2024 Summer Plan

What I plan on doing the summer of 2024.

Books Read

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Writing A Compiler In Go
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The Cathedral & The Bazaar
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An Empire Of Wealth
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The Man Who Solved The Market
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The Founders: The Story of PayPal
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Industrial Society And Its Future
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The Innovators
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Seeing Like A State
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Going Infinite
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Competitive Programmer's Handbook
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The C Programming Language
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When Einstein Walked with Gödel
Code: The Hidden Language of Computer Hardware and Software

Programming

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Build open-source ML infrastructure for ARL
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Read all of Go's Standard Library documentation
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Finish Cherno's C++ series and do a SDL2 graphics project
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Prep for the upcoming recruiting season

Miscellaneous

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Learn cooking (much better than before)
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Recreate an Instagram account (after a multi-year hiatus)
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Fix metadata of my photos (out of chronological order, duplicates, etc)

Reflections

I had an alright summer. Read plenty of books, learned Go really well, learned more about C and C++, got pretty good at Leetcode, and did a bunch of other small things. Nothing too exciting or great, just another stretch of time of me doing things I should do and learning things I should learn. Chipping away at the stone some more.

Reflections from 2025

Seems like I’m finally starting to reap the seeds I’ve been sowing for all this time. It is strange on how much we don’t know when we are younger. Me at 16 would find me now utterly impressive and incomprehensible. I suppose that’s why wisdom generally falls on deaf ears, and we only see it from one side. There has been many times when I have greatly emphasized to a younger person the foresight I wish I had, just to see it go to the bin, while I cannot recall a time I was on the other end. It is times like these when the phrase “wisdom is earned, it cannot be given” rings true.


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