Monday, December 13, 2021

Review: Principles

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 I was assigned Principles as part of an onboarding reading. I'd never heard of Ray Dalio or Bridgewater Associates before, and I was d...
Friday, December 10, 2021

November 23rd: Carlisle Bay to Green Island

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 I woke up at 6am, the latest I would wake up for the rest of the trip. We made coffee and breakfast, and weighed anchor, and started headin...
Thursday, December 09, 2021

Review: How Magicians Think

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 I'm admitted a snob for the written work, but How Magicians Think managed to get me to watch a few youtube videos, which is an amazing...
Wednesday, December 08, 2021

November 22nd: Jolly Harbor to Carlisle Bay

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 We woke up at 7:00am, made coffee, and got everything ready to go. To my surprise, Mario showed up precisely at 8:00am to do a chart briefi...
Tuesday, December 07, 2021

November 20-21: Prologue: San Francisco, California to Jolly Habor, Antigua

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 We'd originally planned the trip to Antigua for Spring break of 2020, but with COVID19 outbreak at that time, everything got cancelled....
Monday, December 06, 2021

Review: Cyberpunk 2077 (PS5)

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 I actually pre-ordered Cyberpunk 2077 , but the reviews ahead of the actual release were so bad that I cancelled my preorder and elected to...
Thursday, December 02, 2021

Review: Hello World - Being Human in the Age of Algorithms

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 Hello World is Hannah Fry's book about algorithms for a lay audience. I expected to breeze through it since I already knew most of it,...
Wednesday, December 01, 2021

2022 Book Reviews

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2022 Books of the Year have been chosen!   Non-Fiction The Messy Middle Renegades of the Empire Hello World How Magicians Think Principles ...
Monday, November 29, 2021

Review: Renegades of the Empire

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 Scott Macdonald told me that his group at Microsoft (DirectX) was so famous that a journalist wrote about it. The book was called Renegades...
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Thursday, November 25, 2021

Review: The Messy Middle

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 The Messy Middle is a book about entrepreneurship. Rather than being one about raising money, etc., it's almost entirely about the dev...
Monday, November 22, 2021

Review: Batman Zero Year

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 DC periodically reboots its universe for no reason other than to reimagine/retell all the origin stories from their classic pantheon of sup...
Friday, November 19, 2021

Books of the Year 2021

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 I read 69 books this year, including a couple of re-reads. It was heavily tilted towards non-fiction, which makes the non-fiction selectio...
Thursday, November 18, 2021

Reread: Use of Weapons

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 Use of Weapons was one of the first Iain M Banks books I read oh so long ago, and I decided to read it again recently out of curiosity as ...
Monday, November 15, 2021

Review: Extreme Ownership

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Extreme Ownership is a book featuring two SEAL task units' explanation of how leadership principles in the US Navy Seals work, and can ...
Thursday, November 11, 2021

Review: Influenza

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 Why read yet another book about Influenza , when I'd already read The Great Influenza ? I kinda skipped the history of the so-called Sp...
Monday, November 08, 2021

Review: The Math of Life and Death

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 While Bowen was in pre-school, there would be days when he would regress, going from playing with challenging problems to something dumb an...
Thursday, November 04, 2021

Review: Mindset - The Psychology of Success

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 In recent years, you might have heard of or been encouraged to take a Growth Mindset. Well, Mindset is the book that kicked off this trend...
Monday, November 01, 2021

Review: 3 Doctor Strange Books

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 Boen was looking for a movie to watch, and so I pulled out my copy of Dr. Strange , which my wife had watched years before, and rewatched i...
Thursday, October 28, 2021

Review: A Philosophy of Software Design

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 Over time, I've learned to be very suspicious of thick programming books. The thicker they are, the more likely it is that they be cram...
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Monday, October 25, 2021

Review: Measure What Matters

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 Measure What Matters is John Doerr's slides about OKRs turned into a book. OKRs (Objectives and Key Results) are given credit in the b...