Arnoldo Rodríguez
Senior Software Engineer @ Cisco Meraki
📍 Chicago, IL
Lifelong learner. At a high level, I enjoy making sense of complexity and designing and building systems that solve real problems in the simplest way possible. I am passionate about thoughtful design, craftsmanship, and creating elegant, reliable software.
Having been born and raised in a country with a broken system, I am also deeply interested in social systems — and in finding the most effective ways to organize humans to maximize happiness and prosperity. I suppose you could call it political and economic system design.
Stuff I’ve Built
Checkity Check
Simplifies grocery shopping with a clean, easy-to-use list that remembers your frequent items and stores, offers smart suggestions, and lets you quickly add and check off items for a fast, stress-free shopping experience.
Morse Code Encoder & Decoder
Decodes Morse code from blinking lights using the camera, transmit Morse code through the camera flash or speaker, translate between text and Morse code, and includes a reference for the ITU Morse code alphabet.
Resistor Scanner
Calculates resistor values by selecting their color bands or entering a resistance value, and it can also scan 4-band resistors to automatically detect their color bands and determine their value.
Books Read
I find books to be an incredible way to acquire knowledge that would have taken me several lives to learn otherwise. You will find here some of the corpus I have trained my model with :)
Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages
Johan Norberg
Venture Deals: Be Smarter Than Your Lawyer and Venture Capitalist
Brad Feld
Nemesis
Isaac Asimov
Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman
The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Malcolm Gladwell
The Naked Sun (Robot, #2)
Isaac Asimov
How Countries Go Broke: The Big Cycle (Principles)
Ray Dalio
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination
Neal Gabler
1776
David McCullough
Principles of Building AI Agents
Sam Bhagwat
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism
Sarah Wynn-Williams
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds
David Goggins
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ
Daniel Goleman
A Template for Understanding Big Debt Crises
Ray Dalio
The Psychology of Money
Morgan Housel
Fahrenheit 451
Ray Bradbury
Same as Ever: A Guide to What Never Changes
Morgan Housel
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life
Richard Dawkins
The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #2)
Douglas Adams
The Culture Map: Breaking Through the Invisible Boundaries of Global Business
Erin Meyer
Source Code: My Beginnings
Bill Gates
Why Nations Fail: The Origins of Power, Prosperity, and Poverty
Daron Acemoğlu
The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers, Geniuses and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution
Walter Isaacson
Blue Ocean Strategy: How to Create Uncontested Market Space and Make the Competition Irrelevant
W. Chan Kim
Autocracy, Inc.
Anne Applebaum
Antifragile ( anti- fragility : Never certainty benefit )
Nassim Nicholas Taleb ( NA XI MU NI GU LA SI TA LE BU )
The Caves of Steel (Robot, #1)
Isaac Asimov
Hidden Potential: The Science of Achieving Greater Things
Adam M. Grant
Reentry: SpaceX, Elon Musk, and the Reusable Rockets that Launched a Second Space Age
Eric Berger
The Mom Test: How to talk to customers & learn if your business is a good idea when everyone is lying to you
Rob Fitzpatrick
21 Lessons for the 21st Century
Yuval Noah Harari
Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
Yuval Noah Harari
Principles: Life and Work
Ray Dalio
Co-Intelligence: The Definitive, Bestselling Guide to Living and Working with AI
Ethan Mollick
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
Douglas Adams
The God Delusion
Richard Dawkins
The World for Sale: Money, Power and the Traders Who Barter the Earth’s Resources
Javier Blas
The End of Eternity
Isaac Asimov
Never Split the Difference: Negotiating as if Your Life Depended on It
Chris Voss
A Promised Land
Barack Obama
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
Simon Sinek
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup
John Carreyrou
Staff Engineer: Leadership Beyond the Management Track
Will Larson
Liftoff: Elon Musk and the Desperate Early Days That Launched SpaceX
Eric Berger
Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies
Nick Bostrom
Chip War: The Fight for the World's Most Critical Technology
Chris Miller
Man's Search for Meaning
Viktor E. Frankl
How Much Land Does a Man Need?
