Books
A reading log with thoughts and highlights from books in my library. I've flagged my favorites in bold.
Currently Reading
Dominion | Tom Holland | 2019 |
A Pattern Language | Christopher Alexander | 1977 |
Termination Shock | Neal Stephenson | 2021 |
Bookshelf
The Network State | May 2023 | 2022 | |
Learning to Build | April 2023 | 2022 | |
The WEIRDest People in the World | April 2023 | 2020 | |
The Pioneers | January 2023 | 2019 | |
Liberal Fascism | January 2023 | 2007 | |
Where Is My Flying Car? | December 2022 | 2021 | |
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich | October 2022 | 1960 | |
Helgoland | October 2022 | 2020 | |
The Captured Economy | October 2022 | 2017 | |
Scene and Structure | August 2022 | 1999 | |
Underland | August 2022 | 2019 | |
Childhood's End | August 2022 | 1953 | |
The Tacit Dimension | July 2022 | 1966 | |
The Law | 📝 | June 2022 | 1850 |
The Future and Its Enemies | May 2022 | 1998 | |
Knowledge and Decisions | May 2022 | 1979 | |
The Conservative Sensibility | March 2022 | 2019 | |
The Five Dysfunctions of a Team | February 2022 | 2002 | |
The Nature of Technology | November 2021 | 2009 | |
Systemantics | November 2021 | 1977 | |
Dune | October 2021 | 1965 | |
There Is No Antimemetics Division | October 2021 | 2020 | |
Preludes & Nocturnes | October 2021 | 1989 | |
One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich | September 2021 | 1962 | |
Atomic Habits | September 2021 | 2018 | |
Intellectuals and Society | July 2021 | 2009 | |
The Infinite Machine | July 2021 | 2020 | |
The Open Society and its Enemies | July 2021 | 1945 | |
The Strategy of Conflict | June 2021 | 1981 | |
Working Backwards | May 2021 | 2021 | |
The Road to Serfdom | May 2021 | 1944 | |
The Tyranny of Cliches | March 2021 | 2012 | |
The Lessons of History | February 2021 | 1968 | |
The Evolution of Everything | February 2021 | 2015 | |
Demand-Side Sales 101 | 📝 | February 2021 | 2020 |
Cibola Burn | January 2021 | 2014 | |
Kindly Inquisitors | 📝 | January 2021 | 1993 |
Mirrorshades | January 2021 | 1986 | |
Sid Meier's Memoir! | December 2020 | 2020 | |
Thinking in Systems | 📝 | December 2020 | 2008 |
Murder on the Orient Express | December 2020 | 1934 | |
Kim | December 2020 | 1901 | |
Competing Against Luck | December 2020 | 2016 | |
Seeing Like a State | 📝 | December 2020 | 1998 |
The Splendid and the Vile | November 2020 | 2020 | |
Gut Feelings | October 2020 | 2007 | |
The Decadent Society | October 2020 | 2020 | |
The Psychology of Money | October 2020 | 2020 | |
Mythos | October 2020 | 2017 | |
Inspired | 📝 | August 2020 | 2008 |
The Remains of the Day | August 2020 | 1989 | |
The Gervais Principle | July 2020 | 2013 | |
The Lean Startup | July 2020 | 2011 | |
How Innovation Works | 📝 | June 2020 | 2020 |
Ra | June 2020 | 2014 | |
Beastie Boys Book | May 2020 | 2018 | |
How to Take Smart Notes | 📝 | May 2020 | 2017 |
A Time to Build | April 2020 | 2020 | |
Darkness at Noon | April 2020 | 1940 | |
The Three Languages of Politics | April 2020 | 2013 | |
Ubik | April 2020 | 1969 | |
The Revolt of the Public | April 2020 | 2014 | |
The Dream Machine | March 2020 | 2001 | |
The Phoenix Project | March 2020 | 2013 | |
Where Wizards Stay Up Late | February 2020 | 1996 | |
Deep Medicine | February 2020 | 2019 | |
Mastering the Market Cycle | January 2020 | 2018 | |
Zero to One | 📝 | January 2020 | 2014 |
Brave New World | January 2020 | 1932 | |
Alchemy | December 2019 | 2019 | |
Antifragile | December 2019 | 2012 | |
Mythology | December 2019 | 1942 | |
The End is Always Near | November 2019 | 2019 | |
The Quiet American | Review | November 2019 | 1955 |
An Elegant Defense | Review | November 2019 | 2019 |
Discourses | November 2019 | 108 | |
The Madness of Crowds | October 2019 | 2019 | |
Shape Up | October 2019 | 2019 | |
Stubborn Attachments | October 2019 | 2018 | |
The Soul of a New Machine | Review | October 2019 | 1981 |
The Federalist Papers | October 2019 | 1787 | |
On Intelligence | October 2019 | 2004 | |
The Fatal Conceit | September 2019 | 1988 | |
Other Minds | September 2019 | 2016 | |
The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories | September 2019 | 2016 | |
