The book Stick and Rudder gave me a very intuitive understanding of flight and what it means to pilot an airplane in a very visceral sense.
The book CODE helped me really imagine and internalize the inner workings of computers, building up from the most basic electrical relay. The part where memory is explained and how the first bits were stored was truly mind blowing and cemented Clarke's third law for me.
The book CODE helped me really imagine and internalize the inner workings of computers, building up from the most basic electrical relay. The part where memory is explained and how the first bits were stored was truly mind blowing and cemented Clarke's third law for me.