Leo Tolstoy
Elon Musk
Walter Isaacson
Supercommunicators: How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection
Charles Duhigg
The Design of Everyday Things
Donald A. Norman
Shoe Dog: A Memoir by the Creator of Nike
Phil Knight
Mindset: The New Psychology of Success
Carol S. Dweck
Algorithms to Live By: The Computer Science of Human Decisions
Brian Christian
The Leader Who Had No Title: A Modern Fable on Real Success in Business and in Life
Robin Sharma
Atlas of AI: Power, Politics, and the Planetary Costs of Artificial Intelligence
Kate Crawford
The Innovator's Dilemma: The Revolutionary Book that Will Change the Way You Do Business
Clayton M. Christensen
The Richest Man in Babylon
George S. Clason
The Selfish Gene
Richard Dawkins
Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know
Adam M. Grant
Steve Jobs
Walter Isaacson
Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
Yuval Noah Harari
What's Our Problem?: A Self-Help Book for Societies
Tim Urban
Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City
Matthew Desmond
The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success
Darren Hardy
How to Win Friends & Influence People
Dale Carnegie
I, Robot (Robot, #0.1)
Isaac Asimov
The Art of War
Sun Tzu
The Republic
Plato
Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity
Kim Malone Scott
The Future of Capitalism: Facing the New Anxieties
Paul Collier
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport
The Worldly Philosophers
Robert L. Heilbroner
The Infinite Game
Simon Sinek
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones
James Clear
Principles for Dealing with the Changing World Order: Why Nations Succeed and Fail
Ray Dalio
Animal Farm
George Orwell
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
Life, The Answer
E.R. Leyva
Deception Point
Dan Brown
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
Robert T. Kiyosaki
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
Mine!: How the Hidden Rules of Ownership Control Our Lives
Michael A. Heller
The Lost Symbol (Robert Langdon, #3)
Dan Brown
Einstein: His Life and Universe
Walter Isaacson
Forward the Foundation (Foundation, #7)
Isaac Asimov
Prelude to Foundation
Isaac Asimov
Death's End (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #3)
Liu Cixin
The Dark Forest (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #2)
Liu Cixin
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
Liu Cixin
The Gods Themselves
Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Earth (Foundation, #5)
Isaac Asimov
Foundation's Edge (Foundation, #4)
Isaac Asimov
Foundation and Empire (Foundation, #2)
Isaac Asimov
Outliers: The Story of Success
Malcolm Gladwell
Second Foundation (Foundation, #3)
Isaac Asimov
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants
Malcolm Gladwell
Creativity, Inc.: Overcoming the Unseen Forces That Stand in the Way of True Inspiration
Ed Catmull
Ready Player One (Ready Player One, #1)
Ernest Cline
Inferno (Robert Langdon, #4)
Dan Brown
Origin (Robert Langdon, #5)
Dan Brown
1984
George Orwell
Zero to One: Notes on Startups, or How to Build the Future
Peter Thiel
Foundation (Foundation, #1)
Isaac Asimov
The 48 Laws of Power
Robert Greene
The Hobbit, or There and Back Again
J.R.R. Tolkien
Maktub
Paulo Coelho
A Study in Scarlet (Sherlock Holmes, #1)
Arthur Conan Doyle
The Zahir
Paulo Coelho
Manual of the Warrior of Light
Paulo Coelho
The Alchemist
Paulo Coelho
The Devil and Miss Prym
Paulo Coelho
Digital Fortress
Dan Brown
Veronika Decides to Die
Paulo Coelho
The Secret Supper
Javier Sierra
La especie elegida: La larga marcha de la evolución humana
Juan Luis Arsuaga
Timeline
Michael Crichton
The Way of the Bow
Paulo Coelho
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
Dan Brown
The Last Legion
Valerio Massimo Manfredi
The Da Vinci Code (Robert Langdon, #2)
Dan Brown
The Mystery of King John's Treasure
Shirley Charters
El último grumete de la Baquedano
Francisco Coloane
By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept
Paulo Coelho
Around the World in Eighty Days
Jules Verne
The Bicentennial Man and Other Stories
Isaac Asimov
The Knight in Rusty Armor
Robert Fisher
South American Jungle Tales
Horacio Quiroga
Of Love and Other Demons
Gabriel García Márquez
Who Moved My Cheese?
Spencer Johnson
Five Weeks in a Balloon
Jules Verne
A Journey to the Centre of the Earth
Jules Verne
LOS NAUFRAGOS DEL LIGURIA
Emilio Salgari
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and other Classic Novels
Jules Verne
Viaje Al Reino Del Ajedrez
Yuri Averbakh
The Little Prince
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry