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ACM Queue magazine/newsletter [1] has free access to all articles and insightful essays on various computer science and software engineering topics.

[1] https://dl.acm.org/magazine/queue

Udacity courses on high performance computing are good MOOCs [1][2]. Also MIT's Computation Structures course [3] covers some quantitative performance modeling.

[1] https://www.udacity.com/course/high-performance-computer-arc...

[2] https://www.udacity.com/course/high-performance-computing--u...

[3] https://computationstructures.org

1) Total Freedom : The Essential Krishnamurti. Selected writings of Jiddu Krishnamurti from his 50+ years of lectures and notes to self.

2) Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality without Religion, by Sam Harris. An amazing masterpiece on a rational approach to meditation.

3) Coming to our senses, by Jon-Kabat Zinn. A collection of essays which delve into the urgency of understanding oneself in the present moment & the case for contemplative life.

I highly recommend to you to post your question on the Bogleheads forum [1], specifically within its "Non-US Investors" category/sub-forum. There is a lot of expertise in that forum regarding international investing in general & focus on maintaining a simple, efficient index based portfolio with low costs. You may also find their wiki [2] page on Non-US investing useful.

[1] https://www.bogleheads.org/forum/index.php [2] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Outline_of_Non-US_domiciles

Not OP but I believe he is referring to the concept of Financial Independence. There is an excellent reddit community and wiki on the topic [1]. [1] https://www.reddit.com/r/financialindependence/wiki/faq

I struggle a lot with learning due to ADHD but I found below heuristics/techniques helpful in overcoming barriers to learning: 1) OKR : Objectives and Key Results - especially hierarchical deconstruction of OKR [1] 2) OODA : Observe-orient-decide-act loop (similar to REPL in Lisp) [2] 3) DSSS : Deconstruction, Selection, Sequencing, Stakes - an accelerated learning technique promoted by Tim Ferris' Four-hour Chef book [3] 4) Outlining and Concept Mapping with Workflowy or Org-mode 5) 4DX : Four disciplines of Execution as described in the book Deep Work by Cal Newport

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Measure-What-Matters-Simple-Drives/dp... [2] https://fs.blog/2018/01/john-boyd-ooda-loop/ [3] https://tim.blog/2012/11/05/the-4-hour-chef-the-first-chapte...

In my case, I stumbled upon an HN thread on index funds [1] and discovered Bogleheads Wiki page which was an insightful introduction to philosophy of personal finance. Eventually discovered Mr. Money Moustache as well which emphasizes more on behavioural aspects to maximize savings and accelerating financial independence. For me, Bogleheads reading list [4] has been an excellent source for improving personal finance knowledge.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12368136 [2] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Main_Page [3] https://www.mrmoneymustache.com/ [4] https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Books:_recommendations_and_r...

bogleheads.org for investments and personal finance advice.

# Intuition Pump and other tools for thinking by Daniel Dennett

# Books edited by John Brockman - 1) This Explains Everything, 2) This Idea is Brilliant, 3) This Will Make You Smarter, 4) Thinking

# Personal MBA by Josh Kaufman

Also second the recommendation of other books based on Charlie Munger's wisdom and farnam street's reading list.

2017 ACM Turing Award Lecture by Hennessy and Patterson nicely summarizes the emphasis on domain-specific languages and domain-specific architectures going forward. https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2019/2/234352-a-new-golden-ag...

Computer Science as empirical inquiry : Symbols and Search. https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~kuipers/readings/Newell+Simon-cac...