All pages by date
2022
- 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
- 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 (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 (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)