# Reading

What I'm reading, what's next, and the few things I keep going back to. Notes are for future me, so they are short.

- **sheet**: 5 / 6
- **updated**: 2026-09-27

## On the desk

1. _The Hero with a Thousand Faces_ (past halfway) — Joseph Campbell. The monomyth and the hero's journey.
2. _Designing Data-Intensive Applications_ (reading) — Martin Kleppmann. How databases and distributed systems store, replicate, partition and process data, and the trade-offs behind each choice.

## Next

1. _The Interpretation of Dreams_ (queued) — Sigmund Freud. Dreams read as disguised wish fulfilment, and the method of interpretation that became the basis of psychoanalysis.
2. _The Pragmatic Programmer_ (queued) — Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. Habits of a working programmer, from not repeating yourself to tracer bullets and owning your craft.

## Keep returning to

1. _Asura: Tale of the Vanquished_ (Philosophy) — Anand Neelakantan. The Ramayana retold from the side of Ravana and the Asuras, the people the epic calls its villains.

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