BOOKSHELF
2024
Before The Coffee Gets Cold (2019) - Toshikazu Kawaguchi
2023
Hell Yeah Or No (2020) - Derek Sivers
Whereabouts (2018) - Jhumpa Lahiri
The Man Who Watched the Trains Go By (1938) - Georges Simenon
Staff Engineer: Leadership beyond the management track (2021) - Will Larson
2022
Project Hail Mary (2021) - Andy Weir
How Music Works (2012) - David Byrne
Happiness Hypothesis (2006) - Jonathan Haidt
Lady Doctors (2021) - Kavitha Rao
Exhalation: Stories (2019) - Ted Chiang
Introspect (2022) - Visakan Veerasamy
2021
The Nasty Bits (2006) - Anthony Bourdain
2020
Honeymoon in Tehran (2010) - Azadeh Moaveni
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (2019) - Hanif Abdurraqib
Spotify Teardown (2019) - Maria Eriksson, Anna Johansson, et al (notes)
Running On Empty (2013) - Jonice Webb
Socialist Realism (2019) - Trisha Low
2019
Infinite Detail (2019) - Tim Maughan
But What If We’re Wrong? (2016) - Chuck Klosterman (notes)
Happy City (2013) - Charles Montgomery
The Rest Is Noise (2007) - Alex Ross [taking a break from this one]
No Logo (1999) - Naomi Klein [re-read]
2018
The Utopia of Rules: On Technology, Stupidity and the Secret Joys of Bureaucracy (2015) - David Graeber
The Three Body Problem (2008), The Dark Forest (2008) - Liu Cixin
Hysterical and Useless - Martin Clarke
2017
Flatlands (1884) - Edwin A. Abbott
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler (1979) - Italo Calvino
How Not To Network A Nation (2016) - Benjamin Peters
2016
Protocol: How Control Exists After Decentralization (2004) - Alexander Galloway
Networks of New York: An Illustrated Field Guide to Urban Internet Infrastructure (2016) - Ingrid Burrington
The Human Use of Human Beings (1950) - Norbert Wiener
Designs on the Public: The Private Lives of New York’s Public Spaces (2007) - Kristine F. Miller