Sustainability

• 📗 Energy Myths and Realities by Vaclav Smil (6)
• 📗 Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered by E. F. Schumacher
• 🎓 SciencePo’s Politics and Economics of International Energy: “global trends in energy consumption and production, various available scenarios for potential developments in the coming decades, the availability of oil reserves and the evolution of the oil industry. It then discusses natural gas and highlights the differences between oil and gas. It will also discuss renewable energy sources, nuclear energy and EU energy policy.” (30)

Bio

• 🎓 MIT’s Introduction to Biology course covering “fundamental principles of biochemistry, genetics, molecular biology, and cell biology”
  • I started… but it’s too involved for the amount I want to learn. It’s a 100+ hours course.

• 📗 Regenesis: How Synthetic Biology Will Reinvent Nature and Ourselves by George Church
  • Too dense and hard to understand.

• 📗 Genentech: The Beginnings of Biotech by Sally Smith Hughes

Finance

• 📗 Inventing Money (the story of Long-Term Capital Management and the Legends Behind It) by Nicholas Dunbar

Politics/Philosophy

• 🎓Yale’s Moral Foundations of Politics
• 🎓Jack Saunders Introduction to Philosophy course

Strategy

• 🎓**Stanford and the University of British Columbia’s Course on Game Theory:** “The course will provide the basics: representing games and strategies, the extensive form (which computer scientists call game trees), Bayesian games (modeling things like auctions), repeated and stochastic games, and more. We’ll include a variety of examples including classic games and a few applications.” (20)
• 🎓Yale’s Introduction to Negotiation Course: a course which outlines a framework to predict, interpret, and shape the behavior of those you face in competitive situations, along with case studies and expert testimonies (30)

Cybersecurity

• 🎓Palo Alto Networks Academy Cybersecurity Foundation: “learn the fundamentals of cybersecurity and identify the concepts required to recognize and potentially mitigate attacks against enterprise networks as well as mission critical infrastructure” (15)
• 📗 Countdown to Zero Day: Stuxnet and the Launch of the World’s First Digital Weapon. by Kim Zetter (8)
• 📗*Sandworm: A New Era of Cyberwar and the Hunt for the Kremlin’s Most Dangerous Hackers,* by Richard C Clarke (8)

AI

• 🎓Fast.ai’s Practical Deep Learning for Coders: a hands-on course using PyTorch (60)
• Andrew Ng’s deep learning specialisation

Law

• 🎓University of London’s Introduction to English Common Law: “an introduction to this influential legal system including its history, constitutional background, sources and institutions. You’ll learn about the different ways in which laws are made and interpreted, the English court system and the increasing importance of European Union and human rights law.” (20)
• 🎓UPenn’s An Introduction to American Law: “This course will give you a glimpse into six different areas of American law: Tort Law, Contract Law, Property, Constitutional Law, Criminal Law, and Civil Procedure” (12)
• 🎓Case Western Reserve University’s Introduction to International Criminal Law: fundamentals of international criminal law and policy, the contours of international crimes such as genocide, war crimes, terrorism, and piracy, unique modes of international criminal liability and specialized defenses. (15)
• 📗 About Law: An Introduction by Tony Honore

Marketing

• 📗 Ogilvy on Advertising, by David Ogilvy

Crypto

• 🎓 Princeton’s Bitcoin and Cryptocurrency Technologies class: an introduction to how Bitcoin works at a technical level, including hands-on exercises (25)

Other

• 📕 The Party: The Secret World of China’s Communist Rulers by Richard McGregor (Sinocism recommendation) (8)

• Gaining an understanding of where we are with Quantum computing and the implications
  • Including Qiskit from IBM to play around