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What I've Been Reading

2025

  1. Hunting by Stars by Cherie Dimaline
  2. AI Engineering by Chip Huyen
  3. The Will to Change by bell hooks
  4. Free Agent Nation by Daniel Pink

2024

  1. On Loyalty by Troy Jollimore
  2. How to Take Smart Notes by Sönke Ahrens
  3. Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
  4. Confident Ruby by Avdi Grimm
  5. Noor by Nnedi Okorafor
  6. Autocracy Inc. by Anne Applebaum
  7. Useful Not True by Derek Sivers
  8. Survival of the Friendliest by Brian Hare and Vanessa Woods
  9. The Most Good You Can Do by Peter Singer
  10. The Free People's Village by Sim Kern
  11. The Culture Code by Daniel Coyle

2023

  1. Refuse to Choose! by Barbara Sher
  2. Against the Loveless World by Susan Abulhawa
  3. The Next Millionaire Next Door by Sarah Stanley Fallaw
  4. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle by Angela Davis
  5. The Good Life for Wage Slaves by Robert Wringham
  6. Palestine by Joe Sacco
  7. How Minds Change: The Surprising Science of Belief, Opinion, and Persuasion by David McRaney
  8. A Prosperous Way Down by Howard T. Odom and Elizabeth C. Odom
  9. A Handmade life by William Coperthwaite
  10. 98.6 Degrees - The Art of Keeping your Ass Alive! by Cody Lundum
  11. Early Retirement Extreme by Jacob Lund Fisker (reread)
  12. Poverty, By America by Matthew Desmond
  13. Power to the Public by Tara Dawson McGuiness and Hana Schank
  14. A People's Guide to Capitalism by Hadas Their
  15. Wild Problems by Russ Roberts

2022

  1. The Ministry for the Future by Kim Stanley Robinson
  2. The Persuaders by Anand Giridharadas
  3. The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
  4. Chokepoint Capitalism by Rebecca Giblin and Cory Doctorow
  5. Alfajiri by Michael LaBorn
  6. Persepolis 2 - The Story of a Return by Marjane Satrapi
  7. Persepolis - The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
  8. All About Love - New Visions by bell hooks [4/5 stars]
  9. Termination Shock by Neal Stephenson [3/5 stars]
  10. Laziness Does Not Exist by Devon Price [5/5 stars]
  11. Unwinding Anxiety by Judson Brewer [3/5 stars]
  12. The Secret Life of Groceries by Benjamin Lorr [4/5 stars]
  13. Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir [4/5 stars]

2021 and before

  1. How to Live by Derek Sivers [4/5 stars]
  2. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix [4/5 stars]
  3. Hell Yeah or No: what's worth doing by Derek Sivers [ 4/5 stars]
  4. The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right by Atul Gawande [4/5 stars]
  5. The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph by Ryan Holiday [4/5 stars]
  6. On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder [3/5 stars]
  7. Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption by Bryan Stevenson [4/5 stars]