WatchList
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 translation
- 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 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
- To the Castle and Back. Vaclav Havel
- Havel: A Life. Michael Zantovsky
Honorable mention
don’t quite made the cut but worth to keep an eye on if I change my mind:
- 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 fundation 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 pais 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 automatas. 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
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 guia 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
- Cibernetica. Norbert Weiner
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Maus. Art Spiegelman
- 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
- 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
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
Movies
Inglourious basterds
Slingshot. documentary of Dean Kamen.
About Time.
The perks of being a wallflower.
Prime (confesiones a mi suegra) 2005.
Before Sunrise/Before Sunset/Before Midnight
In the mood for love
The Man from Earth
The pirates of silicon valley
Series
- The man in the high casttle.
- The expanse.
- Better than Us. Andrey Junkovsky
- Atypical.
- The office.
- Marco Polo.
Poetry
- If Tomorrow Starts Without Me by David Romano possibly
- Your Life is Your life by Charles Bukowski
- If by Rudyard Kipling
Art
- Michael Cheval.
- Thomas Kinkade. Gone with the wind
- Standing Man With Outstretched Arms, Stephen De Staebler
- Marie Gabriele Capet self portrait
- Famous views of the sixty-odd provinces
- Robert Doisneau
- Peter Tunney
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