Exhalation | September 2019 | 2019 | |
The Ascent of Money | September 2019 | 2007 | |
The Vision of the Anointed | September 2019 | 1995 | |
Pacific | August 2019 | 2015 | |
Death's End | August 2019 | 2010 | |
Abaddon's Gate | August 2019 | 2013 | |
Altered Traits | July 2019 | 2017 | |
Range | July 2019 | 2019 | |
Measure What Matters | July 2019 | 2018 | |
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories | July 2019 | 1926 | |
The Dark Forest | July 2019 | 2008 | |
Wayfinding | June 2019 | 2019 | |
The Etymologicon | June 2019 | 2011 | |
America Before | June 2019 | 2019 | |
Labyrinths | June 2019 | 1962 | |
Blueprint | June 2019 | 2019 | |
Crossing the Chasm | Review | June 2019 | 2006 |
The Black Swan | May 2019 | 2007 | |
Man's Search for Meaning | May 2019 | 1946 | |
Why We Sleep | May 2019 | 2017 | |
Into Thin Air | April 2019 | 1997 | |
Ego is the Enemy | April 2019 | 2016 | |
Loonshots | April 2019 | 2019 | |
The Breakthrough | April 2019 | 2018 | |
The Happiness Hypothesis | March 2019 | 2005 | |
The Language Hoax | Review | March 2019 | 2014 |
High Output Management | Review | March 2019 | 1983 |
A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again | March 2019 | 1996 | |
1776 | March 2019 | 2005 | |
Pebble in the Sky | February 2019 | 1950 | |
Invisible Cities | February 2019 | 1972 | |
At the Mountains of Madness | February 2019 | 1937 | |
Coming Into the Country | February 2019 | 1977 | |
How the Internet Happened | February 2019 | 2018 | |
Globalhead | Review | January 2019 | 1992 |
All Tomorrow's Parties | January 2019 | 1999 | |
Meditations | Review | January 2019 | 180 |
Waking Up | Review | January 2019 | 2014 |
The Righteous Mind | January 2019 | 2012 | |
Words on the Move | December 2018 | 2016 | |
The Tangled Tree | Review | December 2018 | 2018 |
Reality is Not What it Seems | Review | December 2018 | 2016 |
The Story of Maps | Review | November 2018 | 1949 |
Team of Rivals | November 2018 | 2005 | |
The Coddling of the American Mind | November 2018 | 2018 | |
21 Lessons for the 21st Century | November 2018 | 2018 | |
The Quest for Cosmic Justice | November 2018 | 1999 | |
The Map That Changed the World | October 2018 | 2001 | |
Basic Economics | October 2018 | 2000 | |
Energy | September 2018 | 2018 | |
Chaos | September 2018 | 1987 | |
Suicide of the West | September 2018 | 2018 | |
The Elegant Universe | August 2018 | 1999 | |
The Order of Time | August 2018 | 2018 | |
The Hero With a Thousand Faces | August 2018 | 1949 | |
Cosmos | August 2018 | 1980 | |
A Conflict of Visions | August 2018 | 1986 | |
Enlightenment Now | August 2018 | 2018 | |
Jurassic Park | July 2018 | 1990 | |
Factfulness | June 2018 | 2018 | |
Caldé of the Long Sun | June 2018 | 1994 | |
Seveneves | June 2018 | 2015 | |
Deep Work | May 2018 | 2016 | |
Leonardo da Vinci | May 2018 | 2017 | |
Acceptance | May 2018 | 2014 | |
Skin in the Game | May 2018 | 2018 | |
The Name of the Wind | May 2018 | 2007 | |
Norse Mythology | May 2018 | 2017 | |
Who | May 2018 | 2008 | |
Authority | April 2018 | 2014 | |
The Innovator's Dilemma | April 2018 | 1997 | |
Stranger in a Strange Land | April 2018 | 1961 | |
Annihilation | March 2018 | 2014 | |
The Three-Body Problem | March 2018 | 2007 | |
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry | February 2018 | 2017 | |
Scale | February 2018 | 2017 | |
Artemis | February 2018 | 2017 | |
Robot Visions | February 2018 | 1990 | |
The Elements of Eloquence | January 2018 | 2013 | |
Intercom on Marketing | January 2018 | 2018 | |
The Stone Sky | January 2018 | 2017 | |
Homo Deus | January 2018 | 2015 | |
Connectography | Review | December 2017 | 2016 |
The Stranger | December 2017 | 1942 | |
The Obelisk Gate | November 2017 | 2016 | |
The Fifth Season | October 2017 | 2015 | |
Idoru | October 2017 | 1996 | |
Political Order and Political Decay | October 2017 | 2014 | |
Lake of the Long Sun | October 2017 | 1994 | |
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? | October 2017 | 1968 | |
Extreme Ownership | September 2017 | 2015 | |
Nightside the Long Sun | September 2017 | 1993 | |
Product Leadership | September 2017 | 2017 | |
Ready Player One | September 2017 | 2011 | |
