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YouTube Channels

• Stuff Made Here: A guy who makes stuff.
• The Efficient Engineer: prefers one side of the Carnot cycle for his pillows
• Tarkka: “Tarkka” is the Finnish word for “exact”, but you knew that already

SMH Reading List

• Podcasts
  • Stratechery, by Ben Thompson
• Mechanical Engineering Texts and Reference
  • Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook (5th ed.). Sclater, N. (2011).
  • Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy. Moore, W. R. (1970).
  • Instrumentation for Engineering Measurements (2nd ed.). Dally, J. W., Riley, W. F., & McConnell, K. G. (1993).
  • Mechanics of Materials (9th ed.). Gere, J., & Goodno, B. (2016).
  • Handbook of Compliant Mechanisms. Howell, L. L., Magleby, S. P., & Olsen, B. M. (Eds.). (2013).
  • Rules of Thumb for Mechanical Engineers. Pope, J. E. (1996).
  • Fastener Black Book. (Inch Edition) Rapp, P. (2007).
  • Machinery’s Handbook (31st ed.). Oberg, E. (2020)
• Other Engineering Texts and Reference
  • The Way Things Work. Macauley, D. (1988).
  • Game Engine Architecture (3rd ed.). Gregory, J. (2018).
  • An Introduction to Statistical Learning: With Applications in R (1st ed.). James, G., Witten, D., Hastie, T., & Tibshirani, R. (2013).
  • Optimal Estimation of Dynamic Systems (2nd ed.). Crassidis, J. L., & Junkins, J. L. (2011).
  • Principles of GNSS, Inertial, and Multisensor Integrated Navigation Systems (2nd ed.). Groves, P. D. (2013).
  • Modern Robotics: Mechanics, Planning, and Control. Lynch, K. M., & Park, F. C. (2017). Official Print PDF, Official Tablet PDF
• Electronics Texts and Reference
  • The Art of Electronics (3rd ed.). Horowitz, P., Hill, W. (2015)
  • Practical Electronics for Inventors (4th ed.). Scherz, P., Monk, S. (2016)
  • Ultra Librarian: PCB CAD Library
• Online References and Catalogs
  • MISUMI inCAD Library, application library for mechanical engineers
  • MISUMI Motion Systems, Timing Pulleys/Belts, NAAMS, etc: PDF and Print Catalog Request
  • Parker O-Ring Handbook: PDF
  • NSK Precision Machine Components: PDF
  • NSK ABCs of Bearings: PDF
  • NSK (Bearings, Precision Machine Components, etc): Online Catalog Listing
  • MSC Big Book: Online
  • Grizzly Online Catalog (2020), Print Catalog Request
  • Aircraft Spruce: PDF, Print Catalog Request
  • Grainger: Online, Print Catalog Request
  • Little Machine Shop: Tap and Clearance Hole Chart
• Engineering, Technology, and Design Tales
  • Skunk Works: A Personal Memoir of My Years at Lockheed. Rich, B. R., & Janos, L. (1995).
  • The Making of the Atomic Bomb. Rhodes, R. (2012).
  • Behemoth: A History of the Factory and the Making of the Modern World. Freeman, J. B. (2018).
  • The Box: How the Shipping Container Made the World Smaller and the World Economy Bigger (2nd ed.). Levinson, M. (2016).
  • Bicycle Design: An Illustrated History. Hadland, T., & Lessing, H.-E. (2014).
  • The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm. Dartnell, L. (2015).
  • American Ground: Unbuilding the World Trade Center. Langewiesche, W. (2003).
  • Why Buildings Fall Down: How Structures Fail. Levy, M., & Salvadori, M. (1994).
  • The One Device: The Secret History of the iPhone. Merchant, B. (2018).
  • The Most Powerful Idea in the World: A Story of Steam, Industry, and Invention. Rosen, W. (2012).
  • Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Sobel, D. (2005).
  • The Boy Who Played with Fusion: Extreme Science, Extreme Parenting, and How to Make a Star Clynes, T. (2016)
  • The Dream Machine: J.C.R. Licklider and the Revolution That Made Computing Personal Waldrop, M. (2018)
  • The Singularity Is Near Kurzweil, R. (2006)
• Tales of Romance, Courtroom Drama, Failure, and Success
  • A Bad Case of Capitalism: An Autobiography. Balolia, S. (2020).
• Business, Management, Startups
  • Why Smart Executives Fail. Finkelstein, S. (2004).
  • Peopleware: Productive Projects and Teams (3rd ed.). DeMarco, T., & Lister, T. (2013).
  • Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup. Carreyrou, J. (2020).
  • Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. Isaac, M. (2019).
• History, Media, Politics
  • Hate Inc.: Why Today’s Media Makes Us Despise One Another. Taibbi, M. (2019).
  • Hitler: 1889-1936 Hubris. Kershaw, I. (1999).
  • Hitler 1937-1945 Nemesis. Kershaw, I. (2001).
  • The Rise and Fall of American Growth Gordon, R. (2017).
  • The Emperor Of All Maladies Mukherjee, S. (2011).
  • Chaos, Making a New Science Gleick, J. (1996)

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