All pages by date
2021
- 05/31 — How to write a review
- 05/30 — The real value of games
- 05/30 — The Most Important Thing (Marks)
- 05/30 — The Biggest Bluff (Konnikova)
- 05/30 — About this site
- 05/30 — A Random Walk Down Wall Street (Malkiel)
- 05/13 — How I choose what to read
- 05/10 — My recurring tasks
- 05/10 — How I maintain my want-to-read list
- 04/17 — The Odyssey (Wilson translation)
- 04/13 — How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (Gates)
- 04/09 — Working In Public (Eghbal)
- 04/04 — How Pleasure Works (Bloom)
- 04/03 — Circe (Miller)
- 03/26 — The Song of Achilles (Miller)
- 03/21 — The Grapes of Wrath (Steinbeck)
- 03/13 — Uncanny Valley (Wiener)
- 03/08 — The Democracy Project (Graeber)
- 03/06 — The Alignment Problem (Christian)
- 03/06 — I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Reid)
- 02/21 — Debt (Graeber)
- 02/13 — Flow (Csikszentmihalyi)
- 02/05 — Piranesi (Clarke)
- 02/03 — The Wind in the Willows (Grahame)
- 01/31 — The Courage to be Disliked (Kishimi & Koga)
- 01/30 — Bullshit Jobs (Graeber)
- 01/23 — The Three-Body Problem (Cixin)
2020
- 12/31 — 2020 retrospective
- 07/25 — How to write documentation
- 06/25 — Professional development in data science
- 06/24 — The Formula (Barabási)
- 05/04 — To go viral, go to all that trouble
- 04/25 — About me (updated 2021/04/25)
- 04/05 — E.M. Forster foresaw 2020 in 1909
- 03/09 — Mind positivity
- 02/11 — How to invest in index funds, for Canadians
- 02/09 — Free Will (Harris)
- 02/01 — Roam as a slip-box (updated 2021/05/31)
2019
- 12/31 — 2019 retrospective
- 12/15 — The inner game of chess
- 12/15 — How to learn chess faster
- 12/15 — Chess tactics
- 12/15 — Chess strategy
- 12/04 — Covers shouldn’t just be for musicians
- 11/24 — Tidy up so you can make a useful mess
- 11/22 — Lonesome Dove (McMurtry)
- 11/20 — Research as a stochastic decision process (Steinhardt)
- 10/30 — The aesthetic bullseye
- 10/23 — Solved conversations (Lewis)
- 10/16 — The Ideological Turing Test (Caplan)
- 10/09 — Deep Laziness (Perry)
- 09/25 — Pushing and pulling goals (Alexander)
- 09/18 — Prototyping at the speed of thought (Chi)
- 08/28 — Levels of Action (Vance)
- 07/16 — The personal PhD
- 07/09 — If you’re good, you need to talk more
- 04/11 — How to get a job in data science
2018
- 12/31 — 2018 retrospective
- 10/08 — Altered Traits (Goleman & Davidson)
- 10/01 — My laptop setup (updated 2020/12/15)
- 07/10 — Zero to One (Thiel)
- 01/10 — Atomic Habits (Clear) (updated 2019/01/14)
2017
2016
- 09/01 — The Righteous Mind (Haidt)
- 06/01 — Gödel, Escher, Bach in 34 propositions (updated 2020/01/02)