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2025
The AI Madness December
2024
Seveneves by Neal Stephenson November Not the End of the World by Hannah Ritchie Some notes on New Zealand October Knowing What We Know by Simon Winchester The Gene by Siddhartha Mukherjee July June The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson May Death's End by Cixin Liu March Stubborn Attachments by Tyler Cowen Golang PGO The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman December
2023
Hey computer, what's the time? November October September The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu June On Writing Well by William Zinsser May Tiny Habits by Bj Fogg PhD How the World Really Works by Vaclav Smil April The Road to Character by David Brooks March How do CloudFlare Workers work? Stranger in a Strange Land by Rober A. Heinlein February High Output Management by Andrew S. Grove No Rules Rules by Reed Hastings, Erin Meyer Staff Engineer by Will Larson Show, don't tell 2022 Review January Training for the Uphill Athlete by Steve House, Scott Johnston, Kilian Jornet December
2022
November The Art of Thinking Clearly by Rolf Dobelli October September August July June May Our approach to Golang APIs Good Economics for Hard Times by Abhijit V. Banerjee, Esther Duflo April Go generics: Baby steps February How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie Learning Math January Becoming a Supple Leopard by Kelly Starrett December 2021 Review
2021
Invisible Women by Caroline Criado Pérez November Freakonomics by Steven D. Levitt October September August July Educated by Tara Westover June May Back up your MacOS Localization in a few lines of code April Spotify TUI Growth by Vaclav Smil Preventing path traversal in Golang March February January The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu Backcountry skiing in Switzerland 2020 How to Do Nothing by Jenny Odell December
2020
2020 Review November The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams How To Lie With Statistics Capital in the Twenty-First Century by Thomas Piketty Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari October Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman The Art of War by Sun Tzu The Hard Thing about Hard Things by Ben Horowitz This blog weights ~10kb How to setup you terminal on MacOS for powerusers Backpacking Georgia in 14 days Cryptographic Hash Functions explained Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker Never Split the Difference by Christopher Voss Economic Facts and Fallacies by Thomas Sowell Basic Economics by Thomas Sowell Keeping your finances at check with Ledger Owning Your Own Shadow by Robert A. Johnson How To Fail at Almost Everything And Still Win Big by Scott Adams Sense of Style by Steven Pinker Factfulness by Hans Rosling Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker Business Adventures by John Brooks
2019
A briefer History of Time by Stephen Hawking