Bookshelf

Books I've read, grouped by year.

2025

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  Gratitude by Oliver Sacks 4/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  Seneca: A Life by Emily Wilson 3.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑½
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  In My Time of Dying by Sebastian Junger 4/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  The Art of Living by Thich Nhat Hanh 3.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑½

2024

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  Letters to a Young Poet by Ranier Maria Rilke 5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  Moonbound by Robin Sloan 4/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  The Glass Cage by Nicholas Carr 4/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  God Human Animal Machine by Megan O'Gieblyn 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Why I Am Not Going to Buy a Computer by Wendell Berry 3.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑½
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  The Accidental Universe by Alan Lightman 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers 3.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑½
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  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Lives of the Stoics by Ryan Holiday 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Wind, Sand and Stars by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 4.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
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  The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction by Alan Jacobs 4/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  Meditations by Marcus Aurelius, Robin Waterfield 5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  Good Strategy, Bad Strategy by Richard Rumelt 4.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
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  The Antidote by Oliver Burkeman 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  The Religion of Technology by David F. Noble 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin Behr, George Spafford 2/5.0 stars ⭑⭑
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  The Crux by Richard Rumelt 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Discourses by Epictetus 4.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
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  Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  How Big Things Get Done by Dan Gardner and Bent Flyvbjerg 3.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑½
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  Technopoly by Neil Postman 4.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
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  A Guide to the Good Life by William Irvine 5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑

2023

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  The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stanier 3.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑½
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  Wanting by Luke Burgis 2.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑½
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  The Art of Simple Living by Shunmyo Masuno 4/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  The Nature and Art of Workmanship by David Pye 2.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑½
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  Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu, Ursula Le Guin 5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran 4/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  Decolonizing Design by Elizabeth (Dori) Tunstall 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Happiness: A Philosopher's Guide by Frédéric Lenoir 4/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  The Medusa and the Snail by Lewis Thomas 3.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑½
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  All Things Shining by Hubert Dreyfus and Sean Kelly 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford 3.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑½
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  Design as Art by Bruno Munari 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  The Art of Leadership by Michael Lopp 2.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑½

2022

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  Mastery by George Leonard 4/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  True Names by Vernor Vinge 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Computer Power and Human Reason by Joseph Weizenbaum 3.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑½
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  Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Thinking in Systems by Donella Meadows 5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  Patterns of Software by Richard Gabriel 4.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑½
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  Ways of Being by James Bridle 5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  The Dream Machine by M. Mitchell Waldrop 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Thoughts on Design by Paul Rand 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  How Buildings Learn by Stewart Brand 4/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  The More Beautiful World our Hearts Know is Possible by Charles Eisenstein 2/5.0 stars ⭑⭑
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  The Clock of the Long Now by Stewart Brand 4/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  Reading Writing Interfaces by Lori Emerson 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman 5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑
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  Understanding Computers and Cognition by Terry Winograd and Fernando Flores 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Einstein's Dreams by Alan Lightman 3.5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑½
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  Staff Engineer by Will Larson 3/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑
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  Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse 5/5.0 stars ⭑⭑⭑⭑⭑