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current interests
• distributed systems
• databases
• functional programming

reading & watching
• The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer - Siddhartha Mukherjee
• The Three-Body Problem (3/3) - Liu Cixin
• Site Reliability Engineering - Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff and Niall Richard Murphy
backlog
• The Song of the Cell: An Exploration of Medicine and the New Human - Siddhartha Mukherjee
• An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us - Ed Yong
• MIT 6.824: Distributed Systems (Spring 2020) - Robert Morris
completed
The Gene: An Intimate History - Siddhartha Mukherjee
CS50x 2021 - David J. Malan
The Stranger - Albert Camus
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Leo Tolstoy
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde - Robert Louis Stevenson
Animal Farm - George Orwell
When We Cease to Understand the World - Benjamin Labatut
Effective Kafka - Emil Koutanov
Dune - Frank Herbert
Designing Data-Intensive Applications - Martin Kleppmann
The Disease & The Cure - Ibn Al-Qayyim
Muhammad: His Life Based on the Earliest Sources - Martin Lings
Fahrenheit 451 - Ray Bradbury
1984 - George Orwell
The Chronicles of Narnia (7/7) - C.S. Lewis