Selected reading that I find useful.
Computer science & Biology
- Navlakha & Bar-Joseph, Algorithms in nature (2011).
Combinatorics
- Wilf, What is an answer? (1982); spotted here.
Statistical modeling
- Donoho, 50 Years of Data Science (2017).
- von Luxburg, Williamson, & Guyon, Clustering: Science or Art? (2012).
- Shmueli, To Explain or to Predict? (2010).
Math
- Raman-Sundström, A pedagogical history of compactness (2014); spotted from Steves’s tweets, which contain other good resources on compactness.