Reading List

Books I've read recently.

1. There's always this year
   Hanif Abdurraqib

   Beautifully written book about life, hope, community, belonging, and basketball.

2. Arrival of the fittest
   Andreas Wagner

   This book introduced my to "neutral spaces", which formalize a question that has defined my research interests for years: "how is it that we are so similar yet so different?". I loved every bit of this book, and plan to read more of the author's work.

3. Gene
   Siddhartha Mukherjee

   Part 2 of my genomics re-education, and essential reading. I'm amazed by how such an informative book could be so easy to breeze through.

4. How life Works
   Philip Ball

   Part of my re-education into moecular and cellular biology. This book does a great job of juggling concepts from genomics, but also from information theory, mechanics, and completixy science.

5. The complex world
   David Krakauer

   Short and dense introduciton to complexity science and its wide-ranging applicability towards understanding our world. Lots of gems-- I left about 100 page-markers in this ~150 page book.

6. Improbable Destinies
   Jonathan Losos

   Fascinating book about convergent evolution, and how environment constrains phenotype space to a surprising extent. Interesting work, and central to understanding interactions between genotype, environment, and phenotype.

7. The knowledge machine
   Michael Strevens

   This book discusses the "human side" of science, and how it differs from the formal scientific dialogues of journal publications. It was really helpful as a grad student dealing with impostor syndrome.