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Essentially my goodreads account in summary. A list of most of the books that I have read, chunked by year, scored by how glad I am to have read them. Does not include articles, blog posts, podcasts, or other media.

The rating describes how glad I am to have read the book on a scale of 0 to 3, which isn't reflective of any particular metric like enjoyment or gained knowledge, but rather a mix of many. It could well be that I enjoyed a book, but didn't gain much from it in retrospect, and gave it a lower rating.

I'm always up for exchanging recommendations!

2023

  • Unsong by Scott Alexander 3/3
  • The Hard Thing About Hard Things by Ben Horowitz tbd
  • Qualityland by Marc-Uwe Kling 1/3
  • Im Grunde Gut by Rutger Bregman 2/3
  • The Elephant Vanishes by Haruki Murakami 2/3
  • The Sequences by Eliezer Yudkowsky 3/3
  • The Mother of Learning by Domagoj Kurmaic dropped, it's really bad
  • Significant Digits by Alexander Davis 3/3
  • Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach 2/3
  • Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality Eliezer Yudkowsky 4/3
  • The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho 2/3

2022

  • What We Owe The Future by William Macaskill 2/3
  • How To Love by Thich Nhat Hanh 3/3
  • A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini 3/3
  • Friends by Robin Dunbar 1/3
  • The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan 3/3
  • Caffeine by Michael Pollan 2/3
  • The Opposite of Fate by Amy Tan 1/3
  • Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan 2/3
  • Oathbringer by Brandon Sanderson 2/3
  • The Happiness of Pursuit by Chris Guillebeau 2/3
  • How to Change Your Mind by Michael Pollan 1/3
  • In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan 2/3
  • The Neverending Story by Michael Ende 1/3
  • Doing Good Better by William MacAskill tbd
  • Failure to Disrupt by Justin Reich dropped
  • The Courage to be Disliked by Ichiro Kishimi 0/3

2021

  • How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie 0/3
  • 19 Ways of Looking at Wang Wei by Elio Weinberger 2/3
  • The Design of Everyday Things by Don Norman 1/3
  • Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari 2/3
  • How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie 2/3
  • All About Love by Bell Hooks 2/3
  • The Black Swan by Nassim Nicholas Taleb 3/3
  • Utopia for Realists by Rutger Bregman 3/3
  • Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang 1/3
  • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python at docs.python-guide.org 1/3
  • Python Tricks by Dan Bader 1/3
  • Data Feminism by Catherine D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein 1/3
  • Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker 0/3 (please read this note)
  • Dictator's Handbook by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita dropped
  • Educated by Tara Westover 2/3
  • Americanah by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie 2/3
  • Grit by Angela Duckworth 1/3
  • Into the Wild by John Krakauer 3/3
  • Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman 3/3

2020

  • Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari 3/3
  • Thinking in Systems by Donella H. Meadows 0/3
  • The Art of Happiness by Howard C. Cutler 1/3
  • Whirlwind by James Clavell (dropped)
  • Winners Take All by Anand Giridharadas 3/3
  • Atomic Habits by James Clear 1/3
  • The Effective Engineer by Edmond Lau 0/3
  • Dark Age by Pierce Brown 2/3
  • The Pragmatic Programmer by Thomas Hunt 2/3
  • King Rat by James Clavell 3/3
  • Never Split the Difference by Chris Voss 3/3
  • Noble House by James Clavell 3/3
  • Gai Jin by James Clavell 2/3
  • Tai Pan by James Clavell 3/3
  • Shogun by James Clavell 3/3
  • A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin 3/3

2019 and before

The remaining list is unordered and incomplete, as I do not remember well when I have read these books, and will omit many that I do not think noteworthy.

  • The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin 3/3
  • Siddharta by Herman Hesse 3/3
  • Cracking the Coding Interview by Gayle Laakmann McDowell 3/3
  • Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy 2/3
  • Domain Driven Design by Eric Evans 1/3
  • Design Patterns by Erich Gamma et al. 1/3
  • Clean Architecture by Robert Martin 1/3
  • Hacking by John Erickson 2/3
  • Tools of Titans by Tim Ferris 0/3
  • The Wise Mans Fear by Patrick Rothfuss 3/3
  • The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss 3/3
  • The hundred year old man ... by Jonas Jonasson 1/3
  • Three Suns by Cixin Liu 2/3
  • Iron Gold by Pierce Brown 2/3
  • Morning Star by Pierce Brown 3/3
  • Golden Son by Pierce Brown 3/3
  • Red Rising by Pierce Brown 3/3
  • Leviathan Wakes by James S. A. Corey 2/3