Agreed. I think ESL presents a good transition from classic statistical methods to more recent computational methods.

Yes, thanks for noting that! That’s such a fantastic paper and in my view should be added to every reading list on strat, occupations, culture, text analysis, and computational methods.

"Make sure to back up your files."

If by "computational" you mean quant methods that leverage computational advances, I recommend a hidden gem - "Computer Age Statistical Inference" by Efron & Hastie. I'm also teaching basic chapters from "The Elements of Statistical Learning" (Hastie et al) in my grad-level advanced methods class.