Idea Monkeysphere

This is not a syllabus and learning things is not so linear as presented here but I just wanted to lay out an outline for reference if I ever get lost again. Of-course I am not pressuring myself to learn all this and there’s no priority here, these are general subjects that i am interested in.

Computer Science/Software Engineering #

Topic	Why	Depth(1-5)
Computer Networks and Security	understand my network, debug network problems, better threat model.	3
Network Programming	Contribute to the networking subsystem and important for when I would want to actually implement dist sys things	3
Systems Programming	Be able to performance test things, finetune stuff, Understand underlying things for all things systems	4
Databases	write a toy DB and understand parts, contribute to some open source relational db	2
Data structures and algorithms	Be able to follow any algorithm that’s laid out given enough time and convert it into a program	3
Distributed Systems	Be able to plan things better and more precisely also to understand how systems work together	4
Compilers	When stuck with a parser/interpreter problem i am scared + idk what to do or expect. Get rid of the fear	2
Graphics/Game programming	I’ve been told that it’s a different way of thinking, very curious	2
PL/Functional programming	I’ve experimented but never really dived in. I like it and want to learn more of it.	3

Electronics #

Topic	Why	Depth(1-5)
Electronics Engineering	Want to play around with the pi(s) and duinos but don’t know shit	1
Computer Arch	Just curious	1

Science #

Topic	Why	Depth(1-5)
Physics	I loved physics in school , college made me hate it, think I’ll love it if i get to it again	2
Mechanics	I want to understand how some machines work	1

Math #

Topic	Why	Depth(1-5)
Statistics	I do not understand data, need to understand data	4
Number Theory	Need help with thinking when dealing with algorithms	3
Complex numbers	Scared. Don’t want to be scared of myself(i)	1
Discrete Math	Need to write proper proofs, also interesting	3
Category Theory	Just because it sounds so cool and idk what the fuck it is	1
Calculus	Keeps coming back	1
Diff. Eqns	Keeps coming back also interesting	2
Linear Algebra	Need to be clear about some numbers, I have forgotten the basics	3
Real Analysis	Want to understand numbers better	1

Data, Thinking and Information management #

Topic	Why	Depth(1-5)
Writing	i suck at writing, i don’t want to suck at writing because it’s the only way I like communicating in	4
Cartography	i love maps, they are pretty cool, think this will also help so many of my projects that I have in mind	3
Data analysis	real deal shit, whatever I do, i cannot escape this	4
Data vis	I am a very visual learner so I need to know what are my options when I have some data and I want to visualize it	3
Information theory & HCI	Want to better understand how information is structured and how humans perceive it	3
Thinking	Be a more clear thinker. I need to be a better thinker every year. Introduce new ideas, be clear about my intentions when I speak. Improve the search engine of my brain.	4
Philosophy	Become unhinged and antifragile	2

Web #

Topic	Why	Depth(1-5)
Web-development	Build things quickly	4
Web-hacking	most of the things i want to build need some sort of fuckery	4

Education #

Topic	Why	Depth(1-5)
Education system of the world	Really do not want to re-invent the wheel, It’s important to see do case studies and research	5
Education system of India	Parhega India Tabhi toh Barhega India	5
Real world situation	Lot of my projects are related to education so I will have to have systems in place which feed me infomation about what’s going on in the system	5

World #

Topic	Why	Depth(1-5)
Economics	Need to understand how world works	3
Finance	Need to make some monie and manage my own money	3
Business	Need to start own business and help in businesses of friends and family	4
History	I like to pretend I like history. just kidding, i like it v much.	3

Art and Design #

Topic	Why	Depth(1-5)
Architecture drawings	Want to draw what i want to build before
Voxel Art	Really like them	2