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I first came across Paul Graham when I read his On Lisp – however, I found many of his other writings very interesting. If you haven’t read it, I’d like to recommend Why Nerds are Unpopular as a starting point.

The first Orson Scott Card I ever read was almost certainly the original 1978 “Novelette” version of Ender’s Game

I’ve recently been reading through SQL and Relational Theory by C.J. Date, who was deeply involved in the original formulation of relational model. Working my way through the book, I discovered that O’Reilly and Associates have also produced a series of videos where Date lectures on the content of the book, and I’ve really been enjoying it. You can purchase them outright for about $300 USD, or you can subscribe to one month of Safari via their “Library” plan for ~$43 and stream them from there. All together, the videos run just over 16.5 hours – here’s a breakdown of the topics and the durations.

1:19:07 Setting the Scene
1:18:08 Types and domains
0:57:28 Tuples and Relations, Rows and Tables
0:50:47 No Duplicates, No Nulls
1:04:56 Base Relvars, Base Tables
3:15:15 SQL and Relational Algebra I: The Original Operators
1:19:06 SQL and Constraints
0:56:26 SQL and Views
2:04:04 SQL and logic I: Relational Calculus Part 1
0:46:39 SQL and Logic II: Using Logic to Write SQL Code
0:20:56 Further SQL Topics
0:38:53 The Relational Model
0:32:21 A Relational Approach to Missing Information
1:08:31 Database Design Theory

If you work with databases for a living, I really think it would be worth your time to sit through these.