What I’m reading
Up Next
- The Second Sex
- Simone de Beauvoir
- Being and Nothingness
- Jean-Paul Sartre
- Either/Or
- Søren Kierkegaard
- The Soul of A New Machine
- Tracy Kidder
2022
July 2022
- Beyond Good and Evil
- Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann
- bookmarks
June 2022
- The Birth of Tragedy
- Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann
- bookmarks
May 2022
- The methodology of scientific research programmes
- Imre Lakatos
- bookmarks
November 2021 - April 2022
- On the Genealogy of Morals and Ecce Homo
- Friedrich Nietzsche, translated by Walter Kaufmann and RJ Hollingdale
- bookmarks
2021
November 2021
- Start with Why
- Simon Sinek
October 2021
- The Making of a Counter Culture: Reflections on the Technocratic Society and Its Youthful Opposition
- Theodore Roszak
- bookmarks
September 2021
- Philosophy in the Tragic Age of the Greeks
- Friedrich Nietzsche
March 2021
- REWORK
- Jason Fried and David Heinemeier Hansson
2020
September 2019 - February 2020
- Four Existential Theologians
- Will Herberg
2019
September 2019
- The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
- Walter Benjamin
March 2019
- Wittgenstein’s Poker
- David Edmonds & John Eidinow
2018
March - June
- Ethics, Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect and Selected Letters
- Baruch Spinoza
February 2018
- The Structure of Scientific Revolutions
- Thomas S. Kuhn
- How to Talk About Books You Haven’t Read
- Pierre Bayard
January 2018
- Discourse on Method and Meditations on First Philosophy
- René Descartes
2017
January - November 2017
- Farewell to Reason
- Paul Feyerabend
October 2017
- Billy Budd, Sailor
- Herman Melville
2016
November 2016
- Ubik
- Philip K. Dick
June 2016
- Cat’s Cradle
- Kurt Vonnegut
- Style: Toward Clarity and Grace
- Joseph M. Williams
- The Art of War
- Sun Tzu
- Against Method
- Paul Feyerabend
January 2016
- Orientalism
- Edward W. Said
2015
December 2015
- A Clockwork Orange
- Anthony Burgess
November 2015
- What Makes You Not a Buddhist
- Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse
- Fahrenheit 451
- Ray Bradbury
September 2015
- My Land and My People
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
- The Meaning of Life
- His Holiness the Dalai Lama
August 2015
- Siddhartha
- Hermann Hesse, translated by Hilda Rosner
- Brave New World
- Aldous Huxley
July 2015
- Hackers & Painters
- Paul Graham
April - May 2015
- Crypto: How the Code Rebels Beat the Government—Saving Privacy in the Digital Age
- Steven Levy
March 2015
- The Dark Haired Girl
- Philip K. Dick
- The Mythical Man-Month
- Fred Brooks
February 2015
- The Republic
- Plato
2014
November 2014
- The Cathedral and the Bazaar
- Essay by Eric S. Raymond
- The Icarus Deception: How High Will You Fly?
- Seth Godin
September 2014
- “What Do You Care What Other People Think?”: Further Adventures of a Curious Character
- Richard P. Feynman
- The Meaning of It All: Thoughts of a Citizen-Scientist
- Richard P. Feynman
August 2014
- Americanah
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Animal Farm
- George Orwell
- Nineteen Eighty-Four
- George Orwell
- The Salmon of Doubt
- Douglas Adams
- Surely You’re Joking, Mr. Feynman! (Adventures of a Curious Character)
- Richard P. Feynman
2013
- How to Read a Book
- Mortimer J. Adler and Charles Van Doren
- Oedipus Rex
- Sophocles, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
- Antigone
- Sophocles, translated by Dudley Fitts and Robert Fitzgerald
- Civilization and its Discontents
- Sigmund Freud
- Man’s Search For Meaning
- Viktor E. Frankl
Programming textbooks
These have been mostly used as references. I haven’t worked through them cover-to-cover.
- Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
- Harold Abelson
- Gerald Jay Sussman
- Julie Sussman
- The Little Schemer
- Daniel P. Friedman
- Matthias Felleisen
- The Rust Programming Language
- Site Reliability Engineering
- Betsy Beyer, Chris Jones, Jennifer Petoff, and Niall Murphy