The Box | September 2017 | 2006 | |
Caliban's War | September 2017 | 2012 | |
The Grid | June 2017 | 2016 | |
Leviathan Wakes | June 2017 | 2011 | |
The Upstarts | June 2017 | 2017 | |
Pattern Recognition | June 2017 | 2003 | |
Sapiens | May 2017 | 2014 | |
Virtual Light | May 2017 | 1993 | |
Alexander Hamilton | May 2017 | 2004 | |
Woken Furies | May 2017 | 2005 | |
From Impossible to Inevitable | March 2017 | 2016 | |
The Gene | February 2017 | 2016 | |
The Game | January 2017 | 2015 | |
Mastering the VC Game | January 2017 | 2010 | |
Thinking, Fast and Slow | January 2017 | 2011 | |
Broken Angels | December 2016 | 2003 | |
A Deepness in the Sky | December 2016 | 1999 | |
The Everything Store | December 2016 | 2013 | |
The Pine Barrens | November 2016 | 1967 | |
Altered Carbon | November 2016 | 2002 | |
Elon Musk | October 2016 | 2015 | |
Stories of Your Life and Others | September 2016 | 2002 | |
Reamde | August 2016 | 2011 | |
Smarter Faster Better | June 2016 | 2016 | |
Countdown to Zero Day | May 2016 | 2014 | |
The Second World | May 2016 | 2008 | |
The Signal and the Noise | April 2016 | 2012 | |
The Exile Kiss | April 2016 | 1991 | |
Predictable Revenue | March 2016 | 2011 | |
The Origins of Political Order | March 2016 | 2011 | |
Nicely Said | March 2016 | 2014 | |
A Fire Upon the Deep | February 2016 | 1992 | |
Annals of the Former World | Review | January 2016 | 1998 |
Pricing With Confidence | November 2015 | 2008 | |
The Now Habit | November 2015 | 1988 | |
The Long Goodbye | November 2015 | 1953 | |
The Ball is Round | October 2015 | 2006 | |
American Assassin | October 2015 | 2010 | |
The Currents of Space | September 2015 | 1952 | |
The Summer Game | August 2015 | 1972 | |
The Water Knife | August 2015 | 2015 | |
The Way of the Knife | June 2015 | 2013 | |
The Extra 2% | May 2015 | 2011 | |
Men at Work | Review | May 2015 | 1990 |
Moneyball | May 2015 | 2003 | |
The Hard Thing About Hard Things | May 2015 | 2014 | |
A Nice Little Place on the North Side | April 2015 | 2014 | |
Creativity, Inc. | April 2015 | 2009 | |
Scrum | April 2015 | 2014 | |
A Fire in the Sun | April 2015 | 1990 | |
The Martian | January 2015 | 2012 | |
The Stars, Like Dust | January 2015 | 1983 | |
The Control of Nature | November 2014 | 1990 | |
The Citadel of the Autarch | October 2014 | 1983 | |
The Caves of Steel | Review | January 2014 | 1954 |
Consider the Lobster | December 2013 | 2005 | |
The Last Refuge | December 2013 | 2012 | |
The End of Eternity | Review | November 2013 | 1955 |
Steve Jobs | November 2011 | 2011 | |
A Dance with Dragons | October 2011 | 2011 | |
How Soccer Explains the World | September 2011 | 2004 | |
Snow Crash | July 2011 | 1992 | |
Connected | July 2011 | 2008 | |
In the Plex | June 2011 | 2011 | |
The Wise Man's Fear | May 2011 | 2011 | |
Debt of Honor | March 2011 | 1994 | |
Count Zero | March 2011 | 1986 | |
Soccernomics | January 2011 | 2009 | |
HTML5 for Web Designers | December 2010 | 2010 | |
The Hunger Games | December 2010 | 2008 | |
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo | November 2010 | 2005 | |
Ghost Wars | November 2010 | 2004 | |
Inbound Marketing | November 2010 | 2009 | |
Operation Mincemeat | October 2010 | 2010 | |
Outer Dark | September 2010 | 1968 | |
See No Evil | August 2010 | 2002 | |
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets | July 2010 | 1998 | |
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone | July 2010 | 1997 | |
Spying With Maps | July 2010 | 2002 | |
War | July 2010 | 2010 | |
American Gods | June 2010 | 2001 | |
In Defense of Food | June 2010 | 2007 | |
The Big Short | June 2010 | 2009 | |
A Feast for Crows | June 2010 | 2005 | |
The Man Who Was Thursday | May 2010 | 1908 | |
Purple Cow | May 2010 | 2003 | |
Rework | April 2010 | 2010 | |
A Storm of Swords | April 2010 | 2000 | |
The Botany of Desire | December 2009 | 2001 | |
The Omnivore's Dilemma | December 2009 | 2006 | |
A Clash of Kings | October 2009 | 1998 | |
A Game of Thrones | September 2009 | 1996 | |
The Forever War | September 2009 | 1974 | |
The Lost Symbol | September 2009 | 2009 | |
The Man in the High Castle | August 2009 | 1962 | |
Red Harvest | June 2009 | 1929 |