneth W. Clarkson, Roger LeRoy Miller, and Frank B. Cross
  • “International Business Transactions: A Problem-Oriented Coursebook” by Daniel C.K. Chow and Thomas J. Schoenbaum
  • Hack Your Bureaucracy: Get Things Done No Matter What Your Role on Any Team
  • The (Delicate) Art of Bureaucracy. Mark Schwartz
  • Capitalism Without Capital: The Rise of the Intangible Economy. Jonathan Haskel and Stian Westlake
  • Persépolis. Marjane Satrapi
  • EXPLORER: Futuristic Vehicles for Uncharted Christian Grajewski
  • I have no mouth and i must scream. Harlan Ellison

Prehistoria de la Ciencia Ficción. de Laguna Libros

For more ideas see NASA history

  • Logsdon, John M., ed., with Linda J. Lear, Jannelle Warren Findley, Ray A. Williamson, and Dwayne A. Day. Exploring the Unknown: Selected Documents in the History of the U.S. Civil Space Program, Volume I, Organizing for Exploration. NASA SP-4407, 1995.
  • Dick, Steven J. , ed. Historical Studies in the Societal Impact of Spaceflight. (NASA SP-2015-4803)
  • Orloff, Richard W. Apollo by the Numbers: A Statistical Reference. NASA SP-2000-4029, 2000.
  • Roland, Alex. Model Research: The National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics,1915-1958. NASA SP-4103, 1985.

Books read

I cannot remember the books I’ve read anymore than the meal I have eaten; even so, they have made me

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

  • Cuentos completos I. Isaac Asimov
  • Fundación. Isaac Asimov
  • Los hermanos kamarazov. Fyodor Dostoyevsky. The Problem of Evil: Crash Course Philosophy
  • La guía del autoestopista intergaláctico. Douglas Adams
  • Dune. Frank Herbert
  • Ensayo sobre la ceguera. José Saramago
  • La nave de un millón de años. Poul Anderson
  • Visiones de robot. Isaac Asimov
  • The hunger games. Suzanne Collins
  • On the origin of species. Charles Darwin
  • La traición de Darwin. Gerardo Bartolomé
  • Fiasco. Stanislaw Lem
  • Historia del futuro. Robert Anson Heinlein extra sci-fi
  • Los propios dioses. Isaac Asimov
  • Bóvedas de acero. Isaac Asimov
  • El sol desnudo. Asimov
  • Bootstrapping Douglas Endelbart and the origins of Personal Computing. Thierry Bardin
  • The Human Use of Human Beings. Norbert Weiner
  • Guerra y paz. Leon Tolsoi
  • A tale of two cities. Charles Dickens
  • París. Edward Rutherfurd
  • Paris del siglo xx. Julio Verne
  • El techo del mundo. Angel Gutierrez y David Zurdo
  • Surely you´re joking, Mr. Feynman. Feynman, Richard Phillips
  • Frankenstein o el moderno Prometeo. Marry Shelly
  • Cibernética. Norbert Weiner
  • Today and tomorrow. Henry Ford
  • The selfish gene. Richard Dawkins
  • Los dragones del edén. Carl Sagan
  • El mundo y sus demonios. Carl Sagan
  • Terraformar la tierra. Jack Williamson
  • Ficciones. Jorge Luis Borges
  • Vivir para contarla. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • El otoño del patriarca. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Cien años de soledad. Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • El mito de sisifo. Albert Camus
  • Capitalist without capital. Nathan Latka
  • Spies of No Country. Matti Friedman
  • El problema de los 3 cuerpos. Liu Cixin
  • El fin de la eternidad. Isaac Asimov
  • Objetivo: la luna: la historia inédita de la mayor aventura humana. Parry Dan
  • The black widowers. Isaac Asimov
  • Las aventuras de Sherlock Holmes. Sir Arthur Connan Doyle
  • Astronaut’s guide to life on earth. Chris Hadfield
  • Born a crime. Trevor Noah
  • To the Castle and Back. Vaclav Havel
  • Mi historia. Michelle Obama
  • Dreams of my father. Barack Obama
  • The narrative Life of Frederick Douglass. Frederick Douglass
  • Story of my life. Hellen Keller
  • La riqueza de las naciones. Adam Smith
  • Yours, Isaac Asimov: A Life in Letters
  • Guía Asimov para la Biblia. Isaac Asimov
  • Brave New World. Aldous Huxley
  • Si una Noche de Invierno un Viajero. Italo Calvino
  • Los amores difíciles. Italo calvino
  • Golem XIV . Stanislaw Lem
  • La ruidosa marcha de los mudos. Juan Alvarez
  • Marina. Carlos Ruiz Zafón
  • El olvido que seremos. Tyto Alba, adaptación de la novela de Héctor Abad Faciolince.
  • Maus. Art Spiegelman
  • Watchmen. Alan Moore
  • Satanas. Mario Mendoza
  • Akelarre. Mario Mendoza
  • The art of hearing heartbeats. Jan-Philipp Sendker
  • Dino lernt deutsch

Extended list

  • So Good They Can’t Ignore You. Cal Newport
  • Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Carl Jung
  • Spare parts. Buzz Williams
  • Ensayo sobre la lucidez. José Saramago
  • No excuses. brian tracy
  • Saga. Sophie de Mello Breyner
  • Toyota Production System: Beyond Large-scale Production. Taiichi Ohno
  • Angela Merkel la fisica del poder. Patricia Salazar y Christina Mendoza
  • El extranjero. Albert Camus
  • La biblioteca de la media noche. Matt Haig
  • El idiota. Fyodor Dostoyevsky
  • We. Yevgueni Zamiatin

Essays, papers and blogs

  • Can Quantum-Mechanical Description of Physical Reality Be Considered Complete?. Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen. (EPR article/ EPR paradox)
  • Black swan farming. Paul Graham
  • The Limits to Growth (LTG)
  • Scaling Software Development. Alex Gaynor
  • Boing Boing blog. Cory doctorow
  • A blind writers notebook. leona godin
  • Attention Is All You Need. Ashish Vaswani

Movies

  • Inglourious basterds

  • Slingshot. documentary of Dean Kamen.

  • About Time.

  • The perks of being a wallflower.

  • Prime (confesiones a mi suegra) 2005.

  • Parasite.

  • Star wars empire strikes back

  • Before Sunrise/Before Sunset/Before Midnight

  • In the mood for love

  • Persian lesson

  • The Man from Earth

  • The pirates of silicon valley

  • Padington 2

  • Nosferatu

  • The social network

Series

  • The man in the high casttle.

  • The expanse.

  • Better than Us. Andrey Junkovsky

  • Atypical.

  • The office.

  • Marco Polo.

  • Silicon Valley

  • Ted Lasso

  • Severance

  • Attack on Titan

Poetry

Art

Places

  • Schengen, China. Capital of electronics production
  • Zurich, switzerland
  • [] Volcan Licancabur
  • Puerto Varas, Chile
  • Silfra, Iceland. Dive between the continents Thingvellir National Park
  • Ushuaia Argentina