All pages by date
2022
- 05/07 — Multi-armed bandit problems
- 05/01 — Twilight of Democracy: The Seductive Lure of Authoritarianism (Anne Applebaum book)
- 05/01 — The Lessons of History (Will & Ariel Durant book)
- 05/01 — Aspiration: The Agency of Becoming (Agnes Callard book)
- 04/23 — Value clarity
- 04/23 — Value capture
- 04/23 — The Grasshopper: Games, Life, and Utopia (Bernard Suits book)
- 04/23 — Suitsian games
- 04/23 — Striving play
- 04/23 — Agential fluidity
- 04/23 — Achievement play
- 04/21 — Write in the first person
- 04/21 — Reading as meditation
- 04/20 — Psychic entropy
- 04/20 — Deep Work (Cal Newport book)
- 04/13 — The Scout Mindset (Julia Galef book)
- 04/03 — Head-of-snorkeling situations
- 03/22 — The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Japanese Art of Decluttering and Organizing (Marie Kondo book)
- 03/15 — The Tiger: A True Story of Vengeance and Survival (John Vaillant book)
- 03/15 — The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity (David Graeber & David Wengrow book)
- 03/02 — Tools are made for using (updated 2022/05/04)
- 02/23 — The Body: A Guide for Occupants (Bill Bryson book)
- 02/23 — Much Ado About Nothing (William Shakespeare play)
- 02/23 — Homage to Catalonia (George Orwell book)
- 02/08 — King Lear (William Shakespeare play)
- 01/31 — How to want to read
- 01/30 — Far from the Madding Crowd (Thomas Hardy book)
- 01/27 — Shakespeare: The World As Stage (Bill Bryson book)
- 01/25 — Stoner (John Williams book)
- 01/25 — Conflict Is Not Abuse: Overstating Harm, Community Responsibility, and the Duty of Repair (Sarah Schulman book)
- 01/12 — Autobiography (John Stuart Mill book)
- 01/06 — The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (James Dale Davidson and William Rees-Mogg book)
- 01/04 — My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Ottessa Moshfegh book)
- 01/02 — No food or drink after 9:30pm
2021
- 12/31 — The Remains of the Day (Kazuo Ishiguro book)
- 12/31 — Maybe You Should Talk to Someone (Lori Gottlieb book)
- 12/31 — Macbeth: A Dagger of the Mind (Harold Bloom book)
- 12/31 — Macbeth (William Shakespeare play)
- 12/31 — 2021 retrospective
- 12/27 — Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire in Everyday Life (Luke Burgis book)
- 12/27 — The Sweet Spot: The Pleasures of Suffering and the Search for Meaning (Paul Bloom book)
- 12/27 — The Industrial Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (Robert C. Allen book)
- 10/27 — What I Talk about When I Talk about Running: A Memoir (Haruki Murakami book)
- 10/19 — Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Daniel H. Pink book)
- 10/17 — There is no minimum word count for pages on this site
- 07/13 — Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now (Jaron Lanier book)
- 07/07 — Live in a small home
- 07/07 — Git snippets
- 07/06 — Rmarkdown snippets
- 06/28 — Lifestyle inflation (updated 2021/07/12)
- 06/24 — Self-effacing ends
- 06/24 — Maieutic ends
- 06/24 — Games: Agency as Art (C. Thi Nguyen book)
- 06/23 — While focusing, minimize the probability of context-switching
- 05/31 — How to write a review (updated 2021/07/13)
- 05/30 — The real value of games
- 05/30 — The Most Important Thing (Howard Marks book)
- 05/30 — The Biggest Bluff (Maria Konnikova book)
- 05/30 — About this site
- 05/30 — A Random Walk Down Wall Street (Burton Malkiel book)
- 05/13 — How I choose what to read
- 05/10 — My recurring tasks (updated 2021/12/13)
- 05/10 — How I maintain my want-to-read list
- 04/17 — The Odyssey (Wilson translation)
- 04/13 — How to Avoid a Climate Disaster (Bill Gates book)
- 04/09 — Working In Public (Nadia Eghbal book)
- 04/04 — How Pleasure Works (Paul Bloom book)
- 04/03 — Circe (Madeline Miller book)
- 03/26 — The Song of Achilles (Madeline Miller book)
- 03/21 — The Grapes of Wrath (John Steinbeck book)
- 03/13 — Uncanny Valley (Anna Wiener book)
- 03/08 — The Democracy Project (David Graeber book)
- 03/06 — The Alignment Problem (Brian Christian book)
- 03/06 — I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Iain Reid book)
- 02/21 — Debt (David Graeber book)
- 02/13 — Flow (Mihalyi Csikszentmihalyi book)
- 02/05 — Piranesi (Susanna Clarke book)
- 02/03 — The Wind in the Willows (Kenneth Grahame book)
- 01/31 — The Courage to be Disliked (Fumitake Koga & Ichiro Kishimi book)
- 01/30 — Bullshit Jobs (David Graeber book)
- 01/23 — The Three-Body Problem (Cixin Liu book)
2020
- 12/31 — 2020 retrospective
- 09/05 — Acknowledgments (Curing the Curse)
- 09/04 — Seek feedback
- 08/27 — Beware noun phrases
- 08/19 — Bottom-up explanations
- 08/11 — Reader-centric writing
- 08/03 — The curse
- 08/01 — Curing the Curse of Knowledge
- 07/25 — How to write documentation
- 06/25 — Professional development in data science
- 06/24 — The Formula (Albert-László Barabási book)
- 05/04 — To go viral, go to all that trouble
- 04/12 — Playing With Movement (Todd Hargrove book)
- 04/05 — E.M. Forster foresaw 2020 in 1909
- 03/30 — Sputnik Sweetheart (Haruki Murakami book)
- 03/28 — Wild Seed (Octabia Butler book)
- 03/09 — Mind positivity
- 02/09 — Free Will (Sam Harris book)
- 02/01 — Roam as a slip-box (updated 2021/05/31)
- 01/07 — Know My Name (Channel Miller book)
2019
- 12/31 — 2019 retrospective
- 12/18 — How to Take Smart Notes (Sönke Ahrens book)
- 12/15 — The inner game of chess
- 12/15 — How to learn chess faster
- 12/04 — Covers shouldn’t just be for musicians
- 11/24 — Tidy up so you can make a useful mess
- 11/22 — Lonesome Dove (Larry McMurtry book)
- 11/20 — Research as a stochastic decision process
- 10/30 — The aesthetic bullseye
- 10/16 — The ideological Turing test (updated 2022/05/03)
- 10/09 — Deep laziness (updated 2022/05/03)
- 09/25 — Pushing and pulling goals (updated 2022/05/03)
- 09/18 — Prototyping at the speed of thought (updated 2022/05/03)
- 08/28 — Levels of action (updated 2022/05/03)
- 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 (Daniel Goleman & Richard Davidson book)
- 10/01 — My laptop setup (updated 2020/12/15)
- 07/10 — Zero to One (Peter Thiel book)
- 01/10 — Atomic Habits (James Clear book) (updated 2019/01/14)
2017
2016
- 09/01 — The Righteous Mind (Jonatha Haidt book)
- 06/01 — Gödel, Escher, Bach in 34 propositions (updated 2020/01/02)