Reddit mentions of Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities (EDN Series for Design Engineers)

Here's some lighter reading I've liked:

• Analog Circuit Design: Art, Science and Personalities
  
• The Chip : How Two Americans Invented the Microchip and Launched a Revolution
  
• Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
  
• Feynamn Lectures on Computation
  
  Readable, but more hardcore
  
  Hardware:
  
  
• The Design of CMOS Radio-Frequency Integrated Circuits, Second Edition
  
  
  Mathy:
  
  
• A New Kind of Science. I liked this book a lot, it is worth the price just for the interesting pictures. Make up your mind for yourself, and don't let negative reviewers unduly influence you.
  
• Probability Theory: The Logic of Science
  
• Information Theory, Inference and Learning Algorithms
  
  
  Programmy:
  
  
• Mastering Regular Expressions
  
  Unixy:
  
  
• Unix Power Tools
  
  
  Off the wall:
  
  
• Molecular Biology of the Cell
  
  

Not necessarily 'projects' as such, but if you want to get a feel for how the most respected gurus spend their time, it's hard to find better books than the two "Art, Science, Personalities" books edited by the late Jim Williams of Linear Tech. First Second

The best personal projects always start with a healthy intellectual curiosity, and that, in turn, comes from having good sources of inspiration. That's what these particular books are good for.

A good reference for things like this
https://www.amazon.com/Analog-Circuit-Design-Personalities-Engineers/dp/0750696400

Try this book : [Analog Circuit Design - Art, Science and Personalities] (https://www.amazon.com/Analog-Circuit-Design-Personalities-Engineers/dp/0750696400) - for some great 'in the trenches' stories from world class designers.

On a lighter note, if you happen to join an IC design team in the future which mostly consists of 55+yo veterans you are in luck : These guys are all about regaling the kids with their war stories about how they added a single MOSFET in exactly the right place and saved the day - whether you care to listen or not.