Tuesday, July 15, 2025

June 7-9: Prologue

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  We’d packed Xiaoqin ‘s Ritchey Road Logic, Bowen’s Rivendell Roadini, and the Co-Motion Periscope tandem into 4 different bike boxes, on...
Monday, July 14, 2025

Re-read: Aurora Rising

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Many years ago I first read Aurora Rising under a different title , and I thought it was a police procedural. Re-reading years later, I wil...
Thursday, June 19, 2025

Review: 7.5 Lessons About the Brain

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7.5 Lessons about Your Brain is a delightfully short collection of essays about the human brain. Each essay is short enough to read in abou...
Monday, June 16, 2025

Review: Moral Ambition

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 Moral Ambition is Ruger Bregman's book trying to convince people to stop taking high paying but soul sucking jobs in favor of jobs tha...
Thursday, June 12, 2025

Review: The Goal

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 The Goal has "required reading for Amazon employees" all over the cover, and was assigned reading for work. It's basically a...
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Monday, June 09, 2025

Re-read: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

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 I recently watched the movie adaptation of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo with Xiaoqin, and I thought it to be a very compelling movie wh...
Thursday, June 05, 2025

Review: The Nvidia Way

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 The Nvidia Way is another book about Jensen Huang and Nvidia. It was recommended to me after I read The Thinking Machine , and I found it ...
Monday, June 02, 2025

Yosemite Memorial Day Half Dome Trip

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 I somehow got it into my head that we should do a backpacking trip in Yosemite for the upcoming memorial day weekend. I tried to get w...
Thursday, May 29, 2025

Review: The Adventures of Mary Darling

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 The Adventures of Mary Darling is a mash up of Peter Pan and Sherlock Holmes. If you don't remember Mary Darling, it's because she...
Thursday, May 22, 2025

Review: The Power Broker

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 After reading Robert Caro's series on Lyndon Johnson, I bought (through audible) the audiobook version of The Power Broker , which is h...
Monday, May 19, 2025

Reread: Exhalation

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  I recently got a chance to see Ted Chiang in person at SJSU. He was great, and it triggered me to re-read Exhalation . One of the big them...
Thursday, May 15, 2025

Review: The Shape of a Life

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 The Shape of a Life is the autobiography of Shing-Tung Yau , ghost-written by Steven Nadis, since Yau is not a native English speaker and ...
Monday, May 12, 2025

Review: The King's Peace

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 All the reviews of The King's Peace mentioned that it was an Arthurian retelling. It's also Jo Walton's first novel, and it sh...
Thursday, May 08, 2025

Review: The Thinking Machine

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 The Thinking Machine is a biography of Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, and a chronicle of the company he led through founding to becoming ...
Monday, May 05, 2025

Pigeon Point Overnight 2025

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Day 1 GPS Track Day 2 GPS Track Mark Brody's Pictures Arturo's Pictures We tried to visit Pigeon Point earlier this year, but a bout...
Monday, April 21, 2025

Review: Stronger

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Stronger is a badly written book about an important topic. The book's subtitle promises to tell you everything about muscles and streng...
Thursday, April 17, 2025

Review: Abundance

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  Abundance is Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson's book about what they called supply-side liberalism. It's an indictment of the system...
Wednesday, April 16, 2025

How to buy digital editions of my books

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 I finally noticed that the website hosting the purchase links for digital editions of my books went dead. ( No thanks to Google ) I've ...
Monday, April 14, 2025

Review: Normal People

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 I don't know how Normal People made it into my borrow list from the library, but when it showed up I read it and found it easily reada...
Thursday, April 10, 2025

Review: Careless People

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 Careless People is Sarah Wynn-Williams' memoir of her time at Facebook as Manager of Global Policy, a position she herself created and...