Great post!
I also highly recommend Math for Programmers from Manning: https://www.manning.com/books/math-for-programmers

There's a decent series of "Math for programmers"[1] on YouTube from FreeCodeCamp that covers the basics of discrete math. I've been recommending it to people who want to learn to code for a little while and it seems to go down well.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWKjhJtqVAbndUuYBE5sV...

I am reminded of Steve Yegge's excellent post on "Math for Programmers" : http://steve-yegge.blogspot.in/2006/03/math-for-programmers....
(posted multiple times before on HN).

There are literally 100 cool things to learn and try: Like this weekend I thought about writing a small program for the DCPU-16, trying Meteor, making a small app using firebase, etc etc.
Possibly, learning more Math has a higher long-term ROI.

An another note: When everything melts down, it might be a good time to start another company, rather than look for employment though.

Id be useful to have a "math for programmers book" that uses pseudo code instead of math notation. I studied math notation in 8th grade and then forgot about it.

Steve Yegge has a blog post titled "Math For Programmers" which discusses this topic. Here is an excerpt from the post:

"1. Math is a lot easier to pick up after you know how to program. In fact, if you're a halfway decent programmer, you'll find it's almost a snap.

2. They teach math all wrong in school. Way, WAY wrong. If you teach yourself math the right way, you'll learn faster, remember it longer, and it'll be much more valuable to you as a programmer.

3. Knowing even a little of the right kinds of math can enable you do write some pretty interesting programs that would otherwise be too hard. In other words, math is something you can pick up a little at a time, whenever you have free time.

4. Nobody knows all of math, not even the best mathematicians. The field is constantly expanding, as people invent new formalisms to solve their own problems. And with any given math problem, just like in programming, there's more than one way to do it. You can pick the one you like best.

5. Math is... ummm, please don't tell anyone I said this; I'll never get invited to another party as long as I live. But math, well... I'd better whisper this, so listen up: (it's actually kinda fun.)"

Here is a link to the full blog post:

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/math-for-programmers...

1) Gained back some weight due to holiday stress/drinking. Going to hard cut for a bit and try and get below 15% BF.

2) Try and get into some professional programming, deep into the internals of golang.

3) Do the entire "Math for Programmers" Book

4) Get into FPV Drone Racing. Autonomous flight. Have some ideas surrounding INAV and a 5" Quad that I have.

5) Figure out how not to dread existence.

Steve Yegge's "Math For Programmers" was one of the (too) few posts I've read that actually resulted in action on my part. It made me realize how much I had let my math skills atrophy since college, and I invested a substantial amount of time trying to bring them back up to scratch.

http://steve-yegge.blogspot.com/2006/03/math-for-programmers...