Bad blood: couldn't stop flipping the pages, reads like satire. Seeing the names of the most powerful people in the US and how they enabled Theranos' rise to prominence made me realize how much we fetishize geniuses and how little popular experts know. Books like these remind me not to pay too much attention to how people frame their success
Leonardo da Vinci by Isaacson: I went into this book expecting to be blown away by how much smarter Da Vinci was than me. Instead I was blown away by how human and hard working he was and it taught me valuable lessons on how to structure my time and life to work on things I care about. This book was instrumental in my decision to quit my job
Modern Robotics Mechanics planning and control: Because it gave me the mathematical foundation to understand how robots work. It's dense but brief so well worth the attempt. Robots was something I've been wanting to get into since I was a kid and seeing a concise treatment like this one with good intuition, mathematical formulas and code reminds me that these days I can learn anything I want